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Bill O'Connell When the mainstream media is polled on how they voted in the presidential election, it was on the order of 90% Democrat. The country voted 53% Democrat. Draw your own conclusions. Defacating on a police car may be clean in your house, but it is no...

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Bill O'Connell Because after five weeks OWS is forming committees to vote on why they are there? If they don't know why they are there, why are they there? As Saul Alinsky taught his disciples, like Barack Obam, the crowd doesn't have to know what is goin...

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Bill O'Connell Point by point: 1) Yes there are birthers out there, and some people may have had ironic signs about Medicare, but they were few. I was there. 2) I don't personally know of anyone who was paid by the Koch brothers to protest. Did they support ...

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Bill O'Connell That may be your opinion, but that is not in the Constitution. Out government was instituted to protect our freedoms. If you want to be greedy that's fine. I am free to deal with you or not. Hong Kong is considered the freest economy in the worl...

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Bill O'Connell You say $4M before going public is not credible. The source of that figure came from Bernie Marcus one of the founders of Home Depot. Here he is in his own words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjRIM1LFWRM Sarbanes-Oxley is a lot more complex than ...

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Bill O'Connell The government is to blame not for bribes but for getting into the mortgage business. They have no constitutional authority to be in the mortgage business. If they do not get into the mortgage business no can bribe them about being in the mortgage bu...

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Bill O'Connell We agree on GM, Chrysler, and the banks. We agree on education. I agree we need some federal regulations, but when a company like Home Depot could not be started today because Sarbanes-Oxley regulations would have cost them $4 million to go public an...

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Bill O'Connell I don't know your background, Darwin, but I would say most entrepreneurs don't do it only for the money and they don't do it only to create. It is an intricately linked combination. If there's no money in it, you will end up poore...

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Bill O'Connell That's nonsense. Every American had the opportunity to invest in GM and Chrysler and most passed on it. The Government stepped in, wiped out the stock and bond holders, handed a big chunk of the companies to the unions and forced us to be shareh...

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Bill O'Connell Darwin you have a very valid point. But it seems that greed is easily thrown around as a synonym for profit motive. Greed is excessive. That said, I don't doubt that a desire to create wasn't part of the equation, but if you think no pr...

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Bill O'Connell I agree that greed has always been there. But greed has also brought us the electric light bulb, the telephone, the PC, the iPhone (a moment of silence for Mr. Jobs, please). It is not that government is necessarily corrupt, as much as it is inef...

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Bill O'Connell Thanks for the article. I can't address it here in the limited space, but I might take it up on my blog. Here's how I see it. It is the individualist mentality vs. the union mentality. The goal of unions is to get paid as much as possible t...

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Bill O'Connell Why would a movement (the Tea Party) that advocates Constitutionally limited government, meaning adhering to the U.S. Constution, show up in Tokyo, Paris, London, Rome, Athens, or Berlin? I would be astonished if they did. What you seem to confir...

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Bill O'Connell Interesting. You believe OWS wants a discussion about these issues. What issues? I thought that they hadn't agreed on any issues? What do you think the issues are? This might get really interesting. Chris, why don't you post what you think ...

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Bill O'Connell Chris, good point. Here are two more: One, if you alienate people by saying you speak for them such that you motivate them to get out and oppose you, it's not a good message. It's better to let sleeping dogs lie. Two, how many memorable com...

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Bill O'Connell Hassan, went to far in what way? Some people who grew up dirt poor and strived and struggled for success have a hard time listening to people in nice clothes with a $300 iPhone complaining that they don't have a job. Herman Cain's father wo...

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Bill O'Connell You want to put money on that challenge? The Tea Party knows that George W. Bush was no fiscal conservative and that he signed TARP. TARP was passed under Bush and he spent $350 billion of it. Obama asked Bush to release the second $350 billion so th...

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Bill O'Connell Chris, you are right it is marketing. As you say, "many in the 99% and 1% support OWS's positions," and many do not. So how effective will the 99% marketing be?

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Bill O'Connell OWS is interesting to watch and it will be equally interesting to see how it unfolds. Wall Street investment banks used to be partnerships. If someone screwed up it meant the partners would be writing personal checks to cover it. The screw-up would g...

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Bill O'Connell If the OWS folks are recent college graduates upset about unemployment, why aren't they protesting at the colleges? Democrat pollster Doug Schoen surveyed OWS folks and found that 85% of them had jobs. The unemployment rate among college graduat...

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Bill O'Connell Okay so you are comparing the OWS folks being able to tell what the SEC is vesus, a survey of Tea Party activists knowing the one million pages of the tax code off the top of their head. Gotcha! Considering that every year some news organization give...

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Bill O'Connell Chris, that's fine, but then why use 99% and 1%? My theory is that because it fits into the "Rules for Radicals" playbook. Come up with a slogan and keep repeating it. Considering that Adjusted Gross Income of $343,927, puts you in the...

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Bill O'Connell I didn't mean to say that birthers are off limits, but it's a fringe issue. Yes, there were some who were passionate about it, but it was hardly a driver behind the movement. I would be interested to hear what views of government and rig...

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Bill O'Connell Ah, Jordan, I love a pitching analogy during the Fall Classic, but you can't be both pitcher and umpire. You are trying to discredit the Tea Party movement based on The Birthers? C'mon Jordan, you can do better than that. To back it up,...

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Bill O'Connell Andrew, I think you are making the same mistake as the OWS. You say your dream world would have the OWS occupying the Fed and the Republicans and then you also say the Tea Party is misinformed, but you provide no facts to back it up. Why would that b...

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Bill O'Connell I think the 99% message works against them, Jake, on a couple of different levels. First, I believe they had a moment of silence for Steve Jobs, who was certainly one of the 1%, so that smacks of hypocrisy. Second, there are and will be many who disa...

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Bill O'Connell The movement, Masuma, will only get smaller if it gets more focused if it was never that big of a movement to begin with. If it is a conglomeration of 20 issues then each one might take credit for a crowd a thousand, but in reality each one is only ...

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Bill O'Connell Your question, "Are their studies asking them about Dodd-Frank, the SEC, and government spending?" is an interesting one. With regard to Dodd-Frank and the SEC, the Tea Party groups were protesting before Dodd-Frank became law. OWS is prote...

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