tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481083477379506990.post3387937188380632462..comments2023-10-30T05:28:11.795-04:00Comments on All Education Matters: Data and Ideology of the We are 99% TumblrCryn Johannsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08452412213997621242noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481083477379506990.post-3400498703196914352011-10-10T16:53:56.654-04:002011-10-10T16:53:56.654-04:00There are some similarities in demand between the ...There are some similarities in demand between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Both movements seek to harness anger about the bank bailouts for example.<br /><br />What both movements have trouble with is that the solutions do not break down cleanly along ideological lines. For example, Paul Krugmen took time on his blog yesterday (and again today) to defend the need for bank bailouts <a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/financial-romanticism/" rel="nofollow">(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)</a>, and Obama has received more donations from Wall Street than any candidate in 20 years <a href="http://influenceexplorer.com/industry/securities-investment/0af3f418f426497e8bbf916bfc074ebc?cycle=-1" rel="nofollow">(influenceexplorer.com)</a>.<br /><br />These types of connections do not make sense in the traditional Republicans=business and Democrats=people analysis. It does not even stand up well to the slightly more sophisticated both parties are Corporatist analysis because it ignores the fact that bailouts are not just pragmatic, but are part of a fundamental economic philosophy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3481083477379506990.post-72545613790820873962011-10-10T11:47:19.047-04:002011-10-10T11:47:19.047-04:00I disagree that the Tea Party is an older version ...I disagree that the Tea Party is an older version of this movement. The Tea Party is a Libertarian movement, and Libertarians believe in limited to no government, forget rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure that apparently we won't have the ability to rebuild until a failed bridge kills one of the oligarchs, forget investing in education, providing a more secure future for our elderly through Social Security so when we are old we can have at least some measure of dignity instead of abject poverty and no medical care. The lives of people before the New Deal were much harder and there was zero safety net to cushion the blows of capitalism. The values of that WW2 vet you pictured better states what this is about than the Tea Party. Government should not serve the interests of only a few, bought and paid for by that same few at the top of the pyramid at the expense of everyone else. It is not about age. Many people in their mid and elderly years are participating in this movement across the country, not just the young. There is a poignant piece in the first edition of the Occupy Wall Street newspaper about a young man who has watched his parents loose the old family home to the Bank of America. We are becoming a third world country and I now have hope that people are finally recognizing who the culprits actually are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com