LMAO! You sound so silly. Take some valium and go to sleep.

Maybe that is how you perceive these people but the reality is that they do represent a cross section of Americans who have been affected by the liason between government and special interest groups, ie, finance, insurance , oil and pharmecuticals.
Retirees have seen their pensions vanish or become worthless, the underemployed who had their hours and pay cut. The students who took out loans that they see little hope of repaying without employment and the homeowners unable to make payments.
Yes, a lot of what the press shows us makes these people look like sociopaths and post-Woodstock generation but there is validity to the sentiment.

Maybe you should get together with some friends and start your own

I live in Sebastian, Florida, and the City Council did not close that business. The City was given a grant by the State under certain conditions which the restaurant clearly exceeded. Would you have been willing to pony up the $2+ million the City was in danger of repaying?

Something tells me you don’t have that kind of money laying around.

That’s it. Just let anybody who wants to march through any street, any time, day or night, with no regard to the rights and livelihood of others. That’s what you think should happen, eh?

You are a worthless piece of fecal matter.

Are you one of these:
Occupier Busted Exposing Himself to Children…
Sexual Assault of Teen at Occupy Dallas…
Occupy Boston’ Couple Busted Peddling Heroin…
Another sex attack in Zuccotti Park…

HEY – “you fools”
YOU ARE THE BIGGEST FOOL!!! YOU CAN’T SEE BEYOND YOUR ROSE -COLLORED SOCIALIST GLASSES

Are you really that stupid? Wow, your ignorance is monumental.

If the protesters were there for a day or two and then left these people would still have jobs.. Mayor Bloomberg has let them camp out for weeks so the blame should be with Bloomberg and the flea baggers.. Of course this bunch of rabble won’t take any responsibility for anything.

Moron, your bus is leaving . .

@Pattyb>>>> And just why do you think the barricades were put up in the first place? You’ve go a bunch of hostile airheads who want “a living wage whether working or not…all debts forgiven across the board”, and they sleep, defacate and urinate in any park or courtyard they can get to, including doorsteps…and you, naturally side with the wackos…sheesh

Bloomberg is a 1%’er….

Oh yeah… good way to summarize it you dingbat. Every kind of person under the sun is there; cooks, teachers, janitors, BANKERS, police, paramedics, small business owners, dropouts/college grads, law students, scientists- you name it. Why dont you baggers do something for your own fake bullsh1t political stand.

The Unions helped them make signs (as well as the organization formerly known as ACORN), and the cell phones are provided free thanks to your tax dollars. (Lifeline)

OR it could be the police who setup the barricades you nimwit

stupid idea. why dun you tell Mr. President to convert America into a communist country?? then we all can have same salary, and all the business is not going to be closed!

Only in New York City. America’s wealthiest city, could a billionaire rule as Mayor.

Stupid Obot, it’s why the new movement (conservative) has no interest in having a conversation with you. We realize you have the rote intelligence of a pencil eraser and the only way to rectify the problem is to grind your party and your movement into dust. No quarter will be given, you will be defeated.

You are just jealous that you aren’t a billionaire too. Give you a few million and lets see how much you give away! These people earned their money through creativity, investment and hard work.

OWS: fired workers are “collateral damage”.
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OWS arrogance and criminality is the reason it is so unpopular with the American People.
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Absolutely on target!
The tourists and gawkers have made this area impossible to navigate.
Now in addition to congesting the World Trade construction site they have somewhere else to block.
Bloomberg should put an “admission price” on the whole neighborhood.
Right now, it’s like the lines at Disney World. Too bad we (NYC) don’t get a $75.00 admission charge to subsidize the characters.

A couple of things about your post. First you complain about the tourists who move at a snails pace, blocking sidewalks. Did it ever occur to you that those snails are what helps the economy of New York chug along? A big city like New York thrives on the tourist industry, especially restaurants like this. You state the cafe is “totally overpriced”. I’d say that pretty much anything in New York is over priced, but that’s beside the point. Prior to OWS the owner had a viable business with enough customers to support a full staff. Now, due to the barricades, he is forced to eliminate positions in order to keep his business running on the smaller amount of capital which is now coming in. Of course, if you take your 99% mentality to this level, and based on your comments of his prices, maybe he should just give his products away to those that cannot afford them. Shoot, we could do this with all businesses and then maybe the government could run ALL the businesses in this country!

So you are blaming the tourists who are watching the freak show, but not the freak show causing everyone to look. The tourists and people are always there, not the OWS.

Liberal loopy logic. I bet you have amazing mental gynastic skills.

MMM mmm mmmmm, Drink up the kool aid.

I agree with your point. I guess the 1% and their supporters just expect us to suffer in silence and or be depressed over the current state of the nation and unemployment rates while they live the good life. Just goes to show you how cold and heartless they are.

How stupid can you be. Do your research and your will find out this started 10 years ago when Clinton threatened banks if they did not issue loans to people that could not afforf to make payments. When the housing bubble burst you blame d the banks, but failed to find out why they made they loans. Do you research before you run off at the mouth.

Wall Street is Obama’s biggest donors. Corzine just made off with 600 million dollars of our money and OWS is still blaming Bush. Everyone on Obama’s jobs council received billions for their failed Green energy companies and OWS is blaming Fox News.

This is nothing more than the Communist party trying to destroy American ideals and capitalism and using rich, stupid college kids as useful idiots. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be funny.

How’s that liberal arts degree working out for you with getting a job?

You mean the economic collapse brought about by deregulation of home loans through freddie and fannie, democrat causes? Or how Bush Jr tried six times to have the regulations reinstated citing the economic risk?

Nahh, that cant be what you mean, not with those pesky facts attached

Have a nice life.

You are truly clueless…
That is there job. None of those people went to school and worked there way up the corporate ladder to make all that money just to give it away to those who have less. They are out there to make as much as they can and live as high on the hog as they can and will do what they need to accomplish that.
If you or the protesters don’t like the way they run there business…don’t give them your money.
Take your clueless asses down to Washington and the other state capitals and protest the morons in the government. They make the laws, not the businessman. Just because big businesses send lobbyist to give millions to political campaigns that doesn’t mean they have to accept it. The politicians and only the politicians can change the way things are done.
I can tell you this one thing… You are WRONG if you think those big business men should have to give you some of there money because you are only smart enough to work for them not beside them.

“Legitimate political movement, just like the tea party”

What is it that you have actually accomplished? What is it that you actually want? Do you really think that destroying small local businesses is going to make a difference in the way that the capitalist system works? All the OWS is doing is causing economic hardships on the individuals that it says that it represents. I don’t remember any of that from the Tea Party.

If you really wanted to work to make a difference and be a “legitimate political movement” as you put it, maybe you should focus on the individuals that have driven the recession, the high unemployment, the housing bubble, and the excessive government spending of taxpayer money, move the OWS and call it Occupy Congress or Occupy White House. Then you might actually visit the realm of politics, right now you are nothing but a bunch of vagrant homeless living off of the generosity of others.

The protesters want to destroy jobs so they can keep complaining that there are no jobs.

You’re so dense. The reason they are there in the first place is because the unemployment rate in the U.S. has been at over 8% for the past two years. They are among the millions of Americans that are out of work. If you want to see them disappear then give them jobs. They are able to protest 24/7 because they have nothing else to do, if they had meaningful employment they wouldn’t have time to protest.

You’re obviously someone who is gainfully employed and perhaps among the 1% who hold most of the world’s wealth or at the very least someone who grovels at the feet of such people in the hopes that you will one day join their ranks. How about showing some sympathy to your fellow Americans who are suffering and not living the good life like you Mr. Fat Cat. OWS are REAL AMERICANS. You and the 1% sold out the United States of America and our flag for money and outsourced millions of American jobs to people overseas. You and your kind and the goons of the NYPD are traitors to this nation.

well said!!!

Absolutely. I used to live and work down there, it was paradise. First 9/11, now this OWS, which IMO is a different kind of terrorist attack on the very people they claim to help. I just don’t know why no red-blooded American has not yet tossed few hundred grenades, and called it a day. If I read the news that actually happened, I’d celebrate. Sick of them. You want to fight greed, file one lawsuit after another, but that takes brains. These professional anarchists are no less than the communist party jackboots – genocidal murderes.

How is it protesters fault for the police barricades? wouldn’t that be the police that put them there? Perhaps you are too eager to place blame on the protesters to use deductive reasoning skills. those barricades could have been placed anywhere, it was the decision of the police to put the barricade to block off the store, blame them.

Well said Mr. Wolf.

And kudos on being a featured comment.

If you read the article, it sounds more like it’s the Police’s fault.
OWS didn’t set up the blockades, they are practicing their unalienable rights.

You sound very ignorant..

you are so right, these 21 jobs are the nail in coffin after Pfizer, Credit Suisee, Goldman Sachs etc have laid off thousands of jobs just this year while posting record profits but be swayed by every tiny bit of information.

If that’s the case that’s a shame and I am definitely sorry to hear that, but how many people lost businesses and jobs due to Wall Street’s selfish and often illegal playing with money? Our WHOLE COUNTRY and for that matter the world is suffering from the actions of Wall Street, huge multinational corporations and the government that is full of people that will do anything for piles of money disguised as donations to their campaign. The people have lost their voice (along with jobs, health care, houses, etc, etc, etc) and the best this “wolf” poster can do is say “get a job”, wolf……quit listening to the puppets on Faux News and open your eyes. OWS and the thousands (yes thousands, it’s over 2,000 now) of Occupy places around the world are not going away. The whole system is corrupt and we’re not taking it any more. And as for “Anna’….you are inciting violence and should be investigated for making a terrorist threat. Grow up people, the Constitution is in shreds and we are no longer a democratic republic. Get your heads out of the sand and look at reality.

what about the thousands upon thousands of layoffs by fortune 500 companies like Pfizer, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse while posting record profits just this year alone. No, no problem there.

Amen! They need a bath and a job.

That’s a shame that these protesters are causing good people to lose their jobs. If these protesters had any respect for their fellowman, they would simply have an organized rally. Clean up the area and return to their homes. There is a difference between a rally and a protest. The former lasts one day, the latter is indefinite.NY. Take your city back!

The smell generated by these lazy bunch of useless idiots is driving new yorkers crazy. Hey…I got an idea…how about “occupying” a bathtub for a change.

Don’t blame OWS blame the city’s unreasonable over reaction.

how true… you can’t have it all for free.. work like we did.. pay your loans like we did.. stop whining you losers…

there are no protesters anywhere near Milk Street Cafe. I’d say it was the fault of the police who keep the barriers up and cause so much congestion between those who work down there and all the tourists who blocks the skinny squeezed in sidewalks. But again no protesters anywhere near there. Just take down the barriers without any announcement and those of us that do business there will slowly realize and trickle back.. just because you don’t like the protesters doesn’t mean everything is their fault. Even the owner of Milk Street seems to acknowledge that. GET OVER IT.
oh and your advice – who are you to say that – I have a good city job. I have worked regularly since I was 16 and i pray that my kids will be able to have what I did (possible summer camp, vacations beyond my own backyard (not europe) etc) I grew up in the middle class, have a masters, work full time and live in a railroad apartment. again i say GET OVER IT – the american dream as you explain it doesn’t exist – it’s not laziness.

They didn’t put up the barriers. They didn’t teargas people, or hit them on the head. OWS is not what’s stopping pedestrian presence and traffic. It’s the RESPONSE to OWS that’s stopping pedestrian presence and traffic.

too many short ladders ,lots of long planks, everybody off. fish food.

Wolf, note the man explicitly stated the Occupiers were not the issue, in fact, they would probably be using the restaurant as they aren’t poor. The barricades from the police that are containing a peaceful protesters are preventing people from accessing the cafe. As a working person myself, I hope that the OWS will maybe get people to realize that we’ve let people who don’t work very hard do a lot of things to working people that hurt them, and they got away with it. For example, giving lower income people by the millions home loans for houses that they can barely afford, on the promise of the American Dream, and reaping the initial sales rewards in bonuses by the billions. Those home buyers have an unexpected bill pop up and are unable to pay their note, now their credit is ruined and the rest of America must bail out “hard-working” banks stuck with millions of homes they no longer receive payments on. That’s working hard alright. Earning your keep is great, but let’s do something about those at the top that don’t. Why don’t you listen to some of the non hippies down at OWS? Not every protester is a college kid looking to relive the sixties they saw on “Across the Universe”. Many sane hard working people are angry at the injustice that has been occurring in the this country since the turn of the century. Never Forget Enron, MCI, GM, Chrysler, Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac, Madoff, AIG, Countrywide Financial, Citigroup, etcetcetcetc.

This just proves that WOLF is a tool, a fool and needs to go back to school.
Lead, follow or GET OUT OF THE WAY! This is not about people not wantin to have professions or have skills and use them. These people arent afraid of work you dipwad. These people have lost their homes to sheisty mortgage contracts, natural disasters, lost jobs to innefectual or indiotic economic decisions, have been misrepresented by representatives, have been lied to, stolen from and then patted on the heads by idiots like you who dont get the point of the protests at all.

If you want to play house negro go on and do your little dance for the mastahs but this is about americans having a right to make our own destinies. If you want to be a corporate tool your whole life and then get left in the cold when it becomes unprofitable to pay your retirement then go ahead. See your jobin india in about a year.

THe article puts the blame for his reduced business on the barricades. From what I can gather, the city put those barricades up, not the protesters. Does this PROVE that the CITY is out to eliminate the jobs of WORKING people? Or maybe – just maybe – there are issues here that require more thought and fewer capital letters and chest thumping?

Really?
That’s not what the person featured in the article is saying.

“I think this is an issue of both Occupy Wall Street and the city officials. There’s protest and how you react to protest,” Epstein said. “If the barriers do not come down, I do not see how we can survive. This has got to become like America again. You have to be free to walk around.”

As to free handouts???
That’s absolutely laughable.
That’s what the banking sector and the financial community get all the time

You are just a greedy capitalist pig. Those workers sacrificed their jobs for the greater good of the people. The people will rise up and take control and make everything better. By the way, we need more donations because it’s cold out and we have only 400,000 US dollars in our “bank” and we need more because the people are hungry and justice demands a balanced diet of high quality food provided, for free, by the people for the people. And we need more tents because it’s cold and the cops won’t let a bunch of drugged out hippies play with gasoline and open fire because they are the running dog lackies of the imperialist pigs….who aren’t donating enough stuff to the people. Did I mention we need more donations ?

To the owner and the employees of this cafe…I urge you to hire an attorney and pursue OWS under the RICO statutes. They have $500,000 that we know about and you deserve it more than those bus. This is a marvelous RICO case . Also, since the OWS has joined The Allegiance for Global Justice their pockets have become immensely deeper.
I also urge you to pursue Bloomburg and the City of NY under tha same as well as Failure to maintaion order, criminal neglect, and wreckless endangerment.
Find a young unemployed attorney that will take your case on a contingent bases and bust their a$$es in court!

The LACK OF JOBS amongst other things is the reason, is the reason they are out .Bless your heart you do have a job.I hope you never find the need to have your living condition in need of protesting. Life is funny you know. Anything is possible and no condition is permanent. what would you do if you fell on hard times and the jobs and so-called friends and famillys’ are not supporttive?

why don’t you “grow a pair” and take care of the situation yourself. Or do you always want the government to do everything for you?