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Folks, my guess is when the Dem Party gets booted from both the House & Senate, in 2012, and Obama gets his walking papers, all at the hands of Republicans, today's protesters/anarchists will be brought back into service by Mr. Obama (the Community Organizer) and there will be riots in the streets.

Now fortunately for most Republicans we live in the burbs not the inner city, plus a lot of us are able to defend our homesteads, so the real destruction will hit the inner cities.

But make no mistake that Mr. Sour Grapes and Mrs Nancy Sour Puss are not going to be happy about the losses.

On the brighter side of things, after Obama gets the boot I see a very quick positive movement in the economy. This fast & vast improvement will put to rest whether or not Capitalism is a good or bad thing. Plus it will define the Democrats as not only losers but their policies are a losing proposition for this country. Real proof will emerge that will put to rest the silly notion that Communism, Marxism and or Socialism are any good.

Yesterday on the local news they showed a scene which to me tells me a lot about the protesters. A well known local radio figure, who happens to be big into the Tea Party, went down to meet the protesters. His goal was to find out what the two groups have in common. First off, this fella was well dressed, and well groomed, but not in a tie. As the news was recording the event he tried to have a discussion with the protesters. In the matter of about 1,000 nano seconds the protesters shouted him down and filibustered the discussion. Needless to say they (the protesters) didn't do much to promote their cause and I really don't have any desire to give them any respect. They are nothing but a waste of space on this planet and if they want to help reduce Global Warming they should all pull a Heavens Gate maneuver and exit this place.

Heaven's Gate Cult Initiation Tape Part 1

So what who gives a shit what he says about the subject!

Should we all march to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave to protest this?


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-19/beltway-earnings-make-u-s-capital-richer-than-silicon-valley.html

Federal employees whose compensation averages more than $126,000 and the nation’s greatest concentration of lawyers helped Washington edge out San Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area, government data show.

The U.S. capital has swapped top spots with Silicon Valley, according to recent Census Bureau figures, with the typical household in the Washington metro area earning $84,523 last year. The national median income for 2010 was $50,046.

The figures demonstrate how the nation’s political and financial classes are prospering as the economy struggles with unemployment above 9 percent and thousands of Americans protest in the streets against income disparity, said Kevin Zeese, director of Prosperity Agenda, a Baltimore-based advocacy group trying to narrow the divide between rich and poor.

“There’s a gap that’s isolating Washington from the reality of the rest of the country,” Zeese said. “They just get more and more out of touch.”

Total compensation for federal workers, including health care and other benefits, last year averaged $126,369, compared with $122,697 in 2009, according to Bloomberg News calculations of Commerce Department data. There were 170,467 federal employees in the District of Columbia as of June. The Washington area includes the District of Columbia, parts of Northern Virginia, eastern Maryland and eastern West Virginia.
Embracing K Street

In recent years Washington has attracted more lobbyists and firms with an interest in the health-care overhaul and financial regulations signed into law by President Barack Obama, according to local business leaders.

“Wall Street has moved to K Street,” said Barbara Lang, president and chief executive officer of the DC Chamber of Commerce, referring to the Washington street that’s home to prominent lobbying firms. “Those two industries clearly have grown in our city.”

Still, household income fell even in Washington by 0.8 percent last year from $85,168. In the San Jose area, home to Cupertino-based Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) in San Jose, income dropped to $83,944 from $84,483 in 2009.

Median income in both metro areas has been falling since 2008, when it reached a record in each place. The 4.7 percent drop in Silicon Valley during that period was three times larger than the Washington region’s 1.5 percent fall.
‘Shallower Recession’

The flow of federal dollars in and around the nation’s capital helped the region weather the economic slump better than most areas and is contributing to its recovery. The unemployment rate in the Washington metro area in August was 6.1 percent, compared with 10 percent in San Jose, according to Labor Department figures. Nationally, joblessness was 9.1 percent in September for a third straight month.

“The region did experience a shorter, shallower recession than San Jose,” said Sara Kline, a Washington analyst at Moody’s Analytics Inc. in West Chester, Pennsylvania. “The federal government stepped in to take efforts to dampen the recession. It was focused to some extent in the D.C. area as well, given the presence of federal workers there and contractors. That insulated it from more of a downturn.”

Federal government spending for programs excluding Social Security and Medicare in fiscal year 2011, which ended on Sept. 30, rose to $2.38 trillion from $2.3 trillion the previous year.
Lawyer Capital

Last year Washington also had the most lawyers per capita in the U.S. compared with the 50 states, with one for every 12 city residents, according to figures from the American Bar Association and the Census Bureau. In New York State the figure was one out of every 123 residents, while in California the ratio was one in 243.

Associate attorneys in the Washington area who have worked between one and eight years had a median salary of $186,250, compared with the national median for their peers of $123,521, according to a survey by the Washington-based National Association for Law Placement.

Lobbyists play a prominent role in the Washington economy. In 2010 there were 12,964 registered lobbyists, with most working in or around the nation’s capital, according to figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington- based research group that tracks political spending. Spending on lobbying efforts reached a record $3.51 billion last year, up from $3.49 billion in 2009.
Contractor Central

The Washington suburbs are also home to government contractors such as Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT), the world’s largest defense company, and General Dynamics Corp. (GD), the Falls Church, Virginia-based maker of Abrams tanks and Gulfstream business jets.

With about 5.6 million residents, the Washington region has an aggregate household income of about $221.4 billion. The San Jose area has about 1.8 million people and income of $67 billion, according to census figures gathered from the American Community Survey. The annual survey polls about 3 million American households to provide annual economic, demographic, social and housing characteristics for the nation.

The Brownsville-Harlingen metro area in southeast Texas along the border with Mexico had the lowest median household income last year at $31,736.

Such income inequality is on display in Washington as well. In the District of Columbia, almost 11 percent of the city’s population qualifies as “very poor,” meaning they make less than half the poverty rate, or about $11,025 a year for a family of four and $5,415 for a single person. The same figure for San Jose is about 6 percent, according to census figures.

“Even though we’ve got this very healthy group of government employees and contractors, there’s still a lot of people left behind,” said Douglas Besharov, a professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy.

To contact the reporters on this story: Frank Bass in Washington at fbass1@bloomberg.net; Timothy R. Homan in Washington at thoman1@bloomberg.net

Hey XO how come you don't mention France anymore? Just a few years ago you held France up as the best place on earth and their system was the best of the best. But now nothing out of your silly mouth.

That is because liberal/socialists have made France into a SHIT-HOLE! And it's about to collapse!

I think going forward as crimes by protesters become known just post them here so we can start to track them.

So far we have:

1. a child molester exposing himself to children.

2. and a rapist preying upon young college girls.

Man accused of exposing self to children arrested
SEATTLE -- A man accused of exposing himself to children at least five times across Seattle was arrested early Tuesday morning.

Seattle police say he was taken into custody at his Kenmore residence around 1 a.m.

Officers had been given a composite sketch of the suspect and detectives learned he had been at Westlake Park taking part in the Occupy Seattle protests.

The man is accused of exposing himself three times on Sept. 29 -- once in Crown Hill, once near Alki Beach, and a third time on Capitol Hill. Three days later, he was spotted at Pinehurst Playfield near Northgate, and then again on Oct. 3 at the Lakeside soccer field in North Seattle.

In one instance, the man allegedly approached two 13-year-old girls on swings, made a comment and was engaged in a lewd act when they turned to look, according to police.

The man was booked into King County Jail for Investigation of Indecent Exposure.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/132064518.html

After the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent a recent email urging supporters to sign a petition backing the wave of Occupy Wall Street protests, phones at the party committee started ringing.

Banking executives personally called the offices of DCCC Chairman Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and DCCC Finance Chairman Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) last week demanding answers, three financial services lobbyists told POLITICO.

“They were livid,” said one Democratic lobbyist with banking clients.

The execs asked the lawmakers: “What are you doing? Do you even understand some of the things that they’ve called for?” said another lobbyist with financial services clients who is a former Democratic Senate aide.

Democrats’ friends on Wall Street have a message for them: you can’t have it both ways.

President Barack Obama and other top Democrats are parroting the anti-corporate rhetoric running through the Occupy Wall Street protests, trying to tap into the movement’s energy but keep the protesters at arms’ length.

But many bankers aren’t buying the distinction. And some financial services lobbyists and industry insiders say the liberal line will make swing givers think twice before opening their checkbooks this year.

“Most Wall Street guys, they feel like they’re going to be burned in effigy,” said Anthony Scaramucci, managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, who gave to Obama in 2008 but is now fundraising for Mitt Romney. Some moderate donors, who have given to both parties, “fled from Obama in his support of the Wall Street protests,” he said.

In 2008 Obama edged out John McCain in Wall Street fundraising and Democrats overall raised about as much as Republicans. Giving patterns went back to normal in 2010 when the GOP came out back on top.

This cycle Democrats have a particularly tough sell, since they pushed through a financial regulatory reform law last year and Mitt Romney has emerged as a Republican presidential front-runner, whose deep Wall Street ties clash with Obama’s recent populist overtures. The lip service to occupiers is only hurting an already rocky relationship.

“You can’t have it both ways,” said one in-house financial services lobbyist. “It just makes it harder for people who are Democrats in New York, Boston, Chicago to on the one hand be demogagued and then be asked ‘Hey, you can get your picture with the president for $30,000.’ It doesn’t square.”

And the rhetoric strikes a nerve.

“In some ways, I think this is worse than [Dodd-Frank] because it is more symbolic,” said a Democratic financial services lobbyist. “People from Wall Street can deal with regulation, they deal with it all the time … I think it’s just the bashing that sort of drives them crazy.”

Asked last week about Wall Street’s reaction to the email, Crowley said, “I haven’t spoken to anyone.”

Democrats, meanwhile, make no apologies for the email, publicly.

“We stand with Americans across the country who are angry about the Republican policies that led to lower home values and incomes, fewer jobs and weaker retirement savings,” said DCCC spokesman Jesse Ferguson. “They’re right to be angry and our priority is fight for those middle income families, not protect K Street lobbyists.”

The DCCC hasn’t sent another pro-occupier email and its counterpart in the Senate hasn’t either.

Obama has tried to walk the fine line of sympathizing with the protesters without vilifying bankers. Speaking at a Martin Luther King tribute on Sunday, Obama said if the civil rights leader were still alive, “I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there.”

But the White House has also adopted the rhetoric of the protesters. White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Sunday echoed the “99 percent” slogan that demonstrators have used to criticize the wealthiest one percent of Americans, noting that Obama would make sure “the interests of the 99 percent of Americans are well-represented” during a three day bus trip to North Carolina and Virginia.

Meanwhile, Obama and other Democrats are still cashing in on Wall Street. Last month, Obama’s campaign held a fundraising dinner hosted by Warren Buffett at Manhattan’s Four Seasons restaurant, the Los Angeles Times reported. Obama has hauled in $3.9 million from the finance, insurance and real estate sector so far this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. But he’s been outpaced by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has received $7.5 million from the sector.

Goldman Sachs employees – who contributed more than $1 million to Obama in the 2008 election cycle — are now spending more on Romney than Obama, according to CRP. Goldman Sachs employees, along with their spouses, have contributed $352,200 to Romney. That’s more than seven times the $49,125 they’ve given to Obama.

Overall, the commercial banking industry spent roughly the same amount in the 2008 election cycle to back congressional Republicans and Democrats, spending about $14.9 million and $14.2 million on the parties, respectively, according to the CRP. But that balance tipped heavily to the GOP’s favor in the 2010 cycle, and congressional Democrats are now trailing far behind Republicans so far in the 2012 cycle when it comes to Wall Street support.

Publicly, many Democrats insist that they’re not concerned about irking their Wall Street donors.

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said taking money from a group doesn’t equate to supporting them. “It’s what you fight for and how you vote, it always has been,” Kerry said in a recent interview. “It’s hard to run for office and not have somebody in some sector or some industry have contributed to you; but the question is, are you voting commonsense and values and for the interests of the people, broadly?”

Democrats also point to recent polls showing that Americans view the demonstrations in a positive light. A Time Magazine survey conducted last week found that 54 percent of Americans had a positive view of the protests, compared with 23 percent who viewed them unfavorably.

But apart from the high-profile mudslinging, many Democrats are keeping a low profile on the issue. In recent interviews, Democrats with ties to the financial services industry expressed only qualified support for the demonstrations. And some Democratic political groups appear to be waiting to see how the protests play out before publicly jumping on board.

“I think the smart Democrats are walking a fine line by trying to embrace a shared sense of frustration and resentment, while keeping some distance because the protesters don’t have a clearly articulated goal and the endgame of the protests is unclear,” said Rich Tarplin, a financial services lobbyist who worked in the Clinton administration and for Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.).

“I don’t know if I’m supportive of it,” said Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). “I think what it is, is a reflection of a deep-seated economic anxiety that exists in the country.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=A5F5D3FF-AC48-45E9-9196-97236DC5D01D