Wall Street protesters: We're in for the long haul

[Malthus]

I shouldn't really laugh though, since I'll have a Ph.D. from that sort of university. They paid me to get the degree at least. Hard sciences generally pay you to get a Ph.D. in them, so that right there should tell you something...

... that profs are looking for low-paid labour to do the boring tasks they don't want to do? 

[The Minsky Moment]

Any oligarchs who happen to pass by must be laughing their ass off.  Because these protests are not just slightly misdirected, they are self-marginalizing.

Teabaggers also started off as a joke.  Who's laughing now? 

President Obama, whose re-election chances have been lifted in a big way by their antics.

[The Minsky Moment]

What would be an efficacious protest?

Grass roots targeted boycotts attached to specific agendas, for example.

[Razgovory]

Any oligarchs who happen to pass by must be laughing their ass off.  Because these protests are not just slightly misdirected, they are self-marginalizing.

Teabaggers also started off as a joke.  Who's laughing now? 

President Obama, whose re-election chances have been lifted in a big way by their antics.

I hope so.

[Ideologue]

I'll tell you who's entitled, though.  Those veterans.  By law.  I probably shouldn't have decided to pursue a career in the civil service during a tanking economy and in the immediate aftermath of two wars.

Not that a Canadian would know anything about two wars.  Or, to an extent, a tanking economy.  Free.  Rider.

Don't you still have a criminal record?

Yeah, that goes on my resume under "Experience."  Wake up.

[garbon]

I'll tell you who's entitled, though.  Those veterans.  By law.  I probably shouldn't have decided to pursue a career in the civil service during a tanking economy and in the immediate aftermath of two wars.

Not that a Canadian would know anything about two wars.  Or, to an extent, a tanking economy.  Free.  Rider.

Don't you still have a criminal record?

Yeah, that goes on my resume under "Experience."  Wake up.

I've just been wondering if that could play an issue in applying for SSA and other government stuff.

[Razgovory]

So is this thing sort of like the younger version of the Tea Party with a more liberal slant?  A group of people protesting something without really any knowledge of what they actually want.

[HisMajestyBOB]

I'll tell you who's entitled, though.  Those veterans.  By law.  I probably shouldn't have decided to pursue a career in the civil service during a tanking economy and in the immediate aftermath of two wars.

Not that a Canadian would know anything about two wars.  Or, to an extent, a tanking economy.  Free.  Rider.

Don't you still have a criminal record?

Yeah, that goes on my resume under "Experience."  Wake up.

I've just been wondering if that could play an issue in applying for SSA and other government stuff.

Is Ide entitled for wanting to still pursue a career with the government?
Or should he just go into a life of crime?

[HVC]

Is Ide entitled for wanting to still pursue a career with the government?
Or should he just go into a life of crime?

In the long term it turns ou theres very little diference

[HisMajestyBOB]

Is Ide entitled for wanting to still pursue a career with the government?
Or should he just go into a life of crime?

In the long term it turns ou theres very little diference

[Ideologue]

I'll tell you who's entitled, though.  Those veterans.  By law.  I probably shouldn't have decided to pursue a career in the civil service during a tanking economy and in the immediate aftermath of two wars.

Not that a Canadian would know anything about two wars.  Or, to an extent, a tanking economy.  Free.  Rider.

Don't you still have a criminal record?

Yeah, that goes on my resume under "Experience."  Wake up.

I've just been wondering if that could play an issue in applying for SSA and other government stuff.

I guess you're right.  It conceivably could.  But I've not been explicitly told so, and they've not been shy about telling me when I'm simply un- or low-qualified (or that I'm not a veteran, thus not considered).

I think it'd be more of a problem in getting a security clearance job.  I think I've only applied to one of those, some gig I can't remember at the FBI.

One thing to bear in mind is that my criminal convictions (with one minor exception) are all really old, and stem from even older incidents.  I mean, the A + B is almost ten years old at this point.

[Barrister]

Is Ide entitled for wanting to still pursue a career with the government?
Or should he just go into a life of crime?

In the long term it turns ou theres very little diference

[HVC]

Is Ide entitled for wanting to still pursue a career with the government?
Or should he just go into a life of crime?

In the long term it turns ou theres very little diference

you get by becaue you work for the government, not in the government.

Plus i can't remember what law you broke that i chided you for, or i'd have used that as an agrument .

[MadImmortalMan]

These guys desperately need focus. Too many manifestos and lists of demands and whatnot. It's all over the place.

[crazy canuck]

These guys desperately need focus. Too many manifestos and lists of demands and whatnot. It's all over the place.

That is typically the problem with protests of this nature and now I hear a lot of other interests are going to be joining in to catch some of the media spotlight.  At some point it is going to turn into something like the "protests" we had here in Vancouver before the Olympics where every protestor seemed to have their own agenda and they were all meeting together for the spectacle of it all.

The difference being that in the US right now there is palpable anger and fear over economic issues so who knows what might happen if all that emotion is harnessed by someone who does have a clear direction to point it.