‘It Gets Heated’: Twin Sisters Divided Over Occupy Wall Street

[garbon]

http://news.yahoo.com/gets-heated-twin-sisters-divided-over-occupy-wall-120036018.html

A poor attempt to be the Onion?

Growing up, twin sisters Nicole and Jill Carty had a lot in common.

But around the age of 14, Nicole Carty told ABC News today, they started going in different directions — and they never stopped, with Nicole Carty attending Brown University for a degree in sociology and Jill Carty heading to the University of Pennsylvania to pursue degrees in international business and studies.

Now with the Occupy Wall Street movement more than a month old, the recent Ivy League graduates have found themselves on Wall Street but on opposing sides.

Nicole Carty, who works for a television station, spends her free time in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street's headquarters, organizing general assembly meetings for the demonstrators.

Jill Carty works for a company that assists financial service  clients. She said although she agreed with some of the protesters' sentiments, she did not support more government regulations and intervention.

"I feel that's what's gotten us into this mess in the first place," she told ABC News Wednesday. "There are always unintended consequences with government intervention."

She said it was no secret among her family that she and Nicole Carty had different views on Occupy Wall Street and its message.

"I'd be very much more pleased if she [Nicole Carty] would be able to come up with solutions to these problems [voiced by protesters] that use the tools of the country and the world like economics and things that I feel have potential really to change the way that things work and the way people behave," Jill Carty said.

But Nicole Carty said that her sister's politics were completely wrong and off base.

"[Jill Carty] lacks a fundamental understanding of structural oppression that is inexcusable and immature," she said. "She just really trusts capitalism and doesn't recognize that capitalism is kind of responsible for a lot of the injustices we have in the world."

[Eddie Teach]

News organizations run this shit all the time. I think it's an attempt to "humanize" what's happening.

[The Brain]

Yuck, they're non-white.

[Valmy]

Yuck, they're non-white.

[PDH]

Structural oppression?  Given the current state of the infrastructure in the USA it will collapse on its own in a few years unless the concrete is replaced.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Structural oppression?  Given the current state of the infrastructure in the USA it will collapse on its own in a few years unless the concrete is replaced.

As long as it's not my tax money paying for your socialist concrete 

[chipwich]

I've been hearing that "OMG Infrastructure" yarn for a decade now, so far everything's intact.

[DGuller]

I've been hearing that "OMG Infrastructure" yarn for a decade now, so far everything's intact.

By the time things start falling down, you're far gone.

[MadImmortalMan]

Ivy-educated people both using the stupid "I feel" statement. Bleh.

Do they think anything?   

[The Brain]

I feel that man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child-king long enough!

[Eddie Teach]

Come on, T Rex got millions of years and we've barely gotten thousands.

[Admiral Yi]

Ivy-educated people both using the stupid "I feel" statement. Bleh.

Do they think anything?   

The leftie neither feels nor thinks.  She just knows. 

[Razgovory]

I've been hearing that "OMG Infrastructure" yarn for a decade now, so far everything's intact.

Well except for that bridge in Minnesota.

[Neil]

Come on, T Rex got millions of years and we've barely gotten thousands.

We've had hundreds of thousands, which is a good run.  And Tyrannosaurus never exerted the same power that a human does.

[Eddie Teach]

We've had hundreds of thousands, which is a good run.  And Tyrannosaurus never exerted the same power that a human does.

I'd imagine they had comparable power to a Stone Age band of hunters. So we're back to mere thousands.