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Hmm, that's a lot of activity. This is all because Americans don't know how to hold protests... Of course the Occupy protesters would eventually resort to rioting lol.

You know, they're not "occupying every evil corporation" there is... it started as occupy Wall St. ... You know, those fellas who crashed our economy with toxic loans they were fully aware were toxic and through false advertising, exploiting the tax code and generally being the scum of the earth? Yeah, that's how that started. And if you'll let me elaborate; The occupy movement found a home outside of the US with disenfranchised taxpayers in places like Spain, but later Greece and Ireland. I can tell you myself since i was recently there, the occupy movement encampments in Dublin, Galway [Ireland] and in neighboring Edinburgh [Scotland] are all centered around the government buildings or public square. They're a commentary on public policy and financial law; not a ton of hippies throwing a constant party. I was talking more about the fact that Americans suck at protesting. Their protest is largely valid, but they suck at actually sending it... rofl.

Ehh.... "Read a couple of articles and watch a couple of news stories and decide the world is unfair." I'm pretty sure this is over more than something you can just read about; you can see it everywhere... I'm sure you know about that whole economic crash where tons of people lost their jobs and the country's economic state was being compared to the great depression, where more people fell below the poverty line than in either of our lives and which is the direct fault of immoral predatory banking and thoughtlessly-loose financial regulation, right? I mean to say, This is not how life is... sure life is rough, but prior to now, the "American dream" told us that if we worked hard for it, anything could be ours. Now, you're lucky to find work for half your original pay or even what your skills are worth... This is a bastardization of freedom; not just life. Certain people would prefer that we think of this as just hard times, but they aren't! These are hard times instigated by a greedy group of men on Wall St. who recklessly lead our financial systems into the pit and begged for our tax money to clamor out again afterwards with zero regard for the society they'd trampled AND by a government so tied up getting off on freedom that they forgot who's freedom was important. Namely; ours. The freedom of the citizenship is always most important. In fact, all other freedoms are subject to being good or bad based on if they're beneficial to the people... This is specifically the reason that moderate and fair rules need to be in place on the financial industry. If the government isn't looking out for us because they're busy watching out for the Lehman brothers and their pals, we have a serious issue. That's what's at stake here... Not sipping Starbucks and asking for a handout; balancing the divide between the ability of the average man to increase his welfare and the greedy few at the top who are willing to sacrifice that right for their own purposes. Notice that I'm not talking about socialism or taking money from here to put it there or any other stupid caricature of good government a desperately fledgling right would like to paint this idea as, but simply one's ability to move ahead and work to better their life... you know, the American dream. This isn't a partisan issue and the right would do well to remember that.

I have argued this one til i am blue in the face and i just dont want to argue anymore. lol.

on another note, this region is lacking something.... activity. whats up with that?

Eh, I'm just sayin'. What about this IPO, though, guys?