OWS Holds General Strike Despite not Having Jobs

Charles Payne

Don't you love farce?
My fault, I fear
I thought that you'd want what I want
Sorry, my dear.
Send in the clowns
Don't bother they're here
Steven Sondheim

Orginally published May 1st, 2012 on WStreet.com

I must admit, my favorite version of Steven Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns" is from Frank Sinatra, also known as Chairman of the Board.

Charles Payne

Charles V. Payne is a regular contributor to the Fox Business and Fox News Networks. He is also the Chief Executive Officer and Principle Analyst of Wall Street Strategies, Inc. (WSSI), founded in 1991 which provides subscription analytical services to both individual and institutional investors.

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DurangoKid Wrote: May 08, 2012 1:21 AM

Mr. Payne....in your article you state "The administration must find a way to tap into this nation's potential". If we were talking about your 'normal' administration, I would 100% agree with you. But, sadly, we are not. This stealth-Communist, with muslim tendencies, and a hate for America so deep that psychology would not flesh it out, has an agenda that stifles the nation's potential. From socialism in industry, banking, education, healthcare, and every other area of your life, this monstrosity of a president is bent on One World Government where he can be king!!

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george washington Wrote: May 07, 2012 6:35 PM

Suggestion to OWS fools....

Send job applications to welfare recipients.
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Yr. Mst Obt. Svt., etc.

Geo. Wshgtn.

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Joe 145 Wrote: May 07, 2012 6:10 PM

Our current President is an ally of OWS. He thinks like they do, and he acts upon it. In fact, the economic results we are seeing today are a product of his efforts. We see paltry growth because this is the economic results of socialist economics. Not exactly what our country was founded upon, but it is CHANGE. Just like President Obama promised.

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mach0017 Wrote: May 07, 2012 5:27 PM

People 'who have', who choose to help others, fine. But a Gov't forcing those 'who have' to support others is just plain wrong.

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mach0017 Wrote: May 07, 2012 5:19 PM

If the 1% have to contribute any more to the benefit of the 99% they will soon start moving to other lands. Then who will the 99% have to pay their way?

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TeaPartyNation Wrote: May 07, 2012 3:25 PM

Things you'll NEVER hear from the slugs, slackers, deadbeats, liars, freeloaders, losers, taxpayer-leeches, cheats, and potheads that make-up #occupy:
let's tear up all big government welfare and food stamp checks and EBT cards, let's stop accepting "free" big government-provided contraceptives, let's get off our butts and look for a job, let's raise children instead of aborting them with taxpayer money, let's do something good for America, let's stop raping the women who attend our events, let's have a "drug-free" day....

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JOE1CR Wrote: May 08, 2012 2:28 AM

Right on TeaPartyNation!!
Labor unions, public unions, college students, environmentalist, homeless, welfare recipients. mischief makers and the communist party of America are front and center in the redistribution of wealth protest against Wall St. They are protesting what the rich have and what they want to have given to them. These groups are led by Van Jones and others with approval of President Obama and the liberal socialist communist he has around him in Washington D.C. . Socialist communism This is what Obama hope and change is all about.
American Freedoms are under attack as Obama, and his radical Cronies, Union Goons and thugs, and his propagandist media allies, have all but declared a state of war, against Freedom of Speech,

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JOE1CR Wrote: May 08, 2012 2:29 AM

American Freedomsare under attack as Obama, and his radical Cronies, Union Goons and thugs, and his propagandist media allies, have all but declared a state of war, against Freedom of Speech, Liberty, Equal Justice, and the very core of American Democracy itself, the American People, and the U.S. Constitution.!!!

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Blair31 Wrote: May 07, 2012 3:03 PM

The OWS crowd is like Kramer in Seinfeld. Maybe even George and Cliff on Cheers.

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Drik Wrote: May 07, 2012 1:14 PM

A lifetime of being provided for with no limits placed, no expectations, and no consequences. These folks are the product of lousy parenting.

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dahni Wrote: May 07, 2012 12:25 PM

What's your problem? Don't you know the OWS groupies are Interning so they will be better able to demonstrate in the future.

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NyetToTheLeft Wrote: May 07, 2012 12:18 PM

excellent! I hope there are plenty of riots and the police (and private citizens) get to use tear gas and lead.

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karen 341 Wrote: May 07, 2012 11:50 AM

Those have nothing better to do and I am sure it costs the UNIONS plenty to get this crowd. The last laugh will be on them at election time and I hope it hurts like crazy

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Alice153 Wrote: May 07, 2012 11:23 AM

In the thirties when the government-sponsored jobs were offered, there was a different type of man in this country. That man would work and did work to the best of his ability - the fact that the government was paying him did not encourage him to slack off nor do less than acceptable work. He kept his dignity by working for the help he got rather than sitting home drinking beer bought with his wife's food stamps. Decades later, many men will accept the check without the satusfaction of a job well done and feel no shame. Women have been trained to let someone else do it since the feminists took off.

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petroleum engineer Wrote: May 07, 2012 12:30 PM

Alice - I was a teenager in the mid-30s and remember those time well. Neighbors helped neighbors. Freight trains passed not too far from our house and men were hanging all over them - moving from place to place looking for work. They did not QUIT looking! Gov't projects hired a lot of people, but there were still those who wanted to do it on their own - they'd work for food, clothing for their families. Pillaging, looting and theft were not rampant. Nor was demonstrating. People were not disgruntled like today's OWS KOOKS. I remember one of our friends was a reserve Army officer WWI type), he ran a CCC camp and had some sergants under him. Those CCC people were disciplined and hardworking - GOOD IDEA FOR TODAY'S FREELOADERS.

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Drik Wrote: May 07, 2012 12:49 PM

Hobos used to be a guy with a hoe, willing to trade a day of tilling and weeding for a meal a place to sleep.
No more.

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Tonto Wrote: May 07, 2012 9:37 AM

Yup, a general strike by unemployed losers makes as much sense as the entire OWS thing......which is to say "None at all". Fire up another doobie guys!

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upsidedownjack Wrote: May 07, 2012 8:56 AM

One can Work and eat, or one can sit around and protest and hope that food will come to you!
Quoting one from OWS. I will not take a JOB under $80,000/100,000 per year. Because that is what I was making BEFORE I was LAID OFF. Laid OFF? Or FIRED? And if you were Laid off, why? Because you were NOT worth the money you were being payed? Did not Produce, the WORK you were being PAYED for? Get a Fvcken job you pieces of Dog Crap! There is Nothing that is FREE! You need something, find a Job! Move out of your Father's house, that is if you even know who "he' was/is, and start living like a ADULT!

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Don't Tread On Me3 Wrote: May 07, 2012 7:13 AM

I'd been thinking the same thing.

The "Occupiers" are not "the 99%" but by-&-large the 47%, plus miscellaneous dupes, & their leaders & inciters from the very elite class the Occupiers claim to despise.

When the idle, useless, & unproductive "go on strike", what happens? Do we have to get along without uselessness, idleness, & nonproductivity? Do they give up bogus class-envy & Demmie activism & instead go to work doing something useful?

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rpexplorer Wrote: May 07, 2012 6:22 AM

Waxing philosophic today Charles? Slightly pensive,? wishful? I must admit that there is a point where the choice to push back in the interest of logic swings to an acceptance of inevitability and planning begins on how to accomodate it. I suspect that the "run for the financial hills" will move into high gear in the coming months as the trainwreck that is bearing down gets closer and even those with their heads down in their work begin to realize what is coming is a part of the cycle.

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patrickhenry1734 Wrote: May 07, 2012 12:57 AM

OWS (whether you agree or not) is the beginning of further revolutions as the economy continues to deteriorate in the United States. A lack of commerce, manufacturing, and free enterprise are the result of zero jobs. It is time to return to the roots of the Constitution instead of wasting time on OWS.

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blueeyes Wrote: May 07, 2012 2:50 AM

they have no idea how to produce wealth, so they demand that those who do know share it with them. they will not, they would rather not earn as much as they can to avoid paying higher taxes, if they do not benefit from their effort why should the government? or OWS, those losers? they will just do what human beings naturally do: they change their behavior to fit the conditions. so no one wins, just like it was in the USSR

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