Today was the big day when the liberals of Las Vegas were going to occupy Las Vegas with their protests about just every liberal social and financial issue. It was an epic fail.
Depending on who you listen to, many dozen people (Channel 13) to 500 (Las Vegas Sun) 1000 (Las Vegas Review Journal) attended the rally down by New York New York and marched down to the Bellagio. Using the middle figure of 500 people, that is a pathetic amount of people considering the Valley has around 2 million people living here in addition to the tourists who were here today.
The protesters claim they are the 99%er's but only about .00025% of the Valley showed to support them. not quite close to 99%.
From the LVRJ: Reaction from tourists was a mix of support, bewilderment and anger, with some shouting encouragement to the marchers and others yelling obscenities.
Las Vegas police on motorcycles, in patrol cars, on horseback and on foot stopped traffic on the Strip when protesters neared an intersection.
In contrast to incidents of police using pepper spray and arresting protesters who have occupied Wall Street since Sept. 17, this group at one point chanted, "Thank you, Metro."
http://www.lvrj.com/news/occupy-wall-street-protest-spreads-to-las-vegas-131308394.html
They claim they are angry about the bank bail outs. Great. How angry were they about the union bailouts? Somehow I am sure that was not mentioned.
They claim they that the banks are ripping off their customers. Did they complain about the union sponsors ripping off their dues paying members so that the union heads can live their lavish lifestyle?
One idiot protester had a sign that said "This was not the future I was promised". Seriously? This fool wants to take him seriously? Whoever promised you a future was stupid and the protester was stupid enough to believe them. The protester is the only one who can control his future and it looks like this foolish protester blew it and now is blaming everyone else.
College kids were protesting because they couldn't find a job after graduating. My first question is what their degree was in? If they had a degree in Philosophy, English, History, Fine Arts and areas like this, then yeah, you are not going to find a job in this economy. If a teacher cannot find a job, maybe that is because they are in an area that does not need teachers. History, English, Physical Education, Art, Music and other elective areas will not find jobs. Those in science, math and special education will find jobs.
These protesters complain about the banks and Wall Street and they do deserve criticism. So, I just wonder how many of these protesters have bank accounts, have pensions that invested in Wall Street, have mortgages, belong to unions and if they work, receive their paycheck from a bank. I would suggest to these protesting fools to stop using banks or invest in Wall Street themselves or through their pensions- just stop using these services. But they won't because they really don't believe in what they are saying.
So, Occupy Las Vegas was an epic fail, which really wasn't surprising because these fools are being fronted by unions, George Soros and Democratic party operatives. They don't represent 99% of Americans, they don't even represent 50% or less of Americans. This is a last gasp effort by Democrats, anarchists and liberals to be relevant. They are finding out their policies have failed and people don't support liberals anymore. So, they are throwing these temper tantrum protests in hopes of persuading people to believe in them and of course, they have been an epic fail, like this: (and if you don't like the post, at least watch the video- it is quite funny)
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