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What's it Like at an Occupy Encampment?

There is so much happening at Occupy that you won’t find in the big papers and won’t see on TV. How does it function on a day to day basis, who attends, what kind of work needs to be done, does anyone want to do that work? There are similarities across the various sites; in fact we now know that many of the occupiers travel from one site to the other, and they definitely share information via conference call and by internet.

Here at Lollipops we’ve got numerous pages giving the low-down on several occupy cities. In fact there is so much information right here on this one blog, its hard to find what you are looking for. To that end, today’s post is a recap, with all the links you need, to navigate to the city/issue you want to read about first. 

And why, you may ask, would this blog cover Occupy at all? As our tagline denotes we are ever
QUESTIONING OUR PRESIDENT'S PROMISE TO GIVE THE MIDDLE CLASS ALL THE GOODIES THEY COULD POSSIBLY DESIRE, YET NEVER ASK THEM TO PAY. 

The entire Occupy movement has come into being because of that empty promise. The president swept into office on the oath that he would provide health care, education, higher wages,  and a carbon free environment, and a host of other enticing things, at no cost to the middle class voter. We'll get the rich to pay,  he promised. And now the occupiers want that promise kept and are mobilizing to demand the heads of the so-called rich.

DC Occupy
There are many tents at Occupy DC, but who is living there and how do they think? And how are they going to know when to stop the occupation? They are constantly talking peace, but they plan and carry out actions that almost dictate that violence will result. They are making plans to insert themselves in the area community for months to come.

Who is hanging out at the DC occupation?

Roadmap for Violence

Logic Difficulties

The Goal of Occupy

Working Groups at Occupy  

Boston Occupy

The vast majority of people at Occupy events are not enamored of the founding documents of the United States. In Boston they have been jotting down some ideas for a substitute constitution. On the other hand, occupy events sometimes attract a handful of Ron Paul supporters and Tea Partiers. Some people in Boston know that the 99% definition is pretty fuzzy. Do all the ninety-nine percent wish to help do the work, or to wait patiently for the redistribution of Occupy Wealth?

Not me--Let some eager beaver pick up that trash

Gimme mine

Co-opting the language of Occupy

The new Boston Tea Party?

Boston's new constitution. 

Chapel Hill Occupy 

Here is how things all started at Chapel Hill in October 2011. From the first day, Chapel Hill Occupy offered a table spread thickly with literature from causes and perspectives they clearly hold near and dear.  

And who is living in the occupation? Perhaps not the poor, who seem to lack the motivation to join up. And where do they use the bathroom and what are the arrangements for rain in Chapel Hill? Which nearby organizations offer their support to Occupy Chapel Hill? Here are all the posts we have so far from Chapel Hill. And there's a video of that first day  as well.

First Day in Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill Literature Table

Not appealing to the poor

Churches provide bathrooms

Another Liberal Solution Will Not Fix the Problems Caused by the Last

It is just amazing. Where is the END to this? When do the solutions to the massive problems caused by the liberal solutions END? No one will tell us. They just keeping make MORE damaging and demoralizing liberal “solutions”.

First, there is a wage freeze, and that leads employers to sweeten the payment package, offering health care. Which is a stupid connection—a stupid government-proliferated connection. Employers ought not to have anything at all to do with healthcare in the first place. But having all that third party coverage leads costs to go up—who cares if you get "unnecessary" tests and treatment, or how much it costs, when your insurance company is paying. Especially when you don’t even have to worry about premiums (and can’t) because it is not you who chooses the insurer, but the employer.

Not to mention, once people are done being employed, a lot of them are done being insured at all. So the liberal solution is to have a government program for the elderly—Medicare, which is snuck in as the first part of the a marxist dream of national socialized medicine. And Medicare naturally becomes the fastest inflating sector of the health care economy, because the third party GOVT payer is even more damaging than the private third party private payer. And that drives up medical costs for EVERY AMERICAN ALIVE AND TO BE BORN!

We should have had a fee-for-service program all along, with affordable insurance to cover catastrophic events, but no. We have a crazy patchwork of a system full of liberal solutions, or responses to liberal solutions.

And then liberal Obama comes forth and says, it’s really a shame---private solutions have not worked. The free market does not work. Freedom of choice does not work, and we need a comprehensive LIBERAL solution. YAY, another liberal “solution” to save the day. And that solution is to use force to make every individual succumb to the whims of Obama and his elite decision makers and their dreams of rationed health care. And then when rationing becomes a dirty word, the very liberal New York Times sails in to the rescue and tells us why centrally designed rationing has to happen.. and is some kind of a GOOD THING!

Conservatives are for rationing too. They just want the rationing to happen at the level of THE INDIVIDUAL, instead of in some ultra expensive, beautifully designed and decorated, Washington DC bureaucratic office. Millions of people acting in their own best interests, asking questions about procedures, and comparing costs, will ration the care which needs to be rationed. They won't order what is not likely to benefit them. But they will let go forward the care which they truly need. And the people, acting as individuals, will be free to make their own choices and will choose RIGHT almost all of the time. And costs will rise at the same rate as inflation, (instead of almost twice as fast, as they do with Medicare premiums), because people are making the tough choices every step of the way.

But liberals want the people trounced in the name of the "public good". What good is taking care of the public if you do it at the expense of the individual? And the worst part of all this is that a comprehensive government solution to the health care sector, which is one-sixth of our economy, is going to be expensive--and expensive at an immoral level. We have pointed out in other posts here that there simply are not enough rich people to pay for such a big health care plan.

Those of us us who want to hold Obama to his promise that he will not charge the middle class for the bitter lollipop of national, rationed, socialized health care, need to call our Senators and our Congress people today to tell them to stop this plan and replace it with a plan which brings the healthcare decisions back to the individual.