Steve Jobs and the Adullamites Who Occupy Wall Street

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American Thinker:

The president and his attorney general, along with a number of other high-ranking administration officials, found themselves in deep trouble this week as their scandalous conduct in Solyndra and Fast and Furious received increased congressional scrutiny and some media attention. To distract voters from the real cause of their unhappiness, the friends and supporters of the almost-hero of Altgeld Gardens (Obama, the community organizer who almost got the asbestos out of that Chicago slum property but never succeeded) have organized largely astroturf occupations of Wall Street, D.C., and elsewhere which demonize the very forces which could and do improve our lives.

My friend who posts under the pen name "Danube of Thought" calls the people occupying Wall Street and elsewhere Adullamites, after the Biblical description (Samuel 22:1-2) of those who gathered around David when he escaped Solomon and went to the cave of Adullam: "everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented." It seems a perfect fit for these mobs.

Unlike Altgeld Gardens, where there was a defined target -- asbestos removal -- the goal of these folks (besides getting others to give them the wherewithal, like blankets and food, to carry on) is unclear.

It seems to me that today's Adullamites' message is at bottom:

When do we want it?

Now!

What do we want?

???????

On what might -- were this not billed as a totally unstructured movement -- be deemed Occupy Wall Street's "official website," one poster listed these demands:

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.

The administrators of the website, however, indicate that this was not a position adopted by "consensus"; it represents only one supporter's view. But there is hardly more clarity elsewhere, and this utterly childish list seems to accurately convey the varied naïve and unworkable demands by a powerless group of dopes and dupes.

In D.C., the turnout was paltry. The legitimate ranks the event turned out were even thinner than they appeared. The marchers included Hispanics who were paid to carry signs whose meaning they didn't understand.