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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 06:34 PM
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Diane Sawyer is going to ask OWS protestors who "should pick up their tab" tonight.
This is coming up after PSU is hashed over. The media is spinning it as a giant party/Woodstock event. We need to keep at it and we need some spokes people getting out there.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 06:34 PM
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1. she should -- she's part of the 1% n/t
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 06:42 PM
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4. Indeed
Who picks up Diane's tab when she's "entertaining" folks on the company expense account? It sure ain't ABC or Disney. Seems only fair that she should foot this bill that she's so concerned about.

I have to say it's almost touching to see the sudden outpouring of concern by the wealthy about public parks and spaces. In ordinary times, they can't be bothered to pay a dime for public space upkeep without a whole lotta gritching about paying taxes, but now all that dead grass and those damaged trees and compacted earth is at the top of their priority list, and by golly, who's going to pay for that???
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 06:38 PM
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2. They'll be picking it up - they're the taxpayers. But in this
instance they have a SAY in where there taxes are going.

Speaking for myself, I would think it's worth it. It's wrong that the authorities are doing this, but if they are and "we" have to pay, so be it.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 06:39 PM
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3. Hopefully it will be someone that puts her in her place.
Edited on Tue Nov-15-11 06:40 PM by Rex
Maybe they will mention that the people at OWS 'picked up the tab' when Wall Street decided to pillage and plunder. WE picked that one up and all others...Sawyer is a rich tool just like all the other M$M mediawhores.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 06:44 PM
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5. Guess who's paying her "tab".
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 07:30 PM
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6. ummm there is no need to have a tab in the first place except for police love of brutality nt
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 07:32 PM
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7. Obsolete! :D
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Capitalocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 07:32 PM
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8. The answer: It would be a lot cheaper for the city...
if they didn't send hundreds of cops in full riot gear to beat people up for exercising free speech in defiance of the Constitution.
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sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 07:33 PM
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9. Another Corporate shill with zero credibility.
The media has made itself irrelevant. We have our own media now, someone should tell them.
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 07:39 PM
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10. There is no 'tab' being run up by OWS....
the 'tab' is being run up by Bloomberg. She should as him that question instead of OWS, shouldn't she???
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 07:40 PM
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11. who paid to bail out the banks?
you and i, diane. you and i.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 07:43 PM
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 07:45 PM
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13. "Why aren't you asking the head of *insert big bailed out institution here* that question?"
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 07:52 PM
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14. The American taxpayer..
...is picking up the tab for Wall Street fraud to the tune of TRILLIONS of dollars. I think they can handle this. Stupid bitch.
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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 07:54 PM
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15. The city ran up the tab. They can pay.
The biggest expense was the excessive show of force by the city. OWS didn't run up the bill.
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 08:05 PM
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16. They should reply "the opposite of who's picking up your's". Who else?nt
Edited on Tue Nov-15-11 08:06 PM by Snotcicles
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