Any change or attempt at change is going to cost people jobs. Even though the economy is rough people can't let the idea of jobs being lost be the impetus for maintaining an unsustainable status quo.

Wait, I thought that people who aren't rich and need jobs have no one to blame but themselves? (and Obama, of course)

So it's Obama's fault, the protestors' fault, the unemployed workers' fault, the Democrats' fault, and the unions' fault, but never ever ever the fault of the people who have all the money. Got it.

I thought people only lose jobs because they're lazy and don't really want to work?

Cafe had a staff of 97?
Ninety-seven people? To run a cafe?

Wait, don't tell me. Cheaper to hire part-timers, right?

skinnycatullus: The incessant noise and police activity aside, Epstein said the biggest obstacle to his business has been the ubiquitous New York police barricades surrounding Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan.

Sounds like the police response is the real problem.

It usually is. Cops with a longtime grudge against anti establishment types are itching to beat up the "dirty lazy hippies". What else is new?

Oh goodness, this changes everything.

Oh look, an article about Occupy Wall Street published by Foxnews, I'll definitely read that and take its conclusions seriously.

21 jobs lost and Fox is there. 9,000,000+ jobs lost thanks to Jr's policies and nary a sound is heard.

GAT_00: Well then, 21 people lost their jobs. That's it then. Never mind the thousands of jobs destroyed by the people who the protest is against.

Never mind that the people being protested against invest money into companies providing tens of millions of jobs.

GORDON: GAT_00: Well then, 21 people lost their jobs. That's it then. Never mind the thousands of jobs destroyed by the people who the protest is against.

Never mind that the people being protested against invest money into companies providing tens of millions of jobs.

Yeah, the wealth just "trickles down" and demand is created out of thin air and people become magically employed!

GORDON: GAT_00: Well then, 21 people lost their jobs. That's it then. Never mind the thousands of jobs destroyed by the people who the protest is against.

Never mind that the people being protested against invest money into companies providing tens of millions of jobs.


Not recently. And not in the US.

The democrats told them the effect will trickle up!

I see just about everything I had to say about this has been covered. If I think of something else to say I'll come back and see who has said it first. Carry on, good people.

That's an awful quick decision on the part of the management, how long has the protest been going on now? Easier than torching the place for the insurance, though.

Shadune: GORDON: GAT_00: Well then, 21 people lost their jobs. That's it then. Never mind the thousands of jobs destroyed by the people who the protest is against.

Never mind that the people being protested against invest money into companies providing tens of millions of jobs.


Not recently. And not in the US.

No. The investors are the retarded masses. The people being protested against /borrow/steal/use/gamble with that money and manipulate if to turn a profit at everyone's expense, even when they fark up and everything explodes because of their greed.

skinnycatullus: The incessant noise and police activity aside, Epstein said the biggest obstacle to his business has been the ubiquitous New York police barricades surrounding Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan.

Sounds like the irrational police response is the real problem.

ftfy

The My Little Pony Killer: Funny, because most of his business lately has been from the Occupiers. He can keep right on farking that chicken though, if it helps him feel better.

Juvenihilist: Wait, I thought that people who aren't rich and need jobs have no one to blame but themselves? (and Obama, of course)

So it's Obama's fault, the protestors' fault, the unemployed workers' fault, the Democrats' fault, and the unions' fault, but never ever ever the fault of the people who have all the money. Got it.

Of course not, the people with money are Job Creators, and thus the vital engine that drives society. They have money because they are hard working, virtuous people and thus are better than the poor who are leeches on the rich because they lack work ethics, talent, and drive.

I couldn't even type that with a straight face.

FOX News, the best propaganda money can buy.

60% of all restaurants fail or are sold in their first 5 years. Donald Trump has terrible hair.

/the rest is pointless to "discuss"

Selfabortion: Oh look, an article about Occupy Wall Street published by Foxnews, I'll definitely read that and take its conclusions seriously.


Well, here's the story (new window) over at New York's Jewish Week. Now you can read it and take its conclusions seriously.

*reads story*

Oh, the police barriers?

Not staying in a troll thread.


/I best believe

If you were an evil mastermind and really wanted to ensure that America's financial economic situation went from bad to unrecoverable, you'd push for two policies: 1. more tax breaks for the rich and 2. increased defecit spending, spurred on primarily by increases in military spending.

I mean, short of nationalizing the tech industry, those are about the two things that would by far cause the most damage to the American economy.

And yet, they form the cornerstones of Republican economic policy, particularly of the Reagan cult wing (and it's a big wing).

It's flabbergasting just how wrong they are and yet so self-confident in their wrongness.

Here is an idea. Go down to the protest, hand out flyers for your restaurant. Get business from hungry protestors.

You know the Job Creators snap their fingers and jobs magically appear out of nowhere?

Talk about self inflicted wounds. Block the banks you suposedly hate, just not the one that holds all that donated cash for OSW right?

Pollexabator: 60% of all restaurants fail or are sold in their first 5 years. Donald Trump has terrible hair.

/the rest is pointless to "discuss"

You forgot : Michael Moore is fat.

GAT_00: Well then, 21 people lost their jobs. That's it then. Never mind the thousands of jobs destroyed by the people who the protest is against.

Came here to say that.

Oh look, a mediocre cafe from Boston's financial district isnt succeeding in New York's financial district. I feel horrible about this.

Actually, the one good thing FTA: "It's my first venture in New York and my last venture in New York," [Epstein] said.

/woooo Boston!
//go Pats!!

I am the first to point out that the OWS crowd are farking morons but this place sucks. Just look it up on Yelp. Crappy food and service.

ongbok: Here is an idea. Go down to the protest, hand out flyers for your restaurant. Get business from hungry protestors.

But i thought they were all jobless and pennyless. Sense, this makes none.

make me some tea: When I went there a few Saturdays ago, the shops and cafes and pizza joints were packed with people, many of them tourists and protester-looking people.

That's what has got me scratching my head. I would think all the local shops would be booming.

/small town yokel

sounds like he was not ows friendly and his food priobably sucked, with as many communication devices in the area, i could see how a cafe could be boycotted by protesters. this guy is a bad business man, you should cater to you customers even if they are not the ones you would like, but i'm guessing food sucked there wasn't a shortage of people

Overzealous businessman.

However, business at the pizza joint that embraced the protests is booming. Perhaps there's a correlation between shutting people out and losing business.

I call BS. They must have had other issues. How does a catering business lose business with a horde of hungry people living just outside its doorstep?

1. How the fark does a cafe even have 21 people to fire?
2. They've been dealing with this problem for less than a month. Shouldn't it take a little longer than a month to decide to fire 21 people?
3. There are dining establishments on Ground Zero that survived farking 9/11 and this supposedly popular joint couldn't survive a couple barricades?

Isn't this when the free market conservative people point out that he should adapt or go out of business because that's the american way? Oh wait that wouldn't fit in Fox's story the right way.

Joe Blowme: ongbok: Here is an idea. Go down to the protest, hand out flyers for your restaurant. Get business from hungry protestors.

But i thought they were all jobless and pennyless. Sense, this makes none.

People donate food to them via local restaurants.

Came in expecting everyone to support this damn protest.

Leaving with confirmation.