Occupy Wall St Debate - San Mateo, CA

It seems a bit brainless.

Dan wrote:

It seems a bit brainless.

Far from it.

SHAME ON YOU PROPAGANDIST

Break down of the Occupy Wall Street people.

Traffic on the Occupy Wall Street site averaged about 400,000 visitors a day during the sample week (October 7th), which represents more than 10% of the population. 1619 people completed the survey.

Age

Not surprising, nearly 2/3 of the protesters are under 35. But one in three is over 35 and one in five is over 45.

Racial/Ethnic background

81.3% of respondents considered themselves White, 1.3% Black\African American, 3.2% Asian,.4% Native American Indian, 2.9% Mixed, 7.7% Hispanic, and 3.2% considered themselves some other group.

Education

Only 7.9% of respondents lack at least some college.

27.4% have some college (but no degree), 35% have a college degree, 8.2% have some graduate school (but no degree), and close to 21.5% have a graduate school degree.

Employment Status

70% of respondents had jobs. 50.4% worked full time. 20.4% worked part time.

Only 13.1% are unemployed.

Income

47.5% of the sample earns less than $24,999 dollars a year and another quarter (24%) earn between $25,000 and $49,999 per year.

71.5% of the sample earns less than $50,000 per year.

15.4% of the sample earned between $50,000 and $74,999.

The remainder 13% of the sample earn over $75,000 with close to 2% earning over $150,000 per year.

Politics

27.3% of respondents considered themselves Democrats, another 2.4% said they were Republican.

Interestingly, a very large proportion of the sample, close to 70.3%, considered themselves Independents.

Cordero-Guzman concluded that the 99% looked like the 99%.

The one way they did significantly differ was in gender. 67% were male. 30.9% were female and 2% preferred another gender designation.

92.5% of the respondents either strongly or somewhat agree with the protests. Over 91.8% believe the movement is likely to grow.

SHAME CORPORATE PROPAGANDIST
SHAME

Why should I?

Sarah Campbell wrote:

Why should I?

Hy should you stop breathing and just die?

Veteran laying it down against Corporate minions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Orwell wrote:

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Far from it.
SHAME ON YOU PROPAGANDIST
Break down of the Occupy Wall Street people.

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SHAME CORPORATE PROPAGANDIST
SHAME

Hi Orwell,

I guess I just meant that it wasn't very clear to me what the objectives were. This may be my ignorance.

Dan wrote:

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Hi Orwell,
I guess I just meant that it wasn't very clear to me what the objectives were. This may be my ignorance.

Check out occupywallst.org

Nothing wrong with being ignorant about something, we all are. But please find out info about this huge movement for ethics and morals that is going on in the world right now.

We got bombs for wars, but not help for our poor people. Something is wrong.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE