Bachmann says Occupy Wall Street’s solutions are ‘temporary gimmicks’
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 12:28 pm
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In a speech Thursday at the Commonwealth Club of California, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann batted down suggestions of student loan and debt forgiveness that have come out of the Occupy Wall Street movement, saying the movement isn’t offering permanent solutions.
“The Occupy Wall Street, much of the calls have been coming for more government spending and more government involvement in people’s lives,” Bachmann said in a video posted by the Bay Citizen.”The Tea Party movement, in high contrast, is calling for less government and less spending.”
Bachmann defined the Occupy movement’s approach as ”government-directed solutions based on temporary gimmicks,” while she said the Tea Party pushes “permanent solutions driven from the private sector,” according to the Oakland Tribune.
She also said there’s a difference in the cleanliness of the two movements: “The Tea Party picks up its trash after it has a demonstration.”
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Comment posted October 21, 2011 @ 12:52 pm
Do people have any idea how much money would be shot into the economy if all student debt were forgiven? 1 trillion dollars is owed by students and former students who were sold a bill of goods, had the terms changed on them, and then could not get jobs that would pay for the education required to get them. Their is an entire generation that will not buy homes or apartments, will not get married and start a family, will not buy products which stimulates economic growth, will not go to restaurants, or the movies, or buy electronics. These are all things the American consumer must do to have our country recover. The amount of money freed up by relieving student debt would shoot into the economy like an adrenaline injection and jump start a recovery. If we can hand a trillion dollars to the banking system, spend 4 trillion on foreign wars that do not monetarily benefit us, why not put that money where it will have a serious growth effect.
Comment posted October 21, 2011 @ 12:53 pm
An old Fable, the Grasshopper and the Ant, comes to mind when contrasting Occupy Wall Street Activists with the Tea Party.
Jenny Hatch
Comment posted October 21, 2011 @ 2:28 pm
Bachmann doesn’t have the cognitive complexity to understand the challenges we face, nor do her tea party supporters. Her worldview seems to consist of little more than grossly generalized slogans.
What exactly is a permanent solution? Is there such a thing to most complex socioeconomic problems? Why does a ‘permanent solution’ automatically involve the private sector? How many more corporate implosions (Enron, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, etc.) does it take for the Bachmanns of the world to realize that very little is permanent in the private or any other sector?
Has Bachmann ever given serious thought to how little the country benefits by saddling students with enormous debt loads? Has it ever occurred to her that this might even dampen entrepreneurial activity, since those with heavy debts will likely have less capital with which to work, not to mention less time in which to come up with good ideas (products and services)?
Has it ever occurred to Bachmann that America’s enormous and wasteful war budget is far less effective in producing prosperity than investing in affordable education (and science, and R&D, and green jobs, etc.)?
Comment posted October 21, 2011 @ 2:46 pm
Someone in New Hampshire needs to peek in the windows of the now vacant campaign offices of Big Hair Bad Makeup Bachmann and see how clean it was left as the rats jumped ship. And then there was all the trash from the free meals in Iowa…
Jeff Wilfahrt, Rosemount, MN
Comment posted October 22, 2011 @ 2:02 pm
we need to ask michelle how the tea party picks up their trash that comes out their mouth !
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