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Title: Living Like The 1%: Occutard elites staying in $700-a-night hotel
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URL Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ ... cra_pad_s31YWPjPTt0TYuxLGnu7IK
Published: Nov 20, 2011
Author: CANDICE M. GIOVE
Post Date: 2011-11-20 09:16:43 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Obama-doma-ding-dong, Obamas children, occutards, moonbats, kooks
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Hell no, we won’t go — unless we get goose down pillows. A key Occupy Wall Street leader and another protester who leads a double life as a businessman ditched fetid tents and church basements for rooms at a luxurious hotel that promises guests can “unleash [their] inner Gordon Gekko,” The Post has learned. The $700-per-night W Hotel Downtown last week hosted both Peter Dutro, one of a select few OWS members on the powerful finance committee, and Brad Spitzer, a California-based analyst who not only secretly took part in protests during a week-long business trip but offered shelter to protesters in his swanky platinum-card room. “Tents are not for me,” he confessed, when confronted in the sleek black lobby of the Washington Street hotel where sources described him as a “repeat” guest. Spitzer, 24, an associate at financial-services giant Deloitte, which netted $29 billion in revenue last year, admitted he joined the protest at Zuccotti Park several times. “I’m staying here for work,” said Spitzer, dressed down in a company T-shirt and holding a backpack and his suitcase. “I do finance, but I support it still.” During his stay, hotel sources said, he and other ragtag revolutionaries he brought into the hotel lived like 1 percenters. He would order up a roll-out bed to accommodate guests, they said. “He’s here all the time,” a hotel source said. “We all see him at the protest.” Spitzer denied sheltering Occupiers. He claimed he only invited in a blogger buddy living at the park to wash off his camp grime. Meanwhile, Dutro, 35, one of only a handful of OWS leaders in charge of the movement’s $500,000 in donations, checked in on Wednesday, the night after police emptied Zuccotti Park. While hundreds of his rebel brethren scrambled to find shelter in church basements, Dutro chose the five-star, 58-story hotel, with its lush rooms and 350-count Egyptian cotton sheets. He lives only a short taxi ride away in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. “I knew everything was going to be a clusterf--k in the morning,” he told The Post, alluding to Occupy’s own disruption plans. “How would I get over the bridge when they were shutting it down?” The tattoo artist-turned-Occupy money man took the elevator up to the fifth-floor welcome desk, where a disc jockey spins tunes and guests enjoy a vista of the growing freedom tower. He said he spent $500 of his own money to get the room because he wanted a good night’s rest ahead of the cause’s two-month ceremony the next day and raucous post-raid protests. “I knew . . . there was a high probability of getting arrested,” he said. “I wanted a nice room. That’s OK. Not everybody there is dirt poor.” He paid for the palace with his American Express card. “It is an expensive hotel. Whatever,” he said. The rooms have 37-inch flat-screen TVs, window seats overlooking the city and iPod-dock alarm clocks. Visitors can order 12-year-old Glenlivet scotch for $375 a bottle, or an $18 pastrami sandwich, from room service. There’s even a menu for four-legged guests, including a $16 dog dish of Niman Ranch ground beef. He claims he chose the W for its convenience, not its luxury. “I’m not in the business of throwing money away,” he said. “It’s the only room I could find.” And he claims he took care of comrades in less-comfortable digs. “I took food to all those churches,” he said. “I got them cigarettes.” Occupiers told The Post that they witnessed other General Assembly and group leaders stay in both the W Downtown and the Marriott Hotel — and said that key players were not present when cops stormed Zuccotti. Read more: www.nypost.com/p/news/loc...TYuxLGnu7IK#ixzz1eFpnto8t
Occupy Wall Street protesters stay at $700-a-night hotel
NO PARK-ING: Instead of Zuccotti Park squalor a swanky
room at the W Hotel Downtown was more comfy for Brad
Spitzer (pictured) and other well-heeled protesters. 
Peter Dutro A room at the W Hotel Downtown
Peter Dutro
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#1. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
One in Three Americans in Poverty, or Just Above It November 20th, 2011 Via: New York Times: They drive cars, but seldom new ones. They earn paychecks, but not big ones. Many own homes. Most pay taxes. Half are married, and nearly half live in the suburbs. None are poor, but many describe themselves as barely scraping by. Planet Hell...Ruled by Psychopaths...and the Gods aren't very nice....;} Have fun in church today. Pray to the Sweet Baby Hesus for me....;}
By Walter E. Williams November 16, 2011 7:20 am According to CBS News, "the number of people in the U.S. living in poverty in 2010 rose for the fourth year in a row, representing the largest number of Americans in poverty in the 52 years since such estimates have been published by the U.S. Census Bureau." MSNBC said, "The U.S. poverty rate remains among the highest in the developed world." Let's look at a few poverty facts. Heritage Foundation researchers Dr. Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield laid out some facts about the poor in their report "Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America's Poor" (9/13/2011). Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. Nearly three-fourths have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more. Two-thirds have cable or satellite TV. Half have one or more computers. Forty-two percent own their homes. The average poor American has more living space than the typical non-poor person in Sweden, France or the U.K. Ninety-six percent of poor parents stated that their children were never hungry during the year because they couldn't afford food. "The Material Well-Being of the Poor and the Middle Class Since 1980" (10/25/2011) is a research paper by professor Bruce D. Meyer of the University of Chicago and The National Bureau of Economic Research and professor James X. Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame. In it they report: "Our results show evidence of considerable improvement in material well-being for both the middle class and the poor over the past three decades. Median income and consumption both rose by more than 50 percent in real terms between 1980 and 2009. In addition, the middle 20 percent of the income distribution experienced noticeable improvements in housing characteristics: living units became bigger and much more likely to have air conditioning and other features. The quality of the cars these families own also improved considerably. Similarly, we find strong evidence of improvement in the material well-being of poor families." The grim official measures of poverty or income stagnation reported are the result of a number of biases that understate well-being, such as relying exclusively on narrow income measures that do not reflect all the resources available to the household for consumption. Income measures fail to capture important components of economic well-being, such as wealth and the ownership of durables, e.g., houses and cars. For example, official measures would consider a retired couple who owned their car and mortgage-free $700,000 home and lived on $20,000 savings to be poor. Clearly, their income does not reflect their material well-being. "Income Mobility in the U.S. from 1996 to 2005" (11/13/2007) is a report by the U.S. Department of the Treasury that shows considerable income mobility of individuals in the U.S. economy. "Roughly half of taxpayers who began in the bottom income quintile in 1996 moved up to a higher income group by 2005. Among those with the very highest incomes in 1996 -- the top 1/100 of 1 percent -- only 25 percent remained in this group in 2005. Moreover, the median real income of these top taxpayers declined over the study period." These findings confirm previous studies dating back to the 1960s reaching the same conclusion, namely: At different periods of time, different people occupy different income groups, but the overall trend is upward. What about the concentration of wealth? In 1918, John D. Rockefeller's fortune accounted for more than half of 1 percent of total private wealth. To compile the same half of 1 percent of the total private wealth in the United States today, you'd have to combine the fortunes of Microsoft's Bill Gates ($59 billion) and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ($19 billion), but with 10 other multibillionaires in between. Our congressionally caused recession has indeed caused needless hardship for many Americans, but the big poverty and income stagnation hype is part and parcel of an agenda to make us more accepting of politicians getting their hands deeper into our pocketbooks in the name of helping the poor. --- Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
I don’t like calling cops pigs. This asshole, Lieutenant John Pike of the UC Davis Police Department, is a pig. This is video of him pepper spraying a group of peaceful protesters at Occupy UC Davis yesterday, without regard and in as inhumane a way as possible. They are sitting there, en masse. Along he comes, spraying an orange-tinted substance onto the lot of them, without provocation, and apparently with the approval of the rest of his officers, who do absolutely nothing to stop this fucking pig. Lieutenant John Pike is a fucking pig. A fucking asshole pig. And if you think the Occupy movement is going anywhere — if you think it’s gone dormant, and that it’ll just disappear, remember what this fucking pig did. Because we will. #occupyucdavis #uc davis #occupywallstreet #ows #news #john pike
I love this. The Top 1% has MORE that they can rip off the Bottom 99% for!!! LMFAO Understates....yeah, that's the problem for Amerika... the Bottm 99% just don't know how good they' ve got it...and they just don't know how to access ALL of the UNDERSTATED wealth....8D Too Fuckin; Funny....and you 1%ers believe this garbage. That's the sick planet you're on. "Income measures fail to capture important components of economic well-being, such as wealth and the ownership of durables, e.g., houses and cars." So, just at face value, Unless and UNTIL these 'retired'(and of course that means 'unemployed';) folks are living in Tent Cities, they're doin' better than most....8D And WTF? a $700 000 home with $20 000 in savings and a car that's how old?? Care to give a specific example of where this could possibly be? insane....no one is harder to convince than someone being paid not to understand...;}
Looking forward to the 9% approval Congress ripping SS/Medicare from the 'retired couple' above....8D
The cop was just trying to help out the hippies with their herpes and other affictions. Agent Orange kills crabs, cooties, STDs, scabies, ring worms, the AIDS virus, and all sorts of other nasties that infest the fleabaggers.
Thanx for all of it. We'll remember and make sure you're on the receiving end of our 'gifts to your Magi'...;} Hope those gates guarding your community are real strong. And keep an eye out for your security...they're the threat.
But he is not part of the 1 percent. You don't even know who he is. Are you just going to get some random person?
Sure I do. That's what empathy is for. Even as you 1%ers think it's some kind of weakness. HQ says he's a nuke engineer. And he's an acknowledged racist. Also a bonafide republican. And he thinks there hasn't been Any problems with nukes Anyhwere on the planet for the last year. Only someone in a Developmentally Disabled Workshop can think that way, or someone in the 1%. ;} Bloomberg’s One Percent Solution Understanding why Occupy Wall Street has stymied the mayor at every turn. * 3 Comments Add Yours * By Chris Smith * Published Nov 18, 2011 ShareThis
I wish I was one of those 1 percenters. But sadly I'm not.
Its more important to be a contributing member of the 53% than it is to be in the 1%. Something the occutard losers and their commie/socialist/anarchist enablers fail to understand.
Wrong, I never said I was a nuclear engineer, I'm a steel fabricator and designer who has worked on nuclear power projects. I never acknowledged that I was a racist, that's just the card you fools play on whomever you disagree with. The economist whose article I posted on this thread just happens to be an American of African descent, thank-you very much. And I am not a member of the Republican Party. Voting against Democrats does not make someone a GOP member, and you do not have to be a party member to vote in primaries in my state. Basically I'm an unaffiliated libertarian/free market capitalist & a devout constitutionalist.
I think those are the "Good Cops" some like to brag about when they feel the need to apologize for the behavior of the "Bad Cops". But I have always believed that any officer who stands around watching and does nothing to stop these degenerates from harming innocent people , are just as guilty as if they participated in the attacks. That 'fine blue line' is only an excuse they use for their own cowardice. jmho!
"OWS! Liberals! Their goal is to find a way to live within the means of the working class rich, but without the work."
Isn't it an oft repeated complaint that OWS has no leadership. Isn't it the right establishment that claims OWS participants are unemployed, diseased, parasite ridden, drug addled bums? I guess you can't knock down straw men unless you create them first - carry on.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
Isn't it the right establishment that claims OWS participants are unemployed, diseased, parasite ridden, drug addled bums? I guess you can't knock down straw men unless you create them first - carry on. They're throwing spaghetti against the wall, yet none seem to stick.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
Ok,so where is the hypocrisy there? He preaches sharing the wealth,and that's what he was doing. “I got them cigarettes.” Ruh,ROH! He's in trouble with the PC crowd now!
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
The last 3 words really sum it up. I know a woman that inherited 2 houses that were paid for near the ocean,and close to 3 million in cash from her grandmother and her aunt about 5 years ago. She was about 40 at the time. No kid,and you would think old enough to act responsibly. Today she still owns two houses,but cleans other people's houses for a living. She lost most of it because she thought she was a financial genius because she was smart enough to inherit money,and that she was going to double her money every 6 months,and made really stupid high-risk investments. And no,a broker didn't lead her to bankruptcy. She was "too smart" to hire a financial adviser,and chose her own investments based on what she had learned while getting her advanced 8th grade education.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
I love this. Remember when the government was giving away "free" cheese? I remember seeing long lines of new or near new cars lined up on both sides of the road while retired people stood in line to save 3 bucks on cheese. There were new Lincolns and Cadillacs parked along the road,too.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
and you got what you paid for....8D
Today she still owns two houses,but cleans other people's houses for a living. Now imagine you're the son of a parent like this, and nothing you do or say is changing anything....;}
That 'fine blue line' is only an excuse they use for their own cowardice. jmho! The State puts these types on the front line. The 'riot gear' contributes to anonymity & group think.
Nope. I did not pull 'nuclear engineer' out of my ass. You stated that you knew more about nuclear than I did.
Your Handle all by itself proclaims Racist & proud of it.
The 'riot gear' contributes to anonymity & group think. And it's proven the TeaPartiers, by their behavior, to be the true nanny staters that everyone else thought they were in the first place.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
And I'm a 'fool' for calling you on it. OK. Give me ANY of your numerous links on the Black Man. Tick Tock...
Waiting on that thread extolling the virtues of the Black People for overcoming 500 years of genocide....
Basically I'm an unaffiliated libertarian/free market capitalist & a devout constitutionalist. Right. A Republican. And the Constitution is dead. Looking forward to your treatise on how First Amendment trumps everything....;}
The TPers were the First Casualties of the OWSers. Showing them up for the Bankrupt Ideology Stoogies that they are...;} 'You want a real revolution? Here, we'll show you how it's done'....8D
Right. A Republican. All that means is that he wants to rig the markets in HIS favor.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
TP makes good initals for them since they have had about the half life of one.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
It's not a Bailout if we get the $$$.
I don't have to imagine it because I have seen it several times. People need to learn that there is no such thing as "plenty of money" if you act and live foolishly. ESPECIALLY people elected to public office.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
Did anybody happen to mention that 90+ percent of it was caused by their fellow black men?
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
When do you plan to get to the jews, sp?....;}
They will fight to preserve their and their Masters' priveleges to the last ounce of your blood....8D
When do you plan to get to the jews, sp?....;} I don't. The Jews didn't force the black man to enslave other black men and put them up for sale. All they did was to become buyers. BTW,while we are on the subject,I am really,REALLY tired of hearing blacks whine about slavery like a bunch of little bitches. EVERY OTHER GROUP of humans on the planet with the possible exception of Eskimos has both owned slaves and BEEN slaves. What the hell is so special about blacks that should make us care about them? Ain't it about time that blacks started to "man up" and take responsibility for their futures,instead of whining and crying about their past like a bunch of little girls? Hell,the Vikings were selling white slaves to the Africans hundreds of years before Europe even discovered America existed.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
Of course they will. That's just human nature. That doesn't mean we have to let them get away with it,though. Don't get me wrong. I honestly don't care if the people at the top of the political food chain get a little extra for themselves,as long as they are doing the job they are supposed to be doing of looking out for the welfare of the citizens and the Constitution while they are looking out for themselves.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011 Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
The Bottom 99% are the citizens. And there's only the State of Emergency now. Since cheney disappeared at 9:02 AM 9/11....;} And where's my Bailout? Master Slave.
Congress Works Only For AIPAC, Not US Voters Propaganda works. Repetition of information replaces original memories with new, often fake memories. The famous book, ’1984′ explains the process for this replacement of memories with media memories. Thinking ‘outside the box’ is very difficult and the trap there is, when people try this, they often fall into a different memory-warping propaganda regime that does the exact same thing. And don't hold your breth waiting for the USSA to start bombing Egypt...cause those are our thugs....8D
So when did the enslaver find out the Jews had a market? And what were the Jews doing in the meantime? Enslaving their own tribes. Don't give this shite....please.
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#2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
Williams: Poverty in America?
#3. To: Happy Quanzaa (#2)
#4. To: Happy Quanzaa (#2)
The grim official measures of poverty or income stagnation reported are the result of a number of biases that understate well-being, such as relying exclusively on narrow income measures that do not reflect all the resources available to the household for consumption. Income measures fail to capture important components of economic well-being, such as wealth and the ownership of durables, e.g., houses and cars. For example, official measures would consider a retired couple who owned their car and mortgage-free $700,000 home and lived on $20,000 savings to be poor. Clearly, their income does not reflect their material well-being.
#5. To: All (#4)
#6. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
an orange-tinted substance
#7. To: Happy Quanzaa (#6)
The cop was just trying to help out the hippies
#8. To: mcgowanjm (#7)
Thanx for all of it. We'll remember and make sure you're on the receiving end of our 'gifts to your Magi'...;}
#9. To: A K A Stone (#8)
But he is not part of the 1 percent. You don't even know who he is.
#10. To: mcgowanjm (#9)
Even as you 1%ers think it's some kind of weakness.
#11. To: A K A Stone (#10)
#12. To: mcgowanjm, A K A Stone (#9)
(Edited)
HQ says he's a nuke engineer. And he's an acknowledged racist. Also a bonafide republican.
#13. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
Along he comes, spraying an orange-tinted substance onto the lot of them, without provocation, and apparently with the approval of the rest of his officers, who do absolutely nothing to stop this fucking pig.
#14. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
A key Occupy Wall Street leader and another protester who leads a double life as a businessman ditched fetid tents and church basements for rooms at a luxurious hotel that promises guests can “unleash [their] inner Gordon Gekko,” The Post has learned.
#15. To: lucysmom (#14)
Isn't it an oft repeated complaint that OWS has no leadership.
#16. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
During his stay, hotel sources said, he and other ragtag revolutionaries he brought into the hotel lived like 1 percenters. He would order up a roll-out bed to accommodate guests, they said.
#17. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
They drive cars, but seldom new ones. They earn paychecks, but not big ones. Many own homes. Most pay taxes. Half are married, and nearly half live in the suburbs. None are poor, ....
#18. To: mcgowanjm (#4)
For example, official measures would consider a retired couple who owned their car and mortgage-free $700,000 home and lived on $20,000 savings to be poor. Clearly, their income does not reflect their material well-being.
#19. To: sneakypete (#18)
giving away "free" cheese?
#20. To: sneakypete (#17)
I know a woman that inherited 2 houses that were paid for near the ocean,and close to 3 million in cash from her grandmother and her aunt about 5 years ago. She was about 40 at the time. No kid,and you would think old enough to act responsibly.
#21. To: Murron (#13)
are just as guilty as if they participated in the attacks.
#22. To: Happy Quanzaa (#12)
Wrong, I never said I was a nuclear engineer, I'm a steel fabricator and designer who has worked on nuclear power projects.
#23. To: Happy Quanzaa (#12)
I never acknowledged that I was a racist, that's just the card you fools play on whomever you disagree with.
#24. To: mcgowanjm (#21)
The State puts these types on the front line.
#25. To: Happy Quanzaa (#12)
hat's just the card you fools play on whomever you disagree with.
#26. To: Happy Quanzaa (#12)
The economist whose article I posted on this thread just happens to be an American of African descent, thank-you very much.
#27. To: Happy Quanzaa (#12)
And I am not a member of the Republican Party. Voting against Democrats does not make someone a GOP member, and you do not have to be a party member to vote in primaries in my state.
#28. To: mininggold (#24)
(Edited)
And it's proven the TeaPartiers, by their behavior, to be the true nanny staters that everyone else thought they were in the first place.
#29. To: mcgowanjm (#27)
Basically I'm an unaffiliated libertarian/free market capitalist & a devout constitutionalist.
#30. To: mcgowanjm (#28)
The TPers were the First Casualties of the OWSers.
#31. To: mininggold (#29)
All that means is that he wants to rig the markets in HIS favor.
#32. To: mcgowanjm (#20)
Now imagine you're the son of a parent like this, and nothing you do or say is changing anything....;}
#33. To: mcgowanjm (#26)
Waiting on that thread extolling the virtues of the Black People for overcoming 500 years of genocide....
#34. To: sneakypete (#33)
Did anybody happen to mention that 90+ percent of it was caused by their fellow black men?
#35. To: sneakypete (#32)
ESPECIALLY people elected to public office.
#36. To: mcgowanjm (#34)
Did anybody happen to mention that 90+ percent of it was caused by their fellow black men?
#37. To: mcgowanjm (#35)
They will fight to preserve their and their Masters' priveleges to the last ounce of your blood....8D
#38. To: sneakypete (#37)
Don't get me wrong. I honestly don't care if the people at the top of the political food chain get a little extra for themselves,as long as they are doing the job they are supposed to be doing of looking out for the welfare of the citizens and the Constitution while they are looking out for themselves.
#39. To: All (#38)
#40. To: sneakypete (#36)
All they did was to become buyers.
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