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Freeloaders freeloading off the Freeloaders…and they are NOT happy!

Confused yet?? Yeah…me too! Oooohh the Irony of it all!! ~ mellie

 

Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders

By SELIM ALGAR and BOB FREDERICKS

Last Updated: 10:58 AM, October 27, 2011

Posted: 1:43 AM, October 27, 2011

EXCLUSIVE

The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday — because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.

For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.

They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.

TUMMY TROUBLE:  Protesters and hangers-on were disappointed in yesterday’s fare supplied by cooks who plan to serve only brown rice instead of fancy feasts in protest over an influx of “professional homeless” eaters.

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TUMMY TROUBLE: Protesters and hangers-on were disappointed in yesterday’s fare supplied by cooks who plan to serve only brown rice instead of fancy feasts in protest over an influx of “professional homeless” eaters.

To show they mean business, the kitchen staff refused to serve any food for two hours yesterday in order to meet with organizers to air their grievances, sources said.

As the kitchen workers met with the “General Assembly’’ last night, about 300 demonstrators stormed from the park to Reade Street and Broadway, where they violently clashed with cops.

 

 

Sorry…just HAD to add this! ~ mellie

h/t  breitbarttv

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H/T BreitbartTV

Occupy Wall Street Occupies GE CEO’s Front Lawn…

Now THIS is where they need to be, other than at the White House….I’m just saying. ~Mellie

 

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10/22/2011 @ 4:38PM |6,058 views

Protesters Occupy GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s Connecticut Front Lawn

Forbes Staff
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Occupy Wall Street protesters took a field trip from Zuccotti Park on Saturday morning, all the way to the wealthy suburban enclave of New Canaan, Conn., where they took their anger at income and tax disparity to GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s front lawn.

“In the land of the free they tax me but not G.E.!” read the invitation to take an hour bus ride to Immelt’s family home to join the protest, organized by liberal political party Connecticut Working Families. “General Electric made billions last year; they paid no taxes, outsourced thousands of jobs, and got over $3 billion in tax refunds! Join us on a free bus trip to G.E’s CEO’s front lawn to see how our friends in the 1% live.”

A crowd of about 100 protesters from Connecticut Working Families, Occupy Wall Street and local offshoot Occupy New Haven spent the afternoon standing outside Immelt’s 6-bedroom, 10-bathroom, $5.25 million home. Photos from local news site New Canaan Patch show a police officer guarding Immelt’s gates while protesters hold placards reading “Mr. Immelt, Meet the 99%” and “Jobs Not Bailouts”.

Read More at Forbes.com

 

Funny thing though… Mr. Immelt supports the Occupy Wall Street Movement

 

GE’s Immelt empathizes with Occupy Wall Street

By Annalyn Censky @CNNMoneyOctober 17, 2011

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — General Electric’s CEO Jeff Immelt said Monday he empathizes with the grievances of the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

“Unemployment is 9.1% and underemployment is much higher than that, particularly among young people that don’t have a college degree,” he said. “It is natural to assume people are angry, and so I think we have to be empathetic and understand that people are not feeling great.”

Speaking at a ThomsonReuters event in New York, Immelt went on to discuss the gap between CEO pay and average wages, one of the main sources of discontent among the Occupy Wall Street activists.

“I think the discrepancy is certainly one of the problems today in terms of why people feel the system is unfair,” he said. “So let’s be honest about that. It is part of the problem.”

 

Read more of this at CNN.com