Time To Get Real

Who is actually in charge of "Occupy Wall Street?" Nobody! This is the ultimate gift for corporate America. You've spent the last few decades outsourcing jobs and creating "synergies" and "efficiencies" (read LAYOFFS) and now, what a surprise! There is a MOB of people (ingrates) out there with nothing better to do than hang out all day and talk to your esteemed local citizens' representatives and nod their heads and go "yeah, yeah, yeah" and they are still hanging out in that park doing...whatever it is they are doing. This leaderless mob is corporate America's gift to us all. I think they need to appoint a leader RIGHT NOW so we have some central figure to attack and ridicule so we can get this over with already.

Plus over the past few years, especially after 9/11, people figured out that they could LIVE down there in the Wall St. area, and developers crowded in there to renovate space and turn all those old buildings into expensive condos. And now these Manhattan millionaires are righteously annoyed by all this rabble.

Enough already. Who really needs to be protected here? Free speech or local millionaire condo owners? Come on. The name says it all. "Occupy Wall Street." Well, Earth to protestors...Wall Street is part of America and you can't have it. Soon it will be time to stop all this pathetic civility and crack some unemployed heads. The rest of the media will be SHOCKED, but here at Daily Downers, we've seen it all before. Read this below. It's a "leaderless movement." Time to mop them up. Bunch of hippies really. Nothing to worry about.

Negotiations between Occupy Wall Street and Downtown residents are going nowhere — and the community is getting fed up.

After hosting a meeting between protesters and residents Friday afternoon, City Councilwoman Margaret Chin said she is losing faith that the protesters will be able to address residents' concerns about noise, garbage and safety in Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street has been camped out for the past month.

"Despite seven meetings with the community board, a 'Good Neighbor Policy' and a meeting with [Occupy Wall Street] to discuss the enforcement of that policy, nothing has changed in Zuccotti Park," Chin said in a statement to DNAinfo Monday.

"The residents in the area are overwhelmed, and rightfully so," Chin continued. "At this point, I have to conclude that OWS is unable, or unwilling, to address the concerns expressed by the community. We have tried to work with the protesters and to support them, but that support is waning."

Part of the problem is that Occupy Wall Street prides itself on being a leaderless movement, with a horizontal governance structure in which committees tackle issues independently and then report back to the consensus-based General Assembly.

That structure makes it difficult for any one representative to negotiate an agreement on behalf of the whole, and there are often conflicts between what one representative of the group says at one meeting and what another says the following day.

Ro Sheffe, chairman of Community Board 1's Financial District Committee, who has met with the protesters many times, said he is starting to believe that negotiating with them is futile.

"At every one of these meetings, we sit down with people who seem reasonable and very responsive to our concerns," said Sheffe, who lives on Liberty Street, one block from the Zuccotti Park protest.

"They agree to work with us to address the issues, and then they go away," Sheffe continued. "And nothing at all changes. It just appears that there's nothing they can all agree to that can be enforced."

[DNAinfo via Yahoo! News]