# Classist Wall Street occupiers refuse to share food, bridge gaps with marginalized homeless **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 27, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classist-wall-street-occupiers-refuse-to-share-food-bridge-gaps-with-marginalized-homeless/600956 "2011-10-27T12:22:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classist-wall-street-occupiers-refuse-to-share-food-bridge-gaps-with-marginalized-homeless/600956/261 "2011-11-04T17:35:03Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > [http://gawker.com/5841874/how-a-pizza-joint-became-the-official-caterer-of-the-revolution](http://gawker.com/5841874/how-a-pizza-joint-became-the-official-caterer-of-the-revolution) > Yep, pizza business is booming around Zuccotti Park. Longer hours and more employees. It is one of many pizzerias in the area. You’re making a fool of yourself. Nowhere in that piece is there a mention of a SINGLE extra employee being hired much less 22 employees which is what you specifically claimed. > [@](#): > > Quote: > The pizzerias around Zuccotti park have hired 22 people to deliver pizzas to the park and to cook them. Now please either produce your source for this “22 people were hired” or admit that you made a mistake or simply made up that figure. There’s no harm in admitting that you shot your mouth off about a subject you don’t know very much about. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classist-wall-street-occupiers-refuse-to-share-food-bridge-gaps-with-marginalized-homeless/600956/262 "2011-11-04T18:03:54Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > How is your jumping to the wrong conclusion proof that gonzo doesn’t understand interest? Read the link. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classist-wall-street-occupiers-refuse-to-share-food-bridge-gaps-with-marginalized-homeless/600956/263 "2011-11-04T18:16:24Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Read the link. I did. What’s the catch? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classist-wall-street-occupiers-refuse-to-share-food-bridge-gaps-with-marginalized-homeless/600956/264 "2011-11-05T03:25:42Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Again. You’ve failed to demonstrate the occupiers have disturbed the peace. Do you have one fucking cite they’re anymore noisy than the city? > > Your problem is you don’t like their message. > Your problem is your head is far up your ass you can’t see something has to change. Uh huh. I sourced my point. You’ve done nothing but run your mouth and you can’t even do that without insults. > [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > That Free Market you’re always going about. It put millions of Americans out of work, and almost did much worse if government hadn’t forced it drop the knife it held against it’s own throat. It made their retirements disappear. It replaced a roof over their heads with fear and uncertainty. > > That same market has more representatives in the government than the people. As evidenced by the corruption it bribed to fight the regulation against high economic risk banking activities. > > Something needs to change, and be glad it’s peaceful occupiers leading the petition for redress of grievances, because the next group might not be so peaceful. Nothing that the protesters are doing will change a thing. They have no legitimate cause beyond occupying property that does not belong to them. The real 99% doesn’t give a fuck about their protest beyond having their parks taken away from them, the excess noise, or traffic tie-ups. They are free to rant to their hearts content. NOBODY CARES. They just aren’t free to usurp property or disturb others. Your cliched rants about the free market not-withstanding you haven’t established a reasoned argument why people can occupy public and private parks to the exclusion of everybody else. Based on your lack of argument it would be OK for a Klan rally to lay siege to your neighborhood until their demands are met. Maybe that’s why David Duke supports the behavior. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classist-wall-street-occupiers-refuse-to-share-food-bridge-gaps-with-marginalized-homeless/600956.md?page=13)