Can someone explain the difference between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall St?

How can anyone that supported the Tea Party, understanding how BS it was for people to undercut them as an ideological movement when they had an honest and genuine concern, do the same thing to the Occupy Wall St thing?

I don't get it.

I was looking at some pics of Occupy Wall St. Sure are a lot of white people there. Occupy Wall St. might be raysist.

Both are basically leaderless and a bit spread out on issues depending on which part of each group you talk to. That aside, Occupy Wall St. looks to be pushing "make the rich pay their fair share" and even pushing for a huge tax on every stock transaction -- which is absurd. That kind of thing is not about depowering government and lower taxes, which is more what the Tea Party is about.

"The Occupy Wall St thing is venting anger and frustration at Wall St, the embodiment of the banks and the bailouts they've received."

The bailouts aren't Wall St.'s fault. They're the government's fault.

and the fact that many are clamoring for more government while holding "I am the 99%" signs is just stupid.

The Tea Party knows what they want to accomplish and has a platform and ideas of how they want to reach their goals...

The Occupy Wallstreet folk, the vast majority of them are idiots from the various interviews with them I've read. They haven't really thought through what they actually hope to accomplish or how to get it, and are pretty much crying "Stop corporate greed" and other general comments.

From the Occupy Wall Street website, via Picket and Loesch:

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.


Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.


Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.


Demand four: Free college education.


Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.


Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.


Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.


Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.


Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.


Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.


Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.


These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.

The difference is...

The Tea Party knows what they want to accomplish and has a platform and ideas of how they want to reach their goals...

The Occupy Wallstreet folk, the vast majority of them are idiots from the various interviews with them I've read. They haven't really thought through what they actually hope to accomplish or how to get it, and are pretty much crying "Stop corporate greed" and other general comments.