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Students occupy UMass Boston to protest tuition, fee hikes

Strategy based on Occupy action

Borrowing a page from the nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement, about 20 students yesterday occupied the campus center at University of Massachusetts Boston to protest cuts in public education spending and hikes in tuition. “Public universities were built for the 99-percent and we intend on maintaining that,’’ said Amanda Achin, a 22-year-old student of political science. Setting up a few tents inside the campus center, the protesters said they plan to camp there indefinitely.

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LuvUSA1

Boston Globe: this was a good article. It's shocking that one of the protesters thinks that it's the governments responsibility to pay for college. Also, that one of the women protester who is 55yrs old and getting Social Security wants more hand outs. So who is going to pay for all these entitlements? It's crystal clear these people don't want to work. The cause has been hijacked by a bunch lazy nut jobs. You can't get a job by living in a tent, and doing nothing all day.

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TheSystemWorked

Job-killing Democrats had a death-grip on Congress from January 2007 until January 2011. In November 2010 we had an election and the American people spoke loudly and clearly that they rejected the job-killing policies of Obama and his Democratic accomplices in Congress. It has only been a year and a half that Republicans have been able to modestly slow down Obama's destruction of the American economy and Obama's asssault on the wage-earner and taxpayer - all that Obama and the Democrats did from January 2009 to the present cannot be undone with Republicans controlling just the House. That the unemployed Okkupiers are not burning Obama in effigy tells us that, indeed, Lizzy Warren, is their intellectual foundation - you cannot be more ignorant of fact and reality than is Warren or those blind to the devastation brought by Obama and Congressional Democrats (We learn more about the intelligence of the Okkupiers that one is apparently clueless to Obama's media ban at Dover - no doubt if informed, the liberal hypocrite would display his lack of any core principles as are devoid all liberals). Related, Wall Street never made more money than it did in 2009 and 2010, both years completely and totally the responsibility of liberally-extreme Democrats; shhhh, but don't tell the Okkupiers, it will only make them look more ridiculous and clueless and hypocritcal and coreless.

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