What Delicious Irony: Occupy Wall Street Finally Makes a Point

The occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement is out to demonstrate that a community can work when the proceeds of the governed are collected by the government and redistributed as the collective sees fit. The mass of humanity at Zuccotti park in New York City have discovered what many in Cuba, the former U.S.S.R. and North Korea already know - it just doesn't work.


In a post at The Gothamist we come to understand that the community account controlled by the OWS general assembly is not for distribution to the community.

Last night's General Assembly meeting in Zuccotti Park was "one of most contentious ever," in large part due to a heated debate over whether the drummers at Occupy Wall Street should be given $8,000 from the movement's coffers to buy more drums and equipment. It seems some of the drums were stolen or vandalized, and the drummers asked the General Assembly to help them regroup. "We have worked for you! Appreciate us,"one drummer told the crowd, but the appeal was denied..

The general assembly has been collecting a tax on the drummers - up to 50% of their earnings according to reports. With more than a half million dollars in the fund that the assembly controls, where is the redistributive change?

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