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Disunion
Unions have also intervened with politicians on behalf of the protesters. In Los Angeles, labor leaders have repeatedly lobbied Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa not to evict the protesters. When New York City officials were threatening to evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park, hundreds of union members showed up before daybreak to discourage any eviction, and the city backed down. (NYT, 11/9/11)


At the site of the Occupy San Diego camp, street cart vendors were forced to close up shop Monday when protesters, angry that they stopped receiving free food, ransacked and vandalized the carts. (Foxnews.com, 11/9/2011)


Two points on Occupy Whatever today: The Occupiers want free stuff (wait, we said that yesterday and the day before and the day before)! Second, these protests reveal the utter fecklessness of mayors from coast to coast. Afraid of upsetting the little darlings, mayors from Bloomberg to Quan let them break the law.  Now, because they have ceded power to the mob, they cannot get it back. 


Bounce
Mr. Gingrich predicted, too, that late on Election Night—after it was clear that President Obama had been defeated along with the Democrats in the Senate—the recovery would begin, at once. (Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 11/9/11)


RedStateVT will now make public its prediction heretofore only mentioned to close associates. If Obama is defeated, the Dow Jones Industrials will register a 500 point gain the next day.


The Wall
In Italy, as in Greece, Spain and Portugal and eventually France, the welfare-entitlement state has hit a wall. Successive governments on the Continent, right and left, have financed generous entitlements with high taxes and towering piles of debt. Their economies have failed to grow fast enough to keep up, and last year the money started to run out. The reckoning has arrived.(WSJ, 11/9/11)


It is stunning that with the future of America in five years foretold by the collapse of the European socialist model, Liberals nonetheless want to follow the same path.