The comment about "their demands." I heard on the radio an excerpt of one of the speeches where they were asking for: 1) Free health care 2) Free college education 3) $20 minimum wage I haven't criticized this occupy wall street thing because I am happy to see people upset with big government. They have more in common with the tea party than not. The thing is, nothing is free and where minimum wage is the highest are the areas hardest hit by this recession. Then there really are some nut jobs out there. http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011...lence-will-be-necessary-to-achieve-our-goals/ My reaction is similar to the author's. The French Revolution wasn't all so grand. It was supposed to be followed by some experiment like in America, but was followed by the reign of terror (guillotine madness) and ultimately a dictator (Napoleon).
I only know one person who is (personally) occupying Wall Street. He's early-mid 20's, his family has a lot of money and he was posting on Facebook about getting arrested... it was pretty clear he was looking forward to doing that to "make a difference". While it's not logical to extrapolate from a single person I happen to know, it definitely supports other things that I've read and how people perceive the Occupiers. Ed O.
Morons in Chile protested against the fastest growing economy in South America. They got mad that their country was getting rich too quickly. Some people started to have lavish lifestyles and that pissed off the middle class. They're psycho, they remind me of Brainiac.
The general theme, as I see it now after a few weeks, is that the youngsters and the older people leading them are following some sort of Marxist model on wealth redistribution, achievement, and equality, and also seem to think that those of us who actually pay/paid our bills through hard work in our own lifetimes should now absolve them of their own debts, and even pay for their debts. Plus, we should do it willingly, because we're all just equals, after all. Um, yeah, that's not going to happen without another Civil War.
Yeah it is embarrassing. The biggest problem they have is that they don't understand what 15 trillion dollars is. The White House caused our mess. I hope these protestors get poorer. I could not care less about their problems.
All three of those objectives are unattainable. If they plan on staying around until their demands are met, I hope they have no other plans for their lives. I wonder if they have wondered how objectives 1 & 2 can possibly be met and what #3 would have on the economy- instant 50% unemployment. I admire their pluck, but not their brains.
Not all of us had a silver spoon like you. A romantic dinner between my wife and I my last year of grad school was finding Petite Sirloin for $1.99/lb, a baked potatoe, and a discounted wine from the wine warehouse I managed at nights while going to school. We'd sit in the living room of our one-bedroom shithole of a house we rented, and eat our shitty steak that we had to 'marinate' in Kikoman teriyaki just to kill the taste of it. She worked three jobs at the time. We look back and wonder how we had any free time, but we did. Sure, we couldn't go out anytime we wanted to go out, but we also appreciate more what we have today because of our past experiences. And guess what ... we worked for them, and we pay our bills. We certainly didn't have time in our mid-20s to camp out in a park in downtown PDX for weeks at a time. My kids have it easy, but I worked hard for it, and so did my wife. I just don't get how people can leave their life to camp out for weeks on end. Somebody must be either paying them or supporting them with food. If not, then Dignity Village has basically set up shop in downtown PDX.
thats why you wont show your face either! :MARIS61: but seriously, silver spoons? great show, i can relate, i had a scale train set to bring me to the living room as well, at least until the teleporter was installed
That's an ironic thing to post on an anonymous message board where you fling as much shit as anyone, and flipped out when I supposedly "stalked" you. Notice my reaction when MickZagger literally posted my name numerous times to your reaction when I made a wild-ass guess. Also, my name doesn't show up on the top page of a Google search, so Mick must have been a busy boy to dig up my dirt.
