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The Occupy Wall Street Fools #iamthe53

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Fools and their money are soon parted. We are witnessing many of these fools go to Wall Street to blame Wall Street for their money leaving them unwilling or unable to recognize themselves for fools.

If you want to see how foolish these people are, consider their demands, which range from nuts to pure insanity.

One of the demands that sums it up negative taxation — the government actually paying people who do not work. It’s like a bunch of white kids from the suburbs shot themselves full of gardasil or something. Yeah, that joke is not getting old. You get what I mean.

Well, these people apparently forgot that life is not fair and are demanding the government intervene to legislate that life suddenly become fair. They are claiming to be the “99%” against the evil 1% of rich people who work on Wall Street. They are posting pictures to a website holding up their sob stories. Some are terribly tragic, but most? Boo-freakin’-hoo. Life is not, never has been, and never will be fair.

I would like to point out to these people that I work three jobs, can’t sell my house in this economy, still am paying massive student loans, and somehow or another do not blame Wall Street for my situation. In fact, I’m one of the 53% — the 53% of Americans subsidizing these people so they can go hang out on Wall Street to complain.

Get a job hippies!

There is something else worth pointing out too.

Back in 1984, Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick warned us what would happen if the San Francisco Democrats took over.

They said that saving Grenada from terror and totalitarianism was the wrong thing to do – they didn’t blame Cuba or the communists for threatening American students and murdering Grenadians – they blamed the United States instead.

But then, somehow, they always blame America first.

When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the “blame America first crowd” didn’t blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States.

But then, they always blame America first.

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn’t blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

But then, they always blame America first.

When Marxist dictators shoot their way to power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don’t blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States policies of 100 years ago.

But then, they always blame America first.

The American people know better.

We are seeing in the White House and out smelling up Wall Street the San Francisco Democrats in charge. They are unrepentant and continue to largely embrace policies and political systems that have killed more people and turned more people into poverty than any other policies and political systems the world has ever seen.

And as Kirkpatrick said, “The American people know better.”

I am confident that, as we saw in the 2010 election, we are going to again see a silent majority of Americans shake their heads in disgust at these people and their leaders who blame success instead of embrace success. The silent majority will repudiate those whose American dream has become to behead the top earners instead of striving to become the top earners.

What we are seeing is anathema to the American spirit. The voices may be loud, but they are the minority and they will be repudiated.

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  • davesinsanantonio

    of trying to become successful themselves is that they know they are losers. They know they don’t have the gumption to work to achieve their goals, so they demand that someone else give them what they think they are entitled to. To top it off, they believe that this attitude entitles them to run the world.
    It is time the silent, successful majority ignore these whiny children totally. Stop buying their newspapers and books, stop tuning in to their networks, stop paying to see their movies. If we all just ignored them, eventually they would have to get real jobs and pay their own bills. Trying to educate them is just a frustration, because they do not want to learn any facts, they just want to spout their made up tripe. Stop listening to them, it only makes them think they have something worth listening to.
    And, most of all, stop electing them to public office. Whenever an office seeker of any party even hints that they accept this nonsense, everyone with a brain should walk away and stop sending money or voting for these destructive and self-destructive losers. Just stop it!!!

  • jlancellotti

    I’ve gotta say I don’t understand these people. Are these the people that millionare Michael Moore promised us? He said they’d be coming but I didn’t expect them so soon. Shouldn’t they be protesting in Washington where the President is providing taxpayers’ money to keep these bankers afloat? There are no jobs because the president’s policies, including bank bailouts, have led to intensifying the fiscal problems we’ve been having since the beginning of the Iraqi war. And if you don’t believe me, just ask the vice president of the United States, Joe Biden. Within the last couple of weeks, he was all over TV saying the blame belonged to the current administration. Why are these foolish people picking on Wall Street people? I just DON’T understand this…
    Best always,
    John R. Lancellotti

  • lakeshore

    While wondering how many out of town protesters Michael Moore is putting up in his $1M apartment, I Googled and found this:

    http://www.mooreexposed.com/

    Another exciting protest to watch (I guess it’s against Big Country?):

    http://occupynashville.org/

    From that site: “Tuesday 04 October, 2011
    We are back

    Sorry for the down time today. The tech team has been working non stop to get the site back up and running. Glad its back. We will be posting more stuff soon like in 10 hrs.

    No, not hypocritical at all.

  • lakeshore

    “…Occupy Wall Street, a rapidly growing movement promoting the separation of corporations from our government. ”

    Except for Solyndra and others tied to Dem donors.

  • circlegranch

    Back in the day when we old timer tea partiers took to city parks and courthouse squares to protest ObamaCare, taxes, and Washington as a whole, we were called every name in the book and none of them becoming. These young trust fund slugs get a pass. Like the union thugs in the State House of Wisconsin last winter, more than likely these ‘greenie peaceniks’ that are soooooooo concerned about the environment will leave behind the biggest mess and bunch of trash we can imagine. Like the spoiled pampered babies they are, they’ll walk away and leave it for somebody else to clean up. This is just the beginning. Van Jones is calling for race riots on top of it. It’s going to be a busy year.

  • wonkish1

    There are stories out there of the kids coming into to fill jugs of water and the businesses are helping even though the kids don’t buy anything. But then apparently there are big lines every morning to use the bathrooms like showers and they are using up the water, putting graffiti all over them, and then breaking the bathrooms(toilets, sinks, etc.).

    They also are scaring away customers, being rude to the staff at the businesses, and using up their electricity to charge their cell phones and computers all the while not buying a single thing from any of the businesses they feel the need to use and not thank.

  • MikeG (Icythus)

    Truth be told, when I file my federal income tax return, I wind up getting back .everything the government withheld for income tax. So I guess I cannot really join the #iamthe53 movement.

    BUT…I hope and dream to join the 53% at some point in the future. To that end, I’m going to school full-time for my BS while holding down a 40 hour a week job that I work for modest pay and no benefits, and I count myself damn lucky to have both the job and the hours. Additionally, I continue to pursue and obtain additional professional certifications in my current field, and live a very simple lifestyle. Finally, regardless of my net income tax burden, I still pay into FICA, Medicare, and Medicaid with every paycheck.

    I might be “poor”, but I’m not deprived. These ungrateful Marxist buffoons who purport to speak for me can take their bitching and whining and go pound sand. I’m a Christian and an American citizen; that’s greater riches than anyone is entitled to. The leeches making fools of themselves in Zuccotti Park and across the country need to find honest work and start availing themselves of the opportunities that their citizenship in the greatest nation on earth affords them.

    Oh, and while I might eventually get back all my income tax withholdings back, that doesn’t change the fact that Uncle Sam forces me to make him an interest-free loan for the entire rest of the year.

  • jeffex11

    The useful idiots protesting Wall St and now in other cities have no specific demands or cohesive stated goals…..that is because the ONLY goal intended for their actions is to cripple the cities budgets where the protests break out.

    The unwitting new age anti-establishment are being funded and manipulated by the unions, SEIU, anarchists, Soros groups, and anti-capitalists to try and bring about some form of “American Spring”

    They are economic soldiers and they don’t even know it…Just look at the cost to NY city for all that police presence for the last 3 weeks.

    The goal is to take that economic warfare against the evil capitalists and collapse the city and state budgets with the cost of containing the protestors . Each event is designed as a recruiting tool as the willing liberal media give them free advertisement …plastering these dupes all over the mainstream TV stations …encouraging other fools to join in…..escalating the cost of police protection…

    Many of these cities are already strapped in these tough economic times…..Here in B-more we just had a major car race downtown….The cost of the police security and major road improvements was offset by the increased revenues from the external money brought in to the city and state…

    On the contrary these economic warriors only bring with them COSTS…. no new revenues save for a few happy meals and bottle of water!!!! Make NO mistake THAT is their intended goal…to stress the local government with escalating police and security costs.

    If there is no spark of new protestors they will move on to another tier city hoping to gather in numbers and effect a cost to that city….anti-capitalist warriors

  • politicalqrm

    these protestors to those of the ’60′s. And the similarities are there: they want something for nothing, they hate the corporations, they spout communist mottos and they are unwashed.

    While these people are out on the streets protesting large corporations and Wall Street, they should realize one thing:

    All those companies are now being run by the hippie generation of the ’60s.

  • evas

    rules for radicals: it’s all spelled out by him: create chaos, this is all following his play book. We can thank our so-called President for all this, and more.

  • nobamas12

    Erik has something here. Maybe we should all make our own sign and post it on our FB, car window and anywhere else you can think of. The media is doing a real good job of avoiding the nut cases in thier photos and interviews. Whereas they had to search long and hard at a Tea Party, to find a nut case to interview, here they have to go to great effort to avoid all of these socialists that actually admit they are socialist or marxists. One thing some of these folks have that our President doesn’t have is the balls to admit they are socialist. At least they are honest about it. The rest are morons who don’t even know what they are really protesting or have any plan at all for what they would replace capitalism with. Or what the hell they would do if the producers of this country decide to stop producing. I am waiting for Ann Ryn’s idea to come to life. Just stop going to work and DO NOT take goverment assistance. As long as we keep letting them take our money and fund these idiots welfare checks, food stamps, etc. we are 1. condoning that action and 2. assuring that it keeps going and growing. I am sick of it. I’d rather sacrafice my standard of living than keep supporting thiers. Where is John Galt?

  • paulplantowin

    the screaming ‘success’ of unionized public education.
    Brainwashing works! Get your kids out of gov’t schools or they’ll grow up like this.
    Beat Barak!

  • romeg

    His life’s mission was to destroy GM because HE blames GM for destroying Flint MI. He has made about $25 million from his inane movies about how capitalism and Canada destroyed that region now referred to as The Rust Belt. Not the first mention of unions’ complicity in the demise of the region. Nor does he suggest that the people of Flint and similarly situated areas migrate to economic climates more conducive to financial well-being. Well, HE did it but apparently his friends and neighbors should either be bailed out by the taxpayers or some kind of communist system imposed that would, somehow, magically fix everything. It sure worked wonders for Russia and Eastern Europe.

    Speaking of the ’20′s when the Dust Bowl came to the country’s mid-section, people walked away from a lifetime of memories and all they had ever known and changed their lives for the better.

    When my ancestors could no longer tolerate the religious oppression of the British Government and being forever doomed to a low class, unlanded existence in England, they came to THIS country. Well, there isn’t a ‘New World’ now as there was then but for those willing to adapt to circumstances and work, opportunity does exist.

    As for Wall Street and its denizens, too many of them did bad things. What was our response? Why we bailed them out,which was exactly the WRONG response. We should have allow them to fail or enter into a structured liquidation.

    What we’ve done, instead, is force the rest of the nation into an extended meltdown of their accumulated wealth, home values, portfolios, retirement accounts to save a handful of Union jobs and Wall Street political donors.

    I’m inclined, at this moment, to liquidate my Bank of America stock and donate the money to the first serious Conservative candidate willing to take on Dick Turbin and drive his worthless socialist ass out of the U.S. Senate.

  • johnt

    Parasitism treated as deserving virtue, producers as enemies, the State as savior, in the right hands of course. This is beyond old time welfarism, the leftist upper class were never satisfied with that stop gap place, not enough belligerence, not enough hatred, certainly not enough power, the power to ruin. With Obama as a catalyst they see an end to their long repressed frustration, their dreams of wreckage on the verge of realization, with no thought in their diseased minds of self harm.
    The punks in the street are ciphers, though low enough for some few to be the leftist leaders of tomorrow. They are the soldiers of street warfare, it’s plain to see who the approving upper ranks are.

  • suzyq

    That guy’s Awesome!

  • geah

    they should all protest in REDNECK country and pull the police, and of course all the NEWS cameras, yup that would stop them in their
    track,s now question, if these are college kids and getting fed money why are they not in college and why is the money not withdrawn untill they go home to mama and she wipes their noses? why are NYC police there? let them be grown up and face life like a real criminal?? just asking, being a busy body I suppose.

  • malvernpa

    I could reflect and remember a time when I would agree with the author about the dismal state of the economy/young people and the complexity of fixing things but not this time. I was there during the marches just after Kent State and even then knew that most of the participants just wandered into the crowds. There were a few of the thousands that were ring leaders but most just happened to be there so there was no real depth of conviction by most. I bet that the same applies to the wall street crowd.

    The economic problems America faces are the result of the Democrat party falling under the control of progressive, Marxist, communist, socialist policies. They hid their agenda, lied about where they were taking the country but now they have been busted in front of 300 million Americans who by and large do not agree with what they are doing. Those policies have stopped the blood flow to every organ of prosperity in America. The voting for the 2012 election has already begun in the budgets and business planning of every responsible business in America and the vote is that the Democrats MUST go in order to allow business to operate in America. I include big government RINOS as well. If a republican is so tepid as to go along with these Democrats the they must depart Washington as well. My point is that the dung load the democrats have placed on every horse pulling Americas economic wagon is so heavy and full of dung ( I do not know if the word crap is profanity for this blog purposes) policies the remedy is to shovel the dung out of the wagon and get back to work. Get the boot off of energy production, repeal Obamacare, repeal mush of the regulation put in place under Obama and the pulse of American business will return quickly. This is self imposed recession, imposed by DEMOCRAT policy from FDR to Community Redevelopment Act to NLRB, to EPA. Ask the Democrats and the answer is more government and more regulation. Might as well bring back “bleeding the patient” as was done 200 years ago as the front line treatment for illness. So much can be done with good governance and the democrats have become a boil on Americas behind and it just popped with Obama. Stop the bleeding, get the dung regulation off the wagon and America is back. The cure is less Democrat party governance and THEY KNOW IT but like everything else democrat it is only talked about in dark smoky back rooms, Obama smokes.

  • ihateliberals

    Obama’s “Hope & Change”. well they got the change they ask for and now they don’t like it.My very own son use to be one of these people and he really believed that just because he was born he deserved to have whatever he wanted and those that said he had to work for it were unfair and crooks. he wouldn’t have much to do with me because I ran my own company nd I am a Reagan Conservative. I was the enemy. Then the change came. he had a child, got married and had to get a job to feed his family. it didn’t take long for the change to occur. Now he realizes that the ones like he was are draining his wallet. he struggles to take care of his family because of high taxes. he started out in the brackets where becasue of family size and income he got most of this tac money back every year. A strange ting happened though. he got better jobs and promotions and moved into the higher Rich brackets and now he is paying more in taxes every year than he use to earn. Now he understnds how unfair it is to believe you should just have things handed to you whenhe has to work so hard for the things he does have.

  • omanchan

    I have worked on Wall Street at an executive position for thirty seven years. What I have seen over and over again is the Fed involvement in our daily lives. The Fed senior execs support, cajole, sleep with Wall Street. What is the reason????? They end up working for Wall Street. This is there golden parachute. We need to end this incestuous relationship. The Fed is owned by Chase (more than 70%); Citigroup (more than 10%) and otheres. The US governemtn doesn’t own a stich of the Federal Reserve Bank

    Thomas Jefferson in 1802 said:

    Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

    “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

    If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property – until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

  • omanchan

    I was a firm believer in Wall Street. I worked on Wall Street for thirty seven years. I recently retired. The truth be told it made me wealthy. Many of us made more money the past three years than the previous ten years. What is the reason? Greed. Wall Street was in bed with the Federal Reserve Bank. The Fed bailed out the banks and brokers. The closure of Lehman was a wake up call. Did we learn from this? Nada! Butkus! Nothing!

    WE have more derivatives today than three years ago. Chase has the biggest exposure. Chase owns in excess of 78% of the Federal Reserve Bank. The Fed has to support Chase.

    The compensation that Wall Street is being paid is absurd. It is ugly. I am on the outside now and I see that we need to fix the banks and brokers. What really blows my mind is that Wall Street bankers act like athletes; a good year pay me more. A bad year pay me more or I will leave and go next door.

    I wholeheartedly disagree with the Occupy Wall Street. We need to be vigilant to anarchy and socialized capitalism.

  • wonkish1

    For someone who works on Wall Street. Not calling BS or anything I just don’t normally see these type of remarks from other people in finance.

    While I am a BIG TIME Fed Hawk, hate Bernanke, and would love to curb its ability to sacrifice stable pricing so they can “try to tackle unemployment”, but a lot of what you posted is junk.

    The Fed is not 70% owned by Chase. A significant portion of its board is appointed by the President. There are more than a few member banks of the Fed and not a single one of them really “owns” the Fed.

    And using a % to claim ownership of the Fed is retarded. So either you’re in some corner office of a looney Libertarian website in the corner of Wall Street, I am having trouble believing you actually work there.

  • Danielle Davis (ocleverone)

    Your post upthread (10:14) said you retired from Wall Street but in this one you say you have worked on Wall Street since….. with no indication of retirement.

  • Finrod

    That’s what these protesters are– a consuming horde that’s a plague on anything they’re near. Unfortunately, unlike in Hidalgo, we can’t use their dead corpses for food.

  • Eric Lynes

    The movement is coming to Utah too, of all places. We had a flash mob and now OccupyUtah as well. I expect that the same 15 people are behind the flash mob and OccupyUtah as well. It will be a miserable showing, but will somehow still get local press.

    Idiots.

    I can’t sell my house. I have 2 jobs. I don’t have insurance. I’m paying back my student loans. But the big difference is that I’m taking responsibility for these actions and not blaming them on a faceless “fat cat”. I chose to take 2 jobs. I chose to buy my house. I chose to go to school and rack up debt. I am the 53% who actually take responsibility for my actions.

  • Next93

    The 53% are the producers, the rest are either parasites or people striving to become productive. You’re obviously in the latter. The dilletantes in Occupy Wall Street are the former.

    BTW, why are we even discussing a “movement” that can’t get more than 700 people (plus Roseanne Barr and Michael Moore) in a city the size of New York?

  • donrsherwood

    It is sad, but true, all their lives, they’ve been taught that everybody is equal and it would be unfair to be competitive, where someone wins and someone loses. Now, when meeting the real world, they are SHOCKED to find that they have to work and may not get the same trophy as all the other’s, regardless of their effort and skill.

    We have done this to ourselves. We continue to allow our education system to be oh so PC and eliminate competition and awareness of the real world.

    It is only going to get worse, for all!

  • ice2

    I agree. However more must be done.

    DEFINITIONS.
    TYRANT
    IN COMMON USAGE, THE WORD “TYRANT” CARRIES CONNOTATIONS OF A HARSH AND CRUEL RULER WHO PLACES HIS OR HER OWN INTERESTS OR THE INTERESTS OF A SMALL OLIGARCHY OVER THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE GENERAL POPULATION, WHICH THE TYRANT GOVERNS OR CONTROLS.
    TREASON
    ? Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
    ? A betrayal of trust or confidence.
    Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/treason#ixzz1QsLrbdUd
    ORAN’S DICTIONARY OF THE LAW (1983) DEFINES TREASON AS “…[A]…CITIZEN’S ACTIONS TO HELP A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT OVERTHROW, MAKE WAR AGAINST, OR SERIOUSLY INJURE THE [PARENT NATION].” IN MANY NATIONS, IT IS ALSO OFTEN CONSIDERED TREASON TO ATTEMPT OR CONSPIRE TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT, EVEN IF NO FOREIGN COUNTRY IS AIDED OR INVOLVED BY SUCH AN ENDEAVOUR.
    SEDITION IN LAW, SEDITION IS OVERT CONDUCT, SUCH AS SPEECH AND ORGANIZATION, THAT IS DEEMED BY THE LEGAL AUTHORITY TO TEND TOWARD INSURRECTION AGAINST THE ESTABLISHED ORDER. SEDITION OFTEN INCLUDES SUBVERSION OF A CONSTITUTION AND INCITEMENT OF DISCONTENT (OR RESISTANCE) TO LAWFUL AUTHORITY. SEDITION MAY INCLUDE ANY COMMOTION, THOUGH NOT AIMED AT DIRECT AND OPEN VIOLENCE AGAINST THE LAWS. SEDITIOUS WORDS IN WRITING ARE SEDITIOUS LIBEL. A SEDITIONIST IS ONE WHO ENGAGES IN OR PROMOTES THE INTERESTS OF SEDITION.
    I advocate bring back Public hanging is found guilty. I would like the Constitution to be put front and center, once again.

  • lineholder

    Why do you support this particular form of punishment?

  • dcwike

    guaranteed when it comes to higher education.

    And, the sad thing is, education has skyrocketed to the point where if one does NOT “get” the “high paying” job they “expected” these “zombies” haven’t a clue on what to do, other than blame Wall Street.
    And, rather than doing what most “responsible” Americans that face the fact that they have debts to pay (student loans, for example) they prefer to protest and default on their debts instead of taking as many “menial” jobs (beneath their “qualifications”) to PAY their debts.

    I couldn’t even afford to go to college, but, fortunately (in the late ’80′s) I qualified for a Pell Grant, worked hard to get the grade, hoping I could win a scholarship to pursue my goals to become either a journalist or an accountant. I did not get the scholarship, but, since the “two-year” degree did qualify me to be a “substitute” teacher AND still write features for weekly newspapers (yes, my writing skills were good enough in Alabama that three weekly newspaper owners hired me and paid me by “column inch”). It helped to “supplement” the family income.

    I had hoped to do the same when we relocated to Virginia, but…..(despite that I continued educating myself in BOTH journalism and accounting by buying “used” text books from the college book stores) even though “my skills” listed in my resume did impress Accounting firms and editors of newspapers I was “politely” turned down for positions in those areas in Virginia.

    Virginia has a higher cost of living, and, so, I wound up working in a state prison for the state government. AND, did tax-returns (yes, I also took a course in that and earned a “certificate” from a prominent tax-return business) to supplement my income.

    Where there is a will there is a way. You don’t always “get what you want,” out of life, but, that doesn’t mean you can just stop paying your debts and protest.

    Yeah, jobs are hard to find these days and, MANY have been laid off from “good paying” jobs. But, jobs ARE out there, even if only on a part-time basis. One of my daughters is working THREE part-time jobs (none of which are “education-related) to pay her student loan, her share in the “cost of living” and a car loan. Imagine THAT!

    It’s NOT Wall Street that’s to blame for this “bad economy.” It’s the “babies” that are throwing temper tantrums and “abusing” the “extended” Unemployment benefits.

    Rather than get off their butts and USE their brains to create their own ways to make money they prefer to “collect” from the government and protest.

    It’s “crazy” people like the man who claimed he IS a “unionized” plumber who has the “free” time to protest against “Wall Street” and the “fat cats” that are in the top 1%. Hmmmmmmmmmm………well, if the man gets his wishes, those “Union Leaders” will be charging higher union dues to pay “more taxes,” just like the companies that are unionized. Not to mention “the unionized plumber” will be paying higher costs in energy, food, health insurance premiums………….hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm………..

  • center77

    I hope you get this, but I understand how busy you are. I’m a journalism & Mass com major, plus second major being political science. I have started a blog about a month ago, and I write for another blog that gets some major hits. I will not say who it is, because I want to respect the fact that this is your, and advertising on your site is not what I’d like to do.

    You have become an inspiration to me. I would be lucky to model my career after yours, and I just wanted to let you know that I’m thankful that I can have hope. You are the very proof, hard work pays off. The denunciation the normal of the traditional route is, well awesome. Thank you for, well just being you I guess. My name is Timothy Bladel, and I hope to meet you some day. Congrats on your success.

  • wonkish1
  • ThePoliticalHat

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  • Repair_Man_Jack

    if you hang them in private.

  • wonkish1

    Otherwise I’m going to be disappointed.

  • BA Cyclone

    What we are seeing is anathema to the American spirit. The voices may be loud, but they are the minority and they will be repudiated.

    I like that they are trying to BRAND themselves as “the 99%” because deep, deep down they all know they are really the “less than 1%”.

    In more ways than one?

  • BA Cyclone

    What we are seeing is anathema to the American spirit. The voices may be loud, but they are the minority and they will be repudiated.

    I like that they are trying to BRAND themselves as “the 99%” because deep, deep down they all know they are really the “less than 1%”.

    In more ways than one?

  • streiff

    and the bouncer just turned you away from the door.

  • acat


    (cat tips ears to Rickbull for finding the image)

    This is everything wrong with the country, with the occupywallstreet nonsense, with Elizabeth Warren’s bloviating, summed up in one phrase.

    We’ve lost the lessons of Carter and of the Great Depression. We will, therefore, re-learn them. Painfully.

    Mew

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    He is me.

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    n/t

  • lineholder

    I was hoping someone would notice this.

  • wonkish1

    nttt

  • lineholder

    And did you see the bit of flattery Erick received upthread? He’s having a good day, yes?

  • wonkish1

    nnt

  • ihateliberals

    It really does reflect the mentality that has been taught in our colleges and universities. A Job is not a right it is a privilege and you have to earn it. What is with these people tht think things should be given to them? When i look around at the youth today and thank God everyday for the children I have. We raised our kids to know tht if they want things they have to work for them not just take a handout. I had no idea at the time tht i was doing something right I was just doing what seemed to be fair. I use to run my own consulting firm. People that worked for me always got paid fairly for the work they did. I remember something for an old john Wayne movie. A young man asked John Wayne who was the owner of a big Ranch and then got mad when he got it. After a short fisticuffs Wayne asked him what his problem was. he said he didn’t like begging for a job and then being given one. Wayne answered “Are you going to do a fair days work? Yes, well then I will pay you a fair days wage. you won’t give me anything and I won’t give you anything and we both can hold our heads high.”. That is the bottom line tht is missng fom today’s work force. Good Ethics.

  • ihateliberals

    It really does reflect the mentality that has been taught in our colleges and universities. A Job is not a right it is a privilege and you have to earn it. What is with these people tht think things should be given to them? When i look around at the youth today and thank God everyday for the children I have. We raised our kids to know tht if they want things they have to work for them not just take a handout. I had no idea at the time tht i was doing something right I was just doing what seemed to be fair. I use to run my own consulting firm. People that worked for me always got paid fairly for the work they did. I remember something for an old john Wayne movie. A young man asked John Wayne who was the owner of a big Ranch and then got mad when he got it. After a short fisticuffs Wayne asked him what his problem was. he said he didn’t like begging for a job and then being given one. Wayne answered “Are you going to do a fair days work? Yes, well then I will pay you a fair days wage. you won’t give me anything and I won’t give you anything and we both can hold our heads high.”. That is the bottom line tht is missing from today’s work force. Good Ethics.

  • vandalii

    NT

  • acat

    I observed a similar sign in a liberal enclave and posted about it. Rickbull found the picture above. I’m just recycling it.

    You nailed the bottom line. What’s missing today is a work ethic.

    Mew

  • vandalii

    Never give up. You have the right attitude. The workforce needs productive people like you. Hopefully you’ll get paid what your positive work ethic is worth sometime soon. Until then, keep plugging away!

  • griffinelection

    I am a 26 year old law school graduate waiting on my bar results and working two jobs that pay less than $10 an hour, with a pregnant wife and no health insurance. But I am too busy working to be protesting against people who worked hard for what they got. These kids do need a job.

    What a joke. Keep up the good work-

  • cbartlett

    My husband and I own two small businesses and have 3 adult children who are all educated and working for a living. We have always taught them that the reason you have a job is because an employer pays you to provide a service. On payday – you are even. You are only entitled to the job, and any benefits associated with it, as long as you are providing the service the employer needs. If your demands (salary or benefits) are outrageous or your service inadequate, the employer should be able to say “you are gone”. If the salary or benefits aren’t what you think you deserve, you are free to leave and go find some other position. When government screws with either end of that bargain, capitalism fails. John Wayne was right.

  • drifter

    Those foolish people are just puppets on the strings, pulled by the SEIU and by a reconfigured ACORN, with mysteriously rejuvenated financing. Their general lack of knowledge is akin to Jay Leno doing Jaywalking. Left wing jerks on the street with no creds…

  • 1stRichard

    The Occupy Wall Street group follows that part of the French Revolution that became part of Marxist ideology and propaganda, and the Tea Party conservatives follows our independence from these European ideologies. This is typical Bourgeois abuses the Proletarians propaganda jump on the populist egalitarianism bandwagon to ruin because they are uneducated useful idiots and not much more.

    The real problem for conservatives is to correctly identify and counter, a shortcoming I see as growing

  • runner12

    Mark Levin made a similar comparison on his radio show tonight. The French Revolution was a Leftist revolution, or at least it evolved into one. The Constitutional Royalists were duped into believing that the Jacobins and others wanted the “American-style” revolution in France. The radicals used terms like “freedom”, “equality”, and even “democracy” to deceive people and then began one of the most horrific murderous reigns in the history of the world. They never shared the ideals or principles of the American Revolution, they were anarchists and socialist to the core. They shared a similar idealogy to those of the OccupyWallStreet crowd.

    Contrast that to the Tea Party, who fully embrace the ideals and principles of the American Revolution. We believe in true freedom and limited government. We believe a government that governs best, governs least; in a country in which any man or woman has the opportunity to be as successful or wealthy as he/she wants to be regardless of where they came from or who they are.

    The Tea Party loves this country and seeks to better it, these people want to destroy it.

  • runner12

    And may I just add, since when was a job a right? I went to school a long time, studied hard, passed my boards, and EARNED my job. No one took my tests for me or went to class for me, if I was going to succeed it was up to me.

    Access to education and training is a right, but not a job! We have the most open country in the world, where anyone can succeed if they want to.

    These people are just full of nonsense.

  • delong

    Brad DeLong

  • powertothepeople

    asses such as myself, but no one would count that as a job.

    The three jobs are ( as I understand)

    Editor of this site,

    CNN contributor

    And radio show host.

    He is also an attorney, but not sure how much he still does in that field.

  • streiff

    for our other readers, I want to provide a brief c.v. for Brad so you can more accurately weigh his opinions.

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  • Repair_Man_Jack

    http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/10/astroturf.html

    He does teach at CAL_BERKELY, he’ll have you know!!!!!