We are the 99 Percent

[Anonymous]

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BTW, my friend just got her MBA (while she was working) and got promoted at her job. Why aren't you working while going to grad school if money is such a big issue?

There are beginning to be an awful lot of MBAs out there.

No, but see, the PP you're responding to is *different*. And if they ever lose their job, or their husband does, or one of their children, it'll be a national tragedy which is completely unfair. Their situation will certainly be nothing like the lazy parasites out there that are currently suffering.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get it either. Seems like a bunch of whining. If you're not happy put that same energy into changing your situation. I paid my entire way through college, got a job and paid off my loans 100% all on my own.

Because it is so much easier to whine. A guest on NPR was commenting that the people protesting are people who can 'afford' to protest. Who have a way to get to Wall Street and eat when they get there.

The rest of the people are actually out working 80 hours a week to put food on the table for their families. They don't have time for whining.

Isn't the point of protest to make things better? The problem is good jobs are going away. Full-time employees become independent contractors. Grocery stores hire part-timers instead of full-timers. When we eviscerate labor unions, malign teachers and public sector employees, this is what we get. What you're saying, is shut up and accept the situation in this country. We aren't making things better for our children, we're making them worse.

NO, I am not saying shut up and accept the situation. What I am saying is don't expect someone else to make things better for you. An individual needs to make things better for themselves and their family and that doesn't mean making it better by protesting someone to give you something to which you think you're entitled.

The real issue isn't protesting for others to give you something to which you think you're entitled. These people aren't panhandling. It's to make these robber barons disgorge the illicit profits they have made and kept with impunity due to our unique (among supposedly developed countries) style of socialism for the rich. A cardinal rule of finance is that higher returns always entail higher risk. However, American-style capitalism these days apparently means that if you have bought enough votes, you get to bet the house at no risk, and if you fail miserably your minions in office will still bail you out at taxpayers expense, no questions asked.
The fact that these bankers aren't languishing in jail at the moment is a complete outrage.

These people are asking for a representative government that looks after their interests, something to which they ARE entitled and which no longer exists in this country except as a parody of itself intended for the TV cameras. They all pay taxes (or did at one point, or their parents did for them), and that wasn't for the privilege of being screwed by the politicians whose salaries they pay.

Excactly. I"m trying to imagine what sort of neutered, acquiescent plebe watches as the US government gives a trillion dollars to private corporations that have gone bankrupt, and doesn't even require the management of those companies to give up control. In a "free market" system, those guys would be in jail until they could pay off their billions of dollars in debt.

Instead, in the name of stabilizing the economy, the government just hands them truckloads of cash with no strings attached. Hell, if we were going to do that, the Fed should have just written a check for $20,000 directly to every American adult. With the level of indebtedness in America today, it would have gone directly to the banks, and the stimulative effect would have been multiplied.

Of course, that would have had the side effect of getting a few normal working Americans out from under their crushing burden of debt. And we can't have that, can we?

[TheManWithAUsername]

I posted this in another thread, but it should really be here. Only about 6% of applicants to McDonalds get hired.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-28/mcdonald-...vent-24-more-than-planned.html

Gives you a little perspective.