#10 For a number this is the first real physical activity in their life, adrenal rush, feeling of accomplishment, natural opiate, in addition to whatever else is floating about. I get that.
They want their voice heard, to have their story to tell, their own stick it to the man story, that we the people have the right to assemble. I get that too.
They have gone their life preaching flowers and peace and are finding out they have been full of shit as they find their sub-human chants and charges. They are full of shit because they are not cheering for freedom but actively interviewing for the job of government, and like every other job they have applied for they are failing. Sorry the tattoo business didn't explode like you wished, sorry the restaraunt owner didn't want a chef who looked like s/he just crawled out of the garbage disposal, sorry you blew a bunch of money on an unrequired college eductation with nothing to show for it.
What I am sorry about is that the true grievences are overshadowed by the carnival, the communists, the dense, the stoned, the naieve. I am sorry they feel their right to assemble is more important than everyone else's right to assemble. I am sorry they are waiving their pitchforks at the wrong house.
See, there is only one organization which forces me to spend money and buy shit I don't need, and that is government. My city taxes me, I see the results. My county, usually do as well. My state, suddenly my money purchases a new stadium lighting system at blah-state university and, subsidizes the university educations already dammit. Then there is the Federal. It does some good things, it does a lot of bullshit.
My health insurance has nearly doubled since 2008 - not the corporation's fault, and if they are getting more than they honorably should it is the fed which gave them the cover and lack of regulation to do so.
Every time minimum wage is raised it makes products more expensive/overseas production more appealing.
Not gonna play ball with the fed, they shut your ass down. Why not somewhere where all they want is their cut and they leave you alone.
Banks are so regulated and audited that an eff-up there is the regulators being incompetent or in cahoots with the fed. Take my money for Government Motors, well horseshit, that is being forced to buy a corporation's product and it ain't GM doing it. |
Representatives of "the 99 percent" have been camping out in lower Manhattan to protest economic inequality since late September, but the riches on display at some of their home addresses clearly came from "1 percent" families.