Found this on Reddit. THIS is why I oppose the Occupy Wall Street campaign

So, for those of you who don't partake in the viewing of Reddit (pffft, I totally don't, I just... look at the memes sometimes...), a bunch of redditors have been posting notes saying "I am the 99% Percent." And, while tragic, the notes do nothing but ask for handouts and other government support that has little to do with corporate America. They show no accountability and a complete lack of proactive initiative as they settle into a subdued, victim mentality. (Almost) All the notes support the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Then I found this and my faith in humanity recovered a bit. I hope the Oasis appreciates it as much as I do:

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An asian father reacts to the 99% movement:

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futurectdoc:
The fact is most Wall Streeters come from the middle class, a lot of my upper class friends dont want to work that hard.

I have noticed the same thing. All of the actually rich students I knew ended up doing consulting or working for tech companies, if anything in business.

The largest contingent actually went into some sort of public service/non-profit/government job for a few years while they worked on grad school applications. Then they seem to divide themselves up pretty neatly between law school and some sort of fluffy academic degree. No clue what their long term plan is, if they have one.

 
futurectdoc:
The fact is most Wall Streeters come from the middle class, a lot of my upper class friends dont want to work that hard. The protestors disgust me and if the girl who wrote that is cute/single PM me lol
all of my friends whose parents are worth $100m plus are in finance, maybe us is different.
 
leveredarb:
futurectdoc:
The fact is most Wall Streeters come from the middle class, a lot of my upper class friends dont want to work that hard. The protestors disgust me and if the girl who wrote that is cute/single PM me lol
all of my friends whose parents are worth $100m plus are in finance, maybe us is different.

And what is the make up of that sample size???

 
leveredarb:
futurectdoc:
The fact is most Wall Streeters come from the middle class, a lot of my upper class friends dont want to work that hard. The protestors disgust me and if the girl who wrote that is cute/single PM me lol
all of my friends whose parents are worth $100m plus are in finance, maybe us is different.

Where do you live that you have that many friends that are worth over 100m?

I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
 

Nice find.

- Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. - The harder you work, the luckier you become. - I believe in the "Golden Rule": the man with the gold rules.
 

Don't these hipsters have anything better to do with their lives? Don't they have jobs? Oh wait............

Guess you have a lot of spare time on your hands when you graduate with a degree in medieval philosophy

I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
 

"Being smelly and yelling into a megaphone on Wall Street isn’t gonna chance anything. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em…right?" Found this statement on Barstoolsports funny..article that highlights the importance of people with wealth educating themselves to make even more money and the author writes about the Occupy Wall Street Hippies with no jobs just getting nothing accomplished as per usual.

.http://www.barstoolsports.com/philly/super-page/andre-iguodala-wall-st-…

 
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+1

I usually refrain from using the word epic, but I'll go ahead and let it slip once: The dismantling of every fussy wuss, quibbling about all the trifling hardships they could construe was fucking epic.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art - Andy Warhol
 

[quote=Nouveau Richie]Best one yet: (Too long to post as image.) http://i.imgur.com/qxqBu.jpg[/quote]

Jesus Christ, those people are terrible. Why the fuck would you borrow 100k to go to school for art? Why not go to community college? Most are less than $5000 a year. Jesus christ. These kids are insufferable.

These people need to meet some African immigrants who come here without any money but end up doing very well.

I am not cocky, I am confident, and when you tell me I am the best it is a compliment. -Styles P
 

Can some please find more of these blogs I want to laugh my ass off. These people have no sense of responsibility and expect shit to be handed to them...get off your ass and make sacrifices.

 

How the fuck do you go to school "here and there" for ten years only becoming a junior? Then bitch about the fact that you can't pay your student loans?

Graduate you dipshit

If your dreams don't scare you, then they are not big enough. "There are two types of people in this world: People who say they pee in the shower, and dirty fucking liars."-Louis C.K.
 

i have one cock two balls dont believe in punctuation or sentence structure due to my high level of morality i do not masturbate and due to my all around gayness no homo i cannot get laid when people ask me how is it hanging i respond

down around the kankles my eyes are blue and so are my balls but i am still cool because i have posters of che all over my walls i may be impotent and cant pay the rent but guess what though i am the 99%

 

Part of me feels bad (ONLY TO A VERY CERTAIN EXTENT) that there are so many people with a shitload of student debt because they all felt that they HAD to go to college since that is what they were brainwashed into thinking at a young age. College is billed as the great equalizer and almost no thought is given to how much is taken out in student loans because, hey, you're guaranteed a job after graduating, right?

However, that quickly wears off when I read about dudes $200k in the hole with a god damn modern dance degree or some bullshit like that. This is why I strongly advocate for economics and basic or personal finance being taught in high school and if people fuck up after that then that shit is completely on them. Both politicians and corporations take advantage of the overall population's ignorance on financial matters and I think that the country as a whole would be better off if there was some baseline level of knowledge across the board.

 
whatwhatwhat:
Part of me feels bad (ONLY TO A VERY CERTAIN EXTENT) that there are so many people with a shitload of student debt because they all felt that they HAD to go to college since that is what they were brainwashed into thinking at a young age. College is billed as the great equalizer and almost no thought is given to how much is taken out in student loans because, hey, you're guaranteed a job after graduating, right?

However, that quickly wears off when I read about dudes $200k in the hole with a god damn modern dance degree or some bullshit like that. This is why I strongly advocate for economics and basic or personal finance being taught in high school and if people fuck up after that then that shit is completely on them. Both politicians and corporations take advantage of the overall population's ignorance on financial matters and I think that the country as a whole would be better off if there was some baseline level of knowledge across the board.

Honestly, that's just common sense. Why would you pay 200k (you get no scholarships/aid) for some psych major from an average school (like Quinnipiac), when you know that the your probably only going to make like 45k a year out of college. I told my parents that if they didn't want to pay for my college, (I wasn't going to get aid or scholarships from top privates if I got in) I would happily go to the honors school at my state flagship where I would prob get half tuition at the very least. I've been blessed in that sense because I can afford top privates. Yet, there are a lot good, cheap schools throughout the country (with top Ivies like Harvard and Yale leading the way if you can't afford full price) -- you just have to earn a spot in those schools, which means putting in a lot of time and hard work.

I find it ironic though that I'm prob going to go to these protests tomorrow just to check them out even though I'm a finance major ^^.

 

99% of the comments on there are completely ignorant.

my father bought a 350k valued house in 06 and subsequently was underwater by 100k and still overpays the mortgage every month and has an immaculate credit score. he is also as ignorant as everyone else when it comes to understanding finance, business, and capitalism, but he still pays the bills on time.

live within your means.

 

I agree with you completely and think that anyone spending $200k on anything should have a plan on what it's going to take to pay it off. I think everyone in this situation needs to accept personal responsibility and do what is in their control to better their situation. I also think that we need to stop feeding our kids rosy bullshit and deliver some straight up real talk. Yes, the blame ultimately lies with the person taking out the loan but impressionable 17 or 18 year olds aren't going to start taking out massive loans without some sort of outside influence. Unemployment is likely to be high for quite a while and based on the last few years, I really have no sympathy if someone is graduating with $100k+ in student debt and no job prospects.

 
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My God these people are pathetic! 10 years to go to school to get a 4 year degree...and one that is probably done by some in 3 years?!?

My parents have given me very little since I was about 16 because I felt like I was capable of mostly taking care of myself. To this day I still feel awkward about my parents buying me stuff so I often keep a tally of dinners or drinks that they paid for and return the favor through random gifts.

My dad is just an average middle class Joe and has sacrificed all of his life to get to a comfortable existence. If IP knew my dad, he would build a shrine to him. He literally still wears a cold weather vest that is about 30 years old...it's older than me.

Ironically enough, I was hanging out with my parents this weekend and discussing my sister. She bought a condo several years ago at the top of the market and has since got married and bought a house. She has settled with the bank to short sale the condo but the bank either wants $10k cash to cover the $100k difference in what she owes vs. what she paid or they want her to pay on a $20k, interest free not for 5 or 6 years. Well she doesn't have the money to pay the lump cash sum and she can't afford the $20k note so she is stuck. My parents were discussing getting her the money but I had to stop them.

My sister is as frugal as my dad (I am not, lol)...but her husband is a 32 year old child. They live in a 4 bedroom, 2,000+ square foot house mostly by themselves and part-time with his two children (from a previous marriage). They have traveled to various places, mostly in the US, but they did spend some time in Europe. They recently bought a new SUV, literally off the showroom floor. They have a kid of their own on the way and my sister is looking for used baby furniture (not that, in and of itself, there is anything wrong with that) while she assembled a brand new executive style desk for her husband this weekend.

I'm all for helping out family, but I told my parents they are going to demolish the relationship they have with both my sister and their future granddaughter because her husband will never change. Ultimately my parents would resent that my sister and her husband owe them $10k but have managed to get enough money together for a family trip to wherever. Granted that is all piled on top a situation that my parents don't particularly like to begin with. Come to find out my pregnant sister is the one who mows the lawn and the one operating a pressure washer to remove the oil stain from the driveway that leaked from his Mustang he didn't want to trade in for the SUV (vs. my sister's high mileage Honda Civic that has been meticulously maintained).

The point being, these are exactly the type of people that are occupying the street. They don't have any ability to look forward and live for the future. How you can incur $150k of debt to get an art degree is as silly to me as purchasing a house with more bedrooms than you need or a car with more seats or deciding to get pregnant when you can barely afford to live the way you do. Obviously my sister is complicit in all this and maybe the whole condo payoff will force her to put her foot down, but we shall see. Ultimately these people are selfish and want to live for themselves. They feel entitled to certain things like, in some cases, an education and others a top notch education. There are countless millionaires and multimillionaires around this country who have never seen the inside of the class room since the day they graduated from high school...yet they managed to do okay for themselves. The bottom line is that many of the folk protesting support a nanny state where they aren't required to work hard but can still benefit from society and live a life of leisure. Get. Fucking. Real.

Sorry for the tangent.

Regards

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
 
cphbravo96:
Come to find out my pregnant sister is the one who mows the lawn and the one operating a pressure washer to remove the oil stain from the driveway that leaked from his Mustang he didn't want to trade in for the SUV (vs. my sister's high mileage Honda Civic that has been meticulously maintained).
you should break dude's skull in man
 
whatwhatwhat:
cphbravo96:
Come to find out my pregnant sister is the one who mows the lawn and the one operating a pressure washer to remove the oil stain from the driveway that leaked from his Mustang he didn't want to trade in for the SUV (vs. my sister's high mileage Honda Civic that has been meticulously maintained).
you should break dude's skull in man

I try not to think about it because it pisses me off. He's a nice guy and all but my dad and I can't stand that, in addition to being the wife, my sister is both the man in the relationship and his mother, lol. I don't know how he lives with himself...I know I would be embarrassed. I mostly get pissed that she and her child (my fucking niece) are going to have a standard of living less than what he and his other kids have because he has no self control. He already has gone through one bankruptcy...so that's proof positive he's immature...and his recent spending doesn't indicate he is changing at all.

Again, my sister is a miser and doesn't like to spend money, so I know the source of the money problems...not to mention he is salaried and my sister works hourly and grabs OT whenever she can...so again, she's shouldering the responsibility right along with the anxiety of possibly not being able to make ends meet. Does anyone remember the days when having a dick implied you were a man?!?

Any guess who he voted for in the last election? LOL.

Regards

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
 

Copied from the occupywallstreet.org......HIPPIES are making demands

Highlight---ONE TRILLION DOLLARS FOR RESTRUCTURING THE ENVIRONMENT.....

----------I bet you can't get past demand # 1, before you start laughing-------

OccupyWallStreet.org -

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies. Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

 
Primetime7:
Copied from the occupywallstreet.org......HIPPIES are making demands

Highlight---ONE TRILLION DOLLARS FOR RESTRUCTURING THE ENVIRONMENT.....

----------I bet you can't get past demand # 1, before you start laughing-------

OccupyWallStreet.org -

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies. Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

ROFL, what world do these dreamsers live in? I mean, living wages for all, open borders, 1 TRILLION in ecological "restoration", and AND free college? With all that free/subsidized stuff, where will the revenues to fund it come from?

"There are only two opinions in this world: Mine and the wrong one." -Jeremy Clarkson
 
Primetime7:

Copied from the occupywallstreet.org......HIPPIES are making demands

Highlight---ONE TRILLION DOLLARS FOR RESTRUCTURING THE ENVIRONMENT.....

----------I bet you can't get past demand # 1, before you start laughing-------

OccupyWallStreet.org -

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

I laughed so hard at the $20/hr min wage. By the time I got to the guaranteed income, my side was hurting.

Bump for two year anniversary.

 

Wow Cph, I will have to give you props for telling your parents not to help your sister.

I am not cocky, I am confident, and when you tell me I am the best it is a compliment. -Styles P
 
eokpar02:
Wow Cph, I will have to give you props for telling your parents not to help your sister.

Thanks. I actually wouldn't have a problem helping 'her' but giving 'them' the money wouldn't actually be 'helping' at all. Them, of course, consists of the both him and her and as far as I'm concerned, you don't give crack to a crack addict tonight because they may quite tomorrow. He needs to change his behavior and she needs to crack the whip.

It's not an easy situation to think about because I do care about my sister and her family, but I think welfare just often leads to dependence. You don't cure a disease by treating the symptoms, you have to address the causes.

Tough love I guess.

Regards

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
 
MailmanBitesDog:
With all the demands, it's as if there was just some guy writing down whatever anyone shouted at him:

"Anything else to add to the list? Uh Steve, I'm not sure if OccupyWallStreet can demand your girlfriend is less of a backstabbing whore...well, okay, I'll put it on there."

"Yeah, I also want McDonald's to serve breakfast until noon and sell the McRib all year long!!! That will show them!!"

Regards

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
 

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most ridiculous one yet... my god

"Im 20 years old and im the 99%! I dropped out of school when i was sixteen I havnt gone back because i cant afford to pay for a g.e.d test I dont have a job and iv been unemployed for 4 months Before that i was working minimum wage maybe two days a week My dad lost his job working for Mobile 4 years ago He was making more than enough for us to live on Now he works minimum wage at mcdonalds My mom was a stay at home mom Now she works her ass off making 10 dollars an hour And thats not enough to pay the bills WE ARE THE 99%"

If your dreams don't scare you, then they are not big enough. "There are two types of people in this world: People who say they pee in the shower, and dirty fucking liars."-Louis C.K.
 

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