mrstickball said:
You are correct in saying that the majority of these protestors are incredibly idiotic about their goals. Here are a few pictures of signs by 'the 99%' (taken from another forum): If these are the kinds of people protesting, then America is just about doomed. I am sure Mafoo is laughing his butt off in New Zealand right now.. No one cares for personal responsibility nor accountability. It is not Wall Street's fault if you pick a useless career in writing or some other bull-crap, and can't find a job because there are millions of others out there with the same degree, and no jobs. |
Well, looks like Teabonics on the left to me. Apparently people don't bother to proofread their signs they use in protests.
What needs to be understood, is that, you feel (and can demonstrate) that you go the short end of the stick, and feel that there is an elite class who increasingly gets ahead, and you don't, then it doesn't matter how much you speak about "living off the wealth and privilege provided a global capitalist system". Hard to say anyone lives off it, when you have a mound of debt for the "honor" of buying lottery tickets.
I, for example, am sitting on piles of student loan debt, and wonder if I should drive anywhere. Who am I supposed to show graditute do for this? This student loan debt can't be discharged as any other. People have been sold lots and lots of lies, and now the bill comes due.
As of now, what isn't a "useless career"? Is everyone supposed to go into nursing or become a truck driver? That and engineering were shown as three "hot job" categories out there. You know what? How about allowing bankruptcy to cause student loans going away, and not bailing out colleges, and then see what happens next? A lot of colleges would close. People pick useless careers because loans are given out for them.
