[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
There’s nothing interesting or useful about this “movement”. And, it’s not a movement - it’s a tantrum. Jobs are not birthrights. And the protests aren’t impactful. They are like a camping trip for bored hipsters.
But in fairness to the vast bulk of the young people at these “protests”, they have been sold a false bill of goods by their elders about money, employment, property, and success. They’ve been told that a college degree provides instant economic security, then they are provided easy money to get the college degree that provides instant economic security.
Basically, they’ve been told that (1) the means is easy, and (2) the end is easy (and basically guaranteed). They don’t know where money comes from, and they have no concept of “paying your dues” - they all feel entitled to great, professional, fulfilling careers that pay well with great benefits and great vacations, and they feel shamed if along they way they have to get dirt under the fingernails.
That said, they don’t have much of an excuse for not applying common sense to these false tales. And look at the gaggle of “protestors” - state-of-the-art smartphones and digital cameras. Do they look they part of the dispossessed and the downtrodden? Of course not. They are, as has been remarked upon before, “middle class socialist brats”.
I am not happy with Wall Street - stated more clearly, I’m not happy with its institutionalized privilege. But if its “jobs” you want, you’re wasting your time protesting Wall Street, they ain’t going to hire you - you should head south and protest at those big white buildings in our nation’s capital. Many businesses have money to invest in new hiring - they just simply won’t come off the sidelines with the cash because of the uncertainty in the economy.
If unemployed hipsters want to be mad at someone for their plight, their energies are better directed to the folly of Hope and Change, or as history will remind us, the most tone-deaf misgovernance and misprioritization of national policy this country has seen in the modern age.[/quote]
Very well said TB.
And I will bet anyone exactly when the protestors will stop. I can almost name the date. But it doesn’t take psychic ability. All it takes is a good read on the weather. As soon as it gets cold and the snow hits they will turn tail and run faster than a guy on unemployment who was just offered a job at $10 per hour.
Any takers?
