Nice little analysis here by Pajamas Media’s Bill Whittle of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

This deserves a hearty “up twinkles”!




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Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill

There is greed and usury was 20%. Take a healthy share of the pie, if your noble spirits deem it super size day. What the market will bear and pie in the trash, and you wonder what the fight is really about.

I am a carpenter who has not seen an industry raise for my hourly toil in 20 years. As I became a Master, the chiseling began. I am talking plumbers and plasterers and electricians too. Our newscasters and sports figures and politicians got raises. Cost of living keeps going up faster than our raises. Like a slipping transmission, on a hill. Get the hungry, lazy sods to push us over.

Jason Newman
Jason Newman

Don't just blame it on the younger Americans. In order to get re-elected, the closet liberal George Bush gave the wealthiest generation that ever walked the face of the earth what they demanded: free and subsidized drug prescriptions. One of the most expensive giveaway programs the US Gubbermint ever came up with.

Jason Newman
Jason Newman

Notice that seven of the ten on this list are entertainers. Just remember this the next time you buy a movie or concert ticket. You, yes you, are creating these muddleheaded monsters. The product that they create and provide is not necessary for your survival, so think twice before you consume. They are a clear example of the fact that socialism is for the people, never the socialist.

BS61
BS61

I have lost friends too. Not because they believe in socialism/marxism. It's because of their refusal to believe that Obama is radical. Or that Rev Wright was not a huge influence. Or that Bill Ayers just happened to live in the same neighborhood.

I lost them when I said, wake up - your kids have no future under Obama! And that Progressive's are not Dems.

I can't remember who, but Yuri ex-KGB guy said that he could take people to the death camps and they still would not believe. That's how I feel today with our propaganda media. It's very dangerous times.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

My sweet mother in law lives next door, and as much as I'd love to sit and visit her a little while every time I go over, and same with her other kids, but whenever we do go over, she's got some braindead talking head from mslsd on.

Mark
Mark

Father never finished grade school, mother never finished high school, two bedroom apartment in the Chicago suburbs, two space heaters, no air conditioning . . . . . I'm a 55 year old man who graduated college, med school and I'm a Board Certified Neurologist . . . . . Bill Whittle, No Bitterness Degree for me!!

NickDeringer
NickDeringer

Yes. And I love Andrew Klavan's very serious commentaries. They are smart and very funny.

The Hollywood Hammer
The Hollywood Hammer

It is illegal to feed wild animals because they forget how to fend for themselves and they become dependent on the handouts.

This is a pretty good analogy of both the welfare state and spoiled rich kids.

The Hollywood Hammer
The Hollywood Hammer

It is illegal to feed wild animals because they forget how to fend for themselves and become dependent on the handouts. This is a pretty good analogy of both the welfare state and spoiled rich kids.

Cheryl Pryor
Cheryl Pryor

Doesn't it all come down to parenting? And what you allow your kids to participate in? Even though a single mom of 3, my son was in Boy Scouts where you have to work extremely hard to climb the ladder and he became an Eagle Scout. He also wrestled in high school, now that sport will really not allow for false self esteem. Next our community has an incredible Explorer Scout program with the sheriffs dept that he did and found his calling in law enforcement. He now is 20 and a junior in college and won a coveted full scholarship through the Army ROTC program where he will pay back his education with 6 years in the National Guard. No student loans! My other older daughter does theatre where you audition and there is only a few leads, you have to work hard and practice know your lines and out perform everyone else. Just like the real world! My youngest is an avid horse lover so she rides and trains in a very tough sport. The key is finding what your kids love and putting them in situations that mirror the real world. Surrounding them with adults who share your values. It is still possible to raise kids in todays world even as a single parent, who won't end up OWS!

VirusX
VirusX

No, not really. My mother, father and all other known family voted for Obama. My mother even has a shrine to the POS. They are firm believers in Medicare, Medicaid, government intervention and the white man holding them back. They believe the GOP started the Civil War and advocated the keeping of slaves, and I'm sure they'd believe that an all Republican and Conservative court bears responsibility for such cases as the Fugitive Slave Act, Plessy v Ferguson, Dred Scott, etc. They believe that the GOP fought against the Civil Rights legislation, and that the people standing in doorways to prevent blacks from going to school were Republicans and Conservatives. They believe that corporations are bad, and government is somehow more noble, especially under Barack Obama. They probably believe that socialism is a good thing, and that the reports about the communism death toll are exaggerated. They believe the Tea Party is a white supremacist organization, created solely as a reaction to a black guy winning a presidential election. I am an embarrassing anomaly to the family that they do not like to discuss too much about, because I believe the exact opposites, and back what I say with trusted websites, as well as reputable books, paper and the Constitution. Its very possible to have good, hard working parents raise kids that are worthless, choosing to take the values of the worthless peers, and ignore their parents' common sense, just as I ignored both my peers and family, to choose my own political and life philosophy.

BS61
BS61

Wow! I thought that I had it bad growing up in Chicago to a Dem mother who subscribed to Mother Jones and the ACLU! You've certainly had it worse, as I am white.

Joe
Joe

I would love to see him in a political debate

He would wake up the entire stage and hopefully

the entire Country

Where are these people when you need them ?

BS61
BS61

I agree - I'd vote for Whittle in a heartbeat! And why can't any of the R's state things this well... Well I would guess that they don't really believe it.

Dan
Dan

“Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. … Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.”

- Benjamin Franklin

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

The most ignored Commandment of the 10- Thou shalt not covet. See what years of ignorance of the 10 Laws has gotten us?

Dan
Dan

I spend most of my time working to pay for the 47%... grants to a bunch of thief's who take more and more of my hard earned money and more and more I feel like I am a slave to this oppressive government. I watch while food stamp recipients who drive better cars than I do and buy things I can’t afford, because I pay for their food stamps, I can't afford to eat and have to watch everything I buy and how much I spend to make sure I have a few extra dollars to pay for gas to get to work, so I can pay a bunch of lazy as-holes eat better than I do...THE FEW HOURS A WEEK I DO HAVE TO MY SELF AND FAMILY I TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW THE HELL I'M GOING TO MAKE IT THROUGH THE NEXT TWO WEEKS ON ONE PAY CHECK...do i sound bitter...well I’m not… I'M PISSED that 47% of the people are living off the 53% and one of these days we 53% are going to say to the 47% fu-k-you----- WE QUIT-----NOW WHAT YA GOING TO DO-----------

$3.00

The Hollywood Hammer
The Hollywood Hammer

Dan, It's tea time.

Dan
Dan

yeah went off the rails that time......but sometimes......

Salvatore Anello
Salvatore Anello

Couldn't agree more. The only proof you need that this is true is the fact that the OWS kitchen help is bitching about feeding the homeless.

BS61
BS61

Exactly! Why are the OWS kitchen staff so selfish? Why do they want to hoard all the food? I guess they really don't believe in redistribution after all!

NickDeringer
NickDeringer

"This is the self-esteem movement's chickens coming home to roost"

Truly brilliant. Glenn Beck should hire this guy and feature him on his show.

Walter Guilfoyle
Walter Guilfoyle

Bill Whittle

You sure hit the nail on the head, They have to much hang time,. Time for them to join the real world. Daddy is tired of paying their bills. Well done Bill

Chris
Chris

"I'd force them to live 3 and a half days in a cabin."

You'd give 'em a cabin... What a softie you are, Bill.

There's not enough cabins in the woods for everyone.

Make 'em build lean-to shelters !

BackwardsBoy
BackwardsBoy

Don't most of them have tents already? Not that any of them have ever camped anywhere outside of their parents' back yard...

L B
L B

exactly... if you dont like corporations, then dont use them... I have a ban of drinking starbucks coffee--- why??? Because it is the nectar of the a flaccid liberal boy--- I can not call them a man, because they dont have what it takes to be like John Wayne

Mark
Mark

"Fill your hands you sonna-of-a-bitch"

Philo Beddoe
Philo Beddoe

I agree.

But where does that put Bloomberg?

The parent company of the management company his girlfriend works at just so happens to manage the park.

The parent company just received $150 million for clean energy development.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

This reminds me of the social studies lesson I had my son do today. We read about the immigration between the time of the pilgrims and the mid 1800's. We discussed the reasons so many people emmigrated to the US (including my own reasons). We discussed the tyranny of other countries back then, and the poverty of so many of those who came, and about the American dream that so many people believed in and worked successfully toward. I told him much of this OWS stuff is full of people who have no idea of what they really have here- but they are too busy complaining about not having what others have. I told him the American dream is still available (a little harder than it was back then) but still attainable if one is willing to work for it, which many legal immigrants do. And in spite of all the bad things happening with government and the me me me society it's created, America is still the greatest nation on the face of the earth- it would do some of these pathetic people good to go try their little games in any of the communist/socialist countries of the world. They'd be begging to come back. People get comfortable, lazy and apathetic, but unless you've known different, it is hard for them to get it through their heads just how well they have it and have had it all along.