Occupy this: A job
By Michael Graham | Wednesday, October 5, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Op-Ed
Attention, Boston: The Occupiers want YOU — to do their laundry.The Occupation movement featured an online posting on Monday requesting “volunteers” to come to the New York City campsite, pick up the protesters’ laundry, “take it to their home to get it clean and bring it back.”
You know — just like Mom?
Has there ever been such a collection of mewling, puking overgrown babies as the clueless college brats of the “Occupation” — a particularly ironic phrase given how few of these oafs actually have one.
Ask them what they’re protesting and, according to The New York Times [NYT], one leader said, “It doesn’t matter . . . Just protest.”
Ask them why they’re protesting on the Greenway, and they have no idea. Occupy Boston’s only communication is a letter addressed to “The 1%, Wall St., All Cities, USA.”
“We want our country back,” it said.
Well, kids, here’s a message from working folks: “Go home to Mom and Dad’s basement. We want our Greenway back.”
When the Occupation movement began two weeks ago, the Herald reported that protesters “are angry that they went to college, incurred punishing debt and now cannot find jobs.” Uh . . . OK.
Now that you mention it, if I were a college grad without a job, I might show up in Boston’s financial district, too. But I’d show up with a resume, a suit and a fresh haircut, not a sign reading “End Capitalism NOW!”
Attacking Wall Street because you’re jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you’re hungry.
Unless, that is, you’re waiting for someone to give you a job. There’s talk from the Occupiers about “giving,” only they mean it in the sense of “taking.”
“Taxing the rich gives us more money to spend on products made here,” one Occupier told Fox News. “If the rich were willing to share, we could all live in prosperity,” another added.
Not “earn” but “give.” Not “work,” but “share.” And note the assumption that “taxing the rich” will result in giving money to college punks in Che Guevara T-shirts. Not deficit reduction or shoring up Social Security — but more goodies for the video game and home-made bong set.
The Occupiers’ theories about some cabal of top earners stealing our democracy sound, as columnist Jonah Goldberg writes, “like they were written in a tree house by politically precocious pre-teens.” But these punks of privilege understand it perfectly.
Why earn it when you can take it? If you’re Goldman Sachs, you can blow through billions and Washington will take other people’s money and make you whole.
If you’re Evergreen Solar or Solyndra and you’ve never turned a profit, some pol will take millions from successful energy companies and give it to you.
And if you’re unemployed and haven’t looked for a job in two years, why should you? President Barack Obama’s given you 99 weeks on the dole, and his “jobs” plan wants to extend that. All paid for by suckers foolish enough to show up on Wall Street with a job instead of a sleeping bag.
It’s the “everybody gets a cupcake” generation. Someone’s always given them a trophy, a good grade, clean laundry. Now they’re looking for someone to give them free money and an easy life.
What did you expect?
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