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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
Ironically, the 99% are pissing off other people in the 99% and causing them to struggle to make a living.
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I. LOVE. THIS!!!
Now they are discovering what those of us in public health have known for years: when you get a whole bunch of people together in one place, they will have to use facilities...they will generate garbage that needs dealt with...and if sanitation facilities are inadequate, things are going to become a big mess pretty quickly.
Really, if this was a bunch of homeless crackheads doing these things in a park, the police would have already rounded them up and taken them to jail. It's like it's accepted because they are middle-class. That's a double standard.
I'm tired of these people, personally. They are resource-sappers for the rest of the 99%. And they don't speak for me. I can't relate to 99% of what comes out of their mouths. Complaining about not being automatically zoomed into Upper Middle America with their (often irrelevant) college degrees. Well, get over it- working class people have been struggling for generations. Even at its worst, their lives are so much better than the lives of so many in this country. I can't help feel they are not fighting for the truly underpriveledged, but they are just irate because their lives haven't turned out exactly the way society has told them they should by age 25, because we are in a recession.
And if they are so concerned with inequalities in this country, do something productive, like tutor at an after-school center (if there are any left, with all the funding cuts...but that's another post) for underpriveledged kids. 4 or 5 hours spent sitting in a tent doesn't do JACK for the real problems in this country. 4 or 5 hours spent working with a kid who really wants to understand Algebra but just isn't getting it without help does a LOT. Think of the power of thousands- if they would all just go volunteer for those hours, instead of sitting around in tents- amazing things could happen. These ARE edcuated, intelliegent people- pool your resources and start looking for places where you can ACTUALLY make a difference instead of pulling this stunt.
I think it's kind of funny (but I'm just mean like that)...the Occupy movement has finally come to Newark, NJ. They were told to get out of the parks by dusk, but then the police changed their mind and let them stay. The caveat? "You are on your own," the police Captain said. "Call 911 if there's an emergency." And then the officers left to go patrol the neighborhoods.
I totally agree with this approach. There are far too few police officers in cities these days due to all the crazy budget issues- those officers need to be in the neighborhoods, tackling the very real issues that are happening there, not baby-sitting a bunch of people who think sitting in a park is going to change the national tax structure (which ain't happening.)
I know, I'm just a big meanie
But honestly, what is sitting in a park doing to change the world? It's not 1969!!!