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Hey, Man. I’m Fighting For The Oppressed. With My $5,500 Laptop.
Well, at least some good will come of the smell-fest down at Zuccotti Park. The whiney, entitled brats at Occupy Wall Street are learning about the real world for the first time in their cushy lives. It seems someone is taking that whole “redistribution” thing literally.
Who’d have thought that a crowd of people demanding the seizure of wealth from banks, corporations, and the wealthy might also have a few thieves? I’m shocked, shocked to find theft occurring in a group that has hijacked private property it refuses to leave. I can’t imagine that a crowd that demands free higher education and the forgiveness of tens of thousands in student debt would also think of someone’s Mac or an iPhone as equally as communal as a college education.
That’s right. Amid the throngs of radicals calling for the forceful taking of other people’s wealth, there are people who think they’re entitled to other protesters’ stuff. SHOCKING. Maybe the collective will hold a meeting and uptwinkle the motion to create a safe place, with locks and stuff, to put valuables. They might call it the “Occupy Wall Street Communal Storage Facility” and assign guards, create a system where people can tag their stuff so the operators of the facility will know where to retrieve the valuables should the owner of said valuables want to use them.
Wait. That’s called a bank!
The irony is delicious. But there’s a broader more important aspect to this story: Some kid had a $5,500 laptop stolen.
“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.
“I had my Mac stolen — that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”
This guy was undoubtedly railing against the awful plutocracy – or some other marxist claptrap – in America just a few minutes before and after he gave the interview. It is a lock this guy has said he was oppressed at some point in the last month. He’s 18 years old and he was in New York City with a $5,500 laptop. FIFTY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS. And you wonder why I find this “movement” detestable?
They’re spoiled children. I don’t care if some of them are 50+ year old hippies. Those protesters even worse.
Take a look at this article from January of this year in the New York Times.
Here’s the key part in the article describing what this chart is saying:
Now take a look at America.
Notice how the entire line for the United States resides in the top portion of the graph? That’s because the entire country is relatively rich. In fact, America’s bottom ventile is still richer than most of the world: That is, the typical person in the bottom 5 percent of the American income distribution is still richer than 68 percent of the world’s inhabitants.
Now check out the line for India. India’s poorest ventile corresponds with the 4th poorest percentile worldwide. And its richest? The 68th percentile. Yes, that’s right: America’s poorest are, as a group, about as rich as India’s richest.
Kind of blows your mind, right?
Now you might be wondering: How can there be so many people in the world who make less than America’s poorest, many of whom make nothing each year? Remember that were looking at the entire bottom chunk of Americans, some of whom make as much as $6,700; that may be extremely poor by American standards, but that amounts to a relatively good standard of living in India, where about a quarter of the population lives on $1 a day.
These little $5,500-laptop-having malcontents are protesting a system that is the envy of the world. And we’re supposed to take their complaints seriously?
Please.
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22 Comments
I don’t get the point of this. The kid might have worked hard and bought a laptop? No one is against working..
The fact they have a system to store valuables that isn’t for profit, yeah how is this ironic? Because they don’t like banks? The reason why ows doesn’t like banks is because of what the banks did/do. You’re really off target here.
And again, “Smell fest.” It’s like you’re hunting for a diss and the only thing you (and other conservatives) can think of is that it smells bad. Which isn’t even true!
And see on your “chart” where you compare one of the worlds most developed countries to three developing countries, and see where the US is flat lining!
I suggest whoever wrote this stop writing and blogging and start thinking for themselves. This was embarrassing to read.
how is the word plutocracy a marxist term? citibank uses that word regularly and says the USA is no longer a democracy but a plutocracy. that’s where it came from, might want to learn to read a few things before you pretend to know what you’re talking about
“Wait. That’s called a bank!”
Not quite. It would be called a bank if you were charged ever-increasing fees to access your stuff, and if the stuff was levereged 100 to 1, chopped to tiny pieces and sold as complex derivatives to unsuspecting schmucks, and the operators payed themselves with $5500 laptops.
“malcontents are protesting a system that is the envy of the world”
That seriously made me laugh out loud. You are too funny.
I’d like to thank the past and future OWS supporters who are commenting and adding to the hilarious stupidity of the entire movement.
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Just compare how much money you need for buying a week’s groceries in India and the USA. Having a 5,500 Dollar Computer is fundamentally unnecessary and even contraproductive given what they’re trying to achieve there. But your commentary is just plain conservative propaganda, sorry my friend. The numbers clearly state that you’re wrong.
But it wasn’t “his” laptop, it was the community’s. Smirk.
Reminds me of the gypsy moth infestation on the 1980′s. Just when you thought there was no stopping them, along comes a home grown virus like petty thievery to wipe them out. You want a revolution and you can’t fathom the loss of possessions? Any kid growing up in the bouroughs knows if you sleep in the park, you will get rolled. Call a cop, why don’t you. Maybe the one who’s car you just took a crap on.
LOL! I love all the idiotic comments from the OWS kids here. Whatever you OWS guys do… please don’t stop making these arguments.
Keep on keeping on! Let the poor suffer! They deserve to be losing their homes and health! Serves them right for not being winners like us!
You’re a silly silly person, Bob.
First, OWS does have a bank, where wealthy leftists are appeasing the cries and whines of those who they hope help get Obama a 2nd term, http://patdollard.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-issues-public-apology-to-its-bank/
Those of you whose comments appear to be in support of OWS may not have realized this aspect of reality, and if you’re in OWS, sorry I am the one to tell you about their bank, the one that takes donations to pay for people to be there, or pay them to share their story, http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/tfr/2641180488.html.
And to help comprehend just how there is a group of organizers who have an agenda, but are purposefully exploiting the impressionability of youth who could care less, Howard Stern, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsJPKMvWDmY&feature=share
Lastly, they complain about Wall Street, and I’ve even had one tell me in twitter that my “anti-obama Avi means I won’t understand what they are doing….” And until I hear these words “Occupy Harry Reid’s Office” they’re right, I won’t understand, since it was Reid, not George Bush, who decided to override the will of the American People and pass the bailouts anyway, http://changingwind.org/index/comment.php?comment.news.2.
Let’s hope the children, and the adult “Ronulans” as well, get over the jealousy of the wealthy and the mechanisms of wealth, so we can stop the government interventions to destroy capitalism before the future generations get a chance to know the meaning of freedom in owning their own private property that they gained by their own labor, to later have the joy of appreciation in seizing business and investment opportunities that they usually brought to happen as well by how they conducted their lives.
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Every movement, right or left, has its share of hypocrites, dupes, and inarticulate posers. Most of the criticism of OWS I’m seeing amounts to snide cheap shots at easy targets, which is no surprise.
Instead of coming up with choice names to call your deluded socialist enemies from the safety of you keyboards, and congratulating yourselves for regurgitating tired old chiches about dirty hippies, maybe you should wake up to the fact that your entire political system has been BOUGHT. The financial system of the west has become a cesspit of fraud and ponzi schemes. In the US neither the pathetic Democrat or Republican parties, or your spineless congress, and certainly not the con-man Obama, have the guts to call a spade a spade and hold a single person accountable. That’s because they’re all OWNED. Its pretty much the same in Canada, Europe – all over the west. People are starting to clue in that the system is rigged and that’s why people are taking to the streets.
I like how nimrods like nomarx love to tell people to wake up and see the grand conspiracy afoot. It’s pure comedy. I’m saddened, though, that he didn’t say Rothschilds or Bildeberg. That would have punctuated things nicely.
Predictable that all RB does is taunt and call people names instead of responding with anything substantial.
Follow the money, dude. It’s not hard. It hardly qualifies as a conspiracy theory these days to say that most politicians who get anywhere are bought off by millions in campaign contributions from big vested interests. There’s a reason your country is circling the drain and this kind corruption has everything to do with it.
C’mon nomarx, say it. Say the words. We know you want to… who are the “vested interests?”
If you insist. A quick google search turns up the following publically available information on top contributors to the Obama – McCain race. Giant corporations, media companies, and big banks mostly. You’ll notice that many of the big banks contributed to both of them:
MCCAIN’S TOP CONTRIBUTORS:
Merrill Lynch $375,895
JPMorgan Chase & Co $343,505
Citigroup Inc $338,202
Morgan Stanley $271,902
Goldman Sachs $240,295
US Government $202,929
AT&T Inc $201,938
Wachovia Corp $199,663
UBS AG $187,493
Credit Suisse Group $184,153
PricewaterhouseCoopers $169,400
US Army $169,020
Bank of America $167,826
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $160,346
Blank Rome LLP $155,226
Greenberg Traurig LLP $147,437
US Dept of Defense $146,356
FedEx Corp $131,974
Lehman Brothers $126,557
Ernst & Young $114,506
OBAMA’S TOP CONTRIBUTORS:
University of California $1,648,685
Goldman Sachs $1,013,091
Harvard University $878,164
Microsoft Corp $852,167
Google Inc $814,540
JPMorgan Chase & Co $808,799
Citigroup Inc $736,771
Time Warner $624,618
Sidley Austin LLP $600,298
Stanford University $595,716
National Amusements Inc $563,798
WilmerHale LLP $550,668
Columbia University $547,852
Skadden, Arps et al $543,539
UBS AG $532,674
IBM Corp $532,372
General Electric $529,855
US Government $513,308
Morgan Stanley $512,232
Latham & Watkins $503,295
Many of these giant corporations are very connected, sharing board members, and many top people in the big banks make career stops at the “federal” reserve.
“Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.”
– The Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s
You disappoint me, nomarx. You could have just said “banksters” and then linked it to the global conspiracy run by the Rothschilds, etc. Maybe sprinkled NWO in there for flavor.
I’ve made my point. You can quit trying to bait me with conspiracy theory cliche now.
nomarx won that exchange.
to rb: fail
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