OCCUPATIONAL ISSUES

The occupy Wall Street movement has been tugging on my emotional shirttail of late but to adequately address every aspect of this situation would require great detail and would unnecessarily burden the attention span of even the most ardent reader. However; These occupy peeps, these unemployed mobs of layabouts strewn around our major city centers have come up with a loose list of thirteen demands. These are ridiculous demands from a bunch of spoiled wack nuts that have never done anything in their entire lives to deserve them. Let’s look at some of these “demands” and see why this movement will end up permenantly constipated.

The occupiers would like to demand a living wage of twenty dollars per hour. Right now many college graduates, young professionals and blue collar workers support themselves on less money then that. How nice for a bunch of whiners with nothing but free time to have the audacity to dictate the salary standard for those who employee workers. Good lookin out for your working brethren! This does not pertain to the protesters of course because the won’t earn anything sitting and shitting in the grass at a park. What they have earned though is an Economic IQ of zero. Next;

Universal single payer health care system. No medical bills for them! This is a terrific idea in the eyes of people who don’t work which transforms seamlessly into the next demand;

A guaranteed wage regardless of employment. Wow! Our precious occupados want everything for free even if they never work a day in their lives. Did their parents raise these kids to believe that their every need should be met by everyone else? How on earth did that philosophy take root? How did we manage to instill such distaste for working on our kids?

Free college education. The protestors have made it clear they shouldn’t have to get jobs so why on earth would they want to go to college? I can only surmise that they want to spend a few years having their heads crammed full of more liberal crap while puffing on a fatty and paying nary a dime. They can then call themselves students and get the latest most up to date protest information from their greedy corporate generated I Phones (whoops!) so there is less confusion about what they are supposed to be fed up with this week.

They have two other demands that call for immediate debt forgiveness for all and to outlaw all credit reporting agencies. Hummmmmm.  Let’s call it a hunch but I’m guessing our little occupiers have managed to rack up a bunch of credit card debt, school loans and other frivolous type purchases and pay back time has arrived. Of course, in support of their argument here, if college had been free and the greedy corporations hadn’t forced credit cards down their throats then this would have never happened. Damn Wall Street.

There are other vague demands calling for a “racial and gender equality amendment”, whatever that means, and another allowing for “open borders migration”. Could it be they want “open borders” so immigrants working as hotel maids and landscapers can add to the taxpayer pot that our valiant occupiers will need to draw from? Maybe these same immigrants can then clean up the urine, feces and fast food wrappers that our world changing revolutionaries cannot be bothered with. I mean with no mommy and daddy around, what’s an occupier to do?

What is it exactly that has filled these kid’s heads with such an enormous sense of entitlement and self worship? They speak in comically grandiose language in a feeble attempt to describe their pointless protest and call themselves “revolutionaries”. They have authorized themselves the status of world saviors and want us all to believe the universe is in full freeze mode pending the outcome of their historical movement. That is sadly delusional and highly narcissistic. Narcissists tend to turn violent when their demands aren’t met, which explains why some of the protestors have been going around beating up middle-class cops who are just trying to keep the peace.

Our constitutional right to freedom of assembly and speech are two of our greatest freedoms and separates us dramatically from so many other nations where these rights simply do not exist. The occupiers are taking full advantage of these rights and with the exception of those few who are defecating and urinating in the streets or who are attacking the police, they are doing so in a manner protected by the very principles established by our constitution and I will fight to the death their right to do so. Unfortunately they are irrelevant because their performance is so disappointing. This is my children’s generation and they need to do much better. If I was the head coach of a protesting team, these folks would be warming the bench with their behinds.

 These body-pierced, sunken chested 19 year olds are so woefully underwhelming in their delivery, so lacking in sophistication and so educationally overdrawn that it is embarrassing to the rest of us working Americans and we can only hope that nobody outside the borders of this country is watching. I can only assume that their lack of presentable organization, focus and logic is either a direct or indirect result of my generation’s parenting skills. I feel partially responsible for this but unlike these defecating dimwit protesters, I take full account for my failure. I can empathize with the British now and how they must have felt watching their hooligan kids run amok a few months ago. Our flash mobs and occupiers are just two orders in the same class of this generation.

As one who is responsible to some extent for this generation of slackers, complainers and dolts, I offer, as atonement for this failure, to donate my time to any of these individuals who obviously did not pay any attention to their history, civics, government, English, business, math or economics classes. I vow to teach them the importance of fiscal responsibility, personal accountability and the benefits of hard work, sacrifice and perseverance. I will strive to instill in them an understanding of self reliance and appreciation for honesty and integrity. In short, I will teach them the exact opposite of what our current major educational institutions and federal government has taught them thus far. Class in now in session. 

I saw this recently and it looked like a good way to wrap this up;

   FREE STUFF

The folks who are getting the free stuff don't like the folks who are paying for the free stuff because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.

 

So,

The folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop.

And,
 the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!

 

Now...  The people who are forcing the people who PAY for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff

are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.

 

So... the people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are PAYING for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff, and giving them the free stuff in the first place.

 

We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people GETTING free stuff than PAYING for the free stuff.

 

Now, understand this:  all great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded.  The reason?

The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.

 

The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 231 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. We have one chance to change that in 2012. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.