Occupy This
I don’t even know what the “Occupy” movement is about anymore.
We live in a very non-creative world. Now that “Occupy” is a buzzword there are Occupy Sites for everything.
I was listening to the radio today, for a long time, and heard all the problems the “Occupy” movement is having with people taking over their websites, mismanagement of money and so on. Boy, sounds like the corporate world to me.
City’s are getting fed up but no one wants to say anything because if you do you are labeled intolerant. That’s just a bunch of BS. When did our country turn into a place where “We The People” can’t even express our opinions especially if those opinions go against the grain, the media or the social norm of the day?
In Portland protestors are moving to the Pearl District and you know those business owners don’t want protestors camping in a beautiful city park but no one would go on camera and say anything.
Now there are allegations of people actually paying homeless folks to protest. I’m all for economic development but that doesn’t seem very genuine does it?
Leave it to the United States to take a protest against Corporate America and make it into a quasi corporation with mismanagement at the top that is messing up. I heard on the radio that the organizers of this campaign in New York can’t get on their website because someone in the group high-jacked it.
I want to come up with an “Occupy” website but I can’t think of anything I really want to occupy.
I really don’t think this is funny at all. I think the top 1% should be paying their fair share of taxes. But that message got lost in all the Occupants of the “Occupy” movement.
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Hi Rick, I share much of your frustration. I think the top 1% should pay more and the bottom 50% should actually pay too. I know, I’m old fashioned that way. We all live here and are a part of this fine land! The 1% pay a massive amount of tax while people continue to say and believe they pay nothing. Can the 1% afford to pay more, yes, I have no problem with that. Would raising their income tax to even 90% help – Nope. A basic public school math class teaches us those numbers do not add up.
It’s the 50% who pay ZERO income tax that bother me the most and who use most of the government resources. It’s a scary bunch of people who pay nothing into the system, yet so nonchalantly want the government to force money out of the other 50% hands who already contribute a massive amount of money.
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The people hurting society the most right now are the ones having babies without the economic means to care for them and who rely on the taxpayers to pay for their children. I know, I know that sounds terrible, but it’s the truth. I work with public schools every day for a living. Schools are spending the majority of their time and resources dealing with social issues created by people who live on entitlement.
Every time I go the the grocery store I see a new young teen/early 20′s girl, a baby stroller and a bored looking boyfriend hanging out by the checkout. They stand out like a sore thumb as they sort every bit of their grocery basket into different piles so they can pay with their entitlement checks.
No one has taught these little boys and girls what was basic knowledge just 20 years ago – a real man or woman would never let the government dictate his/her life with a monthly check and an Oregon trail card.
I don’t see anyone out there with signs saying, “Occupy Your Own Life” or “Man Up, Don’t Let Others Pay Your Fair Share” or how about “Work Harder so You Can Pay Your Share”.
This morning, Seth Godin, wrote this in his daily blog….
“You can’t argue with success. Of course you can. Conventional wisdom says you shouldn’t bother. But arguing with failure is dumb. Failure doesn’t need to be argued with, it’s already failed. It takes guts to argue with success, guts and insight. And it’s the best way to make things better.”
The Occupy crowd has no message other than a general discontent with failure. Who’s failure?
The only good (if there is anything good about all this) coming from all this ‘occupy’ fiasco, is that the homeless finally have somewhere to go. These ‘occupy’ people camp out where the homeless would be run out of. Now if they are having the homeless join them….they will at least have a place until this mess is over. Watching the camps & the people on the news made me wonder…just what is the difference between these people & the homeless? These people are being kept well fed & warm, while the homeless…..
What “they” say on the news is not reality it is someone’s opinion. If your only information comes from the media you are not living a real life.
Only the media and its followers proclaim that the Occupiers do not know what they are protesting and that they are just the Homeless out to get handouts. Many/most of the protesters have very valid concerns about their causes – yes causes because there is not one protest there are many; our world is out of balance at this point in time; not only in Oregon but all over the world — who could have guessed that Egypt would fall through peaceful occupation during our life times?