On 03/11/2011 1:00 PM, iBoaterer wrote:
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Article from the Kool Aid lady:
"Call it an occupational hazard, but I can't look at the Occupy Wall
Street protesters without thinking, "Who parented these people?"
As a culture columnist, I've commented on the social and political
ramifications of the "movement" - now known as "OWS" - whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by
one of their placards: "Everything for everybody."
Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it's clear there are people with serious designs on
"transformational" change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel.
Yet it's not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting
question, but rather the fact that I'm the mother of four teens and
young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters' moms clearly have not passed
along.
Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters' mothers should have taught their children but
obviously didn't, so I will:
* Life isn't fair. The concept of justice - that everyone should be
treated fairly - is a worthy and worthwhile moral imperative on which our nation was founded. But
justice and economic equality are not the same. Or, as Mick Jagger said, "You can't always get what
you want."
No matter how you try to "level the playing field," some people have better luck, skills, talents or
connections that land them in better places. Some seem to have all the advantages in life but
squander them, others play the modest hand they're dealt and make up the difference in hard work and
perseverance, and some find jobs on Wall Street and eventually buy houses in the Hamptons. Is it
fair? Stupid question.
* Nothing is "free." Protesting with signs that seek "free" college
degrees and "free" health care make you look like idiots, because
colleges and hospitals don't operate on rainbows and sunshine. There is no magic money machine to
tap for your meandering educational careers and "slow paths" to adulthood, and the 53 percent of
taxpaying Americans owe you neither a degree nor an annual physical.
While I'm pointing out this obvious fact, here are a few other things that are not free: overtime
for police officers and municipal workers, trash hauling, repairs to fixtures and property, condoms,
Band-Aids and the food that inexplicably appears on the tables in your makeshift protest kitchens.
Real people with real dollars are underwriting your civic temper tantrum.
* Your word is your bond. When you demonstrate to eliminate student loan debt, you are advocating
precisely the lack of integrity you decry in others. Loans are made based on solemn promises to
repay them. No one forces you to borrow money; you are free to choose educational pursuits that
don't require loans, or to seek technical or vocational training that allows you to support yourself
and your ongoing educational goals. Also, for the record, being a college student is not a state of
victimization. It's a privilege that billions of young people around the globe would die for -
literally.
* A protest is not a party. On Saturday in New York, while making a mad dash from my cab to the door
of my hotel to avoid you, I saw what isn't evident in the newsreel footage of your demonstrations:
Most of you are doing this only for attention and fun. Serious people in a sober pursuit of social
and political change don't dance jigs down Sixth Avenue like attendees of a Renaissance festival.
You look foolish, you smell gross, you are clearly high and you don't seem to realize that all
around you are people who deem you irrelevant.
* There are reasons you haven't found jobs. The truth? Your tattooed necks, gauged ears, facial
piercings and dirty dreadlocks are off-putting. Nonconformity for the sake of nonconformity isn't a
virtue. Occupy reality: Only 4 percent of college graduates are out of work. If you are among that 4
percent, find a mirror and face the problem. It's not them. It's you."
Marybeth Hicks is the author of "Don't Let the Kids Drink the
Kool-Aid: Confronting the Left's Assault on Our Families, Faith and Freedom." Find her on the Web at
www.marybethhicks.comhttp://www.marybethhicks.com/ .
I don't know why the far, far right wing is so up in arms about. The
occupiers want a lot of the same things you all do, like less
government. You sure wasn't alarmed when the teapartiers were adn are
protesting.
Hey, I would be down there supporting them if they were picking the
right targets. Lets start with "Occupy Wall Street". Wall Street is
real not the right target.
DC political criminals, government debtors, and corrupt companies using
the tax system as a piggy bank is.
Where arr the signs that say this? Fact is they are disorganized losers
that just found out the iPad and iPod isn't free. No marketable skills,
just bullish and whine they are unemployable losers. In our city, even
recognized the same bums as I saw when I worked downtown.
Too many entitled fleabaggers.
Any sign talk about Bernanke money print or 0bama Solyndra? After all,
you can't attack the grand fleabagger 0bama. 0bama's message is ea the
rich, persecute the countries and wonder why there are no jobs.
Fact is the very name "Wall Street" squatters says it all.
And very few that recognize government can't solve the problem because
government is the problem.
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The reason government can't fix the economic problems is government is
the problem.