[AbraxiaAsus]

You are not the 99%. You might be the bottom 20%.

Which is to say, in general, that you are the shiftless, the lackluster, the witless, and the damned. I doubt that my teaching will do you much good, and as much as I hate to throw pearls before swine (especially at no charge!), still I will make an effort to educate you.

Now, let's begin by looking at this evil capitalist system we have here in the USA. Let's have a look at employment.
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There are 21.3 million private businesses in this country with no employees. Just a man working for himself.

There are another 7.7 million businesses who do have employees.

Of those, 4.6 million have less than 10 employees. Almost 6 million of them have less than 100 employees.

So, out of roughly 29 million businesses in the USA, well over 27 million of them are small businesses. And those small businesses employ anywhere from 40% to 60% of the workforce, at any given time.

So I have to ask, when over 90% of the businesses and over 50% of the workforce employed by them are made up of average everyday Americans, how can you be the 99%?!?!?

You are not the 99%...

[gundos]

Lesson for the teacher:

The small business owners are just as much part of the 99% as the unemployed recent college graduate or the person who was laid off when they were over 50 years old, or the struggling young parents who have no health insurance because struggling businesses cannot afford to hire them full time or to give them health benefits. So they have several part time jobs. Who takes care of the children?

It isn't small business owners that these people are railing against, it those who speculate in money and then take money from government. It's those who do things like bundle mortgages and then sell them to an unsuspecting purchaser because the vetting was bad. It's the government who bails out bankers to save the economy who then in turn have lavish parties and give themselves fat bonuses on the backs of the small businesses struggling to survive.

My husband has a small business.
He supports the OWS movement.

NAFTA was part of the problem too.
And now we're looking at more trade agreements.
Another part of the problem are the wars we instigated and participated in in the Middle East.

To characterize those who are participating in OWS as low lifes, is not to understand the underlying issues and to be blind to what is going on around you.

[Loxaeed]

The small business owners are just as much part of the 99% ... Not me..

They want universal debt forgiveness, free health care and a free education.

free, free, free..

[Borrinas]

I don't hear them talking trade.. I just hear "free shit"

There's NO MONEY. Liberalism has killed entire states, and they want a do over on all of it.

[xyznicks]

Not me..

They want universal debt forgiveness, free health care and a free education.

free, free, free..

I think you may be exaggerating a bit.
Nothing in life is free. You know that.

[jimmy28]

I think you may be exaggerating a bit.
Nothing in life is free. You know that.

Well, that's what they want..

[valentinesdayyy]

http://youtu.be/4Nc2GWytR0E
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THEY DON'T KNOW IT, TEACHER.

FUCK THEM IN THEIR BAWLING ASSHOLES.


FIRE THIS GOD-DAMNED

ROTTEN CONGRESS!!


....AND GET THAT PATHETIC


MULATTO COMMIE

OUT OF THERE!!!!

[eI7iqNot]

Lesson for the teacher:

The small business owners are just as much part of the 99% as the unemployed recent college graduate or the person who was laid off when they were over 50 years old, or the struggling young parents who have no health insurance because struggling businesses cannot afford to hire them full time or to give them health benefits. So they have several part time jobs. Who takes care of the children?

It isn't small business owners that these people are railing against, it those who speculate in money and then take money from government. It's those who do things like bundle mortgages and then sell them to an unsuspecting purchaser because the vetting was bad. It's the government who bails out bankers to save the economy who then in turn have lavish parties and give themselves fat bonuses on the backs of the small businesses struggling to survive.

My husband has a small business.
He supports the OWS movement.

NAFTA was part of the problem too.
And now we're looking at more trade agreements.
Another part of the problem are the wars we instigated and participated in in the Middle East.

To characterize those who are participating in OWS as low lifes, is not to understand the underlying issues and to be blind to what is going on around you.

No.

We already have a protest movement against the things you highlighted. It is called the Tea Party. These people would have been welcomed with open arms into that movement at any time.

The OWS movement is a Communist movement. I'll not mince words or play games about it.

[Everwondopedo]

No.

We already have a protest movement against the things you highlighted. It is called the Tea Party. These people would have been welcomed with open arms into that movement at any time.

The OWS movement is a Communist movement. I'll not mince words or play games about it.

They may have joined the Tea Party if the Tea Party wasn't co-opted by religious freaks and people who have a social agenda. Does Michelle Bachman come to mind? The Tea Party should have stuck strictly to the economy, instead there were the wackos who took over the script. Do you think that gun toting fat white people with teabags hanging around their head and misspelled signs did the movement any good? They're just as bad as all those 'dirty hippies'.

[johnteriz]

They may have joined the Tea Party if the Tea Party wasn't co-opted by religious freaks and people who have a social agenda. Does Michelle Bachman come to mind? The Tea Party should have stuck strictly to the economy, instead there were the wackos who took over the script. Do you think that gun toting fat white people with teabags hanging around their head and misspelled signs did the movement any good? They're just as bad as all those 'dirty hippies'.

No.

They are not "just as bad". Not by a longshot.

The folks in the Tea Party movement are predominantly hardworking, godfearing, patriotic, decent American people. The OWS folks are a different thing entirely.

[tretcheenia]

If you don't believe me, look at the demographics. Many liberal sites have posted the demographics of the Tea Party.

The Tea Party is predominantly made up of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant folks over the age of 30 who have good incomes.

[yharmon6614]

They may have joined the Tea Party if the Tea Party wasn't co-opted by religious freaks and people who have a social agenda. Does Michelle Bachman come to mind? The Tea Party should have stuck strictly to the economy, instead there were the wackos who took over the script.

HAHAHHAHAH.. Leftists would really love that.

They want their child killing, gun grabbing, education twisting, thoroughly evil agenda to remain intact and un-tampered with.. and desire a booming economy to fund it.

That's not going to happen, because the two are mutually exclusive.. If the Tea Party social agenda succeeds, then the economy WILL boom because Government will be beaten back within its Constitutional boundaries.

OTOH, if that doesn't happen, the economy can never be big enough to fund all the liberal wants and desires.. The lib agenda is parasitic.. It needs a host. The Tea Party agenda is rooted in freedom and the Constitution. Two things that lead to economic growth and prosperity.
Do you think that gun toting fat white people with teabags hanging around their head and misspelled signs did the movement any good? They're just as bad as all those 'dirty hippies'. Hardly.. They're not the ones running around like squeegee men, begging for free shit on the streets of New York. They want freedom. The hippies want to take it away.

They want a do-over on the same liberalism that has failed them and bankrupted the States and the nation itself.

[JennyStewarta]

Well said, Hoff.

These Commies think that somehow they can punish and marginalize the folks who make this country run, but still have prosperity.

It doesn't work that way.

The "gun toting fat white people with teabags hanging around their head" are the people who will be interviewing you for your next job. Proceed with caution...

[LxtdK9i4]

These Commies think that somehow they can punish and marginalize the folks who make this country run, but still have prosperity.

It doesn't work that way. No, it doesn't.. The social agenda is actually tied quite closely to economics..

They'll toss out "But, but.. OMG! GUNS!!!! OHSHITOHFUCK!!"

And you're supposed to be reasonable and agree..

Fact is, if you admit the Federal Government has a right to regulate guns as "interstate commerce" then you're accepting that they can regulate a WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER THINGS TOO.

The Federal Government can't even perform the few tasks they were chartered to perform.. They have no business here. It should fall to the states and the people. then, if bad things happen, the damage is isolated, and it's an object lesson in what not to do for the other 49..

So even failure and excess becomes valuable with the Founder's system.. It's an invaluable teaching tool.

[FLOMOUSLY]

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THE "GREAT SOCIETY" IS THE WORST CALAMITY

TO EVER BEFALL AMERICAN NEGROES.

[RBJamez]

Liberals look at the Tea Party and they see a counter social agenda.. They see an agenda designed to roll back all the progress they've made in terms of social control.

This scares them..

Conservatives look and see a unified solution.. A grand theory that unlocks freedom and puts an after burner on our economy.

It's not just guns.. Or education, or any one thing.

It's the principle that freedom and prosperity are tied at the hip. It's ALL the same agenda to a conservative.

[enasseneiff]

Thanks for proving my point.
You are guilty of stereotyping.
"God fearing?" What part of economic policy is that?
Why are those participating in OWS not patriotic or American?


Who are you to define decent?

[sportsbettinge]

Who are you to define decent?

There it is. I've been waiting for that.

Lord knows I've tried to be openminded, to be tolerant, to find common ground with people.

But this moral relativism isn't working. We're letting the indecent drag us down.

I am a decent person. It isn't difficult to recognize one of my own. Takes one to know one, you could say.

The idea that no one has the right to define morality, or that there is no morality, has always been a tool of the Communists. If you can get the masses to swallow the idea that nothing is good or evil, you can get them to accept just about anything.

You're not going to peddle that nonsense around me and get away with it.

[frequensearules]

Why are those participating in OWS not patriotic or American?

They want the forced re-distribution of things that do not belong to them.. The want to be coddled from cradle to grave.

They're like Neo-Soviets.. Except they want to be free to engage in limited amounts of consumerism.
Who are you to define decent? Why not? The left does it all the time!

[janeemljr]

There it is. I've been waiting for that.

Lord knows I've tried to be openminded, to be tolerant, to find common ground with people.

But this moral relativism isn't working. We're letting the indecent drag us down.

I am a decent person. It isn't difficult to recognize one of my own. Takes one to know one, you could say.

The idea that no one has the right to define morality, or that there is no morality, has always been a tool of the Communists. If you can get the masses to swallow the idea that nothing is good or evil, you can get them to accept just about anything.

You're not going to peddle that nonsense around me and get away with it.

So, which moral paradigm is acceptable by you ? You really want the government to enforce said paradigm, that's the only way it will work and it will fail. You cannot legislate morality. I mostly agree with Mossfern here.

How you expect a booming economy with superfluous government legislation. It doesn't work, the social cons tried it, continue to try it, and it fails each time.