Not the 99%
Rob Long ·
October 12, 2011 at 5:26pm
I found this in my Facebook newsfeed. I have no idea whether it's authentic or not, but I sure hope it is:
I wonder, though: is there a Silent Majority of young people who look at the Occupy Wall Streeters and think, "spoiled brats?"
What do our College Feed contributors and readers think?
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Re: Not the 99%
RasmussenPoll Occupy Wall Street Protesters: 36% Favorable 41% Unfavorable ... tinyurl.com/RR4008
Translation: 36% Pro-Obama, 41% Anti-Obama, w/ 23% Undecided.
Re: Not the 99%
Talking to fellow grad students and post-docs, people criticize the OWS crowd for disorganization, but not for overall message of "Rich are getting richer, poor are getting poorer, and it's WALL STREET'S FAULT." Not exactly heartening when people with PhDs in neuroscience (but maybe that's a causative factor?) want to force companies to make jobs and increase government regulation.
And yes, doing things the right way -- saving money, waiting to be debt-free to start a family -- gets frustrating when so many peers don't think twice about taking government money (food stamps, state insurance, "free" birth control from Planned Parenthood, government subsidized private school...).