OWS, You’ve Made Your Point, Now Go Home

Another example of the mentality of the folks at the OWS.

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Keep Me Posted wrote: Hey OWS,

Today, while you all were complaining about your lack of a job, I was working. You don’t have to ask for a job. You can make one. Start a start up or volunteer to help others find a job. My son volunteers to mentor low income high school students that have college aspirations. I can't even find anyone that wants easy work because their job benefits keep them just fine! It is a bad economy but I don't see people willing to do anything. They only want 'good' jobs". You know what I am doing right now? Starting my 10th hour of work and I still have 5 hours ahead of me. Quit whining and look for a new way to do it. You all are mad at the wrong people.

Make your own luck.

Excellent post! Most successful people have attitudes such as yours. Good luck. We need more citizens like you.

The plea from Occupy Boston went out on Facebook and Twitter early Tuesday: The demonstration needed money for bail, after more than 100 protesters had been arrested in a police raid.

On-line donors responded with more than $11,000, according to the group’s page on WePay.com, a Web service that processes Internet donations.

A separate plea for logistical needs - food, blankets, warm clothing - has raised more than $10,000 for the two-week-old protest, based at a bustling half-acre tent city in Dewey Square near South Station.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massac ... mailed7_HP

Somehow this message from Rod Smith, former undrafted tight end, bears consideration:

There are a lot of other people who pass up opportunities. And that's what poor is: "passing over opportunities repeatedly." There are people who are poor financially, but people are also poor because they pass up opportunities."
Read more: Rod Smith: Former Bronco talks Tebow, receivers and autographs - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/fanmail/ci_19 ... z1afuOE9r5

How many opportunities are being passed up with this action?

Keep Me Posted wrote: Hey OWS,

Today, while you all were complaining about your lack of a job, I was working. You don’t have to ask for a job. You can make one. Start a start up or volunteer to help others find a job. My son volunteers to mentor low income high school students that have college aspirations. I can't even find anyone that wants easy work because their job benefits keep them just fine! It is a bad economy but I don't see people willing to do anything. They only want 'good' jobs". You know what I am doing right now? Starting my 10th hour of work and I still have 5 hours ahead of me. Quit whining and look for a new way to do it. You all are mad at the wrong people.

Make your own luck.

I really gotta wonder about the people who seem to have all this time to protest. There's no way I could find the time to do it- even if I were unemployed- my top priority would be job hunting, not camping out with hippies and playing the bongo's on wall street.

These are probably the same people who voted for Obama thinking that the government was going to take care of them. They are the same crowd who expects sombody else to solve their problems. They are living in fantasy land.

I have way way more respect for people who keep trying after this bad economy knocked them down. The real people who are still grounded in reality realize that they have to keep going even if things have been rough. It's people like this that will find the better opportunities first, and they will be the ones to recover first because they kept on doing everything they could.

I'm going to have a heck of a lot more respect for people who are working a substandard job and working more hours - than for these protestors. If I had a job opening- I would offer it to some hard working person long before I would consider hiring someone with an entitlement attitude.

And the poster quoted above is exactly right- they are mad at the wrong people. Those who are naive enough to buy into this class warfare nonsense will be the last ones to recover or be able to stand on their own two feet, they will be living in their mommies basement long after the rest of us are doing better again.

You do make your own luck- and if Karma is real- it's going to catch up with the lazy and the entitled.

You know I thought people would be jumping all over job opportunities as they do come up- a few of us here at my company went out to visit a power plant last week- and the rep who went with us was telling us that there are multiple job openings for his company (up in wisconsin). They are looking for 20 welders and sales people and other technical people and they are having trouble filling those positions. He thinks the reason is that people are now conditioned to sit on the couch and collect unemployment checks instead of persuing a job- and he may be right. After all it takes a minimum of 30 days to form a habit- and many of those people have been out of work for more than a year now.

I don't know who is going to help them, if they won't help themselves.

Listen, I agree with the job deal. I work tremendous hours as well. And I know everyone's situation is different. I do believe in taking care of our sick and elderly. So, it is important to make distinctions. If we are to spread things out in a socialistic way rather than taking care of people who really do need it, it will be way too much of an overload. The 1% will have to take care of the ones that don't want to work as hard. And it takes away motivation. That is a drain on society. I see this as a society and regulation issue. Wall street and regular people don't have the moral standards to regulate themselves.

You know I was talking to someone recently about regulation and they said, "well look what happened to the banks". They regulated the hidden fees they were charging and so the banks decided to charge this $5 atm fee. You may say regulation did not work there but I think it did. Now at least you KNOW what your charge is.

Regulation is going to be really hard with all the corruption. I am going to say what I always do . If you don't do this stuff for the right reasons it is never going to work and I just don't see washington doing things for the good of the people. I really do not know how the hell we are going to change that either. I have qualified for aid in the past and I found another way. For me it was a matter of letting myself feel like I could not take care of myself. It can be a way of life for some if you don't think about it. For me, it really is a head thing. I cannot do it. But if you don't have that curb for yourself then we as a society have to decide how to deal with it. I do not want socialism.

But, I will say again. This is not about abolishing federal aid for all. We should take care of our sick and elderly. Poor is a harder one to figure out how to help.

While this sign is funny, in a depressing kinda way, this protest isn't just about joblessness, which for some reason you guys seem to be focusing on. It's about how we're getting screwed at all levels by those in power and wealth and government. Yes, these people seem incoherent, discombobulated, and contradictory, but the message right now that is most important is that we're pissed off and we're doing something about it - the apathy is ending. These people aren;t just lazy, need-my-entitlements slobs, more and more poor used to be middle class. Capitalsim is all well and good as long as its fair, and the rules for too long now have benefited the Haves. Hop on the train already conservatives - we're doing what you tried to do and failed cuz you let the Reps co-opt your tea party and those you voted in to do something haven't done sh*t.

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Good post Wicked. It is way too easy to dismiss these protesters as stinky hippies because that is the message that's out there from the media. Guess who owns the media... the 1%.