Duh! Here's a clue: If you can't afford to attend a certain school, then how do you plan on paying for it? Or are "we" supposed to pay for it?
Posted on 10/01/2011 6:34:50 AM PDT by Fester Boyle
The Wall Street protesters have a web site called, “We Are The 99 Percent.” This site permits the supporters and participants of the Wall Street protests (the 99 percent) to submit and publish to the site handwritten notes of their own personal hardship stories, apparently all caused by rich corporations. The idea seems to have been created to generate support for the protesters and to offer insight to the effects of the supposedly injurious behavior by successful corporations and the rich
It appears to me that the transgressions attributed to Wall Street by some of these people are rather endless and include poor health, bad loans, bankruptcy, credit card debt, huge student loans, no clothing, hunger, depression, anxiety, single parenthood, forced adoption, unemployment, foreclosure, taxes, and loss of hope, etc. Every problem a person could have is blamed on “the rich” and Wall Street. Do any of these people take any personal responsibility for their own bad decisions which may have contributed to their situation?
So I will probably get some heat from this, but I am going to post it anyway because maybe it will help some of them to get a different perspective. I think many of these people don’t seem to understand that the choices we make today, can affect us for many years to come. Many Americans are hurting and struggling to make ends meet, and some of these stories are truly sad, but some of them just seem like a logical outcome for some really bad decisions. What do you expect when you take out a school loan for $100,000.00 to earn a degree that will get you $29,000 a year? Payback is always a bitch, but more so when you only make $29,000 a year.
I do not believe these people should be protesting successful American people and businesses; they should do some serious self-examination and figure out if their own behavior and poor decisions may have contributed to their current predicament. For the most part, the stories read like a collective whine-fest with the writers complaining about how they have to work for what they want, how they must pay back money they have borrowed, how they have too much anxiety to find a job or keep one. Come on, now, really? Grow up.
Now, obviously most people do not have control over their health problems and I am sorry for anyone dealing with any sickness. We need to remember that life is hard and bad things do happen, but most bad things are not the result of someone else’s success.
My suggestion to these folks is that instead of writing online anger letters and blocking city streets, they do something constructive like get to know financial guru Dave Ramsey and learn about his philosophy on his website or radio show. Mr. Ramsey’s specialty is getting people back up and running after tough times such as these. One could also look for a helping hand at a church, synagogue or community organization, too. Americans are a good and generous people and will help.
Oh, yeah, maybe they should consider voting Republican in 2012.
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Duh! Here's a clue: If you can't afford to attend a certain school, then how do you plan on paying for it? Or are "we" supposed to pay for it?
Uh.... this might not be the best time to start a business, seeing as you have no money or collateral.
Yeah, I hate when people have to sell drugs to someone else's kids, so that they can feed their own kids. So unfair.
Well, now that don't seem right. Why don't you change your major?
Your Dad's not too bright then, huh?
Try paying the loans off.
Did you write that all by yourself?
“My mom can’t afford to buy me winter clothes after she buys her cigarettes and beer. I asked her to stop drinking so much but she’s always texting and calling her friends on a mobile phone that she doesn’t listen to me. I hope she gets a lottery scratch-off winner soon.”
Boo frikin Hoo!!! I’ll bet all you losers voted for odumbo.
You reap what you sow.
Seems ripe for some Seinfeldian mockery. I’m inclined to add one complaining about the misery of dingleberries and why the Wall Street banks won’t do anything about them.
I've spent my life doing stupid things and now I have no money or future! Wah!
I bought something expensive and now I have to pay for it! Wah!
I'm not getting enough free stuff! Wah!
I haven't figured out how to succeed in life, and it's someone else's fault! Wah!
I'm a useless parasite produced by a socialist government, and I'm not happy! I'm the 99%. Wah!
“I am 56 years old. All the food, clothing, housing and moderate luxuries I’ve had are the result of capitalism. I am the 100%.”
Basically what most of these protesters (that is the ones who aren’t professional protesters) are protesting is the fact that life has been unfair to them. Join the club. And then quit complaining.
Basically what most of these protesters (that is the ones who aren’t professional protesters) are protesting is the fact that life has been unfair to them. Join the club. And then quit complaining.
My parents raised 7 kids it was tough at times. Most had hand me downs at times. Back then mom and dad did not have to pay for college either. You earned it. You live among your means not above.
. Philippians 4:6-7
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
Matthew 6:25-34 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
These people have all made their choices and refuse to accept the fact that there are consequences for choices. They are living with them now and want to blame anyone and everyone else for the choices they made. And want your and my tax dollars to bail them out.
You find this out after you hear their story about complaints then you see the missed opportunity at the end of the same story that would take them out of it. I have seen this time and time again.
I, Cripplecreek take a special kind of pride in being the worst kind of poor in the eyes of the democrats.
I don’t care what my neighbor has and feel that he is entitled to what he’s earned. I live within my means and own my own home as a result. I have two beater pickup trucks and blame no one.
I am 100% me.
wankers...
I’m expected to get up by 0500 and work a 10 hour day so the government can take my earnings and bestow it on entitled, infantile communist brats.
Gee you mean that degree in Peace and Environmental Studies, Marxist Studies or Womyns Studies doesn’t guarantee a job? I am saddened deeply saddened. (heavy sarcasm)
The overarching theme of these pathetic self-pity letters is education and college loans. Most of them mention that they cannot get a job in their ‘degree’ and then proceed to tell everyone how pissed off they are because they borrowed so much money with no means to pay it back.
The reason they cannot get a job ‘in their degree’ is because their educations are worthless! Worthless trivia and invective gleaned from uber-liberal professors who are responsible for filling their heads with worthless mush. Instead of being pissed off at that 1%, they should be beating the shit our of those worthless professors who took their money.
You "99%-ers" need to put on your big girl panties and quit whining. You've made a lot of terrible decisions and you need to get your heads out of your a**es and realize that the progressives in gov't, education & media have conned you to prop up their power. You have been seduced and you fell for it hook, line and sinker. Now that you are paying the price for your decisions you want me to bail you out. Ain't gonna happen. The people you have chosen to follow think even less of you than I do, and yet you continue to follow them like they are the Pied Piper. If you can read you should read the story of the Pied Piper. You will note that the children (you) followed the piper and were never seen again.
You are right. “Big Education” is deceiving, brainwashing and impovershing people. They then blame the productive in society for their ills.
Wow. For the sake of your bastard child, at the very least, you need to cut your protest short and work a little harder at least trying to find a job.
Hey, you're already on Wall Street, why don't you try passing out a few resumes? LOL
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