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Posted on 10/04/2011 8:12:46 AM PDT by libertarian neocon
These protestors are mostly twenty-something, white, middle class kids.
They will be frozen out of their little camps sometime in the next month or two.
Ah yes, Evergreen,home of the Mumia Commencement address, no?
“One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems...”
When you cut down a tree the smaller undergrowth comes up to take its place. This undergrowth is what deer and other animals eat so periodic logging and thinning is actually helpful. But what do I know?
Exactly. My first born recently graduated with a Fine Arts degree and now works in one of the countries largest museums. It was her first job interview!
The next in line is still in college, but just got an apprenticeship in the IT department of a world wide manufacturing company. He got two interviews, and got both positions. He had to chose one.
Of course, neither are covered in so many tattoos and piercings they look like old wall eyes. They're clean, neat, polite, and well educated (we home schooled).
I don't think the problem is education. I think it's the tattoos, piercings, entitlement attitude, and inability to pass the pee test.
“Have these people ever actually seen the middle of the country or the South?”
All they’d have to do is drive through the state next to them (CT) and see the state with the highest urban tree canopy in the country. Then they can keep on going up I-91 and see #2 and with a slight detour, #3 (MA and NH respectively). Or just stay where they are and see #5.
http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/data/urban/state/viz.asp?var=STUCANPER&state=CT
Just as I suspected. The same commie idiots that attend every other protest.
$20/ hour whether I work or not, debts wiped clean, free healthcare - I’d never work another day in my life. In fact, I bet A LOT of people would never work again.
Ping for later
Because I support our President, I think that the minimum wage should be raised to $150/hr. That way, all of us will be in the Buffett Tax Brackett, and we can all pay our Fair Share.
Besides, I want a raise, too. $20/hr won’t get me raise.
And a pony. Don’t forget the pony.
“$20/ hour whether I work or not, debts wiped clean, free healthcare - I’d never work another day in my life. In fact, I bet A LOT of people would never work again.”
Uh-huh. Not.
$20/hr for doing nothing means $20 is worth nothing. That means $40,000 will buy you nothing because nobody has to do anything but wait a year to accumulate it. $40/hr would become the new minimum wage, and prices would adjust to match. Elsewhere I’ve noted that a gallon of gas is now worth about 20 minutes of work; regardless of what minimum wage is, and what minimum work for that wage is, a gallon of gas will always be worth around 20 minutes of mundane burger-flipping floor-sweeping labor, and the common medium of exchange will adjust to that (and if the dollar is rendered null by $20=nothing, then another currency will arise).
Most people, being used to debt and seeing debt as a reasonable path to their financial goals, will go right back into it. Vast numbers of debt-free homes will go on sale the next day, as the owners seek to upgrade via mortgages ... collapsing the market. Those used to spending beyond their means will swipe that credit card just as fast. Think the federal government would consider sovereign forgiveness of $15T debt a blessing? baloney - they’ll start the first year by racking up the $1.5T we’re already working on, and spend until they catch up that number quick. The frugal and thrifty will remain so.
Free healthcare means demanding the most expensive treatments for the most minor ailments. A childhood scratch will demand premium dermitalogical reconstruction. Expensive medicines will be demanded in lieu of suitable cheap ones (I can either watch what I eat and pay $3/month for my meds, or $250/month for the latest no-diet-restrictions stuff; if meds are “free”, you’re paying me a lot to eat salads). Even now, I see my kids getting premium treatment for stuff that just got a bandaid before (thousands of $$$ instead of pennies).
Heck yeah you’ll work again. $100,000/yr will become barely enough to get by, upon which you’ll rack up a half-million in debt by year’s end, and you’ll be working 3 jobs by the time you realize you’re suffering “Jackpot Winner Syndrome” (most lottery winners are destitute in short order).
Sorry, there were implied </s> and </absurd comment on an bong hit induced stupefyingly bad idea> tags on my comment.
They are today’s equivalent of the 60’s hippies.
“Make the Middle East stop fighting.
Everyone gets a helicopter that runs on children’s laughter.
Gummy bears are free.
Nobody judges anyone for having dumb ideas or lists of demands. (cough)”
That is hilarious
Don’t take it personal - that was more a rant against those who DO mean what you wrote in earnest.
(Sorry, my brand of humor is heavy on taking an absurdity and running with it to the logical objective conclusion.)
OK, you win - minimum wage of $150/hr and a pony for everyone. Everyone except for the bankers. And the rich. And the Romans. Yeah, the Romans - what have they ever done for us?
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