Posted on 11/03/2011 10:52:37 AM PDT by thefoundersrock
Hey Occupy Wall Street, before you occupy another city, you just might want to ask yourself what you’d be willing to give up.
You see – according to the world – you are the 5%.
The US has 5% of the world’s population, but 35% of it’s wealth
40% of the world goes without indoor plumbing.
28% goes without electricity. http://www.iea.org/weo/electricity.asp
And 70% without internet access. http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Why should you have access to all these luxuries just because you were lucky enough to be born in a free-market system? Just because the founders of your country had the foresight to limit the government rather than the people?
In the interest of fairness and equality – give up your bathroom – now! Oh wait, you’ve already done that, and seem fairly unconcerned when it comes too showering anyway, so… ok, we’ll let you keep your plumbing, electricity, and even your internet access. But big screen tv’s – sorry – they’re gone. Lap tops and cell phones – too bad. Starbucks is obviously out of the question.
Since you are so committed to income equality, let’s compare America with the rest of the world...
(Excerpt) Read more at theaverageamericanblog.wordpress.com ...
There, I fixed it.
I’ve pretty much felt the same way for years, well before the Occupy movement came about. The average American is wealthy by world standards. How can one group of relatively well off people ask for income redistribution from richer people and then somehow expect that the true poor of the world would not, in turn, ask it from them? Once you start playing the reprehensible income redistribution game, should you expect the game to end at your own countries border?
Because, apparently, the "averageamerican" is illiterate?
oops! Grammer police got me!
The point is, if you are ready to re-distribute someone else’s wealth, you’d better be willing to re-distrivute your own. Capitalism does the best job of creating a better standard of living worldwide.
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