Most of those demands have no merit. Gotta love "forgive student loan debts."
LOL.
Unemployment for the under-educated is ~20% in the US, and remains pretty "normal" for those with a degree (and approaches zero for anyone with a post-graduate degree).
Anyone with college loans is lucky. Course the protesters probably have Art History majors.
Getting into the "1%" is also not terribly hard. They make it sound (as Obama does) that the top 1% are "millionaires." With jets. "Corporate Fat Cats." Top 1% starts around 400k per year. There are stagehands at Lincoln Center that make more than that (the average at LC is 290k/year for stagehands at AF HAll and AT Hall). Top stage hand at Carnegie Hall makes over 500k/year. I have friends in Chelsea that make nearly that much combined and live in a studio apartment the size of my master bedroom (their AGI doesn't get lumped as married because they are gay). "Top 0.1% doesn't make as good a placard, I guess.
40% pulling no weight, and the only the top of the next 60% pulling even their own weight, with only the very top subsidizing the bulk isn't enough I guess.
I'm fine with letting banks, etc fail. I was against bail outs. Ditto Obama's give away to unions at GM.
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