[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by tater

Most of those demands have no merit. Gotta love "forgive student loan debts."

LOL.

Forgiving them is far-fetched. Reforming a system that's stacked against the consumer is another matter. Student loan debt is not disgorged in bankruptcy. Thanks to the bank bailouts, neither is credit card debt. Many student loans are guaranteed by the government, so to the lender, it's essentially a riskless transaction. They still screw the borrower though.

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.

Yeah, let's lump everyone together and make sweeping generalizations. That's the hallmark of a great argument.

Getting into the "1%" is also not terribly hard.

Statements like this are why your posts are always so head shakingly funny. if it was easy to be rich, then everyone would be rich.

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.

Why don't you quote the average pay for stagehands, which is $9.79 an hour. Oh, I get it, quoting an outlier like it's the average makes your argument look strong. Righty-o.

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

protesting to take stuff away from others (the "rich") and "share it" with everyone -

No they're not.

Course, if anyone had any sense - they would have put the money on something a little more useful than a macbook (man the 99% must be really poor to drop that kind of money on a piece of technology) - like paying off those college loans. Maybe hiring a professional to review their resume (if they have one). Even go take a certification test to make themselves more viable in the job market.

But oh nooooo - gotta have a 5500 buck macbook - and its MINE - but you have money so give me some of it!

And you know this person's personal financial situation well enough to give this advice.....how?

Originally Posted by flatsixes

Well, okay then. Now at least we know who's camping out in Zuccotti Park. You guessed it: a bunch of "idiots."*



(*Not that there anything wrong with that!)

So a biased poll of 200 people, most likely cherry picked, tells the story of a global movement. Sure. By the way, quoting an opinion piece out of the Rupert Murdoch owned WSJ on the OWS movement like it's a reputable and reliable piece of journalism...that's a knee slapper. If that's the standard we're going for, why don't I just start quoting Daily Kos.