Crybabies
 Apparently, most of the protesters are white, middle class kids who somehow got the idea that the world owes them something because they had the remarkable privilege of attending college.
Quite the opposite: they owe us something in return for all they have been indulged. Surber says Occupy Wall Street? Grow up. He had to live in a trailer when a young adult.
I lived in one room over a grocery shop, on beans, macaroni and cheese, cheap beer, and no-brand cigarettes when I got out of college, and I felt independent and happy despite having a go-fer job at a slowly-dying country newspaper, for minimum wage. Boo hoo. It took me 6 years of farting around to make a good plan for myself.
Here's a letter to the crybabies.
And here's a good idea, children: Go march on Washington - It’s the real author of our woes. Protest Obama! Oh, almost forgot - MoveOn is providing financial support.
As best I can tell, these kids want jobs with no heavy lifting - and money - my money. If they had any sense, they'd be out there trying to figure out how to start a business or to make themselves useful to somebody.
I am half-disgusted with myself for giving these spoiled brats any of our precious bandwidth, but I had to get it off my chest.
http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/18190-Crybabies.html
Occupy Wall Street? Grow upOctober 5, 2011 by Don Surber
Ezra Klein made one of his embarrassing defenses of the anarchists in the Occupy Wall Street. Apparently, if you break the law in New York City, the police are not allowed to arrest you if you are a liberal. In his little tirade, Ezra Klein quoted anonymous posters from the Occupy Wall Street people on various social media outlets:
“I am 20K in debt and am paying out of pocket for my current tuition while I start paying back loans with two part time jobs.”
“I am a 28 year old female with debt that had to give up her apartment + pet because I have no money and I owe over $30,000.”
“I am young. I am educated and hard working. I am not able to pay my bills. I am afraid of what the future holds.”
“i am a 19 year old student with 18 credit hours and 2 part time jobs. i am over 4000 dollars in debt but my paychecks are just enough to get me to school and back. next year my plan was to attend a 4 year college and get my bfa, but now i am afraid that without a co-signer i will have no shot at a loan and even if i can get a loan i am afraid that i will leave college with no future and a crippling debt.”
“i am a 19 year old student with 18 credit hours and 2 part time jobs. i am over 4000 dollars in debt but my paychecks are just enough to get me to school and back. next year my plan was to attend a 4 year college and get my bfa, but now i am afraid that without a co-signer i will have no shot at a loan and even if i can get a loan i am afraid that i will leave college with no future and a crippling debt.”
“I am a 27 year old with a bachelor degree. I ran out of my student loans while trying to find a job. I am ‘living’ with my mother again to get back on my feet. So far, the best I can do is a part time retail job paying $8 an hour. I am hearing impaired with cochlear implant. My cochlear implant warranty expired. I do not have the money to renew it. How can I work at my new minimum wage job when my implant is broken? I need it to HEAR.”
These 20-somethings (two are 19) are discovering the world does not owe them a living. That is what you do when you are in your 20s. You learn the realities of life. I did. Most of my readers did. My mother did. She told me the story of how she came to work and raise 5 kids on her own (Dad was notoriously behind in child support payments).
That’s life. If you run up the bills, you pay the money you borrowed back. We are in a recession. Jobs are not plentiful. But I doubt in the good old days of President George Walker Bush that the Occupy Wall Street people would have gotten good jobs because their attitude of entitlement.
Bank of America did not force these kids to borrow money. They were foolish with their money. Some people learn the hard way. The interest rates these children pay today are laughable.
Back when I was 28, we lived in a trailer thanks to a loan at 19 1/2% interest. I was the sole supporter of my wife and our daughter, and money was tight. I did not bitch. I enjoyed it. We were in a recession, I had a job and put in plenty of hours (the overwhelming majority of the regular readers of this blog likely did the same thing). Why complain? I knew this too would pass. It was 1982 and still morning in America. Times would get better. And they did.
The idea that I should complain about my loan at the 19 1/2% interest never occurred to me. I signed the loan. We had a roof over our heads and a future so bright we had to wear shades.
I do feel sympathy for that last guy. His situation though is hardly hopeless. Perhaps I am misunderstanding his missive, but there seems to me to be a difference between a warranty’s expiration and a broken implant. It is a worry but he should look at the bright side: His repayments on his student loans are suspended and he has a home. And he has a miracle in his ear. If the implant breaks, his church surely will help him out. Maybe Medicaid. Accepting charity probably is difficult, but in difficult times you do what you must do.
I also understand this situation listed by Ezra Klein: “Married mother of 3. Lost my job in 2009. My family lost our health insurance, our savings, our home, and our good credit. After 16 months, I found a job — with a 90 mile commute and a 25 percent pay cut. After gas, tolls, daycare, and the cost of health insurance, i was paying so my kids had access to health care.”
Obviously she needs a job closer to home. The New York/New Jersey area is overtaxed and yet the people still have to pay tolls. You cannot blame Wall Street for that. Try the politicians and the very same public unions that are delighted to see Occupy Wall Street protest and shift the blame for the damage done by government on someone else.
As I read these complaints, I wondered how Wall Street is to blame. The government made student loans flow like wine. That liberal policy tempted these kids to saddle themselves with huge debts. If they want to blame anyone, blame their professors and colleges who profit handsomely by the free flow of student loan money. Paying thousands of dollars to get a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) degree is an idiocy from an economic point of view. I suggest the 19-year-old switch to biology or engineering and do something useful for society. Not knocking artists, I am saying we are so overloaded with them that we should call such a degree what it is: BFD. It qualifies you to make French fries for a living.
I get their situations. Ezra Klein does not. He strikes as a gentleman from suburbia who at 27 has no idea what life is like for the working class. He should stop faking it.
Finally, I have some sage advice for that person who wrote: “I am young. I am educated and hard working. I am not able to pay my bills. I am afraid of what the future holds.”
Ready for my sage advice?
Keep learning and keep working hard. Life gets better.
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