The shallowness of the far Left and progressives in this country continues to amaze me.
Case in point: There was a caller on the October 3rd Jason Lewis Show who defended the “Occupy Wall Street” protest.
Below is a synopsis of his argument followed by my rebuttal:
#1 – “There are a bunch of us out here that have Master’s Degrees and we can’t get good jobs.”
#2 – “We spent an exorbitant amount of money for our education and come out of school with $60,000 in student loan debt with no job prospects.”
#3 – “We did not get the American Dream we were promised.”
This is idiocy personified:
#1 – Why are you protesting Wall Street? Shouldn’t you be protesting the Obama Administration’s abysmal job creating / job saving record? The President’s most recent jobs bill was so pathetic that Harry Reid would not even bring it up for vote until Mitch McConnell (a Republican) prodded him to do so.
It’s really too bad that you were not already employed when The Obama Depression hit. If you were you could have received 99 weeks of unemployment compensation; leaving you plenty of free time to protest capitalism. As a side note: Nancy Pelosi claims that unemployment compensation “creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.”
#2 – Why are you protesting Wall Street? Shouldn’t you be protesting the education system that has raised average in-state tuition 72% over the last decade (private schools are up 34%) so tenured professors can continue to pull down nice, fat-cat salaries. While you are at it, you should protest Harvard whose endowment now stands at over $30 BILLION!
The most ironic element about this is how the protest organizers are encouraging college students to skip class and join the protest. Brillant!
#3 – The American Dream is NOT a promise! It is an ideal that can only be obtained by those of us who are willing to bust our ass, take risks, accept any job we can get when we first join the workforce and, take responsibility for our own success. The American Dream is not available to anyone who believes they are entitled to anything – a good job, food, shelter, other peoples’ money, health care, an education, your retirement funds, etc.
The federal government can either help make the American Dream more or less attainable. More government interference such as Obamacare, EPA regulation, Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes–Oxley, light bulb regulations, higher taxes, drilling moratoriums, rampant deficit spending and out of control entitlement programs with mind-blowing unfunded liabilities make the American Dream just that . . . a DREAM. Unshackle and unleash the American people and magic happens. Always has and always will . . . I hope!
