Dumbonomics
Continuing the "Anything you can dumb I can dumb better" theme of the day, the "Occupy Wall Street" mob has posted a list of demands.
Here are some of the gems:
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Free money, free schools and open borders.. what could go wrong there?
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Sure, let's just remove all methods of tracking financial obligations and go back to bartering. That would be MUCH better than having a convenient, universal medium of exchange. All this because someone couldn't pay their credit card bills.. I guess living in their parents' basement and railing against "the man" doesn't pay well.
While this is just one moron's incoherent ramblings, this entire movement has failed to articulate exactly what it is trying to accomplish. All they know is that they're mad as hell and SOMEONE needs to do SOMETHING, dammit! It doesn't matter that their irrational demands have no basis in economic reality. It never occurs to them that someone has to work to provide the goods and services that they are demanding. They seem to think that if they call something a "right" and protest enough, someone will come along and give them what they want. They might as well be demanding magical, flying unicorns for everyone.
Oh wait, they want that too.
Here are some of the gems:
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Free money, free schools and open borders.. what could go wrong there?
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Sure, let's just remove all methods of tracking financial obligations and go back to bartering. That would be MUCH better than having a convenient, universal medium of exchange. All this because someone couldn't pay their credit card bills.. I guess living in their parents' basement and railing against "the man" doesn't pay well.
While this is just one moron's incoherent ramblings, this entire movement has failed to articulate exactly what it is trying to accomplish. All they know is that they're mad as hell and SOMEONE needs to do SOMETHING, dammit! It doesn't matter that their irrational demands have no basis in economic reality. It never occurs to them that someone has to work to provide the goods and services that they are demanding. They seem to think that if they call something a "right" and protest enough, someone will come along and give them what they want. They might as well be demanding magical, flying unicorns for everyone.
Oh wait, they want that too.
Labels: hysteria
posted by Morlock Banduar at 10:23
2 Comments:
My parents drilled it into my head at a very early age that ignorance is expensive, and ignorance is the dividend of laziness. This group of nincompoops were obviously not afforded the benefits of good parenting. I'm sure they're all quite intelligent, (just ask them), but as anyone who has spent even a limited time in the business world will tell you, intelligence has little to do with success. Work ethic and a desire to improve count for more than an infinite number of I.Q. points and college degrees; those things just make it a little easier.
The lazy will never become rich, though those born rich often become lazy -- and by the standards of the world as a whole, everyone born in this country is born rich. Alas, endemic provincialism means that many never appreciate that fact. Immigrants do, and they always have. But our native sons and daughters increasingly resemble the Roman patricians who calmly walked to market to buy imported goods while the Visigoths were hammering down the gates of the city.
The phrases are "created equal" and "pursuit of happiness." Many have perverted them to mean "absolute equals" and "right to happiness." They are not the same things. The former ideas built the greatest nation in human history; the latter may well destroy it if left unchecked.
These "Occupy" mobs are the end result of unbridled indulgence and a stunted educational system. They have no understanding of the way their country works; worse, they do not desire to understand it. They are arrogant in their ignorance. Left to their own devices, they will eventually turn violent, as did the mobs in Wisconsin. We survived the hippies of the '60s and '70s; I just hope we have the will to survive these as well, because there may be blood in the streets before we can get the adults back in charge of the country.
(And to be clear, I'm not talking about the GOP when I say "adults"; I'm talking about conservatives. Unfortunately, I am beginning to doubt that the GOP any longer represents the conservatives of this country -- or anything at all besides the GOP per se. But that's a Whole 'Nother Rant.)
Gotta love those Visigoth's. I agree as to your view of the GOP. They seem more concerned with staying in power and keeping a 2 party system. They are simply the lessor of 2 evils right now. I have begun referring to our politicians and the fortune 500 C-Suite people as our ruling elite and as the ivy league bourgeoise. In general, our national politicians and high value C-Suite people run together, live as neighbors, attend the same "best schools", and tend to swap in and out of high paid and high level jobs at large corporations and government positions. Neither group will come after the other except in extreme situations, such as Enron's collapse. No telling how much dirt Ken Lay had on many of our politicians such that they let him go and die of a nice convenient heart attack.
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