Thread:User talk:Reckless Noise Symphony/Entitlement/reply

My thoughts exactly. I saw some teabagger screed all over the Minneapolis StarTribune commentary page about how "Oh, these people had to sacrifice their video games and leave their parents' basement to protest" and thought "Fuck you! You wouldn't know these people if you tripped over one of them." What people who sit on their couch and take whatever Frank Luntz has regurgitated to them is that the Occupy movement is what real despiration looks like. These are people living just around the poverty line or who know people living just around the poverty line. Hell, half the people my age that I know right now are living in some poverty situation. Not because they choose to, as the Teabagger line would suggest, but because they can't get anything better in this economy. Are you really trying to argue that my friend who pushes carts at a supermarket for minimum wage does so because he enjoys it? No, it's because it's the only job he can seem to get right now, and it barely helps him feed himself. Meanwhile, we are told that the rich, who've only seen their wealth go up, up and away, shouldn't have to sacrifice one red cent while we cut help for those who are in desperate situations that are no fault of their own. If this isn't feudalism, then I don't know what is.