I was in New York City a few weeks ago and I saw a ridiculous sight: two individuals, one with a guitar the other with a sign proclaiming that they were "Occupying for a Job."
I desperately wanted to say something. I didn't for two reasons. One, my hosts (relatives) on the trip were with us on this day and they are liberals who actually identified with the protesters. Two, my girlfriend probably would have been very annoyed at me if I had gotten into a political debate with two hippies outside the Federal building when we had only one day for sightseeing.
The sheer ridiculousness of this "protest for a job" continues to make my head hurt today -- weeks after it happened. You see, I am thirty years old. I've been gamefully employed for sixteen of those years. From 14-19 I held three jobs for differing lengths of time in places like restaurants and retail stores. When in college I held a job at a local restaurant near college and a total of three separate summer jobs over the years while home from school. In the eight years since graduating college I've held different professional jobs, including working for my current job for going on four years.
The thing is I did not obtain any of the aforementioned jobs by protesting. I applied and interviewed for those jobs, convincing those prospective employers that I was the right person to hire. BECAUSE THAT'S HOW YOU GET A JOB! You don't stand outside a landmark and sing Vietnam War era folk tunes.
A better known example of this was the Occupy Wall Street movement. These individuals spent weeks protesting the fact that "evil individuals" dared to keep the money that said "evil individuals" actually earned and owned. (For those of you from Palm Beach County, FL, it didn't work...BECAUSE IT DOESN'T BELONG TO THEM and PROTESTING DOESN'T CHANGE IT!)
Yet liberals seem to want to protest...apparently for the heck of it...basically because they believe protesting somehow solves everything. It's ridiculous, I realize at least most of you do (Palm Beach County residents aside), because money is not gained by protesting and neither is a job.
This isn't to say there is no reason to hold a protest. There is a history of legitimate protests in our nation that actually served a purpose. The Boston Tea Party was a protest, and I think you might say it served a big purpose. College students in the 1960s lead a protest movement which ultimately changed the tied of American opinion and ended the Vietnam War. Dr. Martin Luther King (a Republican for those who don't know history) lead a series of protests that helped lead to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The difference between these protests and "Occupying for a Job" were directed towards actions of government, rather than the perfectly legal actions of private citizens in not giving those individuals a job or keeping their own fiscal property. (That's "money" for those of you from Palm Beach County, FL.) Government doesn't actually have the RIGHT to confiscate the fiscal property (again, "money," for Palm Beach) nor can it force an employer to give someone a job.
Protesting for the sake of protesting serves no purpose. It's efforting after something at best, trying to be the center of attention at worst. Liberals love to protest to say they are "doing something about" whatever. It's about making a useless effort that shows they care. Ridiculous? Of course. Then again, they ARE liberals, aren't they? Caring without actually do anything is the name of the game.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Tea Party Meeting in Rochester, NY Results in ZERO Arrests
On Saturday, November 5th at 4:00 pm, We Surround Rochester, a local Tea Party group that is part of the 9-12 Project, met for their monthly meeting at Bathtub Billy's Restaurant, located at 630 Ridge Rd W Rochester, NY 14615 USA. The topics discussed included the history of Veterans Day and also participation in Glenn Beck's Mercury One charitable organization. The group concluded their meeting, payed for their meals, left tips and cleaned up after themselves.
More importantly: No one was arrested. A simple google search of news articles "Arrests at 912 Meeting in Rochester NY" returned zero stories. A second google search of news articles "Rape accusations at 912 Meeting in Rochester NY" also returned zero results.
As a part of my dilligence for this post, I made a phone call to Bathtub Billy's and spoke to an employee who was present on Saturday at the meeting. When I asked him if there had been any arrests at the meeting, he laughed at me and said "No, there has never been an arrest," and noted that the group "always peacably demonstrates." In speaking with a fellow member of the group I was told that he "would willingly leave a $20 bill on the table at a We Surround Rochester meeting and trust that it would be there at the end of the night."
Why does this matter? Well, the Drive-By Media is telling us how the Occupy Protests are the liberal Tea Party, aren't they? So let's look at the same google search as it pertains to Occupy Rochester: A google search of "Occupy Rochester Arrests" shows stories where 32 people and 16 people were arrested on different days at Occupy Rochester protests in the first three articles listed.
As far as rape accusations, there have been zero at Occupy Rochester, for the record, however, Occupy Wall Street has seen quite a few rape accusations surface. And I'm pretty sure a wise individual wouldn't leave a $20 bill lying out at one of those protests.
Yet the Left wants you to believe that the Occupy Protests are the Liberal Tea Party. Here's one example of how it isn't: Zero arrests in over 100 meetings from We Surround Rochester. Compare that to dozens over a few days at Occupy Rochester.
No, the Occupy Protests aren't the equivalent of the Tea Party...the Tea Party doesn't get arrested, protests peacefully, doesn't wreck the streets, and doesn't have rapes. Can't say that for Occupy Protests, can you?
More importantly: No one was arrested. A simple google search of news articles "Arrests at 912 Meeting in Rochester NY" returned zero stories. A second google search of news articles "Rape accusations at 912 Meeting in Rochester NY" also returned zero results.
As a part of my dilligence for this post, I made a phone call to Bathtub Billy's and spoke to an employee who was present on Saturday at the meeting. When I asked him if there had been any arrests at the meeting, he laughed at me and said "No, there has never been an arrest," and noted that the group "always peacably demonstrates." In speaking with a fellow member of the group I was told that he "would willingly leave a $20 bill on the table at a We Surround Rochester meeting and trust that it would be there at the end of the night."
Why does this matter? Well, the Drive-By Media is telling us how the Occupy Protests are the liberal Tea Party, aren't they? So let's look at the same google search as it pertains to Occupy Rochester: A google search of "Occupy Rochester Arrests" shows stories where 32 people and 16 people were arrested on different days at Occupy Rochester protests in the first three articles listed.
As far as rape accusations, there have been zero at Occupy Rochester, for the record, however, Occupy Wall Street has seen quite a few rape accusations surface. And I'm pretty sure a wise individual wouldn't leave a $20 bill lying out at one of those protests.
Yet the Left wants you to believe that the Occupy Protests are the Liberal Tea Party. Here's one example of how it isn't: Zero arrests in over 100 meetings from We Surround Rochester. Compare that to dozens over a few days at Occupy Rochester.
No, the Occupy Protests aren't the equivalent of the Tea Party...the Tea Party doesn't get arrested, protests peacefully, doesn't wreck the streets, and doesn't have rapes. Can't say that for Occupy Protests, can you?
Thursday, October 20, 2011
New Poll Shows Who the Occupy Wall Street Protesters are Really
Brace yourself, friends, I'm about to say I told you so...
This week, Douglas Schoen, a former Democratic pollster for Bill Clinton, conducted a polling sample of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, in person at New York city's Zuccotti Park. What he found was not, as White House has recently claimed, a cross section of the American public in line with the current frustrations against government. It also was not a group that was compiled of people of different political values, as the Drive-By Media has claimed, and it certainly was not a protest of government corporatism, as a libertarian friend claimed early in the protests. Rather, as Schoen stated in his article in the Wall Street Journal:
Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn't represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence.
The realities of this poll flies in the face of the presentation of the protests by the Left. Some specific details are quite stark. For example:
How about the fact that over 50% of the group have participated in political movements before? I mean, isn't the Occupy Wall Street Protest supposed to be the liberal Tea Party? I mean the Tea Party is made up mostly of people who have never participated in political movements, and certainly not half made up of conservative political activist types. The Tea Party has some, of course (you're reading one of them right now) but it's largely made up of people just now joining the political fray.
What about the fact that 31% would support violence to advance their agenda? It's like this group has Communists, Anarchists, and Nazis in it...oh wait it does.
Or my favorite, 65% think government has a responsibility to "guarantee all citizens access to affordable health care, a college education, and a secure retirement—no matter the cost." Because most conservatives and moderates believe that money grows on trees if you explain that a particular expenditure is really, super duper important, right? Oh, wait...that's pretty much a uniquely liberal mentality.
My friends, Occupy Wall Street is precisely what everyone from major conservative commentators to lowly conservative internet bloggers: A group of leftists and Causeheads with a healthy dose of communist and anarchist revolutionaries who would support violent revolt to gain their goals. This is not a mainline protest. At all. Mark my words, President Obama and the Democrats are going to regret supporting this movement when election day comes. I guarantee it.
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Overall Source: Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd
This week, Douglas Schoen, a former Democratic pollster for Bill Clinton, conducted a polling sample of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, in person at New York city's Zuccotti Park. What he found was not, as White House has recently claimed, a cross section of the American public in line with the current frustrations against government. It also was not a group that was compiled of people of different political values, as the Drive-By Media has claimed, and it certainly was not a protest of government corporatism, as a libertarian friend claimed early in the protests. Rather, as Schoen stated in his article in the Wall Street Journal:
Our research shows clearly that the movement doesn't represent unemployed America and is not ideologically diverse. Rather, it comprises an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence.
The realities of this poll flies in the face of the presentation of the protests by the Left. Some specific details are quite stark. For example:
- The vast majority of demonstrators are actually employed, and the proportion of protesters unemployed (15%) is within single digits of the national unemployment rate (9.1%).
- 65% say that government has a moral responsibility to guarantee all citizens access to affordable health care, a college education, and a secure retirement—no matter the cost.
- By a large margin (77% support to 22% oppose), they support raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
- Half (52%) have participated in a political movement before.
- Virtually all (98%) say they would support civil disobedience to achieve their goals.
- Nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda.
How about the fact that over 50% of the group have participated in political movements before? I mean, isn't the Occupy Wall Street Protest supposed to be the liberal Tea Party? I mean the Tea Party is made up mostly of people who have never participated in political movements, and certainly not half made up of conservative political activist types. The Tea Party has some, of course (you're reading one of them right now) but it's largely made up of people just now joining the political fray.
What about the fact that 31% would support violence to advance their agenda? It's like this group has Communists, Anarchists, and Nazis in it...oh wait it does.
Or my favorite, 65% think government has a responsibility to "guarantee all citizens access to affordable health care, a college education, and a secure retirement—no matter the cost." Because most conservatives and moderates believe that money grows on trees if you explain that a particular expenditure is really, super duper important, right? Oh, wait...that's pretty much a uniquely liberal mentality.
My friends, Occupy Wall Street is precisely what everyone from major conservative commentators to lowly conservative internet bloggers: A group of leftists and Causeheads with a healthy dose of communist and anarchist revolutionaries who would support violent revolt to gain their goals. This is not a mainline protest. At all. Mark my words, President Obama and the Democrats are going to regret supporting this movement when election day comes. I guarantee it.
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Overall Source: Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Dear Wall Street Protesters: You are Not "the 99%." We Surround You!
The Occupy Wall Street protesters keep saying that they are "The 99%," setting them apart from "The 1%" aka the wealthy people in America (who pay 38% of the taxes). I'm sorry, but you are not the 99%. We, the 53% of Americans who pay taxes, are not a part of your group.
I am one of those 53%. I go to work and earn my paycheck. I have entered into a contract with my employer wherein I sell them 40 hours of my time each week to perform professional business services, in exchange for which I receive a paycheck. That paycheck is based upon a salary which we agreed upon at the beginning of my employment. That amount was not based upon some idealistic sense of "fairness." It was an agreement reached that fit two criteria: The amount of money my employers were willing to invest in retaining my employment in exchange for a certain expected fiscal benefit above and beyond the cost too keep me employed; and two, an amount for which I was willing to sell 40 hours each week of my time. This was our agreement. I keep up my end of the contract, they keep up their end. Each year, we sit down to discuss whether or not I have exceeded my previous expectations and thus am deserving of a raise.
To be qualified to do my job, I went to college. I obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from the State University of New York's College at Brockport. That degree gives me skills that are in demand. If you have a degree in English Literature or Basket Weaving and can't find a job, perhaps this is the reason why you aren't as successful as I am in finding gameful employment in your field? My ability to find a good paying job is a (positive) consequence of my choice of college major.
I, too, have a college loan from one of those "evil" Wall Street banks. And you know what? I don't have a problem with paying it back. You know why? Because I agreed to take that loan and pay it back! The bank didn't give me that loan to be nice to me or because they had the money. It was a contract between us that I am fulfilling. I got an education for my loan investment and now I'm paying for it. That's what happens with loans!
I don't have a mortgage, but I hope to someday. My parents have a mortgage though. You know why their home ISN'T being repossessed? They are paying their mortgage payments! They are fulfilling their contract with the bank on the mortgage. If you or someone you know is seeing their house repossessed, it's not because the Bank is evil. It's because you or the homeowner you know breeched the contract with the bank! See, that's how loans work. You have to pay for it. It's not a gift from the bank. It's a contract. If you've lost your home, that's not the bank's fault. It's your own fault. You're the one who failed to pay your mortgage!
Most importantly, my friends, you are not the majority. You call yourself the 99%, but considering you're primarily liberals, that would mean you're actually at best the 20%. Remember, Gallup said as of last year that only 20% of Americans are liberals. Now those of us who are conservatives, we're 42% of Americans (1). So we've got twice as many in our group than you.
My friends who Occupy Wall Street, we surround you. There are 53% of us who pay taxes. (There's also 42% of us who are conservative.) It's OUR money you're demanding be spent for things that we can't afford, and we're not going to give our fiscal property to you because you demand it.
As much as you may ideally like the idea of "free" healthcare and "free" college, neither things are free. You have to get the money from somewhere, and that would be coming from US, the 53% who pay our taxes. We don't owe you a darn thing, and we surround you.
We haven't stolen anything from you, wether we make $30,000 per year or have $30 Billion in wealth. Whatever we have we've earned on our own. It's not yours. No matter how much you wish it was yours, it's not. You are not entitled to my money. I've earned it, and I will use it how I see fit. We surround you.
That means giving it to the charities I choose and directing HOW I will fulfill the Christian requirement to provide for the needy. We in the Church of Jesus Christ will take care of the needy through our churches and other charitable organizations. Those of other faiths than mine are willing and able to do the same. Those churches and charities can do a better job of it than government can. We surround you.
We, the 53% who pay taxes, don't owe you anything. We are already paying more than our "fair share" because just over half of us pay for 100% of the population. You who don't pay a cent have absolutely no right to complain that those of us who do pay taxes aren't paying our "fair share." If you want better for yourself, get up off your rear end and make something of yourself. Earn it, just like I have. We surround you.
You, my friends, aren't the 99%. You're the 20%. The whiny 20% who wants what doesn't belong to them because you think you're entitled to it and the spoiled 20% who think you're entitled to someone else's property simply because they have a lot of it. I'm hear to tell you that you aren't entitled to a thing I have. I'm not a wealthy man. I'm a hardworking middle class man who has earned everything I have. It belongs to me, not you. No amount of whining and complaining about how life isn't fair will make my property rightfully yours. I'm sorry I have to be the one to tell you this, considering your parents should have told you a long time ago, but life isn't fair.
You are not the 99%, Occupy Wall Street protesters. We are the 53% of Americans who pay taxes, and we surround you!
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(1) In 2010, Conservatives Still Outnumber Moderates, Liberals
I am one of those 53%. I go to work and earn my paycheck. I have entered into a contract with my employer wherein I sell them 40 hours of my time each week to perform professional business services, in exchange for which I receive a paycheck. That paycheck is based upon a salary which we agreed upon at the beginning of my employment. That amount was not based upon some idealistic sense of "fairness." It was an agreement reached that fit two criteria: The amount of money my employers were willing to invest in retaining my employment in exchange for a certain expected fiscal benefit above and beyond the cost too keep me employed; and two, an amount for which I was willing to sell 40 hours each week of my time. This was our agreement. I keep up my end of the contract, they keep up their end. Each year, we sit down to discuss whether or not I have exceeded my previous expectations and thus am deserving of a raise.
To be qualified to do my job, I went to college. I obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from the State University of New York's College at Brockport. That degree gives me skills that are in demand. If you have a degree in English Literature or Basket Weaving and can't find a job, perhaps this is the reason why you aren't as successful as I am in finding gameful employment in your field? My ability to find a good paying job is a (positive) consequence of my choice of college major.
I, too, have a college loan from one of those "evil" Wall Street banks. And you know what? I don't have a problem with paying it back. You know why? Because I agreed to take that loan and pay it back! The bank didn't give me that loan to be nice to me or because they had the money. It was a contract between us that I am fulfilling. I got an education for my loan investment and now I'm paying for it. That's what happens with loans!
I don't have a mortgage, but I hope to someday. My parents have a mortgage though. You know why their home ISN'T being repossessed? They are paying their mortgage payments! They are fulfilling their contract with the bank on the mortgage. If you or someone you know is seeing their house repossessed, it's not because the Bank is evil. It's because you or the homeowner you know breeched the contract with the bank! See, that's how loans work. You have to pay for it. It's not a gift from the bank. It's a contract. If you've lost your home, that's not the bank's fault. It's your own fault. You're the one who failed to pay your mortgage!
Most importantly, my friends, you are not the majority. You call yourself the 99%, but considering you're primarily liberals, that would mean you're actually at best the 20%. Remember, Gallup said as of last year that only 20% of Americans are liberals. Now those of us who are conservatives, we're 42% of Americans (1). So we've got twice as many in our group than you.
My friends who Occupy Wall Street, we surround you. There are 53% of us who pay taxes. (There's also 42% of us who are conservative.) It's OUR money you're demanding be spent for things that we can't afford, and we're not going to give our fiscal property to you because you demand it.
As much as you may ideally like the idea of "free" healthcare and "free" college, neither things are free. You have to get the money from somewhere, and that would be coming from US, the 53% who pay our taxes. We don't owe you a darn thing, and we surround you.
We haven't stolen anything from you, wether we make $30,000 per year or have $30 Billion in wealth. Whatever we have we've earned on our own. It's not yours. No matter how much you wish it was yours, it's not. You are not entitled to my money. I've earned it, and I will use it how I see fit. We surround you.
That means giving it to the charities I choose and directing HOW I will fulfill the Christian requirement to provide for the needy. We in the Church of Jesus Christ will take care of the needy through our churches and other charitable organizations. Those of other faiths than mine are willing and able to do the same. Those churches and charities can do a better job of it than government can. We surround you.
We, the 53% who pay taxes, don't owe you anything. We are already paying more than our "fair share" because just over half of us pay for 100% of the population. You who don't pay a cent have absolutely no right to complain that those of us who do pay taxes aren't paying our "fair share." If you want better for yourself, get up off your rear end and make something of yourself. Earn it, just like I have. We surround you.
You, my friends, aren't the 99%. You're the 20%. The whiny 20% who wants what doesn't belong to them because you think you're entitled to it and the spoiled 20% who think you're entitled to someone else's property simply because they have a lot of it. I'm hear to tell you that you aren't entitled to a thing I have. I'm not a wealthy man. I'm a hardworking middle class man who has earned everything I have. It belongs to me, not you. No amount of whining and complaining about how life isn't fair will make my property rightfully yours. I'm sorry I have to be the one to tell you this, considering your parents should have told you a long time ago, but life isn't fair.
You are not the 99%, Occupy Wall Street protesters. We are the 53% of Americans who pay taxes, and we surround you!
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(1) In 2010, Conservatives Still Outnumber Moderates, Liberals
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