Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street

1. They are adamant that they don't have a list of demands.  Then what are they all doing there?
2. The 1% they hate so much doesn't care that they're sitting in a park.  The 99% who are trying to keep small businesses going care that these protesters are doing drugs, being stupid, trying to steal, and generally mooch off of the city in front of their businesses.
3. The celebrities that they love and that love them back are part of that 1%.  Russell Simmons has been at the protests.  Russell Simmons is a very successful American Entrepreneur who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.  Russell Simmons could easily make a company that could hire all of these protesters   
4. Is Russell Simmons protesting himself?
5. If they are protesting the "fat cats" in Washington DC that are not paying attention, why are they in Manhattan and not in front of the Capitol building?
6. In my opinion, these people are the perfect example of soft, self entitled hippies, that are jealous that people who work hard are more successful than them.  That a person who studies their ass off, then works 80 hour weeks for a large paycheck, can afford whatever they want, and that a protester who went to the same school, smoking weed with a philosophy degree, working 20 hours a week at Starbucks can't.
7. Simple economics: Supply and Demand.  People will pay good money for people who can turn medium amounts of money into large amounts of money and large amounts of money into REALLY large amounts of money.  People will not pay good money for philosophers who are trained to ponder stuff.
8. The American dream is "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".  It is not "life, liberty, and the guarantee of happiness that more successful people owe you."  Being an American is about equal opportunity, not equal outcome.  What you do with your opportunity is up to you, and it's on you.

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