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Friday, October 21, 2011

Unfunny cartoonist wants free everything

  How this guy, Ted Rall, ever got to be a cartoonist, I dunno.
  He's realistic enough to realize that no one is going to sympathize with the pampered student loan complainers now known as occupiers. The title of the piece is "Quit Whining about Student Loans."
  Rall realizes how selfish this approach is, but only as a caveat to those who want to create chaos.
  Rall complains that the protesters need to broaden their appeal to anyone who ever took a student loan. 
  Yahoo:  
Here is an example of how OWSers could broaden their appeal on one issue. Rather than complain about their own student loans, they ought to demand that everyone who ever took out and repaid a student loan get a rebate. Because it's not just Gen Y who got hosed by America's for-profit system of higher education. So did Gen X and the Boomers.

No one will support a movement of the selfish and self-interested.
    Oh.  That whole "hosed" thing.  Are you getting "hosed" if you borrowed money to buy a house because this meanie government didn't buy it for you even if you just lie around on the couch, like they do in England?  That's not selfish and self interested.  Ted Rall, apparent anarchist, thinks the government should give everything free to anyone who wants, um, something:
It takes time to create jobs. But the jobless need help now. The Occupy movement should demand immediate government payments to the un- and underemployed. All foreclosures are immoral; all of them ruin neighborhoods. The Occupy movement should demand that everyone--not just victims of illegal foreclosures--be allowed back into their former homes, or given new ones.
For the first time in 40 years, we have the chance to change everything. To end gangster capitalism. To jail the corporate and political criminals who have ruined our lives. To save what's left of our planet.
The movement must grow.
Nothing matters more.
  Let's just remind Mr. Rall of something. 
  These people don't want jobs. They never said they did.
  What they want is free stuff.
  And promise chaos if they don't get it.
  And how do you create jobs when you hogtie everyone who is trying to start a business? When the Senate leader Reid claims the private sector is fine, that the public sector, where people make 43% more than their private sector workers?
  Rall, who advocates violence as a last resort, supports "revolution," even having appeared at Communist gatherings.
  He sounds like one of them.
  He oughta get right down there to Zuccotti Park.
  In the rain. And cold.
  A perfect setting for such a cold fish.

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