The 53%: Occupy Wall Street backlash

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The 53%: Occupy Wall Street backlash

"We don't want to be the 53% who carries the 47% on our shoulders," said Gardner, who thinks more people should pay federal income taxes.
Eder's hashtag helped inspire Erick Erickson, editor-in-chief of the conservative website RedState.com and a CNN contributor, to set up a Tumblr blog called "We are the 53%." It mimics Occupy Wall Street "We are the 99 percent" site.
The 53% site gives a voice to those who reject the contention that most Americans are victims of the system, said Josh Trevino, "quasi-official spokesman" for the blog.
"What the 99% is missing is the element of personal responsibility," said Trevino, who is also vice president at the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation. "The 53% want to bring that into the conversation."
More than a thousand people have sent in entries to the 53% site, which generally features their photo next to a piece of paper that outlines their views, as well as their struggles and work histories.
"I am responsible for my own destiny," writes one 34-year-old father of three. "I will succeed or fail because of me and me alone."
"I took jobs I didn't want. Why don't you?" says one poster to the protesters. "Suck it up and become part of the 53%."

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Slaves lack the element of personal responsibility. The reason for being slaves is because they want to be slaves, not because there is a slave master and a system that will enforce slavery should you escape or stick up for your human rights. In theory every single slave can rise up tot he top of the system and be a slave master him or her self and even then there will be slaves enough so that all can be rich at the same time that there are no slaves at all.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

The fact is that the 99% thing is just a slogan. If you wanted to be more accurate you would say the 99.9% or better, the 99.99% because even the guys that a lot of the people on the right like to call "the rich" really aren't - you know, mere millionaires and such.

Here is the picture for you - what it really looks like near the top of the scale.

400 people tower over the rest of the 300 million in the US. 400 people get to tell the 300,000,000 how it's going to be. And that's not the 400 elected representatives - this is 400 people who you did not choose but who are currently buying the right to run the country. We are the 99.9999%!

 

[Dammy]

And that's not the 400 elected representatives - this is 400 people who you did not choose but who are currently buying the right to run the country.

And these Global Elites want a strong centralized command and control over the rest of us. Don't you get it? Without a massive government controlling all aspects of our (well not you, you don' t live in this country) day to day lives? How else will those Global Elites control us? Pay a private army to occupy ever street? Of course not, they will have their puppets in power, like Obama. If you can control health care from womb to tomb, you have massive control over everyone from the word, "go." If you can force them to work for nothing in order to pay off national debt, that their parents racked up, so much the better, they will never escape their slave collars.

What part do you not understand? Centralized authority is the only way to have a few people control hundreds of millions of people. That is what the objects are for the Progressives, massive control that the elites will wield. All the Progressives want out of it is a few crumbs of control from their Master's table in order to inflict their ideaology on the masses.

 

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@Dammy
It is a shame only a percentage of conservatives see what is truly going on. No one on the left see what is going, since they base their opinions strictly on emotions and not facts. Emotions are why they are willing to be enslaved in a scientific dictatorship, thinking they will be good green citizens and it will save polar bears. If anyone points out the fake science or the money trial, they get asked questions like "why do you hate clean water"? It goes for everything else in this push to destroy the Constitution for good and phase into Global Communism.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

@Dammy
It is a shame only a percentage of conservatives see what is truly going on. No one on the left see what is going, since they base their opinions strictly on emotions and not facts. Emotions are why they are willing to be enslaved in a scientific dictatorship, thinking they will be good green citizens and it will save polar bears. If anyone points out the fake science or the money trial, they get asked questions like "why do you hate clean water"? It goes for everything else in this push to destroy the Constitution for good and phase into Global Communism.

It goes both ways. Point out the money trail funding the anti-global warming crowd and it's ignored - for an emotional appeal - like the scientists are working to enslave us to the global elites. Thing is that the global elites already own us - they just don't like sharing power with, for example, the people.

Liking clean water and liking freedom are both valid but we disagree on what can get us these things. Being energy independent and energy efficient seems to be more contentious but I'm not sure why - it should be a slam dunk. However, large corporations controlled by a few people aren't very interested in clean water because they can make bigger profits by dirtying the water and leaving it to the rest of us to deal with. That's one of the reasons large privately owned corporations don't like governments - because they are, at least in theory, answerable to the people. The elites who mostly own these corporations (and through them own most of the politicians) would like to see the government go away because as far as they are concerned keeping the government under their control is a business expense. The smaller the government the less it will cost the elites to keep it from representing the interests of the people. The government is the only organization that the people have that is large enough to challenge the likes of Enron or Goldman Sachs. The fact that the government lets most of these guys keep getting away with stuff is because the people aren't engaged in the process so the government doesn't work for them.

The elites want a small government that does little else but borrow from them and then funnel the taxes back to them. Everything else they would rather be done by the corporations that they own and have far better control over. The elites will spend whatever it takes on PR companies and media to get you to believe that the government is the problem because that is what they truly believe - the government IS the problem, for the elites. The fact that it is currently working mostly in the interest of the elites is because they are buying the seats but they still have to compete with the likes of OWS (though the Tea Party voters are mostly happy to vote for elites because they aren't really paying attention).

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

What part do you not understand? Centralized authority is the only way to have a few people control hundreds of millions of people.

And that control is best realized if the centralized authority is strictly hierarchical and owned by a few individuals rather than lead by a house of a few hundred law makers. A tight group of private corporations can run things more "efficiently", that is to say, more strictly in the interests of the elites that own them.