Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation

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Of course they were angered. They were just told to be useful instead of being total jackholes taking up space. They would prefer doing the latter.

The $#!t is hitting the fan at the offices of New York Communities for Change (ACORN rebranded), after it was revealed that they were paying staff to attend OWS protests. More evidence of Democratic Party influence in the occupy movement. This is nothing but an attempt to deflect responsibility for the sad state of affairs in the USA away from the government.

“would you like fries and a puppet show with that?”.

Got to admire the in-your-face approach of the Chicago Board of Trade members. One never gets anywhere trying to be nice to leftists. When they spew their nonsense, call them on it. At best it’s a bucket of cold water in their faces that they weren’t expecting. At worst they learn to back off and think twice next time they throw out one of their gratuitous insane rants, especially around you.

You have to be clean and not smell to work at Micky D’s.
That eliminates any Occupier kiddies.

Are you kidding me, it would be so demeaning for any of the super-duper-qualified Occupiers to start at anything less than a Manager’s position with a $100K salary!!!
Working your way up the ladder through hard work is so 90’s.

Yuck. Think of the germs next time you drive through the golden arches to give an order to the voice.

Whether or not you agree with the movement, it’s a REALLY bad idea to poke at a bunch of desperate individuals. You can’t tow the line “We’re not the enemy.” and claim everyone is demonizing you with a caricature; and then act like a caricature of yourself. They think it’s funny as shit now, but some of these people have nothing to lose, and it won’t be so funny throwing minimum-wage job applications at people once they beat your buddy to death for doing it.

Post by: realitysfringe at November 4, 2011 8:25 PM
I, have checked a lot of news, blogs and U tube on this occupying the areas and haven’t seen the desperate people you just described.

Not sure it will pay for the traders to get into a pissing contest with the “99%”. They are badly outnumbered and are already seen as just below used car salesmen by the general public. A lot of the protestors seem to be escapees from various mental institutions and setting them off in a frenzy could backfire.It will be entertaining though and could make the gong show last much longer.

No sense of humour, these protesters.
Or hygiene, which is what made this stunt particularly cruel. The protesters knew they would never be allowed to handle food.

peterj:
Yeah, but the traders now have something to tell their grandchildren.

peterj
acorn and the unions along with the dems will keep the lid on, because if they don’t, the angered beast may just eat them,and that ain’t the plan

I think I’m fairly sure where the 1% is coming from. Mom always said to me “never lower yourself to the level of the offensive person”. It’s generally good, solid advice. However, it REALLY feels good once in a while to wallow with the pigs.

They recognized job applications?

If there was anywhere that the astroturf Occupy crowd might have a half a leg to stand on its in Chicago – ironically – the most corrupt state in the union.
So we have the Dem crony capitalists throwing job aps on Dem supported astroturf Occupiers, that the Dem supported media will promote somehow as anti Republican/Herman Cain.
Makes figuring out Bill Wymans family tree easy by comparison.

I did that once. I filled out an application for my brother.
They called him up early one Saturday morning after he had been out partying all night too. In those days he made a fortune in the oilpatch and worked and played hard – so you can imagine what his response was when the chipper recruiter asked him if he wanted a job…

Of course the true irony in all this is McDonald’s wouldn’t hire any of them, not even to sweep the floor.
You have to be able to show up on time and not drunk, stoned or hung over to work at the Golden Arches.

A lot of oilpatch companies quit doing pee tests for drugs because what do you do with 60 % positive results. I mean, where do you start?

Scar – our mining company hasn’t quit testing. They may have to pay a little more and occasionally lose otherwise good people who fail a test (after an incident happens, triggering a re-test), but they aren’t willing to risk heavy equipment being run by someone who is impaired. As a guy who’s sometimes on the ground around said equipment, I’m happy with that choice.

peterj:
Why would CBOT traders be seen as “just below used car salesmen”?
The traders are generally not executing orders for themselves (some are), but for their firms’ clients. They trade, for the most part, real stuff (metals, energy, grains, softs, etc.). And the most important point: trading teaches you to be brutally honest, and cognizant of reality. If you have deluded ideas about what’s happening in the real world, and take those ideas into the pits, you’ll quickly lose everything.
As an example, the Chicago Merc trades futures on weather for selected cities. This would allow Toronto, say, to buy futures to hedge against an unusually snowy winter. If there’s a lot of snow, the future increases in value, and Toronto can use the money to pay for the extra snow removal that’s required.
Now, if one had drunk the AGW kool-aid (not suggesting you have), they presumably would have shorted these futures over the last few years, in anticipation of warmer than usual winters. If they had, they would have lost their shirts. A true trader knows when to change his strategy; a true believer never does. That’s why I always loved watching trader Rick Santelli go up against “economist” Steve Leishman on CNBC; Typically, Leishman would spout some politically correct drivel about TARP or QE2 or the Euro-bailout, and Santelli would rip him to shreds.
Please note that the derivative contracts that caused so much havoc on Wall St – the credit default swaps in the main – do NOT trade on either of the Chicago exchanges, and are not tracked or monitored by the CFTC. Blaming the Chicago traders for the fiscal mess in the US is like blaming the Salvation Army for war crimes in Iraq.

@ KevinB
It’s all perception. The general public does not know the difference between derivatives, futures and carbon credits. Just as all used car salesmen are lumped together (my best friend is one)so are the antics of Wall street. In todays climate of the blame game, traders are seen as the new villain and everything that is wrong with the economy in general. Not my view but the poor need a target and anything related to the stock exchange is that target. The massive bailout Wall st. received and then gave themselves generous bonuses is probably the primary reason. Perception and the need for scapegoats. Wall st. is capitalism and capitalism is the new face of evil. At least to the hordes that have taken to the streets. Most of them worship socialism without fully understanding what they are wishing for.

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