The whole thing about not bathing and sleeping with anyone at any time and no one having any property that was considered private? That's the part that I cannot wrap my head around. The Communists took forty years to show us what Orwell and his Animals tried to tell us at the very beginning: any system that proposes to take from any and give to all will only take from all and give to the ones doing the taking.
Work hard and work smart and be smart with the earnings from your labors, and you can be successful in this country (see Steve Jobs, Sam Walton, et al.). Heck, you can work sloppy and work stupid and be frivolous and still be a success in this country ( see Kardashians, et al.) The 2nd avenue is really rare. Most of the time, hard work and intelligence are required.
The whole Occupy crowd of unemployed people (they have to be unemployed to have this kind of free time - or they soon will be if they don't hurry back from vacation, I guess) strike me as a bunch of lazy whiners. Go find a job. If you can't find one that pays enough to live on, get two. How about this, if the job you have does not pay the bills, cut out some of your bills.
I never finished college and my wife (a college graduate) and I have done alright without worrying that 1% of this country controls all the wealth. It is what it is. And it must be nice up there living the high life. I don't know that all of the 1% have actually earned their place in life. I am sure that some have inherited a seat at the metaphorical Adult's Table of Life. But life is not a promise of ANYTHING.
The only thing in life that you are entitled to is those things that you can work for and earn. Don't like the wage you are being paid? Fine. Go out and find a job paying more. Can't find anyone willing to pay you more? Then YOU AREN'T WORTH ANY MORE!! If you are still feeling cheated by the wage you make, go out and start your own business.
But understand that if you start your own business there are no guarantees. Indeed, as a small business owner, you may very well lose your home and your family and your standing in the community. It happens when a business fails.
You put your blood and sweat into a business and try to pay a fair wage and put out a quality product but you are just not smart enough, or savvy enough, or determined enough and you lose absolutely everything. Horrifying thought, isn't it?
But some of those small business owners turn out to be Sam Walton and their companies turn out to be Walmart. FORTUNE for generations of your family and for investors (those people who were willing to risk their own money in exchange for a chance to see if you could return a profit).
All of that risk - jumping out into the unknown without a safety net or a soft landing spot.
Why do the indolent of the Occupy movement think they deserve anything from anyone who has risked everything financially? For spending the night in parks around the country? And with our tax payer funded police watching over them? Grow up. Get a job. And while you're at it, get a hair cut.
The 60's movement of youth and radicals paved the dirt road laid out by abolitionists a century before. They took feminine property and rendered fully realized women. They built upon the passive earthly revolt of Christ against the Romans, echoed by Ghandi against the British, and televised in the Deep South. They faced Dragons.
The Occupied (synonym for sitting on the toilet, come to think of it) come across as oh-so-spoiled children squatting in the aisle of the supermarket, surrounded by plenty and completely safe, wailing away because they are not in the candy aisle. Grow up. Work. Achieve. Help.
Adults who have worked hard and achieved are in the best position to help their fellow man. The poor do not form corporations who provide jobs to thousands. That comes from the hard work of men and women who have risked their future to gain wealth and in the process provide a livelihood for their fellow men. GROW UP!
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