I am the 53%

[ElNono]

Aren't the 53% part of the 99%? Sure as heck you can't fit 53% in the 1%...

[Wild Cobra]

Wait, didn't having a college degree guaranteed you a job?

LOL...

Never has, never will.

[ElNono]

I wonder how far handwriting like that will get someone in life also.

Maybe one day he can aspire to be a parts-changer...

[Wild Cobra]

Maybe one day he can aspire to be a parts-changer...

No, you have to be smarter than your average bear to be a parts changer.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

No, you have to be smarter than your average bear to be a parts changer.

You're living proof that is not the case.

[Wild Cobra]

You're living proof that is not the case.

Sorry, but your dribble is pointless. Maybe if you weren't so wrong on things you claim knowledgeable at, I would consider your words. You are just a joke however.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Aren't the 53% part of the 99%? Sure as heck you can't fit 53% in the 1%...

the 53% are part of the 99% but they worship the 1%, and take offense and become frightened when anyone calls out their beloved 1% idols. It's like a pack of teenage girls getting mad at music critics for not liking the new justin beiber album

[Vici]

Just out of curiosity. When, in the course of human history, has money (when not heavily taxed on the rich) ever trickled down to the bottom? Only took a macro class 8 years ago so there may be hundreds of examples, but I have never been able to think of one.

[Agloco]

Open Letter to that 53% Guy

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1...to-that-53-Guy

Plenty to read but here is an idea of how the letter flows:

In the picture, you’re holding up a sheet of paper that says:

I am a former Marine.
I work two jobs.
I don’t have health insurance.
I worked 60-70 hours a week for 8 years to pay my way through college.
I haven’t had 4 consecutive days off in over 4 years.
But I don’t blame Wall Street.
Suck it up you whiners.
I am the 53%.
God bless the USA!

Look kid, I don’t want you to “get by” working two jobs and 60 to 70 hours a week. If you’re willing to put in that kind of effort, I want you to get rich. I want you to have a comprehensive healthcare plan. I want you vacationing in the Bahamas every couple of years, with your beautiful wife and healthy, happy kids. I want you rewarded for your hard work, and I want your exceptional effort to reap exceptional rewards. I want you to ac ulate wealth and invest it in Wall Street. And I want you to make more money from those investments.

[Stringer_Bell]

the 53% are part of the 99% but they worship the 1%, and take offense and become frightened when anyone calls out their beloved 1% idols. It's like a pack of teenage girls getting mad at music critics for not liking the new justin beiber album

Pretty good analysis.

Makes a lot more sense that the 53% would be the people in denial that this system is sustainable for the next generation or their children. It's cool, be fine working yourself to death for 10.00 an hour, 16 hours a day...but the price of has gone up so high that you can't expect the system to automatically curve toward making the lives of the worker bees easier. Whoever decides real in this country/world isn't going to make things easier on the worker bees until it looks like they'll collapse, and only then they'll give them just enough so that it looks like water in a drought but never makes them revolt for something more.

[ElNono]

Pretty good analysis.

Makes a lot more sense that the 53% would be the people in denial that this system is sustainable for the next generation or their children. It's cool, be fine working yourself to death for 10.00 an hour, 16 hours a day...but the price of has gone up so high that you can't expect the system to automatically curve toward making the lives of the worker bees easier. Whoever decides real in this country/world isn't going to make things easier on the worker bees until it looks like they'll collapse, and only then they'll give them just enough so that it looks like water in a drought but never makes them revolt for something more.

You're just jealous of those piling up more and more money... class warfare!

[Agloco]

Pretty good analysis.

Makes a lot more sense that the 53% would be the people in denial that this system is sustainable for the next generation or their children. It's cool, be fine working yourself to death for 10.00 an hour, 16 hours a day...but the price of has gone up so high that you can't expect the system to automatically curve toward making the lives of the worker bees easier. Whoever decides real in this country/world isn't going to make things easier on the worker bees until it looks like they'll collapse, and only then they'll give them just enough so that it looks like water in a drought but never makes them revolt for something more.

What nonsense. Who wouldn't want to live the life of American extravagance outlined below? Sounds like a winner to me.

In the picture, you’re holding up a sheet of paper that says:

I am a former Marine.
I work two jobs.
I don’t have health insurance.
I worked 60-70 hours a week for 8 years to pay my way through college.
I haven’t had 4 consecutive days off in over 4 years.
But I don’t blame Wall Street.
Suck it up you whiners.
I am the 53%.
God bless the USA!

[Agloco]

Sorry, but your dribble is pointless. Maybe if you weren't so wrong on things you claim knowledgeable at, I would consider your words. You are just a joke however.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/drivel

Not that this reinforces the overall picture that Fuzzy has painted in his mind or anything.

[Agloco]

the 53% are part of the 99% but they worship the 1%, and take offense and become frightened when anyone calls out their beloved 1% idols. It's like a pack of teenage girls getting mad at music critics for not liking the new justin beiber album

[boutons_deux]

The 53%/47% stink-tank propaganda is just another lie.

[Spurminator]

I'm not that old, but even I remember a time when a family could live in a reasonably nice neighborhood on a single salary while the other parent stayed home with the kids. This is now considered a luxury.

Why should we grateful for the fact that over time people are being asked to do more work for less pay? Why would anyone be thankful that they spend every waking hour working just to "get by" when a little sacrifice by the people far above them on the food chain could allow them to actually live a little with the money they've made?

[clambake]

70k a year in portland?

damn, i'd kill myself.

[George Gervin's Afro]

lol ...so many victims now

[PublicOption]

[Stringer_Bell]

Tbh, I belong to the 69%

[Capt Bringdown]

4 hour workday (jobs for everyone)
Security of Income
Abolition of the Wage System
Production for use and not for profit
Abundance for Workers
Nothing for Parasites

Take that, ya scissorbills

[boutons_deux]

Criminalizing the unemployed as losers, cheats, slackers, Welfare Queens continues. Exposes how totally, morally bankrupt the Repugs/tea baggers/conservatives and their social/economic Darwinism.

[TeyshaBlue]

Scissorbills?

[ChuckD]

Mr. $70K is not in the 53%, he's a toasted pubic hair short of the 13%.

[RandomGuy]