Eric Erickson, Founder of the "We are the 53%" Site, Whines about His Brand New House and His

[Donnachaidh]

Well-Paid CNN Gig

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Er­ick­son­Mount­ing a clever pub­lic re­la­tions gim­mick to con­ceal the fact that nearly every Amer­i­can pays taxes in the form of pay­roll taxes, sales taxes, and fees, CNN’s Erick Er­ick­son helped start the “We Are The 53%” web­site. The web­site, a par­ody of the pop­u­lar We Are The 99 Per­cent Tum­blr, fea­tures Amer­i­cans post­ing mes­sages about how they work hard and do not com­plain about di­min­ish­ing liv­ing stan­dards or the phe­nom­e­non that a tiny seg­ment of the pop­u­la­tion is slowly ac­cu­mu­lat­ing most of the na­tion’s wealth.

Er­ick­son’s mes­sage is a scrib­bled rant that reads:

I work 3 jobs./I have a house I can’t sell./My fam­ily in­sur­ance costs are out­ra­geous./But I don’t blame Wall Street./Suck it up you whin­ers./I am the 53% sub­si­diz­ing you so you can hang out on Wall Street and com­plain.

The three jobs Er­ick­son wants you to be­lieve he scraps by on in­clude oc­ca­sional paid opin­ion blog­ging at RedState.​com, a lu­cra­tive tele­vi­sion con­tract with CNN, and a radio gig that paid the pre­vi­ous host $165,183 a year (Her­man Cain’s fi­nan­cial dis­clo­sures show he was paid this amount be­fore Er­ick­son took over his spot). The house Er­ick­son can’t sell? Bibb County, Geor­gia records re­veal that Er­ick­son just bought a new $374,900 house in Feb­ru­ary of this year, and owns an­other that, ac­cord­ing to an es­ti­mate by the web­site Zil­low, might be worth slightly less than the amount he paid for it in 2001. And its likely that Er­ick­son’s CNN job alone pro­vides him with a per­sonal dri­ver and cov­ered travel ex­penses when he needs to ap­pear on the show.

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