Conservatives launch "We are the 53%" blog in response to "Occupy Wall Street"

[TomCADem]

Source: CBS News

Over the past several weeks, hundreds of Americans have submitted personal tales of economic hardship on the "Occupy Wall Street"-affiliated Tumblr "We are the 99 percent." Now, conservatives who oppose the Wall Street protests have an answer to it in the form of their own Tumblr, entitled "We are the 53%."

According to the Washington Post, the blog was conceptualized by Redstate.org founder Erick Erickson, who collaborated on it with the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Josh Trevino and conservative filmmaker Mike Wilson.

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In the first post, which mimics the style of the "99 percent" blog, Erickson holds up a sign with a hand-written message, telling the "whiners" protesting Wall Street to "suck it up."

"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 sign says. Below the image, a caption confirms that "@ewerickson Declares he's one of the 53."


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20118541-503544.html

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The astroturf is on the move. Look at the faux grassroots website with the dude holding a hand drawn sign.

[eleny]

1. And he gets press immediately

meh.

[lovuian]

3. I think the Press made a mistake giving this guy TV Time

he looks so stupid
and he only promotes the cause of the 99%

it shows that the propagandists are really having a very difficult time getting their message across

[Blue_Tires]

52. no mistake; completely intentional on their part...

[lovuian]

2. does he realize how STUPID he sounds

I'm poor and I work 3 minimum wage jobs (which don't pay a decent wage) I have health insurance costs which are outrageous (I think he agrees with the other 99%) I have a House but has depreciated to nothing


Hello Stupid you don't realize it but you are the 99%

and you are the whiner

[Magoo48]

14. If this person is lagit,

I feel compassion for him....it is difficult to be courageous when...to paraphrase... time all time winner has you by the balls. Most conservatives can no more change their politics than they can their eye color or their sexual orientation. It truly sucks to be them.

[surrealAmerican]

37. While we can all sympathize with his predicament ...

... he's not willing to think things through enough to understand that his political choices are making his own situation worse. I too have my doubts that this person is real, or if he is, that he's being honest.

Conservatives CAN change their politics; there are numerous people on this board who are ex-conservatives. All they needed to do was stop listening to their leaders and examine their beliefs.

Welcome to DU.

[awoke_in_2003]

25. irony is a lost art...

in this country.

[louis-t]

35. "so give all the money to the 'jobs creators'

so they can screw me some more."

What an ass.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. The stupid, it hurts

The self parody from the right just does not stop.

[tawadi]

47. lol

:rofl:

[blm]

5. More like he's TOO DUMB to Blame Wall Street. Blames teachers and firefighters like Rush told him.

.

[mod mom]

17. They are good at following orders that do not serve their best interests, aren't they?

[oldhippydude]

44. I'm betting

that he's total astro turf.. and like Joe the Plumber, will turn out to be a right wing grifter. upon further examination..this reminds me of the 60's.. no sooner had the Students for a Democratic Society started to make headway,when the Young Americans for Freedom showed up, (the right wing response)

the good news is, that's proof that the message is not only getting out, but that it terrifies them..

first they ignore you
then they ridicule you
then they fight you
then you win

Gandhi

[Blue_Tires]

53. +1

[No Elephants]

84. We have ALL been good at following orders that do not serve our best interests.

99% does not mean Republicans only. It means all of us, except the kleptocracy and their rich puppeteers.

If you don't get that, you've missed the point of the demonstrations.

[FarLeftFist]

6. SO basically, "JUST SUCK IT UP AND LIVE YOUR MISERABLE LIVES LIKE WE DO!"

Another bunch of idiots fighting against themselves instead of addressing the real problem.

[Arctic Dave]

7. repugs were never good at math.

Let's see here.

99%
+53%
_________
= 152%


Who else is he including? Sock puppets?

[ck4829]

8. "We would LOVE to be a part of the 53%"

[FarLeftFist]

9. So if he isn't blaming Wall St. then he must be blaming greedy corps. Who sets his insurance rates.

Meanwhile this idiot didn't say a word when his people were protesting imaginary tax hikes. Yeah, thats a real noble cause. Idiots!

[AlbertCat]

10. I'd say he's really the 33%

Y'know... the 33% that are so nuts they think Bush was great and Bachmann is our future. The third that will always believe crop circles were made by aliens. That 33% that is sure the moon walk was a hoax and the world is gonna end in Dec. 2012. The 33% that bought survival supplies and dug a shelter in order to survive Y2K. The third that is stupid and crazy.


We can (and should) do our own parody.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

60. You mean the world isn't going to end in 2012?

What am I going to do with all this Spam?

[cstanleytech]

11. If hes working 3 jobs how does he find the time to get online let alone get involved

in something like this?

[Delphinus]

15. And, really,

why is he OK with working three jobs?

[cstanleytech]

40. I'd be interesting in knowing "who" hes working those jobs for and whos funding the

claimed "53%".

[NYC Liberal]

66. It's "uniquely American" -- according to Bush.

[Gormy Cuss]

48. That's one of his three jobs.

He's the managing editor of Redstate.com

Bloviating on John King's CNN show and blathering on talk radio are his other jobs.

[Zorra]

12. Duh. That's nearly a laugh, but really a cry. The quintessential dumbass conservative.

"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."

Maybe he's right not to blame Wall St...Wall Streeters simply can't resist fleecing the stupid people that they rip off and who are so dumb that they come back for more.

Dude is the sucker that WC Fields had in mind when he said "Never give a sucker an even break".

This is the perfect example of what is wrong with our country, and why we have not been able to solve our problems.

These fools are so stupid that they would vote GW Bush into another term if they could.

[liberal N proud]

13. There was a thread here last weekend proclaiming something about 53%

Got squashed real quick if I recall.

[SoapBox]

16. We all should now know about the AstroTurf crap that the Baggers get out...

SO, time for exposing and well, just plain old laughing at them.

[ixion]

18. So the 53% love to be patsies for The Man

go figure.

[glowing]

19. Yep, they will post many, many, many fake entries trying to mimic

the 99% posters'.... And the 53 yr old working 3 jobs, struggling with the home selling, and insurance rates out of control not blaming Wall St, is just an idiot working against his own interests. It won't resonate with most Americans who are in a similar situation and do know who to blame. Its like the Teabagger, sitting on his medicare pd for scooter holding a sign that says keep Govt out of my medicare and social security. Most people realize they look like idiots to protest against their own best interests... And if medicare is so great (as the tea baggers say they don't want anyone screwing up their good deal, then why wouldn't the system that they want protected not be best for the entire country. It would actually be more efficient and become better funded if everyone was enrolled into a single-payer system. The delivery of health care and costs of medications would be better managed from practice to practice, hospital to hospital, and pharmacy to pharmacy across the United Staes. Also, younger, healthier persons paying into the system would help alleviate the financial burdens that the elderly, sicker persons drain from the system.

And the best thing of all, no one is denied the care they need and one's job is not connected to the level of health care a person gets. People pay wildly different rates depending on where they work or if its even offered at all as a benefit. More people would choose to work for themselves or create a small company. Without the burden of health care, smaller work places and working for oneself would make it possible to compete against the big corporations and such. Steve Jobs started in his garage. That's not even possible today because of the major issues of health care and the prices and the risk of that one major illness; especially if there are children within one's family that would innocently be harmed for their parent's initiative to be independent or work for a smaller, saner company.

All those kids down on Wall St could probably pool together enough ideas and money to start co-op types of companies. Work places and spaces that operate in a democratically managed way that work to find acceptable time vs. individual "off" time. Vacation time. Maternity/ Paternity leave. A charter that indicates what they feel is enough of a profit that they don't infringe on worker's rights in this country and abroad if they are using off-shore companies. They are marching to say enough is enough. They have the imagination and the engagement of the American People. Capitalism in its form is killing this planet and causing massive amounts of disparity.. enslaving people into debt. They have the right idea... They need to create those changes that will prove that a different way is attainable and good for the country and the world as a whole.

Also, the best way to get more people on board that are in boomer and elderly age is to talk about health care for all (so a elderly person or older person facing costlier health care is able to feel secure to allow the older systems to fall to the ground... A 60 yr old who has enough in retirement, but cannot retire due to health insurance, could step aside their job for the younger generation, but cannot because of the issues of health care). We also should be talking about a way to secure social security or some system that allows for people to retire. Many who had 401K's and are boomers on the verge of retirement took a huge hit in 2008. They can't think about retiring now. We have to design a system that allows the elderly to be able to retire and perhaps move into volunteer types of positions in order to still "work", but also get a bit more in a monthly check. Someone who is 60, would be a great asset in schools, parks, teaching things like sewing, cooking, knitting, how to run a successful business... We don't utilize people for their value... And after working for a lifetime, people should be able to spend their golden years with happiness, less stress, and still being a vital part to the community. Talk about issues of how we will take care of people when they are in their tender years starting out as children and then again in their golden years when they are older. One day the young now, will be old too. These older people are scrambling and trying to hold onto the scraps of the good years of prosperity. This "take back America" schtick is not just about racism, but also to times when raises actually happened, pensions were there, insurance was a free item the company provided for, and things felt ok. Security is what someone who is older needs because they can't afford in the system that is designed today, to start over.

Home and property value in today's world is also a huge issue. It is a very European way of "owning" land that prevailed in this country. It has always been an issue even in the founding days of the country (they fought about who should vote-- some thinking land owners should only vote because they had more "invested interest" in the country succeeding). With climate change, jobs changing, and some owning a lot and others nothing, we need to be able to "move" more easily, but also feel secure that rental payments aren't gouged or property in certain areas become havens for the wealthy, while other areas become impoverished stuck in areas. Its a big issue that needs to be addressed.. How and where do we live. What makes sense? Even to how we are building homes and neighborhoods for the world that needs all of us to live sustainably. AND when we talk about those issues, its like talking about a Govt mandate as to the size of one's home, how many children or family that a unit can hold.... I really don't have an answer to the problem of living in a home. It involves discussing what people in this country have historically perceived as a freedom tied to wealth. I do know it is a problem that needs to be talked about. It will take someone to think outside the box and for it to be fair, just, and still hold a sense of individuality and freedom. Land issues is a very big issue and one that will continue to worsen as the world's population increases. (as to population increasing, the best ammunition is to provide resources, education, and empowerment to women in regards to reproduction and liberties to be able to be a productive member of society instead of stuck as the house wife ruled by their husband or father).

[L. Coyote]

20. They must be counting the percentage of votes they stole!

They should be counting the percentage McCain/Palin got!!!! :rofl:

[fasttense]

21. Yeah right.

I don't believe this guy for a minute. If he's working 3 jobs, why does he have time to do stupid things like this?

Sounds to me like he's a bigger whiner than the occupy Wall Streeters. He's whining about his imaginary 3 jobs, his make believe underwater house, his non-existent high health insurance rates AND the people on Wall Street trying to change our crappy lives.

[Name removed]

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[Gormy Cuss]

62. Third job is blathering on a right wing talk radio station

Good guess.

[reformist2]

22. Republicans are odd - do they really think bashing 47% of the public is good politics?

[Demeter]

73. Yes

Next question

[Renew Deal]

23. 53% of what?

[Zoeisright]

24. That's a number stupid repukes LOVE to spread around.

It's the 53% of Americans who pay federal income taxes. They think the other 47% are slackers, which shows how stupid they are. Those 47% don't make enough money to get to the level to pay federal income taxes. But they pay state taxes and property taxes and FICA and Social Security and sales taxes.

In other words, those repigs are too dumb to understand that because of this shitty economy caused by the richest 1% bastards, almost half of the people in this country are too poor to pay federal income taxes.

[drokhole]

26. I posted this essay on here awhile ago, but it's seems just as appropriate here...

Erickson is an idiot, but he clearly has ulterior motives in this. The problem is the other folks, who have and address the same legitimate issues/absurdities as OWS (aside from the patently false and disingenuous "I carry the 47%" bullshit), yet fail to actually understand the heart of the problem. Not only that, they act like they (and people like them) somehow deserve to toil and suffer (this no doubt stems from the "original sin" mentality), which makes matters even worse:

Useful Work versus Useless Toil
by William Morris

"The above title may strike some of my readers as strange. It is assumed by most people nowadays that all work is useful, and by most well-to-do people that all work is desirable. Most people, well-to-do or not, believe that, even when a man is doing work which appears to be useless, he is earning his livelihood by it - he is "employed," as the phrase goes; and most of those who are well-to-do cheer on the happy worker with congratulations and praises, if he is only "industrious" enough and deprives himself of all pleasure and holidays in the sacred cause of labour. In short, it has become an article of the creed of modern morality that all labour is good in itself - a convenient belief to those who live on the labour of others. But as to those on whom they live, I recommend them not to take it on trust, but to look into the matter a little deeper.

Let us grant, first, that the race of man must either labour or perish. Nature does not give us our livelihood gratis; we must win it by toil of some sort of degree. Let us see, then, if she does not give us some compensation for this compulsion to labour, since certainly in other matters she takes care to make the acts necessary to the continuance of life in the individual and the race not only endurable, but even pleasurable.
...
Now, the first thing as to the work done in civilization and the easiest to notice is that it is portioned out very unequally amongst the different classes of society. First, there are people - not a few - who do no work, and make no pretence of doing any. Next, there are people, and very many of them, who work fairly hard, though with abundant easements and holidays, claimed and allowed; and lastly, there are people who work so hard that they may be said to do nothing else than work, and are accordingly called "the working classes," as distinguished from the middle classes and the rich, or aristocracy, whom I have mentioned above.
...
Next there is the mass of people employed in making all those articles of folly and luxury, the demand for which is the outcome of the existence of the rich non-producing classes; things which people leading a manly and uncorrupted life would not ask for or dream of. These things, whoever may gainsay me, I will for ever refuse to call wealth: they are not wealth, but waste. Wealth is what Nature gives us and what a reasonable man can make out of the gifts of Nature for his reasonable use. The sunlight, the fresh air, the unspoiled face of the earth, food, raiment and housing necessary and decent; the storing up of knowledge of all kinds, and the power of disseminating it; means of free communication between man and man; works of art, the beauty which man creates when he is most a man, most aspiring and thoughtful - all things which serve the pleasure of people, free, manly, and uncorrupted. This is wealth. Nor can I think of anything worth having which does not come under one or other of these heads. But think, I beseech you, of the product of England, the workshop of the world, and will you not be bewildered, as I am, at the thought of the mass of things which no sane man could desire, but which our useless toil makes - and sells?"

(more at the link: http://libcom.org/library/useful-work-versus-useless-toil-william-morris)

[Mr. Sparkle]

27. Unsurprisingly, maths is not a Republican strong point.

100% - 99% does not equal 53% .

[Plucketeer]

29. LMAO!!!

Erick Erickson - I'm nominating him as a contender for the Dunce-o-the-Month club winner. What a laughable, ignorant BUFFOON! :dunce:

[AlbertCat]

46. Erick Erickson

So lame, his parents couldn't even think of a 1st name that wasn't also his last name. (It's not a name, it's a description, is he a Jr?)

[beltanefauve]

49. Makes me miss

the Top Ten Conservative Idiots.

[Plucketeer]

65. Me too.....

I'd love to start a Dunce of the Month award that we could honor someone with each month. We could nominate the hell outta bozos like this Erickson, or Bachmann, or Palin, or.... Then vote to choose ONE ultimate inductee to the "honor roll" for that month (maybe "oner" roll - as in onerous)

[Mad_Dem_X]

91. +1

I really wish they'd bring it back.

[bongbong]

30. Sad

I looked at that 53% website. It's hilarious! They're all 99-percenters, but have been fed enough propaganda to think they are part of the 1%.

[City Lights]

31. I'm thinking about starting a gofuckyourself blog!

It kills me that these asspies start blogs so they can whine about whining. :eyes:

[AnneD]

32. Lame...

lame lame.

The sheeple speak. Oh sorry I meant lamb.

[Garion_55]

33. what a scumbag

people are hurting out there. some real hard time suffering going on with our people. This jerkoff is going to mock them with his stupid website?

id like to occupy his ass with my foot.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

34. i want to start a "Would you rather be the 47%" blog

cos you know we all really are dying to be poor :eyesroll:

[librechik]

36. how dare they pretend their numbers are that large?

last I heard Republicans who cared to admit their party were about 33 percent. I suppose they are trying to say all independents are on their side too. What a farce.

[workinclasszero]

38. "We are the 53%." A wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Brothers INC

LOLOLOLOL!:rofl:

What a bunch of total Bushes! EVERYBODY knows the teabaggers are astroturf idiots!:rofl:

[cstanleytech]

41. Might not be the Koch brothers though as there are plenty of others it could be.

[Dont call me Shirley]

39. They just love using their numerology and symbology, don't they.

5 + 3 = 8, eight is the # of money and power. That's what they worship. 5 is the number for war and military. 3 is their beloved triangulation of which nothing is done by them without first triangulating the action.

[unionworks]

82. O.K. - Not Shirley!

Welcome!:)

[KansDem]

42. Okay, so let's break this down...

I work 3 jobs. That's because the 1% moved your one good-paying job overseas...

I have a house I can't sell. That's because the 1% played fast-and-loose with sub-prime mortgages and fraudulent bundling of mortgage-backed investments...

My family insurance costs are outrageous. That's because the 1% told you single-payer health care was "socialist"...

And "yes," Mr. Shit-For-Brains, it was Wall Street that did all this...

[catrose]

43. and just wait until he gets sick

and can't get insurance...I'm sure he doesn't want health care reform

[tcaudilllg]

45. Irrelevant.

[TygrBright]

50. 'scuse me-- CBS News? Small correction: "OLIGARCHS' HELOTS launch etc." n/t

[benld74]

51. Finding out WHO @ewerickson really is, in 3,2,1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[salin]

54. LOL a little blog - to counter the 1200+ occupations around the country

shhessh what an ego.

[Hosnon]

55. The proper response to this is:

That's the wrong metric. How much of the total income in this country does that 47% bring in? How about the bottom 60%? 80%? 99%?

Imagine 10 income earners in a room, who together earn $1.1 million. 1 earns 90%, or $990,000, and pays 30% in federal income taxes: $297,000.

The other 9 earn $110,000, or $12,222 each. They pay 0% in federal income taxes.

The 53% whining is like our millionaire whining.

[tomg]

56. The cognitive dissonance on that

site is utterly off the wall. Each one of them is saying "I am working my ass off all the time. I am broke or scraping by. Health insurance is skyrocketing. Isn't unbridled capitalism the greatest thing since sliced bread." Were it not a right-wing astro-turf site, I would think it was by The Onion.

[W T F]

57. My response to that, "We are the 53% who DO blame wall street"

I have one high paying job (six figures), own 2 homes (one paid for), live comfortably, have money in the bank. very little debt. However, I am the exception and I love my country and my fellow Americans who are the 47% that don't make enough to be able to afford to pay taxes. I could stoop down to your mentality and tell you that the reason that you have to work 3 jobs is because your skills are worthless but, the truth is, the people you vote for shipped your job overseas to the lowest bidder, repealed laws that would have prevented the mortgage meltdown that put you upside-down in your house, bankrupted our country on two unnecessary wars, packed the courts with activist judges who gave corporations "personhood" and handed out almost $1 trillion of your money to the banks so they can give their bosses millions in bonuses and charge you transaction fees you use your own money.
Yeah, you listen to what the republicans say, but you don't watch what they do, you're what is known as corporate America's useful idiot. I wish you the best of luck with your financial situation, but until you stop pandering to your billionaire overlords, you'll always be a foot groveling douchebag! Wake up!

[Politicalboi]

58. Does he say when he is going to

Win his millions on the lottery so he won't have to pay all those taxes? 3 jobs my ass.

[mother earth]

59. There's no 53%, hell people are leaving GOP to join OWS,

when you finally get, you join the 99% because we've all been screwed by that same 1%. BS alert on redstate propaganda. You can copycat all you want, the greed & corruption is seen for what it is & if you aren't on board with the 99%, you are part of the problem.

[MadMaddie]

61. It doesn't occur to him that working 3 jobs is not acceptable?

apparantly he wants the same for his kids.

[ThoughtCriminal]

63. He's likely in the 47% and doesn't know it

If he's struggling with 3 jobs, I would be surprised if he really knows how much of his money is going to income tax.

He sees money going out of his paycheck for Federal Income Tax, FICA, Medicare plus state tax withholding and probably doesn't really make a distinction of one tax from another. When he gets a refund that nets the Federal Income tax to zero, it doesn't connect.

In any case, a significant this 47ers FICA contributions are being "borrowed" to pay for the loss of revenue from tax cuts for m/billionaires.

[santamargarita]

64. 53% of what?

[fascisthunter]

67. 53% of the trust fund babies?

[LiberalEsto]

68. Is 53 their IQ?

:crazy:

[catchnrelease]

69. 3 jobs

Here's a link to description of his 3 jobs........

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/11/304642/erickson-whines-53-percent/




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.

[daleo]

78. A real working class hero, as seen by the rich

With these gigs, he is undoubtedly in the top 1% of the income distribution. Further none of these jobs involve work, in the sense of physical labor. A typical liar.

[tabasco]

70. Yeah, blogging.

That takes a lot of resolve.

[Psephos]

75. exactly n/t

[Demeter]

71. Now THAT'S Funny!

As in funny numbers....and as their ranks officially drop, are they going to update the slogan? "We are the 29%" for example?

[happyslug]

72. Do these people understand WHO the 47% of the population who do NOT pay Income taxes are?

If you want actual numbers here there are:
http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_age.html

6.82% of the population is below age 5
7.3 % of the population is between 5 and age 9
7.4 % of the population is between age 9 and 14
7.18% of the population is between age 15 and below age 20

28.5 % of the population is below age 20, 21.52 $ below age 15.

1.54% of the population are over age 85
1.76% of the population is between age 80 and 85
2.62% of the population is between age 75 and 80
3.15% of the population is between age 70 and 75
3.39% of the population is between age 65 and 70

13.26 % of the population are over age 65

Thus 42.76 are either over 65 or under age 20 and thus either to young or to old to be in the work force and as such does NOT pay Income Taxes

Thus 4.24 % of the populations are between age 20 and 65 and are NOT paying Income Taxes. Given that the unemployment rate is over 10%, even people ON UNEMPLOYMENT are paying Income taxes. About 10% of the population is on Welfare (Through many of the people on Welfare are below age 20 and over age 65).

The Washington Post paper on this same blog is a little better written, but still implies that only 53% of all Americans pay income taxes, if that is true, and given that 42.76% of the populations is either below age 20 or over age 65 that leaves only 4.24% of the populations between age 20 and 65 not paying taxes, either do to their income is to low OR tax deductions exceed any tax liability.

The Washington Post Site:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/conservatives-launch-we-are-the-53-percent-to-criticize-99-percenters/2011/10/10/gIQA70omaL_blog.html

[ThoughtCriminal]

74. Thanks!

I guess this also explains why republicans want to get rid of those pesky child labor laws.

[Nihil]

86. Nicely done! (n/t)

:toast:

[marasinghe]

76. this asshole Erickson needs to get his facts - he ain't subsidizing any of us or his mother.

he's subsidizing his Wall Street gods; the fucking dumass moron prick. couldn't be original even on his blog - had to suck up & regurgitate rhetoric from the media fascist tools; or, what's worse, his FBI handlers - if he had any.

[mvd]

80. Exactly!

Many of the WSO members are taxpayers, too! Very lame comeback by the CONS.

[OnionPatch]

77. What is the deal

with conservatives who believe liberals don't work? My husband and I have worked hard all our lives and so has every single liberal I know. In fact, the majority of people I work with (at a very successful company) are liberals, yet you'll hear this crap from the few conservatives that work there. Do they think we're exceptions to the rule? :eyes: They think they're subsidizing ME? Guess what...I'm freaking sick of subsidizing THEIR wars. I want my tax dollars to HELP people.

These elitist assholes think they are the majority. They are living in such a fantasy world.

[wordpix]

79. I'm one of the 53% and I'm bitchin' about our stolen, bribed & paid for government

so idiot Erickson, if 3 jobs are acceptable to you and you never see your wife/significant other/kids/friends if you have them, have a good day.

[999998th word]

81. You STILL lose -99 % is easier for people to identify with.

What the fuck is 53% ? kinda rolls off the tongue -NOT.

[No Elephants]

83. Erickson made a post proving either he just doesn't get it or he is a liar?

I know people say it pays to advertise, but does that really apply to advertising that you are either a fool or a shill?

"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."

So, whom do you blame, genius?

[PuffedMica]

85. He is part of the 99% but his intelligence only rises to the 53% level

[NuttyFluffers]

87. tee hee hee. he must pull on those bootstraps *real* hard, unlike those "other" americans...

one of those "real" americans, who likes to hate upon grandma and the children (y'know, at least 40% of "the rest"), while working for the 1%.

the 1% laughs their ass off when their stupid lap dog chases its own tail. jump at a finger click, boy! you want a treat now, don't ya, don't ya now? be a good boy and obey your master, jump!

[Xithras]

88. Someone tell this dumbass that I AM part of the 53% too.

I work two jobs, pulled myself out of poverty by working my ass off, I have a six digit annual household income and pay the taxes every year that subsidize those not as successful as I am.

And I support the 99%. I think our taxes are too low. I believe that society should be based on self-betterment and mutual cooperation, and NOT greed. I believe that Wall Street is destroying America. I am the 99%

This idiot shouldn't presume to speak for me.

[Smilo]

89. Typical fox news viewer

he just doesn't get it. I have, unfortunately, met a few of these people - and honestly think that they believe that somehow they will become part of that 1% and be accepted by all the elites at the country club, on the golf course, etc., etc. Talk about denial.

As for working 3 jobs - isn't he stopping people from having a job? And why did he buy a house he couldn't afford? And isn't he whining all the way through? (Snark)

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