Forum Post: I am ashamed of my generation!
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 16, 2011, 11:15 p.m. EST by ssst
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Get a job!!!! These people are sad and pathetic! I am sorry that they haven't taken complete advantage of what America has to offer. Sitting around in your own filth shows your worth. That sounds mean, but there are so many opportunities out there. I am not any where close to rich, but I don't expect anyone to hand me anything....that is ridiculous. This is the land of opportunity, not the land of entitlement!
You should be ashamed of your ignorance and lack of understanding
Maybe in your spare time you could shit out a couple million jobs
"Live for Nothing or Die for Something"
---Rambo (aka Rambo IV)
At least OP isn't ashamed of his/her country like Michelle...
hell yes
Rambo for president!
Sorry, I´m more ashamed of your type of people. Not your fold, must be a bad educative system, or the media. Hope you change your mind and joint them for many causes, not to ask for some bucks.
Well, I'm in the top 5% at least, have a job, always have, but even I can see there are fewer and fewer opportunities out there as billionaires look for the cheapest labor around the world. The facts don't back up your observation from your ivory tower.
Is your generation, by any chance, currently 8-16 years old? You sound curiously uninformed.
GETTING JOBS DOES NOT CREATE EQUALITY!!! What will getting jobs accomplish?? Will it stop these huge corporations from taking money from their employees pay checks to give to themselves? Will it stop the governments of the world from carelessly using up all the worlds resources, or stop corporations from paying government officials to get their way in a vote? No, it accomplishes absolutely nothing but ALLOW THESE COMPANIES TO CONTROL OUR LIVES. How about instead of just bashing this movement, DO SOME DAMN RESEARCH AND REALIZE THIS PROBLEM IS VERY REAL.
If there are sooooooooooo many opportunities out there, then why are there millions of Americans out of work. Explain to me why I have 10 years experience and two Degrees but im out of work. Every time I try to find a job even something simple like walmart I get told im over qualified.
So oh its so great and everything is perfect... Tell me where.
better yet I am in Flint Michigian, if you can find me a job ill take it.
SO put your money where your mouth is and bring these jobs out.
If you put you have 10 years of experience in whatever field you were in and that you have 2 degrees, it's obvious to the Walmart hiring manager that you're not in it for the long haul. He doesn't want to have to do the search again 3 months later if you were to find a job in your desired field. Tailor your resume/application to the job you're applying to. good luck.
So If I remove all those years of experience... Ill have no experience at all.
Yay im a thirty year old man with no experience oh, yea that will work. How do you tailor a resume when you done the same job and nothing else? Iv manpulated my resume so many times I could write a book or write a law to send into congress. Sadly if it was that easy after 3 years I would agree with you. Again, it is not. 95% of jobs today are acquired by who you know. Statistical math you can find from many different websites. Being apart of and allies to different temples and lodges I know this for a fact.
Sad, but the 4 or 8 years we put into collage is just paying for a peice of paper. What we learn in collage is sadly forgotten. When you are hired you are trained and can learn on the job most professions. (most, not all)
If I could find a job in my field id still be supporting these people in any way I can.
I am taking many opportunities for myself at this time. I get no handouts and have re-invented myself after loosing a business to outsourcing. I also know that we don't have enough opportunities to go around and it will get worse if we don't act. We forgive you for not being able to understand the whole picture. Corruption continues to embed itself in our government and it must be stopped. I love this movement. It speaks for all of mankind. It is one of our country's finest moments!
Sick of doing other's homework for them: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1
http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/parsing-the-data-and-ideology-of-the-we-are-99-tumblr/
This is a country of Imperialism - stop conquering, stop growing. The Romans expanded and conquered for 1500 years. When the expansion stopped, resources stopped coming in, slave labour ended, the Empire divided, disention set in and it consequently fell. The United States is in the SAME position today. We have over 700 STANDING MILITARY BASES around the GLOBE. We have invaded other countries on the premise of democracy when in reality we've removed or killed democratically elected officials that would not sell-off resources to US conglomerates, replacing them with dictators who would play ball. This is, in part, the lack of jobs, not lazy people. Big business would much rather pay someone in China $6 a day rather than an American $80/day with the possibility of a 401k?? GOD FORBID! I HAVE a job, I am 22. I work 40 HOURS A WEEK and take classes FULL-TIME. The problem we have is that this country is disproportionately stacked to favor the rich with ever increasing wealth and political power at the EXPENSE of the middle-class who are the backbone of this country. Wake up, enough of this hateful bigotry. It is such a cop-out assume that people standing up for what they, and in reality YOU, believe in, are pot-smoking, lazy, worthless, unemployed, uneducated people. TRUTH: this movement is on every continent and consists of all demographics. I think it would be logical to assume that maybe possibly some of these people have jobs, on even more reasonable that their grievences have gone unanswered long enough to provoke such social unrest. Grow-up, stop spewing your ignorant nonsense and take the time to COLLABORATE!
Archie Bunker could not have expressed your sentiments more eloquently. You're self-satisfied remarks indicate that you think anyone who doesn't have a job is a lazy useless dirt bag. There, but for good fortune, go you or I.
Wow. You sound like the 90-year-old man who lives on the corner... and screams about how the Electric company is run by Communists. he he
Boycott imported goods Buy Made in the USA
I have a great job and I am lucky enough to have a a comfortable life. But what does it matter If our democracy is dead. I don't got enough money to bribe the politicians like wall street does. All we want is freedom, justice and a true democracy that cant be bought and sold.
Is it to much to ask for?
And we are equally ashamed of you.
I dont speak Chinese.
"This is the land of opportunity..."
Let's make those words come true once more!
OWS we've just gotten a fresh shipment of slogan ammo.
trolls suck....hows that student loan going...let me guess you didn't go to a university....and the community college you dropped out of doesn't count...sorry.
Thats right, why is Goldman Sachs, AIG, JPM, BAC, C, WFC, MS, etc, etc, entitled to a seperate set of rules?
Um. There is 9.1% unemployment. Do you follow the news? It's hard to undo what you've been brainwashed with but try to understand facts. 1 in 7 people get food stamps, 20% of children live in poverty, CEO's earn 343 times the average worker's wage, college tuition averages $35,000/year at private schools, wages have fallen 7% over the past decade, home prices have plummeted, foreclosures are skyrocketing. You should be proud of what these young people (and there are some old ones too) are doing. They are fighting for economic fairness for your future and children's future.
You're right. The IT job market is okay and that has saved my family, but we can't all be IT people.
Of course not, but there are other fields in high demand. Health care, for example. What's lacking is not only jobs, but also a willingness of the workers to re-train for the jobs that are in demand. The job crisis is the sum of both of those two things.
I don't know TechJunkie, for me, I follow the numbers. 9.1% unemployment means not enough jobs.
The unemployment rate would be much lower if more of those unemployed people would train for new industries. 3.3% is much lower than 9.1%, right? It's what you do in hard times, especially if ere are opportunities available in other industries. There are.
I agree that the unemployed should do whatever they have to do to get a job. Re-train, move out of state, etc. However, I think the numbers are the numbers. The Unemployment rate reflects the number of jobs available vs. the number of workers looking for work. This is where it gets sticky and some people try to shame the unemployed by blaming them and saying they are not looking hard enough, they're lazy, etc. That is just crap, sorry.
We could both be right.
Thank you for posting this.
It will take time to replace emotion and conditioned 'patriotic' reflexes with logic. But, people like you insist on knowledge, accuracy, and logic over emotion. Thank you.
Big deal. There was more unemployment during the great depression, yet people then didn't act like idiots like the "occupy" clowns.
They didn't have to. They had a government that was actually trying to help them.
If the govt. isn't trying to help now, why does OWS back Obama?
Besides, back then people believed in helping themselves.
That's nonsense. First of all, OWS doesn't back Obama or any candidate. Second, Obama can't get anything done because Congress is doing nothing. Well, not nothing, they succeeded in getting the U.S. downgraded so that, lucky us, we can pay more for our debt. Third, have you ever heard of FDR, President during the Depression and the New Deal? Roosevelt put all sorts of stimulus programs in place to get people back to work. Finally, I don't think people believe any less in helping themselves today as they did then. They just had a lot more governmental help then.
You are naive to assume that evertbody is out of a job and refuse to work. Do the reserch about what is going on. Look it up on the net look up everything dont just take the news's word. I spent over a week now reserching these guys. Making sure that I know exactly what, who they are and what there about. I have seen that many of them do have jobs and go to these jobs and then go back to the streets to protest whats wrong with this country. I support these guys for who they are and what they are trying to achieve. Look it up for yourself and you may find out you do to.
Next time you're doing your "reserch", consult a dictionary.
Wow that pretty original. Point out the typo's Wish I would have thought about that Thanks :O)
That's no typo; it's ignorance.
My bad I must have been cornfused.
I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN2LZ8N2uj0
Occupy Reality
get your head out of your ass! There are no good jobs left!
If the unemployment rate was not over 9 percent this whole website would not exsist why are you even hear pig!
If the unemployment rate was not over 9 percent this whole website would not exsist why are you even hear pig!
They are not asking for free stuff, they are demending their rights. Stop being a corporat slave...
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They are not asking for free stuff, they are demending their rights. Stop being a corporat slave...
There's no such word as "demending", you ignorant buffoon. No wonder you can't hold a decent job.