Forum Post: Why so critical?
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 17, 2011, 11:05 p.m. EST by stillinhighschool
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Why are all of these people just sitting around and acting like they are fighting for something. A lot of their views are hypocritical and contradict their actions demonstrated in the protests. If you work for your money you have earned it! So stop waiting around for someone to hand it out to you. I understand that most of the OWS crowd have worked hard only to have their livelihood taken away, but sitting around at your so called "Liberty Square" isn't going to bring back anything. If anything this it is just creating more problems for all of us and won't solve anything. Yes the country is going through a job crisis, but if all you do is complain and say 'down with the big corporations', where are all the jobs going to go if you abolish all of the corporations? Just put your signs down and apply for jobs and maybe things can start to turn around, but in the meantime all of this protesting is just another problem that America has to deal with.
Then what exactly WILL work you think? Just keeping your mouth shut and doing your job? How well has that worked so far for the majority of people watching a very small group of very wealthy (and still wealthy) people send the whole western world into financial crisis????
Woah, just stating an opinion not starting a heated debate with emotions and all that jazz. And don't ask me, I'm just a kid. The older generation should figure this one out its their mess.
Woah, just stating an opinion not starting a heated debate with emotions and all that jazz. And don't ask me, I'm just a kid. The older generation should figure this one out its their mess.
the country is going through a job crisis
because banks are hording money instead of putting it back into circulation
stillinhighschool - stay in high school. You have a lot to learn!
True, but common sense tells you to do well for yourself so you have a bright future. Not spend a month protesting in a park.
You have a good head on your shoulders. :)
Better to be for something than against something. Revolutions that are against things end up as the mirror image of what they hated.
How about some historical evidence for that sweeping claim?
Both the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Chinese revolution of . . . what was it 1949? . . . strove to overthrow out of touch aristocrats and ended up with totalitarian demogogues who killed millions of their people.
If the underlying spirit is contempt for "them", then the new government will be ruled by that same contempt. It won't be able to see it though, being sure it's right.
"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
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He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."
Sure action's needed when it's needed. My point is that contempt doesn't help it go better.
I am for something, I am all for getting a job when I graduate college and earning what i deserve for the hard work I put in.
Best of luck finding that job kid. They're not as common as you'd think.
Best to be optimistic
Best to be realistic and make that work for you.
Optimism doesn't do much in the job hunt. Trust me.
What kind of job would you be looking for ?
To all of this job stuff (and everything else on this post), we all have are opinions and are entitled to them. That doesn't mean we have to argue and fight. Just accept the others ideas and roll with them no matter how idiotic. No skin off my nose.
I was asking , because a guy has been looking for someone that can do Ruby Rails.
I wish you good work, stillinhighschool. imho the likelihood is that your best security is to be able to do real things, like build, make and fix things people use. Know how to do real things and you'll never lack for a job.
I don't think the current economy's going to be there in a bunch of years - it's already faltering very badly - and you don't want the debt and no job.
Very true
I'm learning to build etc., stuff real late in life. Self-sufficiency skills are going to be much in demand; I think they already are!
*If OWS doesn't want handouts, why is there a donate button?