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Topic: Study shows that the Occupy Wall
Street kids were ´the children
of the elite´. What a surprise |
Study shows that the Occupy Wall
Street kids were ´the children
of the elite´. What a surprise
Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 1/30/2013 7:12:43 AM
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| A New York college has released the illuminating findings of a survey of the folks who occupied Wall Street in 2011. It turns out that the movement of the 99 percent contained a lot of people with links to the 1 percent.[Snip]Crunching the numbers, we discover that 62 percent of the Occupy movement were non-Hispanic whites and 55 percent were men. One third lived in homes earning more than $100,000 a year (that can buy a lot of copies of Das Kapital) and more than two thirds were employed professionals. An astonishing 76 percent had a college education. Of that
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mominNoCA, 1/30/2013 7:20:01 AM (No. 9147883)
No surprise to me. If these people were 99 percenters, it was because most of them had trust funds that they couldn´t access yet.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 1/30/2013 7:21:41 AM (No. 9147888)
W#ell duh! Most everyone else has a job or is looking for one
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
cameraeye, 1/30/2013 7:34:14 AM (No. 9147903)
Now that the employers know who was there from all the media, think that degree is pretty much useless. We all have regrets in our lives, hope they realize theirs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ruhn, 1/30/2013 7:51:08 AM (No. 9147925)
Spoiled brat, trust fund babies led by the nose by a core of professional radicals.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
dolphin, 1/30/2013 8:06:09 AM (No. 9147960)
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. --F. Scott Fitzgerald
The very rich also have the time and money to be fashionable and it is very fashionable to be a pretend revolutionary.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jebediah, 1/30/2013 8:10:34 AM (No. 9147967)
It also shows what higher education has become...........
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
skedaddle, 1/30/2013 8:15:25 AM (No. 9147974)
I could have told you they were rich, spoiled brats at the time. Except in my city, where a couple 1%-ers got the tents put up and ran back out of town when the homeless moved in. I used to drive by them on the way to work every day before I lost my job. A pox on them all!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Heraclitus, 1/30/2013 8:15:30 AM (No. 9147976)
Glad the article is out, but this is not new news. Anecdotally there was plenty of evidence that elite rabble-rousers were the moving force. And they´re connected with some really powerful people.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
WAN2, 1/30/2013 9:19:07 AM (No. 9148142)
Most of us grow out of hating our parents.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 1/30/2013 9:59:53 AM (No. 9148243)
Do not dismiss them because of this. This is the same demographic that led the French Revolution.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/30/2013 10:07:16 AM (No. 9148266)
Ignoring the fact that they have been infiltrated with a roving band of violent anarchists.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jimmiet, 1/30/2013 10:28:53 AM (No. 9148322)
It is the elite that have bought into the NWO. It is the not elite that are the pawns to be sacrificed in order to save and preserve the elites. The elites are above the constitution and are ready to move on with one world globalists.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 1/30/2013 10:37:30 AM (No. 9148347)
Don´t forget that Bill Ayers himself is a trust fund baby. One of the benefits of living long enough is you get enough life experience that not much surprises or shocks you anymore.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99, 1/30/2013 3:11:28 PM (No. 9148953)
Just like their 60´s hippie protestor parents and grandparents.
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