“We Are The 53%”: 16 Examples Of The Conservative Response To #OccupyWallStreet
“We are the 53%” refers to the 53% of American households who pay federal income tax. It is the brain child of CNN correspondent and Red State’s Erick Erickson.
1. Erick’s Original
“I work 3 jobs.
I have a house a 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.”
“My Mom died when I was 16.
My Dad killed himself when I was 19.
I worked 40+ hors a week at two jobs to put myself through public university.
I graduated in four years.
I took jobs I didn’t want.
Why didn’t you?
Suck it up and become part of the 53%”
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waynecf a year agoI am a Baby Boomer and part of the 43% that pay no income taxes. I pay no taxes not because I don’t have an income, but because I don’t earn enough to owe any tax. I worked my entire life starting at 14 and served 4 years in the military where I became disabled. I served so that the generations after me wouldn’t have to. Few people are protesting the wars and not much is being shown on the MSM. Reinstate the draft and see how soon it would end. I fully understand the Occupy movement because I lost a substantial part of my retirement to the banksters and nobody has ever been prosecuted. I am mad as Hell and I DO blame Wall Street.
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Freelance Spy a year ago“Yes we pay taxes and are getting screwed all over the place but we like it because to not like it would mean we hate freedom.” As if being one of the 99% getting screwed and being one of the 53% who pay taxes are mutually exclusive. I mean it’s not Wall Streets fault that they destroyed our economy, took a massive government hand out and turned a huge profit while facing exactly 0% accountability for any of their actions. I am the 53%. I am also the 99%.
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alekt a year agoI struggle to survive above poverty standards in a society that rewards white-collar crime with exorbitant wealth at the expense of fair compensation for the working class, but I’m self-satisfied in my own suffering because I work that much harder than all of the other poor, miserable plebes. I am the monstrously ignorant 53%!
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whitezephyr a year agoIf these people knew what CDO’s are and how they are traded they would not be saying all this shit.
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nickh11 a year agoI don’t think these people get it. It’s not that #ows people don’t want to work or pay taxes. That’s actually the opposite. #OWS *wants* to work, *wants* to be able to have enough income to pay taxes, *wants* to work hard. The problem is that certain power players on Wall St and K St have made that nearly impossible.
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glenchilada a year ago
It’s telling that some of these ‘53%’ insist they are subsidizing the OWS protesters. That’s a common belief among the paranoid conservative mindset… that someone poorer than they are is somehow getting over on them. Meanwhile, they remain blind to the royal rogering they’re really getting by those with true political and economical power. In other words, they have a lot more in common with the OWS protester than they realize, but take their ridiculous stance because they think of the rich as morally superior, and more like themselves.
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Mike N. a year ago
1. If the #OWS folks are able to effect some change - and I hope they are able to - then the people in these photos (not counting phony-baloney E. Erickson) will certainly be among those whose lives are improved (but if their lives are improved by the protesters’ actions, I’ll bet that these folks will continue to believe that they did it all themselves, somehow). 2. It seems like every protest movement has its share of detractors who call the protesters lazy, spoiled, etc. But, like it or not, protests tend to be a necessary component of democratic change. I wonder if in 50 years, these people will be telling their grandkids that while some people were fighting to restore the American dream, they were proudly thumbing their noses and not raising any sort of fuss. 3. Personally speaking: I am the 53% (who pay income taxes), and I am the 99%.
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Benjamin Sapiens a year agoThe Suffering Olympics: whoever worked hardest and experienced the most hardships has the moral high ground, and gets to tell anyone who’s unhappy with their life that they have no right to complain and that they ought be grateful to have the privilege of working their fingers to the bone for a barely livable wage.
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cornwallace a year ago
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the 53% are not haters they just serve their master…
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drewm010 a year ago
Why do these people have such a hard on for Wall Street? I applaud them for working hard through their struggles but why defend Wall Street. Investment banks pulled off the largest transfer of wealth/robbery in history. These people have destroyed the middle class and manipulated millions out of billions - this is FACT and can be explained with a little research. Yet not one banker has been held accountable. The true meaning behind #occupy is transparency and accountability. It’s not a pity party.
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