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Old 04-06-2012, 05:26 AM
 
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Just read their posters..... they tell the entitlement story.
Right, because you can gauge someone's whole mindset...No wait. The mindset of tens of thousands of people by reading a few posters? The occupy wallstreet crowed consists of people who are looking for opportunity. Opportunity that the rich in particular have squandered away for them.
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Old 04-06-2012, 05:29 AM
 
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Cry a river.

Build a bridge.

Get over it.


Work is were you make it, a college education doesn't guarantee anything. You have to make yourself marketable. Nobody owes you a damn living, and until the crybaby youths of this country figure that out, good luck living on the government handouts.

Grow the hell up.
Ehh. Eventually you will retire/die and one of those crybaby youths will get your job. All will work out in the end.

You give great advice though.
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Old 04-06-2012, 07:40 AM
 
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Technology has taken and is taking away jobs.
I can just imagine you back in the 19th century lamenting that the new farming equipment like the steam plow has taken away all the jobs.

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The military has slaves, while the government has well paid workers who can quit at any time.
A volunteer military who all get paid = slaves? You need to look that word up.
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Old 04-06-2012, 07:44 AM
 
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Skills?! What are you talking about? America doesn't produce anything anymore.
The country with the largest GDP in the world, responsible for about a fifth of the world's global manufacturing output to the tune of over 2 trillion dollars annually doesn't produce anything anymore?

Apparently your defeatist attitude extends to the point of creating facts on the fly to have as excuses for failure. I can see why nobody is hiring you, you sound like a workplace cancer.
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Old 04-06-2012, 08:06 AM
 
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Right, because you can gauge someone's whole mindset...No wait. The mindset of tens of thousands of people by reading a few posters? The occupy wallstreet crowed consists of people who are looking for opportunity. Opportunity that the rich in particular have squandered away for them.
It's not a zero-sum game. Opportunity is made, not something found laying on the ground.
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Old 04-06-2012, 09:35 AM
 
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It's not a zero-sum game. Opportunity is made, not something found laying on the ground.
College graduates did make their opportunity! Or so they thought. You can't blame someone for being mad when they invested years of their life and tens of thousands of dollars into something that, what they least expected, resulted in them being unemployed.

No who is unemployed with a college degree expected to find opportunity laying on the ground. That is why they went to college in the first place.
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Old 04-06-2012, 10:37 AM
 
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Good Lord. Don't do that. Lawyers are having a terrible time finding work. It is a saturated field.
Quite true. My degree was intended to prepare me for Law School, but I can't justify 6 figure debt to work at Starbucks.
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Old 04-06-2012, 10:40 AM
 
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Noted.

It's easy....stop raising your children to be employees.
Not everyone is cut out for being an entrepreneur. And if everyone raises their children to not be employees, who will help them keep their business going?
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Old 04-06-2012, 10:58 AM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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Noted.

It's easy....stop raising your children to be employees.
Who do you know that started their own business w/o years of experience in the field they were working in?

Or let's say the first business is a "test run" and fails, who other than someone w/ a rich family can afford a second attempt w/ the tight lending that's going on now?

And let's say that you get your business off the ground? How many businesses are PROFITABLE in the first 5 years?

Your "advice" addresses nothing and solves less. It reflects someone who either doesn't understand the current economic situation and is hoping postcard messages make up for that fact.
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Old 04-06-2012, 12:11 PM
 
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College graduates did make their opportunity! Or so they thought. You can't blame someone for being mad when they invested years of their life and tens of thousands of dollars into something that, what they least expected, resulted in them being unemployed.

No who is unemployed with a college degree expected to find opportunity laying on the ground. That is why they went to college in the first place.
That's sort of like being angry that you didn't win the lottery.
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