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The vast majority of demonstrators are actually employed, and the proportion of protesters unemployed (15%) is within single digits of the national unemployment rate (9.1%).
(And see this.)
Professor Hector R. Cordero-Guzman and business analyst Harrison Schultz from the Baruch College School of Public Affair puts the unemployment rate of the Occupy protesters at 13.1%. In other words, approximately 85% employment rate.
In contrast, a 2010 New York Times CBS News poll found that only 56% of members of the Tea party were employed (question 105).
The article also say this, which I agree with...
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(This is not a criticism of the Tea Party, with which the Occupy protests have much more common cause than the mainstream media would have us believe.
And yes, it acknowledges that many Tea Party people are retired. Still, get a job, grandpa.
Not a surprise. It is clear from video and still shots that large numbers of the Tea Party are retirees happy to benefit from their own slice of the socialist pie. They have no problem taking government handouts, but want to keep their children and grandchildren from getting theirs.
Remember the "Keep your government hands off my Medicare" signs?
Not a surprise. It is clear from video and still shots that large numbers of the Tea Party are retirees happy to benefit from their own slice of the socialist pie. They have no problem taking government handouts, but want to keep their children and grandchildren from getting theirs.
Remember the "Keep your government hands off my Medicare" signs?
You mean they should have been content to hand their life savings over to government in the form of a "retirement plan" and then be happy just to keep the toaster?
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