I want to be a 53%er

[ck4829]

The Tea Party's response to the Occupy Wall Street is calling themselves the 53%, saying that they are subsidizing the 99% and calling them whiners who need to suck it up.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5022978

I want to be a 53%er too.

Too bad though...

I get told I can't get this job because I'm not currently employed
Or I can't get that job because I don't have a job, and so I can't pay my bills, and now my credit score sinks, and because of my low credit score I am denied
Or the only job I can find is something that I can't pay rent with or pay back student loans with

Mr. Erickson, there is a difference between people whining and people crying out because you are pushing them up against the wall and grinding their faces into that wall. Are you going to accuse people of whining or are you going to break down the wall and the vicious circles?

[FarLeftFist]

1. Were trying to make everyone a 53%er. We want 99% of the country employed.

[Kennah]

4. Thing is though, being on unemployment myself right now, ...

... job hunting IS a full time job. At least I'm getting paid something. 99ers aren't getting paid, and they have two jobs--job hunting and surviving.

I've been between jobs before, but getting a job hasn't been this difficult in my lifetime. I daresay one might need to speak with octogenarians to learn of a time it was this bad.

[tblue]

2. How ugly.

[ck4829]

7. I hope "ugly" as in the things being reflected on, I got a message earlier

I hope people don't think I'm trying to endorse a Tea party message.

[JaneQPublic]

3. Yet teabaggers weren't whining when they were doing the same thing?

The teabaggers held rallies against Obama (primarily); the OWS folks hold rallies against banks and corporations.

If one group is whining, then both are.

[jorno67]

5. Here's our local head 53%er

here is his bio complete with contact info from the city website http://www.effinghamil.com/content/1/150/1

He hates taxes and is upset no one hired him to be a high school social studies teacher...I am sure he only applied to private schools since public school funding is...well...public.

[valerief]

6. Actually we can all post to the 53%er blog, if we want. And we say we're a 99%er. We can take it

over.