coboardgirl wrote:
My problem with the occupiers is that they seek to blame all the problems we have now on corporate greed and frankly my dear, there is a LOT more blame to go around than to just blame corporate greed for all the problems we're experiencing in the U.S. right now. I think their anger towards the 1% is in a large part, misplaced. They can continue blaming those at the top, because they're easy scapegoats, but 16% of the millionaires in this country are doctors and those in the medical industry. 7% are engineers, scientists and computer professionals. 8% are lawyers and 80% of millionaires in the U.S. today are first generation millionaires. They are not all just trust fund babies or people who fell into their wealth by luck or screwed the system to get to the top.

It's so easy to turn the blame outwards, but to actually look at yourself and say "what did I do wrong" or "what could I have done differently" first before blaming others, that's much more difficult. Quite honestly, I think a lot more people would take them seriously if they said "Here's where I went wrong. Here's what I'm doing to correct it, now you do the same and see where you can fix things, too." The problems in the U.S. today are huge and it takes a lot more people fucking up than just the 1% at the top.

I am not denying the existence of corporate greed or a select few people at the top who received while failing to give or earn, but they make ups such a small fraction of the problem that I see them as scapegoats.
I hate it when people say this. A wise thinker once said "People make their own histories, but not in the conditions of their own choosing." People absolutely have free will, and there were plenty of people who did not make smart choices during this recession. But I just can't get behind the idea that so many individuals all did the same thing wrong all over the world. Have you ever read anything about the housing crisis and the toxic assets that were being sold? Banks were literally choosing the people who were the most likely to default on a loan to loan to. And then betting that they would default. Individuals were targeted to fail, and lo and behold...they did. 

Re: 1%, this is a pretty contentious issue. I think there are a lot of people demonizing the 1% and I think a lot of people just kind of wonder what the point of that is. Be rich, that's fine. But people's wealth should not give them more power, and that's what we contest. Not that people are rich, but that their wealth makes them more important, somehow. The average person has a 1 in 22 chance of being a millionaire. A congressperson has a 1 in 2 chance of being a millionaire. The rich are overrepresented in politics and have more power and wealth than everybody else. Be rich. But for America, which is supposed to be the greatest country on Earth, this is just not okay:

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I don't care about any of this, but I find that comment and then this funny:
http://jjb.yuku.com/reply...and-Colbert#.TsGIkFalDg0

I wasn't being interviewed anywhere. I made typos on the internet and then quickly realized it.