Wall Street protesters: over-educated, under-employed and angry

[nadinbrzezinski]

n the heart of New York's financial district, the marble and concrete floor of lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park was strewn with untidy clumps of people, gathered in small groups amid a jumble of sleeping bags, mattresses and home-made banners, protesting against the banks and institutions that towered over them.

Some sat in circles, talking earnestly, others hugged, while at one side of the park, a small gaggle of "facilitators" took it in turns to address the crowd in chants. Mostly under 30, they are the self-proclaimed "over-educated and under-employed", protesters left over from the 5,000-strong demonstration to "Occupy Wall Street" that took place on Saturday. On the third day of the protest, a hard core, including students, artists, performers and writers who have since slept out in the park, said they planned to occupy the square for the forseeable future.

One student, who gave name as Romeo C, said he was typical of the #occupywallst protesters. Romeo, 26, said: "We have a president who tells us to do the right thing, to go to school, to get a better life, but I'm not getting a better life. I am a new college graduate and I have $50,000 of college debt built up while studying business management at Berkley University. I can't find a job to play it off."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/19/wall-street-protesters-angry?CMP=twt_fd

Comment http://nadinbrzezinski.posterous.com/takebackwallstreet-and-the-global-zeitgeist

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Over-educated, under-employed, and no father to make a phonecall to get a position.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Yup

[Broderick]

2. We are swiftly moving our technical and engineering positions

overseas. Manufacturing has been pretty much taken away already. The tax breaks are too lucrative.

Why do politicians hate this country?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. it is not just politicians it is political and economic elites

[Broderick]

5. It's a circle jerk of sorts

The politicians run on a populist fad, get elected, and then secure election/re-election by loopholing the tax code to benefit the donor. Lather, rinse, repeat.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. That is why we need to start talking

elites... notice this is not something done in the US... there is a reason for that.

Ok it is, in academic writing. Show me one editorial in the US that speaks such language in a paper... I can show them in Europe and Mexico, and not even in lefty papers...

[Broderick]

9. The entire tax code would take you a life time to read

because there are so many minute loopholes specific to each donor. We are screwed because the media has the attention span of a gnat to digest it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Elites have the attention span of gnats

on purpose...

[Broderick]

11. I disagree because they know exactly what titillates

And it isn't what we do day to day, or what they do. They can change like the wind, and all is forgotten. It matters none. Show some interesting mind numbing TV special and it gets ratings.


More people know specifically who Snooki is than who is the Vice President of the United States of America.

Corporations control our content, not the media, corporations. Big Business.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. And you made my point thank you

they have the attention span of gnats on purpose... and they create the paradigms to distract, on purpose.

But elites are elites are elites, and people need to start thinking of them THAT WAY

THey are connected.

[Broderick]

13. Absolutely absolute

Their attention spans are fostered in a belief that others are "absent minded" on the day to day of life in politics. And they are right. It is strategic in all sense of the word. So, I disagree at the starboard position because the port is where the memory deficiency pays off. It is on purpose.

[RKP5637]

7. Yep, anyone thinking it stopped/stops with manufacturing isn't paying attention

very well.

[jwirr]

8. It is my hope that these young people will put some of that energy

into building a new economy that will replace the old corporations. It is going to have to be done sooner or later anyhow.