In every interview that is done on television, and on just about every discussion held on talk radio, the forces of Occupy Wall Street were allowed to perpetuate an idea that could not be more false. Yet they repeat it with fervor, constantly trying to brainwash any who will listen as to its reality. They don’t want to admit what I’m about to state, but it must be said.
Income “inequality” is a myth of hysterical proportion.
There, that felt good.
Like tiny Miss Virginia in the movie Miracle on 34th Street, the Occupy forces have a very rough time believing reality. Yet the truth is all around them.
The problem is, they do not wish to admit basic truths. Truths like:
1. No one is guaranteed anything in this life.
2. Success comes through hard work.
3. The world is largely unfair.
4. America is the most fair/advantageous economic laboratory on the planet.
If they understood these basic concepts they would cease whining about the myth of “income inequality” and get their fannies back to their homes and begin efforts to reinvent, create, produce, and multiply (ideas.)
The truth is most of Occupy Wall Street is so riddled with absolute hypocrisy that even when CNN confronts an occupier using an Apple Computer at the Occupy location, the occupier merely smiles and says, “well no one is perfect.”
Even so the talking point of “income inequality” has outlasted most of the hypocrisy and has begun to be a point of discussion in “serious media” as a “benefit” of the silly occupy movement.
Has our news media been infiltrated like the USA has done, and is still trying to do, to other media in other countries? I think they have. They are also infiltrating our churches, government, civic organizations, schools, etc., like we have done. We have to remember that what has worked for us will work for them if we let it.
Seems like you’ve gone a bridge too far here… of course there is income inequality. When it comes from differences in effort or talent, we call that justice. When it comes from dumb luck, we can live with it. When it comes from corruption and thievery, we have to act. But it isn’t a myth.
If the OWS guys had been smart they would have stuck to protesting corporate/bank bailouts only, but they couldn’t resist going off the rails in the direction of entitlement and socialism.
I rarely do “atta boy” kind of comments, bbartlog. But that was a very astute observation.