Unless you have the right friends in government:
It’s fitting that former mayor Giuliani, himself one of the elites responsible for America’s decline and the explosion of crony capitalism, would denounce Occupy Wall Street as consisting of lazy hippies. His accusations are false, exposing his embarrassing ignorance about the plight of ordinary Americans today, and he conveniently omits any talk of his own criminal efforts to enrich himself and his friends through government.
The first thing to be said is that nearly everyone I’ve met at Occupy Wall Street has a job, albeit one that is very much beneath their qualifications, leaving them grossly underpaid and lacking benefits. And those who are unemployed are not so by choice. One friend I’ve made, Max, is a carpenter. He’s extremely smart, educated and articulate. But he doesn’t make much money and has a liver condition which will kill him within the next decade or so if he fails to get surgery. Of course he can’t get that surgery in America, thanks to our corporate health care system. He will have to eventually move to Costa Rica, which has superior health care even though it’s a poor country, or die... Continue Reading