Are the Occupy Wall Street Protesters Really "the 99%?"

Angry protester, clutching his $4.50 Starbucks Latte

NYC, Nov 25, 2011. The "occupy protesters" keep shouting and insisting that "we are the 99%."  But are they really representative of 99% of us?

If they mean they aren't in the "top 1% of wage earners" then they certainly are correct. Since most of them don't even have jobs. Many are over-aged children still living off their parents at age 30.

But there is no possible other way that they can be considered as representative of 99% of us.

These protesters are mostly unemployed young people. President Barack Hussein Obama, D-Kenya, tells us that 91% of us are gainfully employed. So, by this measure, they can only be "the 9%" at best.

These protesters are upset because they have student loans to pay back. And they think it is somehow unfair that they should have to pay back the money they borrowed.

Most estimates tell us that only around 50% of all high school students even go to college, and not all of them take out loans, although a great many do. Some actually work their way through college, got scholarships and grants, and a few others have wealthy parents. And even among those who took out student loans, around 40% of them paid them back in full. So, by this measure, they are perhaps "the 20%."

These protesters camp out in public parks, and bang on drums, while chanting Marxist slogans. Frankly, I don't know anyone who does that. Do you?

Alec Baldwin, multi-millionaire, is a paid spokesman for Capital One

And considering the fact that this movement seems to be global, does the "bottom 99%" of wage earners in the USA even realize that they are in the "top 10%" of wage earners in the world?

Are they really suggesting that they want to give up their laptops, smartphones,  iPods, and Starbucks coffee, so the rest of the world can have more?

I seriously doubt they are this this generous. They want to redistribute simply someone else's wealth to themselves, not redistribute their own wealth to someone else.

President Pardons Four Drug Dealers

Washington DC, Nov 23, 2011. In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday season, President Barack Hussein Obama, D-Kenya, has pardoned five convicted criminals.

The President pardoned five people convicted of charges ranging from intent to distribute marijuana to running an illegal gambling business.

In addition, he issued his first commutation, ordering the release of a woman next month after serving 10 years on a 22-year sentence for cocaine distribution.

The President, whose Attorney General Eric Holder has previously supplied guns to Mexican drug cartels, has decided to show mercy towards these low level drug dealers by issuing them Presidential pardons.  To his credit though, there is no evidence that the President actually sold these pardons, as former President Clinton was prone to do.

In related news, the President also pardoned the two official White House turkeys "Peace" and "Liberty."

Unfortunately, the two turkeys President Obama pardoned last year were reported to be victims of heart failure. Last year's presidentially pardoned turkeys, Apple and Cider, passed away within the year after President Obama pardoned them.

Apple and Cider -- RIP

Those unfortunate turkeys couldn't survive for very long because their large size shortens their lifespan

The birds are bred for eating, which makes them fat and prone to heart disease, respiratory conditions, and strained joints.

In order to dodge death, the turkeys would need to be on a restrictive diet. And sadly, they were fed regular turkey chow.

Matthews Fed Up With Obama; Might Remove Tattoo

NYC. Nov 21, 2011. MSNBC star political commentator Chris Matthews says is frustrated and fed up with President Barack Hussein Obama, D-Kenya.

The leg tingling host of the cable news channel's popular "Hardball" show says that President Obama must tell us what his plans for the future are if he wants to win a second term.  Matthews doesn't blame Obama directly for his lack of goals or plans, but rather blames "the people around him" who he says are "little kids with propellers on their heads."

Matthews hosts the highest rated program on MSNBC and reliable sources confirm that he has literally "dozens of viewers" every night, giving him over twice the audience of Rachel Maddow, and putting him at the top of all liberal TV personalities.

Barack and Chris at happier times

Matthews says he hears that Obama does not like talking face to face with other politicians, even those in his own party. He prefers sending emails and social networking. Matthews says Obama never returns phone calls, or works with others to solve some of the huge problems his rampant spending has created.

It has gotten so bad that Matthews, who was previously the best leg tingler and biggest Obama fan in America, is thinking about having the Obama tattoo removed from his leg.

"It will probably be painful and expensive to have this tattoo taken off," Mr. Matthews told us, "but I don't think I can keep wearing it in good conscience."

"President Obama has been a huge disappointment for us liberals. He's all talk and no action. He just keeps making things worse instead of moving us forward towards a socialist utopia, like he promised he would."

Opinion: Why Class Warfare Won't Work

President Obama is playing the class warfare card in order to appeal to our most stupid voters. Unfortunately, a majority of our voters are now very stupid, thanks to the fine work done by the NEA, the leftwing media, and the public schools over the past 40 years. 

The president is trying to win the election next year by becoming a "populist" who blames the rich, just as surely as Hitler blamed the Jews, for all our problems. And in both cases, this strategy is counter productive.

It might make the unwashed masses feel good, but it doesn't solve the problem. In fact, it makes things worse.

The simple truth is we cannot dig our way out of this hole by "taxing the rich more." The top 50% pays 98% of all income taxes, which means the bottom 50% pays only 2%.

Even the much maligned "top 1%" already pays 37% of the income taxes. If you confiscated all their wealth there simply wouldn't be enough money to sustain this kind of rampant spending. At least for not more than a year or two. And once you have eliminated the moneyed class, there is no second act. It's like they say in the south.... "you can shear a sheep every year, but you can only skin it once."

The only viable solution to this mess are two things that the current administration cannot or will not do:

• Spend less. A whole lot less. We simply cannot continue to borrow 40 cents for every dollar we spend. Anyone who actually passed fifth grade math knows this. And this means more than just cutting inane social programs and wasteful spending. It means cutting back on things we promised people. Like Medicare and Social Security benefits. You just cannot keep spending money you don't have forever. It won't work. (Greece is learning this lesson right now, primarily because we forced it on them. We will probably never have the sense to impose financial responsibility on ourselves.)

• Make the economy healthy again. And this is a lot easier said than done because it involves bringing jobs back to America by getting rid of all these goofy trade deals that "bring down prices while eliminating all our jobs." This will not be a popular option, but it is necessary if we ever want to see a balanced budget again.

Spending money we don't have is so popular that it isn't limited to just the Democrats. The Republicans do it too, but not with quite as much zeal as the Democrats do. The only politician who makes fiscal sense today is Ron Paul, and he's generally wrong on everything but economic policy. So the situation might be hopeless.

And while this situation might please the America Haters abroad, their joy will be short lived. Because they will be right behind us in economic collapse, if they don't collapse before we do. 

America has one big advantage over smaller nations with smaller economies. Our trump card is that when we sink, we take everyone else down with us, so they will reluctantly keep buying our worthless dollars to avoid their own demise.

You saw how concerned everyone was about how Greece failing would "hurt the big banks"... now.... imagine what happens if the USA defaults?

Our GDP is 50 times LARGER than that of Greece.....

Teddy Kennedy: Clean and Sober Over 2 Years!

Teddy says he completely stopped drinking

Boston, MA, Nov 16, 2011. The Boston chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous announced today that former Massachusetts senator Teddy Kennedy has now entered his 26th month of being completely alcohol free.

Senator Kennedy attributes this milestone to "hard work" and "lots of support from my friends and family."  He also had a lot of help from the support group at the Boston chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous.

"When I died in 2009 of that brain tumor brought on by alcohol addiction, I took it as a sign it was time to stop drinking," Senator Kennedy told us. "God told me it was time to put down the bottle, so I finally listened to Him."

"I quit cold turkey. Which meant I had to stop drinking Wild Turkey, which was one of my favorite beverages back then," he told us.

Teddy Kennedy began drinking alcohol when he was eight years old, and drank heavily for the next sixty eight years. "My dad was in the business of boot legging and rum running," he told us, "so there was always plenty of booze lying around the house."

Mary Jo is glad he finally quit

The former Senator told us "I'm not getting overconfident, but I hope I can stay sober forever. My motto is one day at a time."

One of Teddy's former girlfriends, Mary Jo Kopecne, told us "Teddy wanted to quit drinking for years. It was only when the brain tumor got him that he got serious about giving up the bottle."

"I'm really glad he finally decided to quit drinking completely. His alcohol addiction played a big part in the reason we broke up," Miss Kopecne said.

Obama Campaign Donor Gets $433 million No Bid Contract

"Thanks Barack! What a sweet deal!"

Washington DC, Nov 13, 2011. A company controlled by a longtime Obama friend and political donor got a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist.

The Obama administration has awarded a $433-million contract to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or whether it will even work.

The contract was awarded to New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, a longtime Democratic Party donor.

When Siga complained that contracting specialists at the Department of Health and Human Services were resisting the company's financial demands, senior Obama administration officials replaced the government's lead negotiator for the deal, interviews and documents show.

When Siga was in danger of losing its grip on the contract a year ago, the Obama administration officials blocked other firms from competing.

"Just keep this between us, Ron"

Siga was awarded the final contract in May through a "sole-source" procurement in which it was the only company asked to submit a proposal. The contract calls for Siga to deliver 1.7 million doses of the drug for the nation's biodefense stockpile.

The price of approximately $255 per dose is well above what the government's specialists had earlier said was reasonable, according to internal documents and interviews.

Once feared for its grotesque pustules and 30% death rate, smallpox was eradicated worldwide as of 1978 and is known to exist only in the locked freezers of a Russian scientific institute and the U.S. government.

There is no credible evidence that any other country or a terrorist group possesses smallpox.

If there were an attack, the government could draw on $1 billion worth of smallpox vaccine it already owns to inoculate the entire U.S. population and quickly treat people exposed to the virus. The vaccine, which costs the government $3 per dose, can reliably prevent death when given within four days of exposure.

Siga's drug, an antiviral pill called ST-246, would be used to treat people who were diagnosed with smallpox too late for the vaccine to help.

Yet the new drug cannot be tested for effectiveness in people because of ethical constraints — and no one knows whether animal testing could prove it would work in humans.

Should the U.S. buy an untested drug for such an unproven threat? And to make matters worse, the drug is only good for 37 months, which means every three years we will have to buy more from the same Obama cronies.

New Census Report: Obama Sets New Poverty Record

President Obama takes pride in this achievement

Washington DC, Nov 10, 2011. The efforts of the Obama Administration are clearly paying off, as the ranks of those Americans living below the poverty level has reached record high levels.

America's poor are greater than previously thought, reaching a new level of 49.1 million, or 16 percent  due to rising costs and other expenses that make it harder for people to stay afloat, according to new census estimates released this Monday.

The numbers released Monday are part of a first-ever supplemental poverty measure aimed at providing a fuller picture of poverty. It is considered experimental and does not replace the Census Bureau's official poverty formula, which continues to determine eligibility and distribution of billions of dollars in federal aid for the poor. Based on the revised formula, the number of poor people exceeds the record 46.2 million, or 15.1 percent, that was officially reported in September. 

This is good news for the Democrat Party, since less affluent Americans tend to be the most loyal Democrat Party voters. "I we can drive the poverty rate up to 20% by next November, then President Obama's reelection will be a sure thing," a President Obama's Poverty Czar John Bellmore told us.

Obama's Poverty Czar Johnny "Rags" Bellmore

While the Democrat Party has been careful not to imply that they caused this spike in the poverty level... by reckless borrowing and wasteful spending... they do recognize the political advantages this brings them.

"For the record," the Democrat Party didn't cause this downward spiral," Bellmore told us, "but we are happy to reap the political benefit from it."

"Like President Obama says, this is all former President Bush's fault," Bellmore continued.

For the first time, the share of Hispanics living in poverty surpassed that of African-Americans, 28.2 percent to 25.4 percent. That is due to an increase in the poverty rate for Hispanics under the new measure because of lower participation of illegal immigrants and non-English speakers in government aid programs such as housing and food stamps.

"We need more bilingual social workers, so we can teach these new immigrants how to get more government benefits," the Democrat Party spokesman told us.

The First Lady thinks the poor should eat more salads

First Lady Michelle Obama has her own solution for the poverty problem. The First Lady thinks that poor people should eat more salads and exercise more.

"Lets face it, salads are a lot cheaper and lot healthier than eating all those high calorie meats," she told us.

"And exercise is important too," she added, "to prevent the common problem of morbid obesity and chronic diabetes among America's poor."