I'm 99% Sure You're an Idiot

I've been holding back from saying anything about the Occupy Whatever phenomenon that's been sweeping the country, but I just can't hold back any longer.  While there are a bevy of Occupy Whatevers to choose from, I'm going to focus primarily on the Occupy Oakland group.  As a former resident of Oakland, I feel I have a pretty good understanding of the dynamics in the city and the make up of the people who usually participate in these protests.
In general, I'm not with the 99%ers.  I worked hard to get through college.  My parents paid for half of my tuition and housing, and I paid for everything else through loans and working part-time crappy jobs at the mall or Target.  I lived in a house with four other people where the walls were never at 90 degrees and the wind blew through the thin windows in winter like the windows weren't even there.  I ate ramen, rarely went anywhere, and made up my own entertainment for the most part.  We'd pool our money to buy a large pizza.  I had a small used car that barely ran.  I'm still paying off loans I took out for my degrees.  And I'm okay with that.  I don't blame others for my choices and my debts.  And I don't blame others for making the choice to take on a home loan I knew I wouldn't be able to afford after the Arm reached it's max.  Thank God, I chose to get rid of my mortgage before the market crashed.  So yeah, I rent, but I can at least afford my rent, because I choose to live in a place within my means.
I agree that maybe large corporations could give something back to the community.  Maybe more than they are right now.  But corporations don't exist to provide charity.  They exist to make a profit.  Somewhere along the way the 99%ers forgot that.  The corporations don't owe us anything.  You want change 99%ers?  Okay.  Get together and come up with a real plan.  A lot of you supposedly have degrees, so you must have some smarts.  Stop bitching about how unfair things are and expecting someone else to solve your problems.  Stand up for yourselves and go to the public and the government with a real, actionable plan for how to change things.  Otherwise, you're just a bunch of squawking loud mouths who are doing nothing other than aggravating 3/4 of the country.

I'm not part of this generation who thinks that they're entitled to everything, and can spend money at will without taking responsibility for it.  When you're in college you don't get the really nice car and the tricked out phones and vacations and all of that stuff that takes money to get unless you come from a family with money already and they're willing to finance those things.  I didn't come from a wealthy family, and I don't blame society for that.  We can't all be rich.  Sure, sometimes it sucks that I can't have the newest gadget, or eat out all the time, but I don't expect those things, and I'm not about to put myself in a lot of debt to do it.

Here's where Oakland comes in.  I was reading about all of the shenanigans going on in that city right now.  I will agree that the mayor is handling this situation poorly, but you can't blame the cops for enforcing the law, and you can't blame them for tear gassing your sorry asses when they give you ample warning to disperse, you don't, and then you throw things at them.  You can't blame the Port of Oakland for trying to conduct business just because you feel you're entitled to part of the profits of the businesses who transport goods there.
What's most irritating of all is that movements like Occupy Oakland can't even agree on a group statement.  In the various articles I've read, there have been statements that range from forgive student loans to tax the corporations to bring the corporations down to take down the city of Oakland and more.  This last one is the most ridiculous to me.  So, you want to overtake the city of Oakland?  Okay.... what do you think that would accomplish?  You take over city hall, lose all state funding, all federal funding, and make your own little island of hell?  Do you think any of you have the collective ingenuity to take over a city and make it better?  what would you do?  Fire all the police and turn Oakland into a city of gangs?  I don't understand that thinking.  How on earth does camping in a public square and throwing urine and fireworks at the peace officers help a damn thing?  Again... COME UP WITH A PLAN OR AT LEAST A COHESIVE STATEMENT!!!

Okay 99%ers, here's the deal.  Right now I'm wholly against you unless you can come up with a solid statement and a plan of action.  You come at the public with something like that, some sort of actionable plan that can actually be considered, and I'll think about supporting you.  But until then, you're a bunch of whiny, self-important, spoiled, self-entitled idiots who can't do anything other than sit in a park and bitch about how life is unfair.  The sooner you learn life is unfair, morons, the sooner you'll see your way through this.  Socialism just doesn't work.  Grow up.