A Letdown Squid

I care more about the good of all citizens in this country in general, especially the ones who are so poor they can’t find jobs or even dream of owning businesses and/or having access to medical care [edit: and also citizens who are being brutalized by police while trying to exercise their rights to protest and assembly], than I care about small business owners who complain about a social uprising affecting their traffic. I could be a lot more complex and diplomatic about it, but that’s basically how it is right there. I’m not trying to be insensitive and I understand what small business owners have to go through to run their businesses, but you aren’t going to get me to weep for said small business owners while other people in the country are dying from easily curable diseases due to medical care being unattainable, etc.

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Flannelowl (OWS supporter)

You would rather a movement with 0% affect on the population being protested, hurt the middle class to accomplish, what? Awareness? The small business owners and their employees, many of which are in the same state of working poverty you claim to be protesting for, depend on that traffic to SURVIVE!  They aren’t rich. And so because they have worked, and work, hard and because some have achieved something and some have not, it makes it okay to ruin it?  Think about this just for a moment.  Really think about it.

18 November 2011 · Comments

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