We’re NOT Lazy!

Friday 14 October 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized

In a recent response to the idea that many of the Occupy X protestors are lazy, HigherED comes to the rescue:

The students at Texas State University at San Marcos who protested in Thursday’s second nationally coordinated campus event in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street dispute the oft-repeated charges that the movement’s participants are lazy, unfocused and un-American. And they have the ideas to prove it.

When the time comes to carry out their plans – which address such pervasive student issues as loan repayment and the poor job market – they plan to actually do most of the legwork themselves. They want to attend city council meetings and lobby for bills in the Legislature. They’re going to work with local businesses to establish more scholarships for students. And they plan to get more students registered to vote and active in local and state politics, so they can have a say in where the money goes.

We’re NOT lazy! We plan to do the hard work of getting the “right” politicians in office who’ll give us more say in where your money goes!!

Uh, that’s not work. That’s rent seeking.

2011-10-14  »  madlibertarianguy