“I’m old and living on a fixed income.” Have you ever fallen for that tired old line? Sober up!
The time has come for a new movement. The Pew Research Center reported earlier this week that households headed by older adults have made dramatic economic gains relative to younger households, http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/11/07/the-rising-age-gap-in-economic-well-being/.
The soldiers of the Oakland Liberation Front must grasp the fact that the money-grubbing elderly are filthy rich.
Those aged Americans need to share their wealth. Are you listening, Zuccotttites?
The Occupiers of the (once) Busy Corner should know that the residents of Loretto, Sitrin, and Acacia Village do not pay their fair share.
Not only are they moneyed, but as card-carrying members of the American Association of Retired People they take advantage of all those nifty discounts. No tenting for the well-off seniors. You will find them spending your inheritances while staying at choice hotels and resorts: Hyatt, Hampton, MGM, and Starwood. Think about that when you crawl into your Wenzel Sprout.
Go ahead. Listen to the omniscient Mahatobama. Join with him as he disparages those fat cat bankers. Just take care not to trip over the pensioners in the lobbies of those financial institutions buying traveler checks for their next cruise. You are asking for trouble if you disrupt that activity. Expect forty whacks with a cane for any unruly action that impedes sailing on time from Miami to Costa Rica aboard the Crystal Symphony or flying to Davos on a NetJet just like Warren and Bill.
Keep the din from your primal drumming and incessant chanting to a minimum. Have you no consideration of the elderly as they discuss their next trade with their broker? Do you really want them to lose count and have to restart tallying the income from pensions, IRAs, and 401Ks? They also can rely on a monthly chunk of moolah courtesy of Social Security. That is not a source of income youth have now, nor will they likely have in the future.
It is no wonder that seniors have 47 times the net wealth as the younger households. The only mystery is how they were able to accumulate so much without impressive degrees in Women’s Studies, Whale Gawking, Playground Recreation, or Multicultural Admiration. Additionally, they had the burden of paying huge sums of money, $7.50 in 1974 for a general admission concert ticket to see and listen to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, during their misspent youth. Today, David Crosby and Graham Nash play acoustic sets for free without the accompaniment of band mates Stephen Stills and Neil Young. What do you want for nothing?
So the hell with shutting ports, tossing occasional Molotov cocktails, raping indiscriminately, robbing the people’s money jar, propagating STDs, and defecating on police cars. Join the OWS mob when they arrive in the Capitol on 23 November. Lay siege to that bastion of the rich elderly before succumbing to that potentially lethal strain of tuberculosis in your midst: the headquarters of AARP at 601 E Street, Washington, DC.
Youth is really squandered on the wasted young.
