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Why we must lose the darn 1 percent
nypost.com ^ | 25 Oct 2011 | Frank J. Fleming

Posted on 10/26/2011 5:47:56 AM PDT by shove_it

The Occupy Wall Street crowd has correctly identified two distinct groups in this country: the wealthiest 1 percent and the other 99 percent, who suffer from the 1 percent’s vast wealth: The wealthiest 1 percent not only have more money than us, they have much, much more money. That’s just wrong.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: irony; ows; satire; the99
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To: Huskrrrr

A lot of the organizers are paid, there were ads on Craiglist and everything.


41 posted on 10/26/2011 6:11:27 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: bolobaby

Indeed. It seems to have sailed ten feet over the heads of some of our FRiends here.


42 posted on 10/26/2011 6:14:22 AM PDT by SargeK
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To: aberaussie

Satire, I assume.

I assume the same, but these days it’s hard to tell. There REALLY are people who think this way. They have been educated by William Ayers and his cronies. Scarey.


43 posted on 10/26/2011 6:14:57 AM PDT by Josephat
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To: Scotswife

How can it be satire? It sounds exactly like what we’ve been hearing from the OWS people, the President, Pelosi and the Left. Just assumed the Post wanted to show the other side.

If it is satire, sure fooled me.


44 posted on 10/26/2011 6:19:27 AM PDT by dan on the right
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To: shove_it

This is satire but usually there is a tip off somewhere in the piece. The author neglects this important feature making it difficult for us to recognize he is not just some idiot hippie.


45 posted on 10/26/2011 6:20:22 AM PDT by Hacklehead (The goal of political correctness is to hide the truth.)
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To: shove_it
He's mocking the left which is extremely effective. Satan and associates cannot withstand mockery. Their pumped up vanity makes them so thin skinned they pop. There is no more effective tactic. The reason leftists try to mock conservatives so much, to our puzzlement, is because they are showing us what they themselves fear the most. They try to mock the right at every opportunity because they find it so devastating personally. Nothing is worse to a leftist than having their vanity belittled in public.
46 posted on 10/26/2011 6:21:23 AM PDT by Reeses (Have you mocked a Democrat today?)
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To: shove_it
I know a few people who, when out at a restaurant, always look at what someone else has ordered and say "Oh! I should've gotten that."

They are hard-wired to be unhappy.

47 posted on 10/26/2011 6:21:40 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Jaidyn

Thanks! I’m still trying to figure out how this makes sense to them!


48 posted on 10/26/2011 6:25:14 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: JakeS

With the possible exception of some of those who inherited it


Yep, a lot of them are dimwits.


49 posted on 10/26/2011 6:25:51 AM PDT by Leep
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To: marstegreg

Isn’t it interesting how they think life is a “raffle” and not a result of hard work and proper decisions? This is a direct result of taking God out of public schools.


50 posted on 10/26/2011 6:30:50 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: NYpeanut
Classic liberal ILlogic.

Frank Fleming is a pretty well-known conservative humorist. He's had a hysterically-funny blog for years and he often writes for Pajamas Media. In other words, this was irony. It never seems to work well on FR, though, does it.

51 posted on 10/26/2011 6:31:15 AM PDT by BfloGuy (Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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To: Hacklehead; omega4179

You said: “This is satire but usually there is a tip off somewhere in the piece.”

Omega4179 found the ‘tip off’, see post #28.


52 posted on 10/26/2011 6:34:35 AM PDT by shove_it (Just undo it!)
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To: goodwithagun

Isn’t it interesting how they think life is a “raffle” and not a result of hard work and proper decisions? This is a direct result of taking God out of public schools.

Satisfying these folks is an exercise in futility, they will never be happy with what they have.


53 posted on 10/26/2011 6:35:09 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: Hacklehead; livius

It might have been more clear if the author had inserted Windmills for the word Rich.

No wonder that the media was able to get by with their massive abuse of Cain’s electrified fence comment...... wasn’t he obviously using an absurd analogy to expose the absurdity of the government’s timidity in enforcing the laws against illegal entrance into this country?

It seems that recognizing satire is a fleeting skill.

Oh, no, sorry. The use of satire might offend somebody.


54 posted on 10/26/2011 6:35:52 AM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: shove_it
I have never had a paycheck signed by a homeless man (the bottom 1%).
55 posted on 10/26/2011 6:48:25 AM PDT by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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To: shove_it

Wow. Amazing that so many who replied missed the Swiftian tone of the article. The left’s ideas are getting to be so loony that satire is becoming indistinguishable from reality.


56 posted on 10/26/2011 6:51:44 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: shove_it

I thought he was being sarcastic


57 posted on 10/26/2011 6:53:41 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: aberaussie

Libs’ thought processes being what they are, as messed up as a pile of hangers, it’s sometimes difficult to tell when someone is parodying or parroting liberal talking points.


58 posted on 10/26/2011 7:02:03 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: shove_it

This a satirical article folks. It makes fun of the illogic of the OWS and the Left in general.


59 posted on 10/26/2011 7:02:03 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: shove_it

Hey Freepers - this piece is SATIRE.....I think if one wishes to contribute to the debate, he or she should learn to READ WITH COMPREHENSION. Otherwise, it makes all of us here look like a bunch of illiterate yahoos....just sayin’


60 posted on 10/26/2011 7:14:56 AM PDT by astounded (Barack Obama is a clear and present danger to the USA)
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