The interaction between this “Occupier” and Charles Cooke (National Review) is a perfect example of the misinformed voter in today’s society. This particular “Occupy Wall Street” participant holds a sign that reads “Throw me a bone, pay my tuition.”
When asked why his tuition should be paid for by someone else, the individual brings up an irrelevant statement that he thinks that “billionaires are getting a lot of money, just out of greed.”
He then says they are “exploiting middle class and underclass people” but quickly changes the subject when asked how the “greedy billionaires” could exploit a single person in a free market system.
Realizing he has nothing to back up his claim, he begins to blame government for implementing tax policies that unfairly benefit corporations, but when reminded that the United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the world, he begins stating “statistics” that he read “online” but fails to say where they were from or who produced them.
The reporter then cuts to the chase and brings the discussion back to the original question: why should someone else pay this person’s tuition? After his argument was debunked, he tries the “entitled to my own opinion” argument.
After the reporter acknowledges that people can, in fact, say whatever they want, the “occupier” reveals the only solid claim he has to back up what he’s been displaying on his sign in protest: “Its just what I want.”
When the reporter likens the protester’s participation in the movement to writing stuff he wants on a sign (like a Christmas list) and waving it in the air, the occupier agrees and the reporter moves on.
Scary to think that people like this are voting.
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