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  • Oct 27, 2011, 05:37 AM
    tomder55
    The freeloaders are getting tired of the freeloaders
    The egalitarian world of their imagination says from each according to ability to each according to their needs .

    Well that thesis works for the OWS kitchen staff when they are given free food . But they have issues with doing the labor necessary to distribute the free food to other freeloaders.

    So ;starting tomorrow ,in an act of protest against working for hours preparing food for
    the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park ; the kitchen staffers will scale down the menu to serve only basic brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.

    Instead ,they will direct the freeloaders to other taxpayer services like soup kitchens and shelters that cater to the needy.

    Occupy Wall Street kitchen slowdown targets squatters - NYPOST.com


    Quote:

    Protesters got their first taste of the revolt within the revolt yesterday when the kitchen staff served only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chips after their staff meeting.
    And that is a hardship... why ? That was a steady diet when I was growing up. My mom would mass produce them for her brood.

    I'd say that this is giving them a more valued education than anything the egghead socialists professors have ever taught them. They should take their protests to their campus and demand their money back.
  • Oct 27, 2011, 05:42 AM
    smoothy
    I hear you... They are finally starting to learn a valuable life lesson nobody up until now bothered to teach them.
  • Oct 27, 2011, 01:43 PM
    TUT317
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post

    I'd say that this is giving them a more valued education than anything the egghead socialists professors have ever taught them. They should take their protests to their campus and demand their money back.


    Why are they socialist?

    Tut
  • Oct 27, 2011, 01:51 PM
    paraclete
    So they are back to standard student fare, that'll teach them
  • Oct 27, 2011, 01:55 PM
    tomder55
    They are a cross between Orwell's dystopian vision of socialism ;and Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'.
  • Oct 27, 2011, 02:10 PM
    TUT317
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    they are a cross between Orwell's dystopian vision of socialism ;and Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'.



    Tom, these are works of fiction.

    TUt
  • Oct 27, 2011, 02:36 PM
    paraclete
    So life mirroring art
  • Oct 27, 2011, 04:07 PM
    tomder55
    Tut you know better than that . They are commentary written as fiction .
  • Oct 27, 2011, 04:48 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by TUT317 View Post
    Tom, these are works of fiction.

    TUt

    But that applies because the world of fantasy they live in is a work of fiction too.
  • Oct 27, 2011, 05:05 PM
    paraclete
    Who's living in a world of fantasy? Surely not Tom?
  • Oct 27, 2011, 07:11 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by paraclete View Post
    Who's living in a world of fantasy? surely not Tom?

    No... the freeloaders.
  • Oct 28, 2011, 12:05 AM
    paraclete
    Let's face it theirs is not a good place, if it is fantasy, it must be a nightmare
  • Oct 28, 2011, 01:33 AM
    TUT317
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    But that applies because the world of fantasy they live in is a work of fiction too.

    Hi Smoothy,

    Now I'm confused.Who's world are you referring to? The feeloaders?

    Tut
  • Oct 28, 2011, 01:40 AM
    TUT317
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    they are a cross between Orwell's dystopian vision of socialism ;and Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'.


    If you are referring to Animal Farm then as far as I remember it was a criticism of Stalin's Russia. I think Lord of the Flies was a commentary on human nature.

    Tut
  • Oct 28, 2011, 04:52 AM
    paraclete
    Tut I don't think these things are relevant even though they have been mentioned we are in the days of the Manchurian candidate
  • Oct 28, 2011, 04:55 AM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by TUT317 View Post
    Hi Smoothy,

    Now I'm confused.Who's world are you referring to? The feeloaders?

    Tut

    Yes... I am referring to the Freeloaders Utopia... where they get everything handed to them and they never have to earn anything.

    Because if nobody ever does anything... how does anything ever get done?
  • Oct 28, 2011, 06:47 AM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by TUT317 View Post
    If you are referring to Animal Farm then as far as I remember it was a criticism of Stalin's Russia. I think Lord of the Flies was a commentary on human nature.

    Tut

    Yeah a bunch of unsupervised and undisciplined children isolated on an island ;setting up their own social structure and it's ultimate decline into anarchy. Animal Farm was an indictment of Communism in general . Related to OWS is the notion that all animals are equal quickly becomes... but some are more equal than others .
  • Oct 28, 2011, 11:44 AM
    speechlesstx
    I love it, the irony is so rich...

    Quote:

    Some protesters threatened that the high-end meals could be cut off completely if the vagrants and criminals don’t disperse.

    Unhappiness with their unwelcome guests was apparent throughout the day.

    “We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out” to curb the influx of derelicts, said Rafael Moreno, a kitchen volunteer.

    A security volunteer added that the cooks felt “overworked and underappreciated.”

    Many of those being fed “are professional homeless people. They know what they’re doing,” said the guard at the food-storage area.
    Don't they know those freeloaders DESERVE to be fed by the occupiers?
  • Oct 28, 2011, 12:42 PM
    smoothy
    Exactly... THEY are whining about not having to feed the Homeless... but THEY are somehow entitled to handouts themselves... Right... reality doesn't seem as sweet as their fantasy I suppose when the shoe is on the other foot.
  • Oct 28, 2011, 12:54 PM
    speechlesstx
    Nope, the redistributionists have already complained about people redistributing their property, now they're complaining of people expecting something for nothing. Ba ha ha ha!!

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