If you really must know, a person droped her ID badge in the toilet. Rather than suck it up and pull it out, she tried to flush it. The place had shoddy plumbing and everything in the septic for the past several hours came back up through all the toilets leaving three inches of water and waste all over their bathroom.
So you did this once? It reads like you did it 70 hours/week. And why the emphasis on *women's* feces? Unless you cleaned men's and women's feces and the women's was harder work for some reason, the fact that it was women's seems totally superfluous to your resume.
I really don't want to get into the details of what i did as a janitor as that wasn't the point. The men's plumbing was seperate from the women's bathroom and the women has a habit of flushing tampons and other objects which resulted messes on multiple occasions. My so called resume, highly selective and intentionally general was a directed towards the overly simplified photos located on the site Whistler provided. I did work 70 hour weeks for an extended period of time. Though if you want to know, it was a combination of multiple part time jobs and one full time. I also poured concrete for a buddy early in the morning too. But those stories aren't as dramatic as saying I cleaned up shit. And let's be honest, saying you cleaned up feces in a women's bathroom comes across as more demeaning than saying you cleaned bathrooms. But I have a feeling you know this.
If you look at all those postings, very few are from the middle aged types SLC mentioned. I acknowledge a lot of middle class, hard working americans were screwed by their investments. But I don't feel sorry for them as the risk of loss is inherent in the stock market. People take that risk knowing that over the long run, statistics show they'll come out ahead. We blame the sub prime loans, but what politicans were pushing for them? Going so far as to drop the race card to get them pushed through. The sub prime market was managed by Fannie and Freddie, government entities. If the banks wouldn't have known their asses would be saved, they never would have issued those loans and millions wouldn't have been hurt by their collapse.
These OWS are asking for more handouts. So what's to stop another government program from saying "give these people easy money" only to have it collapse again in 10-20 years.
SLC nailed it when he said all people aren't created equal. Everyone isn't free to follow their heart's desire. That lesbian making indie rock music can't be upset when she's broke and can't survive on her own. There's not a demand for that style of art. She did what she thought would make her happy rather than what would make her financially succesful. And that's the problem. People feel entitled to a high standard of living (and that definiton is constantly moving forward) without the risk. Of all the people on this forum who have made their occupations known to me, none of them were accidents. TAP didn't wake up a Math professor. Freedom didn't get asked while working at McDonalds to teach Political Science. SLC didn't get picked from a pool of contestants to be in real estate. All of those occupations and the status associated with them were earned through work and determination. We're not all equal. No with our skill sets, genetics, or opportunities and starting points in life. The true free market and capitalism offer the best chance for upward mobility. I can't think of one fortune 500 company that appeared out of thin air. It started as some mom and pop shop and grew to international success. From Heinz ketchup, to Ford automobiles to Wal-Mart.
I have a philosophical issue with the argument that because someone is alive and a human being, they're entitled to the fruit of other's labor. People often badmouth the trust fund types, but somewhere down the line a family memebr rose from the ranks to earn that wealth. Just as you find it acceptable to send your offspring to good schools and provide for them in a better manner due to your personal financial success, the Sam Walton's of the world are entitled to pass on the benefits of their success to whom they choose. And that's really what this is about. The request if not demand for a social safety net that empowers the lowest contributors of our soceity to an equal status. Personal preference to contribution aside, it's really quite objective in our society in what we value financially. So to return to Art's post regarding the artist in NYC, obviously her emails to alleged suicidal teens isn't as monetarily valuable as GM's production line.
They're saying tax the rich, but what do we do with that money once we tax them? Do we pay off the national debt with it or do they want us to pass out personal checks until everyone reaches a median level of income? Bottom line is this. I value true freedom. Freedom from government involvement in my life. That is the basis for this country. That is the American way. You can't find me any documentation from the founders suggesting redistribution of wealth. No, Thomas Paine wasn't a founding father, no matter how many times rawstory tries to say his later articles were seriously considered. We've seen what angry masses looking for someone else to blame can lead to. And with the rapid growth of government under the past two adminstrations, call me a concerned party when it comes to people massing in the streets asking for big brother to come save them.
