Give me, Give me, Give me

Ok. I know that I've been gone for a while, but I'm back.

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Unless you've been living under a rock these past few weeks, you know that a nationwide, and recently worldwide, protest has sprung up. The name: Occupy Wall Street. Here are their demands, courtesy of the Occupy Wall Street website, which can be viewed here (it should be noted that while OWS supports these demands, as far as OWS is concerned, there are no official demands):

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

 Go ahead, read through it again if you hadn't already. Are you laughing yet? Read it again. How about now?

Let's break down their demands as best as we can, shall we?
Demand 1:  They want minimum wage to be $20 an hour? As great as this sounds, aren't we already having enough trouble with inflation? Face it. Even if you get $20 an hour as minimum wage, that just means that the higher ups in the economy are making even more money....and your against that, right? And we're back to square one almost immediately.
Demand 2: Once again. This sounds lovely. Free healthcare sounds like a dream come true. But as your parents always said, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." I understand why people want free healthcare. It's free. People don't like spending money. I get it. But this money does help. It's not like the money you are spending on healthcare is being burned in front of your eyes.
Demand 3: Something else that sounds nice, but it would really make living anywhere awful. The cost of living plummets if there is a guaranteed living wage, even if one is unemployed. Which sounds nice, but then there is less for the city to spend if people pay less.
Demand 4: I laughed hard at this one. Free college education? How are colleges to pay for anything if they are getting no money from the students? Now, as I understand, it goes further. What these people really want is for all of their student loans to be forgiven. But to do this, they would need jobs. And they are not going to get jobs by being on the streets.
Demand 5: Am I the only one to see a pattern so far? All of these demands sound good initially, but each of them either have some down-side, or, like this one, is currently out of reach. How in the world are we going to end the age of fossil fuels and set our sights on alternative energy? It's just not possible at this point in time.

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Demand 6: How much? Where would we get this money? Like I said earlier. Inflation is bad enough already. And we sure as hell can't, or shouldn't, borrow from other countries. Besides. Any attempt to fix/make roads are instantly impeded by the left wing tree-huggers.
Demand 7: And here is the tree-hugging. Should've seen it coming. This kinda goes against Demand 6, in my opinion, and makes Demand 5 harder.
Demand 8: Has anyone ever heard of the 13-15 Amendments to the Constitution?
Demand 9: Isn't this contradictory to the whole goal of making sure there are jobs for everyone in the country?
Demand 10: Does anyone realize how long that would take? I'm sure that wasn't a desirable job when our population was smaller. It would be hell now
Demand 11: This goes back to Demand 4, but broadens it. All debts. Ever. Everywhere. These people obviously think that we are the most powerful nation in the world, and that we can do anything. How in the world are we going to erase all debt in the world?
Demand 12: What would this do exactly? And would this mean that we wouldn't have any more catchy "freecreditreport.com" songs?
Demand 13: So you could be in a Union but not have any of the cons? Why not just abolish Unions? Pros come with Cons people.

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Basically, the Occupy Wall Street protestors are just a bunch of people looking for government handouts. They are too lazy to go out and try to achieve success for themselves. The sooner this silly protest is over, the better.