More evidence that the Occupiers aren’t the poor & downtrodden.
But more to the point, if you own a $795,000 one-bedroom apartment that you are eventually likely to pay off, you own a very expensive asset far beyond what most ordinary Americans could ever hope to accumulate. Â You can sell that place and move to a red state and live very well, any time you want. Â Most red-staters can’t do the reverse.
After all, to state the obvious, that apartment costs so much because many, many people want to live in New York. Â And no matter what the song told you, it is not actually true that all of the best things in life are free. Â Living a subway ride away from all that New York has to offer is really great, and also, really pricey. Â Which is one reason that I don’t live there any more.
Living in a blue state is a choice. Â If coming to New York meant that you had to put four people in a three bedroom apartment that’s uncomfortably far from a subway line, instead of buying a nice little condo in Omaha, this does not mean that you are not “really” better off than your counterpart in Omaha; it means that you have chosen to consume your extra wealth in the form of “living in New York” rather than in the form of spacious real estate, cheap groceries, and an easy commute.
MRS, what we will see, without fail, in ALL of the “occupied cities” is that the “occupiers” will decide that maybe, just maybe, all the riff-raff that has come to their camps for freebies given by a misguided liberal supporting corps has not one iota of sincerity for their cause. Where are the bumper-stickers, “Will march for food and a sleeping bag in a tent in the slime you USED to call your City Park”?
That’s happening in Portland right now. A group calling itself “The Real Occupy Portland” has gotten the attention of the press here, and seems to want to do business on a higher plane. They disavow the filthy camp and the crazies, and want to remain organized just to do the occasional march to protest the evil corporate barons. If they succeed, and their idea spreads, they might just be the thing that saves the movement, which is careening downhill to it’s demise at present.
I thought the joke was the parents were happy to get the kids off the couch and out of the house because the parents were tired of them living at home. I know a couple college graduates that keep their parents address on their id because to move to often to get new id’s every six months.