OWS and Arrogance

I appreciate that you took the time to post. But, with all due respect, almost all of what you say is hyperbole. All this ranting against the rich...yet no mention of all the philanthropic endeavors of the wealthy. In Detroit alone, we have many things named after those wealthy patrons who donated much of their time and money to doing good works for the poor and middle class. The names Ford, Karmanos, Taubman, Ilitch, and many more grace our city because of the deep generosity of those families. This is true in all major cities of our nation, and I wouldn't be surprised one bit if it were true of most of the cities of the world.

While I also do not doubt that there are selfish rich people (just as there are selfish folks of every stripe) it seems that a great many of them, at least, do use what they have for the betterment of the greater society. To dismiss them all as evil, as the Occupy adherents appear to do, reeks of something worse than whatever evils it is the rich supposedly do. It reeks of jealousy, whose stench is in many ways more foul than the presumed arrogance and greed of the rich.

We are reminded too of a comment we overheard from a plumbing contractor: 'I ain't never been hired by a poor man.' We need people of accumulated wealth, capital, who are able to give working men and women gainful employment through investment and philanthropy.

Besides, if we went all out into a command economy, which is exactly what we would have should the government steal (yes, steal) the money from the rich, well, we've seen how that works out. We've seen Soviet five year plans stretched to seven in the hopes of achieving certain goals. We've seen people lined up for hours on the mere rumor of bread or shoes coming to the local store. How does that help the poor?

We haven't even gotten to your 99% yet. Why do you think they all support Occupy? We don't; most of our friends don't, and none of us are wealthy. Quite frankly, what the Occupy Movement is most guilty of is hubris. That, dear friend, is about as selfish as you can get.