OWS kitchen workers protest feeding 99%
Funny how when you offer free food, everyone who is hungry shows up for a handout. The kitchen staff at Occupy Wall Street is a little angry about working 18 hours every day to feed the vagrants and criminals who show up to get their fair share says the New York Post
For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only 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.
They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.
I guess that’s just one more example of why socialism works so well, huh? Aren’t these vagrants and criminals included in that 99%? Aren’t they the poster children of the whole point of the protest? And yet here they are taking advantage of the whole hippie government thing. So I guess there’s a class system even among the hippies.
Category: I hate hippies, Occupy
So the white effete hippies (from monied parent[s]) are kicking out the blacks, the uber poor and homeless and rehabilitating criminals because…… white hippies don’t wanna share? What happened to Social Justice and spreading around the wealth?
It must be really difficult to distinguish between the OWS crowd and the vagrants and criminals. I mean, the vagrants and criminals who were there BEFORE the protests.
If I was living in NYC I would go down there everyday for lunch during work. I could have saved a ton of money over the last month or so.
It’s been raining here since 0700 around 50 deg with a 20mph wind from the north coming down twoards zucotti park, Hell give ’em what the army used to give us when no other shit was available, Cold Yakisoba from spaghetti pasta, and some hamburger and this would be a hippie FTX.
“Aren’t these vagrants and criminals included in that 99%?” Exactly! Even if 99% is an accurate number (which it is not), what percentage of the population do you suspect has $50-100K or more in student loans? The bottom 90%?
All I could think is IRONY. What you people too good to feed the bottom 1%?
Irony. It’s whats for dinner.
nothing from nothing is still nothing.
Why communism fails: Provide something for nothing to those who demand nothing for something
Maybe when they are released from Rikers the NYPD is telling them about a place that has free gormet food, white hippie chicks, sex, drugs and rock and roll. Naw they wouldn’t do that.
I honestly thought it was:
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
? Karl Marx
OPM = Other People’s Money.
Eventually you run out of it.
(With apologies to Animal House)
Shame on them! The Statue of Liberty says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free.”
Well, I guess OWS can just trample the Statue of Liberty and everything it stands for. Today the Statue of Liberty, tomorrow the Constitution, next week America itself.
Well, I don’t know about you, Dean Wormer, but I for one, will not stand here and let these people trample on the United States of America!
@10
Communism is a great system, as long as you’re the one who gets to define what people’s “abilities” and “needs” are.
Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!
This article is just too funny, I do have a friend who would claim it is all lies because it is owned by Newscorp….
Uh, yeah, ya’ had to see that comin’
Same thing happens at floods, fires and earthquakes…they set up food and shelter for those who lost their homes and all the bums show up and eat all the food…. and stink up the place!
@3. Jeff: You overlook that you would have lost your appetite when you saw who was in line behind you and in front of you. If that didn’t do it, you would have lost it when you saw who was slapping the pinto beans onto your paper plate.
See if you can guess what I am now…
OWS hypocrite! Get it?
John, would you say the class system line is getting a little blurred at this point? They all look the same to me. Probably smell that way, too.
I want to throw out the major flaw in Communist/socialist thinking. If there is no reward for doing a good job, and even more for doing a great job, than there is no positive reinforcement for a job well done.
The only thing left to make people actually care about their work is negative reinforcement, punishment for failure.
The more people stop caring the more things fail. The more things fail the more punishment is needed. Eventually it all falls apart. May take a few decades but no truly communistic system can survive forever, and socialism doesn’t fare much better for similar reasons.
Bingo–what these clowns are just now starting to figure out is that socialism/communism doesn’t make everyone equal, only equally miserable. And holy shit, ain’t it just un-fucking-FAIR when THEY should have to give up some of THEIR shit too?
The gf and I are contemplating a trip down to NYC one of these weekends. I’m almost tempted to sit across the street with scrumptious morsels and munch my meal whilst the hippies drool like a bunch of brain-dead zombies (but what would have changed, really?) as they watch.
Oh, and forecast for NYC: Current temp 40 degrees, rain, forecast low of 36. Friday: mostly sunny, high 52, low 40. Saturday: rain/snow mixed, high 42, low 33.
For our friends up in Portland: Current temp 36, light rain/snow mix, low of 30 tonight.
Have fun, assholes.
Silly hippies it doesn’t matter what you serve, the locusts will show up and continue to eat you out of house and home. You wanted your happy dappy communist BS well now it’s time to enjoy the fruits of it.
You have to wonder what that spartan food will do to the OWS population. Let’s see, cold wet weather,and shitty food.Yea daddy’s little princess’ and princes are gonna hang around for that.
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The old adage about the Soviet economic system is pretty damned accurate “We pretended to work, and they pretended to pay us.”
These hippies have just never grown up. They haven’t a clue about how life really works, let alone capitalism. They can talk a big talk, but when/if the system collapses, I can guaren-damn-tee you that they will be among the first to either starve, or be lined up and shot.
This is hilarious on soooooooo many levels, can’t wait to agitate some of my friends with this.
wait Sparky there’s actually a woman dating you? WOW. (kidding!)
MRE’s. No heaters.
National Weather Service in Gray, Maine just issued a Winter Storm Watch covering pretty much everything from Conneticut to Maine.
WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY EVENING THROUGH
SUNDAY MORNING…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAY HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM
WATCH…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY
MORNING.
* LOCATIONS…THIS WATCH INCLUDES MUCH OF THE COASTAL PLAIN ON
MAINE AS WELL AS THE FOOTHILLS.
* HAZARD TYPES…HEAVY WET SNOW.
* ACCUMULATIONS…6 OR MORE INCHES OF SNOW ARE POSSIBLE…WITH 3
TO 6 INCHES THE MOST LIKELY SCENARIO AT THIS TIME…WITH LOCALLY
HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. LOCATIONS ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COAST MAY
SEE SLIGHTLY LOWER AMOUNTS.
Looks like the trust fund babies are gonna be heading back to mommy and daddy’s basement sooner than expected.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch, eh Sparky? 🙂
What was that comment about “sunshine patriots” and “fairweather soldiers” ? Seems to fit these clowns.
From what I hear, the hippies in Portland are having the same sort of problems with vagrants and other ne’er-do-wells as their counterparts in NYC. Once the word on the street got out that their were free meals and snackage, crash space, etc, the hippies had all sorts of new friends and supporters show up. 🙂
Wow. The headlines just write themselves don’t they?!! 😉 Irony and hypocrisy are in abundance with those protestors. Being a foodie – I got stuck on this part: “usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.”
Usual MENU??!!! I’d want to dine there too! Who knew that protestors of that ilk were getting such stellar organic meals for free that typically would cost us about $35-$50 per??!!!! Wow. Just Wow.
On another note . . . I wonder where the food inspectors and the health departments are?? Given the hygiene issues of many of the protestors – I’d be worried about food poisoning from those protest kitchens. LOL