Occupy Wall Street live General Assembly meeting

[DaTruth]

Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

The article makes it clear, they are becoming the 98% for now. Not liking the bottom 1% either. Soon it will be "we are the 50%" followed shortly by the ever popular, "looking out for number 1". People are people.

I wonder if there are any protestors who fall just outside the top 1%? I think it is comical for anyone making over say $250k a year to think they are united in an economic struggle with common folks.

[Riot]

Data survey of 1,619 respondents placed on occupywallst.org reveals the following about OWS supporters:

* 64.2% are younger than 34 years of age.
* One in three respondents is older than 35, one in five respondents is 45 and older.

* 7.9% of respondents have a high school degree or less.
* 92.1% of the sample has some college, a college degree, or a graduate degree.
* 27.4% have some college (but no degree), 35% have a college degree, 8.2% have some graduate school (but no degree), close to 21.5% have a graduate school degree.
* This is a highly educated sample.

* 26.7% of respondents were enrolled in school, 73.3% were not enrolled in school.

* 50.4% were employed full-time, an additional 20.4% were employed part-time.
* 13.1% of the sample are unemployed.

* 2.6% of respondents were retired, 1.3% disabled, 2.6% homemakers and 9.7% are full-time students.

* 47.5% of the sample earns less than $24,999 dollars a year and another quarter (24%) earn between $25,000 and $49,999 per year.
* 71.5% of the sample earns less than $50,000 per year.
* 15.4% of the sample earned between $50,000 and $74,999.
* The remainder 13% of the sample earn over $75,000 with close to 2% earning over $150,000 per year.

* 27.3% of respondents considered themselves Democrats, another 2.4% said they were Republican.
* A very large proportion of the sample, close to 70.3%, considered themselves Independents.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

Data survey of 1,619 respondents placed on occupywallst.org reveals the following about OWS supporters:

* 64.2% are younger than 34 years of age.
* One in three respondents is older than 35, one in five respondents is 45 and older.

* 7.9% of respondents have a high school degree or less.
* 92.1% of the sample has some college, a college degree, or a graduate degree.
* 27.4% have some college (but no degree), 35% have a college degree, 8.2% have some graduate school (but no degree), close to 21.5% have a graduate school degree.
* This is a highly educated sample.

* 26.7% of respondents were enrolled in school, 73.3% were not enrolled in school.

* 50.4% were employed full-time, an additional 20.4% were employed part-time.
* 13.1% of the sample are unemployed.

* 2.6% of respondents were retired, 1.3% disabled, 2.6% homemakers and 9.7% are full-time students.

* 47.5% of the sample earns less than $24,999 dollars a year and another quarter (24%) earn between $25,000 and $49,999 per year.
* 71.5% of the sample earns less than $50,000 per year.
* 15.4% of the sample earned between $50,000 and $74,999.
* The remainder 13% of the sample earn over $75,000 with close to 2% earning over $150,000 per year.

* 27.3% of respondents considered themselves Democrats, another 2.4% said they were Republican.
* A very large proportion of the sample, close to 70.3%, considered themselves Independents.

what's your point? Are these the people who decided against feeding those 'lower' than them? Or are they just against their 'chefs'?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

what's your point? Are these the people who decided against feeding those 'lower' than them? Or are they just against their 'chefs'?

DaTruth wrote: I wonder if there are any protestors who fall just outside the top 1%? I think it is comical for anyone making over say $250k a year to think they are united in an economic struggle with common folks.

[Clip-Clop]

Originally Posted by DaTruth

I wonder if there are any protestors who fall just outside the top 1%? I think it is comical for anyone making over say $250k a year to think they are united in an economic struggle with common folks.

United? No. Struggle? absolutely. Two friends of mine. A divorced guy who lives (lived) in Manhattan, with two kids and an ex-wife to support is struggling more than most just to to maintain. What about another who makes his 250K+ as a Doctor and is therefore saddled by 300K+ in debt? Not to mention the insane insurance premiums he needs to pay in order to practice medicine. It is all relative really.
The numbers are different but the old saying "mo' money, mo' problems" was made up by successful poor people for a reason.