Truth...schmuth!

The sentiments expressed by Elaina Plott in this article: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/oct/25/plott-for-the-love-of-money/  are regretably accurate.

Though cloaked by a sharp cry of hatred for money, the Occupy Wall Street protestors represent, in actuality, the infatuation. Their very rhetoric should logically persuade them against protesting at all; if they indeed hate money, why bother asking for more? Why condemn those who have it? If money were so detestable, a protest centered on it would only further spread the disease.

Thus the entire movement becomes a fraud. Its smallest attempt at a thesis is rendered illogical; the protest conceals a gross infatuation with money and its supposed contribution to corruption. To the protestors, the ideal of making money is meaningless, as are the ethics that lead to it.

Instead, they consider governmental handouts meaningful and worthwhile. But taking governmental handouts — distribution of unearned money — is in fact stealing. It is an evil caused not by money but rather by selfishness. I would wager that, when presented with a dime, an Occupy Wall Street protester would be quickest to run with it.

Money’s use for corruption stems from the human condition rather than the nature of money. Only when we recognize this can we revitalize the love of the work ethic that drives money’s very existence. Until then, we must acknowledge that whoever describes money as the root of all evil has instead described himself.

...but equally regrettable is the surety that truth such as this falls on ears deafened by the cacophony created by freeloaders feeding at the public trough. Greece is living proof that economic reality is not enough to prevent the grossly indulgent from committing national suicide.

INTERESTING UPDATE 11.11.11

COMMENTARY Gateway Pundit reveals a fact that some people will find astonishing: The American Nazi Party and the American Communist Party have endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement, albeit for different reasons.
The Nazis equate capitalism, which the demonstrators are opposed to, to their hallucinations of a Jewish conspiracy. This may be reflected in some of the anti-Semitic rhetoric coming out of the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations.
The communists see the current demonstrations as a beginning of an American Bolshevik Revolution and the establishment of a Soviet-style government in the United States. Occupy Wall Street also appeals to their sense of class warfare.