re: #171 ralphieboy

Funny thing is how some of the 53%-ers are proud of the fact that they have to work long hours without health insurance just for the “right” to be able to tell those hippies to suck it up.

Whatever happened to the notion of hard work actually paying enough to allow us to work a 40-hour week, or is that something reserved for the elite?

I once ran across a statistic (some years ago) that only 38% of the American workforce has a “normal” job: namely day shift, weekdays without regular overtime.

Granted, not everybody can have the “luxury” of working 9 to 5 mon-fri, but it says a lot that nearly 2/3 of America’s employees are regularly working evenings and weekends.

the general message of the “I am the 53%”, as nearly as I can make out, is that they are overworked, underpaid, and have no insurance, but for some reason they are so annoyed that some people are daring to criticize wall st that they have devoted a whole website to whining about it