OWS kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders

OWS kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders.“The OWS volunteer kitchen staff launched a ‘counter’ revolution yesterday — because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for ‘professional homeless’ people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.” When one fights reality, reality always wins.

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  • Hey, are the OWS protestors becoming *gasp!* ELITISTS? Why should they eat well, while the "professional homeless" aka bums, don't? The bums are part of the 99% aren't they? Welcome to reality morons!

    • Oh please! They're whining about peanut butter and jelly? I could live on that stuff, and there were times in my life that I would have loved to have some! If they want better, they should go home and cook for themselves!

          • what is it like to be overworked and under appreciated?

            It stinks! I could regale you with my personal experience, but it would be too unbelievable. Suffice it to say that my wife believes that because I'm self employed, it means I have time to do everything she can't do because her boss expects her to be at work when she's getting paid.

          • HAHAHAHAHA! Now you know what its lioke to be a wife! All day caring for the home, the kids, the laundry, the errands, the cooking, and Hubby comes home and askes "well what do you DO all day?"

  • Look on the bright side: this may be the watershed moment that brings some of these people over to the dark side of conservatism and libertarianism. This is the moment where Theory has a little trainwreck with Reality.

  • OK, let me get this straight.

    they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.

    So then, will they admit that the "huge crowds" they are attracting are not really as big as they want us to believe?

    A security volunteer added that the cooks felt “overworked and underappreciated.”

    Really? I can't imagine that members of the "gimme free stuff" crowd would balk at giving free stuff to others! You mean that you want some kind of reward for what you do? That the fact that you're feeding the collective isn't it's own reward?
    Sounds like someone just got a reality check!

  • Good. Let the classroom of real life continue. Maybe one of them will strike it big by writing a book titled " A Funny Thing Happend On My Way To Occupy"

  • Ya'll have already said it, what a bunch of hypocrites. They piss and moan, wanting us, the taxpayer, to give them more then whine and cry when someone else wants something they have.

    Hey OWS'ers! Share the "wealth!" Don't you believe in what you preach?

  • I just saw that a little bit ago and thought about passing it on to the tip line. Thanks BofA for reminding me why I needn't bother here.

  • The stupidity of these people is astounding. When you are banging drums begging for free stuff and providing free food, free sex, free tenting, free drugs ah well okay I understand you have to pay for the drugs, but anyway free stuff, what kind of idiot didnt think it wouldnt attract even more freeloaders. This blows their whole utopia bullshit which will only work if everyone enthusiastically pulls their share of the load....which never has nor will happen as long as somebody else will pull the load for them. In the 60's the drug caused brain dead started communes where everyone contributed to the commune for the good of all. Problem was, damn shortly the communes fell apart because some then most, became freeloaders on the ones that worked. Then nobody works, everyone just sucks at the trough until the trough is empty...which doesnt take long. Isn't this exactly what has just happened and these gullible fools are surprised????? Hey, I ain't got no PHd but I figgered this was gonna happen.

  • Apparently, these Communist fools have forgotten their Marx, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."

    However. I'll wager that, with each passing freeloader, Capitalism is beginning to look a lot better to the Proletariat working the kitchen!