{"id":10286,"date":"2011-10-10T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/10\/mark-steyn-on-the-wall-street-occupiers\/"},"modified":"2011-10-10T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:51:19","slug":"mark-steyn-on-the-wall-street-occupiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/10\/mark-steyn-on-the-wall-street-occupiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Steyn on the Wall Street ‘Occupiers’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So they are in favor of open borders, presumably so that exotic Third World peasants can perform the labor to which they are noticeably averse. Of the 13 items on that \u201cproposed list of demands,\u201d Demand Four calls for \u201cfree college education,\u201d and Demand Eleven returns to the theme, demanding debt forgiveness for all existing student loans<\/span><\/a>. I yield to no one in my general antipathy to the racket that is American college education, but it\u2019s difficult to see why this is the fault of the mustache-twirling robber barons who head up Global MegaCorp, Inc. One sympathizes, of course. It can\u2019t be easy finding yourself saddled with a six-figure debt<\/span><\/a> and nothing to show for it but some watery bromides from the \u201cTransgender and Colonialism\u201d class. Americans collectively have north of a trillion dollars in personal college debt. Say what you like about Enron and, er, Solyndra and all those other evil corporations, but they didn\u2019t relieve you of a quarter-mil in exchange for a master\u2019s in Maya Angelou. So why not try occupying the dean\u2019s office at Shakedown U?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excerpt: So they are in favor of open borders, presumably so that exotic Third World peasants can perform the labor to which they are noticeably averse. Of the 13 items on that \u201cproposed list of demands,\u201d Demand Four calls for \u201cfree college education,\u201d and Demand Eleven returns to the theme, demanding debt forgiveness for all … Continue reading “Mark Steyn on the Wall Street ‘Occupiers’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}