Kudos to the folks at the Chicago Board of Trade. This is the kind of humor I appreciate. Probably not as funny as the Howard Stern beatdown, but still quite good.
In the middle of an Occupy Chicago teach-in this week, traders at the Chicago Board of Trade dumped several sheets of paper on top of the heads of protesters below. Demonstrators were angered to find out they were showered with employment applications for McDonald’s. “Real class acts, the Chicago Board of Trade,” tweeted Occupy Chicago. “This week, it’s McDonald’s job applications they litter from the windows. Soulless place.” This is the second incident between the two groups, following Chicago Board of Trade’s “We Are The 1%” missive plastered on their windows last month.
The Chicago Board of Trade was being unfair— to McDonald’s. I’m sure employees there are expected to meet certain standards: personal hygiene, work ethic, punctuality, attendance, and being drug-free on the job. The better employees would have a positive attitude. I’d rather associate with a McDonald’s employee than the bottom 10% at these hate-fests.
What the [bottom] 99% forget is that they are still in the top 15% of wealth worldwide. So, in essence, the top 15% has declared war on the top 0.1%. The war will end with the complaining 99% sliding to 30-40-50% in worldwide prosperity, as American voters revert to the worldwide ubiquitous class warfare and hippie economics that once held three billion people into inert economic stupor.
As I keep repeating the three billion newly awakened people in the emerging world have little desire or patience to see how the western world’s experiment with redistribution and central planning –i.e. socialism — will turn out. But Western voters keep living in the delusion that redistribution will maintain their standard of living in the top worldwide 15% for just a little longer, while a yet undiscovered by humanity economic dynamism of central planning (lol) takes root on the road to long term prosperity. Delusionists keep dreaming – realists pack your bags…
Why would McDonald’s want to hire those Occupy people? Only left-wing non-profits would want them.
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