What the 1% thinks about you.

[TalkingDog]

I have a friend from a working class family, going to Wake Forest University, who is looking for an apartment.

On spying a fellow WFU student advertising on Craigslist for a room mate, Friend X sent an email to the person posting the ad. In the email, Friend X described activities and interests, including affiliation with various progressive causes, including working against NC's Amendment 1 (anti-gay marriage) and Occupy. Here was Friend X's status on Facebook this morning:

This is how a WFU med student responded to my email about a room she was renting on craigslist: Well aren’t you just the little burden on society. 1. The room is already taken, 2. You couldn’t occupy the room even if it weren’t, don’t think we’d get along too well. I would have voted for Bush, 3. I want to live with someone who has ambition and drive to work hard to try to become part of the 1% instead of whining and complaining someone else was successful.

[Politicalboi]

1. Craigslist has rules

And you can't discriminate. I would send that e-mail to their site and complain. She might get fined. LOL!

[TalkingDog]

4. I don't see where the discrimination part comes into play. It's a room mate, not a rental

and political affiliation is not covered in discrimination law.

Besides, who would want to live with that?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

8. I was just going to post the exact same thing n/t

[orpupilofnature57]

2. They come out of their mothers wombs

Misanthropic opportunist's , scratching all the way to the grave ,because the top is a figment of their delusions.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. I'd say your friend is better off.

Better to find out this kind of thing sooner rather than later.

[TalkingDog]

6. I agree. I'm just surprised at the blatant bitchiness of it.

n/t

[JoePhilly]

5. My response ... "You should see a doctor about your ulcer or that bitterness is going to kill you."

[Squinch]

7. Med student huh? She's got a rude awakening coming after she finishes medical school

with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, and insurance companies skimming all the money off the top of her fees. Let's get back to her in a few years and see how she feels then. All my docs are either struggling financially or going with the conglomerate practices where they become cogs in a corporate wheel. Not a lot of job satisfaction.

[hfojvt]

9. but she's not part of the 1% - yet

and many on DU would say that she's not REALLY rich even if she got a $190,000 or $280,000 a year job after medical school.

Further, since I am working and paying bills and taxes and donating to charity, I don't see how anybody can say I am a "little burden on society"

As for whining. Well, once my cub scout group was looking for a boy scout troop to join, and we visited the troop at my home church. They were playing dodgeball that day and the two bggest kids, perhaps high school seniors to my 12 year old status, decided to team up against the rest of us little kids. The rule was that nobody could throw the ball twice. So they worked out a system where one could throw the ball and the other would be right there to grab it again. As such, that pair went around getting everybody else out. Finally I saw an opportunity, swooped in to grab the ball before the second guy could get it - and the first guy tackled me.

I called a foul. WTF? There's no tackling in dodgeball. It's not enough that the two big goons decided to work as a team against the rest of us, it is not enough that they had superior size, strength and speed against the smaller kids, but they had to cheat too?

Well, such is the current necessity which constrains us to call out the wealthy and powerful. The history of the present plutocrats is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these working people of America. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.