Apparently, some people at OWS are more 99% than others
From today’s New York Post:
Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders
The Occupy Wall Street 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.
For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.
They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.
To show they mean business, the kitchen staff refused to serve any food for two hours yesterday in order to meet with organizers to air their grievances, sources said.
…The Assembly officially approved the three-day menu crackdown announced earlier in the day — insisting everybody would be fed something during that period.
Some protesters threatened that the high-end meals could be cut off completely if the vagrants and criminals don’t disperse.
Unhappiness with their unwelcome guests was apparent throughout the day.
“We need to limit the amount of food we’re putting out” to curb the influx of derelicts, said Rafael Moreno, a kitchen volunteer.
A security volunteer added that the cooks felt “overworked and underappreciated.”
Many of those being fed “are professional homeless people. They know what they’re doing,” said the guard at the food-storage area.
Today, a limited menu of sandwiches, chips and some hot food will be doled out — so legitimate protesters will have a day to make arrangements for more upscale weekend meals.
Protesters got their first taste of the revolt within the revolt yesterday when the kitchen staff served only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chips after their staff meeting.
Organizers took other steps to police the squatters, who they said were lured in from other parks with the promise of free meals.
The irony here is obvious, of course: the protesters want government to take more from the rich to help the poorer among us, yet they complain and protest when the same is expected of them.
The 99 percenters don’t see it that way. The problem is, the rest of us do.
This is funny and needs to be spread. Will come back and press this.
Bob A.
boudicabpi
October 27, 2011 at 7:54 am
This is too rich.
Oh yes, to hear a liberal tell it, heartless Republicans want the old to die, despise the poor and hungry yada, yada, yada.
I am in the process of preparing a post on this but must say that Progressives have proved once again that they themselves are guilty ten-fold of that which they accuse others.
As it turns out the overly sensitive, caring and understanding liberal is none of those things.
Freaking hypocrites!
bydesign001
October 27, 2011 at 9:55 am