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Occupy Wall Street: The Children's Book

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By Drew Grant 10/21/11 2:01pm

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'The 99 Percent': A Kid's Story

The Occupy Wall Street movement has put out a call for sympathetic parents to bring their children to stay overnight in Zuccotti Park tonight, which lead us to thinking: How, exactly, should a concerned parent explain the Occupy Wall Street movement to someone who thinks “class warfare” refers to the struggle between Math and Reading? To help with this dilemma, The Observer has put together a little book that should be bedtime reading under the floodlights tonight when you tuck little Zeldy and Leopold under their tarps.
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It was the summer of 2008 when we first knew there was trouble

That’s when we heard a loud “pop” of our burst housing bubble!
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Mommy and Daddy could not pay their subprime mortgage loan

Which meant they had to say bye-bye to their home!
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The dow, it fell low, that is our confession

We thought we were headed for another Depression.
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So to save all our money and stop all the trauma

The banks got a cash injection from President Obama.
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Sallie Mae, Goldman Sachs, Chase and Morgan Stanley

Were all given the equivalent of a GDP for a third-world country.
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But instead of using the money to help out the poor

The owners of the bank just gave themselves more!
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They made golden parachutes and flew through the air

Meanwhile most Americans couldn’t afford basic healthcare
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There were no more jobs, no more food on the plate

The only thing that grew bigger was our unemployment rate!
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Now your college fund is whittled down to the bone

And no job means no way to pay back those student loans.
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Mom and pop can’t retire and you can’t pay rent

Which is why, little children, we’re part of the 99%

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Anonymous says:

October 21, 2011 at 6:41 pm

my classmate’s mother makes $67/hour on the laptop. She has been out of a job for 2 months but last month her check was $8460 just working on the laptop for a few hourss.Read about it anf get started following the first step “Online income Solution” http://ho.io/p9q2
Anonymous says:

October 22, 2011 at 2:13 pm

publish before the holidays to replace “The Night Before Christmas”. PLEASE.