Movement captured Wall Street has reached some big obstacles. First it was the cold temperatures that sent many home. Next is the long awaited decision to evacuate them out of public parks by the liberal democratic mayor. But another major obstacle: the hypocrisy of those who appear in great wealth.
The occupation has led to ludicrous slogan “We are the 99 percent,” somehow the same acronym public installed 63 conservative Republican’s new home in 2011. To show them the 99 percentism in October, the protestors was staged “billionaire” in New York City, parading to the homes of wealthy citizens such as Rupert Murdoch and David Koch. But organizers of the OWS has conveniently ignore the wealth of celebrities in their own ranks.
Paul Wilson culture and Media Institute has run into a list of the top 25 richest celebrities in favor of taking Wall Street, according to the website of celebrity Net Worth. They have-ready? -the net combined worth more than $ 4 billion. Lefties on MSNBC actually said in the air these people may be “realized” they are in the top 1 percent.
While mega-banker Jamie Dimon (worth $ 200 million) is one of the targets of ” millionaire, ” he has a wealth of less than five celebrities who support the OWS clean. The most striking example of hypocrisy is a hip-hop music mogul Russell Simmons (net worth: $ 325 million). Simmons has been a strong supporter of the OWS and the author of manual 2011 entitled “Super rich: a guide to have it all.” Simmons calls the book “the stimulus package consciousness.”
Simmons visited the OWS protests almost every day at the start, and then began to tour the site occupies a different to gather grassroots support for his proposed constitutional amendment that would ban private donations to candidates running for public office federal. But on Christmas Eve, rumors of the New York Post noted that he “found much of this week, Zuccotti Park stroll along the beach in front of super-luxurious Hotel Isle de France at St. Bart ‘s” Also, at the same time Simmons tweeted in favor of “Christ consciousness”, she angrily to criticism for doing the Act of oral sex.