By the way, if want to furrow your brow for a few minutes - We Are The 53% - because you can always convince one half of the poor to fight the other half.
Well, at least they're standing up for what (they believe) is right. No one can fault them for that.
The Hell I can't. The name itself is part of the problem. 53% percent refers to some (relatively) specious numbers about how many Americans actually pay income taxes. The response to the "Occupy" guys (and essentially the entire realm of progressive-taxation) that's gaining popularity is pointing to the fact that so many people don't pay any income taxes. The problem they say, is that the top 3% of income earners make up about 50% of federal tax revenue. The problem isn't that 400 people have as much combined net worth as the bottom 150 million (which helps explain that federal-revenue disparity), but that those 150 million aren't paying
their fair share.
Of course, this completely ignores that most of that 47% are people who have no income and never would (prisoners, the disabled, work-age minors, the early-retired, stay at home parents), people actively looking for jobs and not finding any (officially 9.1%), and people who do have jobs, but make so little money they either don't qualify for the lowest income bracket or qualify for enough tax credits that they wind up owing nothing (including about 1470 millionaires). Never mind that they still pay Medicare and Social Security taxes, state income taxes, property and sales taxes, and government fees.
Charitably, it's a belief that the real problem in the American tax structure is that we aren't trying hard enough to squeeze blood from a stone. My opinion, is that they're the same old know-nothings who believe working their asses off for no recognition or proper reward or basic civil entitlements is the "honorable" way of life, and anyone who doesn't is as good as criminal, and have no real concept of how an economy works and can't fathom why 9+% of the population can't find a job like they did.
And people like its founder. It started with this guy
Steve Doocy, who made that Tumblr (I believe his picture is still at the first entry), wherein he says he has "three jobs" and complains about housing prices and such. His three "jobs" are a blog, a radio show, and being a Fox commentator, which you can imagine pays pretty well.