Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Three and a Half Days

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The Occupy Wall Street protesters are complaining about everything from corporations to having to repay student loans. Is America the victim of its own success? Have we created a generation of self-entitled cry babies? Is it time to make these people spend three and half days in the woods so that they can appreciate what capitalism has given them? Find out.

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[wazpoppin9]

I'm 19, My generation either has to shut the f__k up or grow up. We act like the whole world owes us something just for existing. False. Nobody owes you a penny. You earn every cent that is given to you. Can't hack it? Tell somebody who cares (here's a hint, the only people that do are called Mommy and Daddy). Last year I was entitled to an entire years' worth of government entitlements, but instead I decided to get a job, got in to law school and work for everything given to me. No regrets.

[Russell Wiley]

Dude, I want to go out in the woods like that for 3.5 days. I think it would be a great experience for me to remind me of how blessed I am to live in America.

[FubarAlAkbar AlAkbar]

I have an even better idea than Bill's: let's make those protesters stand in line for 3.5 days waiting to get a loaf of State-made bread, and shoot them if they complain about it. Yeah, socialism: it's all for the public good.

It is insane how ungrateful those kids are. Most if not all of them were born after the fall of the Soviet Union. They are not taught what that nation did to its citizens, while promising them equality and abundance.

Please bring more accurate history into our schools.

[UniversalPotentate]

If we all lived in the forest, that would be an equality of opportunity. That's all the protestors are asking for. Make Congress and Bank CEOs live out the forest too!

Framing this as "anti-corporation hatred" completely misses the entire point of of the complaint! Corporations themselves are NOT the complaint at all. The complaint is a lack of equality of opportunity.

[specialtymachining]

It takes discipline & sacrifice which isn't too hard, but certainly is very honorable!

[MyXxx77]

Tesla died of hear failure at the age of 86 idiot. What else do you NOT know? What are you another conspiracy nut?

[glsnj]

Hey... that sounds like BOOT CAMP....

[IntrepidProtagonist]

This makes me glad that I was homeschooled.

[dennis yates]

I AIN'T BUILD'IN UM NO CABIN! THEY CIN MAKE THUR OWN. DON'T USE FORCE, BILL. IT'D BE OUT- ETHICS. USE ONLY THA "FORCE" OF YUR CHARM'IN, BORN-LEADER-LIKE PERSONALITY. HECK, EVERY GENERATION I EVER SEEN, EVEN BEFORE YOURS,(MINE) HAD A FEW POOR SOULS WHO ACTED LIKE THEY MUSTA BEEN PUT-TA-BED WET A TIME UR 2. I BETCHA A NICKEL THEM YOUNGINS UD LUV TA VENTURE AFIELD WITH OLD- UNCLE-BILL, WHO'D QUICK UZ A FLASH SHOW UM HOW TA SKIN-A-BUCK UN RUN-A-TROTLINE. YER NXT 31/2 DAY SABBATICAL? LV,DENNIS

[KrAUSerMike]

I'm turning 25, but I haven't relied on anyone since I got my first job at age 15.

I bought a '91 Mazda 626 that had no radio and no aircon.

I fixed the radio and the air con well... I open the windows when it's too hot.

I now have a beautiful daughter and married, married on a budget, in 2010 by making do with what I could afford.

I had NEVER taken a loan until October 2012, when I bought my wife a new car for our baby.

I pay for what I use and do without those I don't need.

it's not hard.

[rawheas]

no your stupid, you don't understand economics. If some one shot henry ford in 1895 we would still have gas cars. its not like that technology hinged upon one person and its the same thing with Tesla.

fact is that batteries are not as good at storing energy as gas, never will be. I'm not told any opinions at my school and lots of my proffs are researching alternative energy. no you are not right you are just misguided and ignorant.