THE ECONOMIC CLIMATE IS TOUGH ON THE HIPPIES

Why it’s so hard to hear the hippies

By FRANK J. FLEMING

With all the focus on people who want to work but can’t, it’s easy to forget that things are also tougher on those who never wanted to work in the first place. Now the hippies have started the Occupy Wall Street movement to get the attention they deserve, but is America ready to listen to hippies again?

You might think that high unemployment has no effect on hippies, who were never looking for work, but you’re forgetting how much they depend on the resources of others. With everyone struggling, no one is really in the mood to listen to hippies demand free health care and student-loan forgiveness.

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