At a meeting this weekend, the Chapel Hill malcontents got a sobering kick  in the pants from a productive member of society who, based on the reporting, is facing incredible challenges but pushes forward instead of resorting to the pathetic tactics we’ve seen for weeks in Chapel Hill and other cities. From the Chapel Hill News:

 

Then toward the end a man in a wheelchair sat across Franklin Street holding a sign: “33 percent of lungs left. 24/7 on oxygen. I still have a job. Your excuse is?”

Michael Keim, 27, had been waiting 44 days as of Sunday for a double lung and bone marrow transplant, he said.

The 911 dispatcher from Georgia is a patient at Duke Hospital.

“It’s so broad of a topic,” he said of the Occupy message. “I was raised (if) I want something I work for it. I paid for my truck. I have a motorcycle; I paid cash for it.”