The latest anti-business viral video burning up the liberal blogosphere today seems heart-wrenching … that is, until you do your homework. Robert Stephens graduated from Carleton College (average cost: $ 42,942 / year) in 2010 and now studies law at The George Washington University Law School (average cost: $ 70,449 / year). His father has a Ph.D. and two master's degrees; his mother also has a master's degree. Only in America could a kid have been blessed with so much … and only in America could he still claim to be a victim. America's capitalist society has apparently leveled a grave injustice against his family and Robert will not stand for it. Stephens – who identifies his personal political philosophy as Bolivian socialism – made a trip to New York City this weekend to participate in the "Days of Rage" march on Wall Street. He was arrested Saturday when he refused police requests to get up and out of the way of traffic in the street. In his emotional "rage," Stephens told the sympathetic Socialist / Marxist / Anarchist crowd how an eeeeeevil Wall Street bank had taken his parents 'home away from them: There's just one problem: Robert Stephens' story is (surprise!) completely bogus. Phone inquiries into the county property records & taxpayer services office reveal that the Stephens family home is not and never has been in foreclosure, that property taxes had been paid in full this year and the remaining balance on their mortgage for the half-million dollar home is less than one year's worth of tuition + fees at their son's law school. The nail in this empty protest's coffin is a delightful phone conversation I just had with Robert's mother, Marquita, where she admitted Chase Bank indeed was not "taking" their home from them. Instead, due to a recent "reduction in income," they've decided to hold a "short sale." (Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com …
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