By now anyone paying attention to the “Occupy Wall Street” protests and its various local offshoots across the country has seen the hypocritical and absurd demands of a class of people who protest the greed of those who have earned their wealth by expressing their own greed for wealth they did not earn. These unwashed masses come with their smartphones and high-end cameras to document this “movement” that is meant to bring attention to an unjust economic divide or whatever their demand du jour is.

National Review points out an interesting decision of the Occupy “movement” to organize a protest in Detriot, Michigan, a city that has enjoyed the fruits of liberal programs for years.

Detroit, Grand Circus Park — Detroit would seem an odd place for the Occupy movement. After, all, it has already received everything the 99 Percenters are demanding.

Want redistribution of wealth? For 40-odd years, Detroit has gotten tens of billions of dollars in welfare assistance, from the Great Society of Lyndon Johnson’s administration to Barack Obama’s Strong Cities Initiative.

Want good-paying jobs? Michigan is the notorious home of the Big Three automakers, who paid their workers a best-in-the-U.S. wage of $40 an hour — far above the average U.S. manufacturing wage of $15 an hour, resulting in blue-collar workers who often earned six-figure incomes.

Want socialized medicine? Canada is right across the river from Detroit, offering a single-payer, government-run health system.

And yet on Friday, some 500 demonstrators from across Michigan descended on downtown Detroit to protest conditions here. They gathered at the Spirit of Detroit statue at the base of Woodward Avenue. They marched up Detroit’s main street past the gleaming new corporate headquarters of Quicken Loans and Compuware, past a sea of empty storefronts, past the corporate-sponsored sports complexes, to their destination: Grand Circus Park. They held signs reading “Make capitalism extinct” and “The People are too big to fail” and “Eat the rich” while chanting “Good jobs now!” and “Tax the rich!” and “F— the GOP!”

Unwittingly, however, they were protesting a Democratic-run city that represents the failure of their agenda.

You got to appreciate the irony.