This is basically what’s happening in our country right now.
And the Census released data showing half of all Americans are now considered low income. Fun times we live in!
I’m pretty bad with money, but at least what I make bad decisions with is mine. Here’s looking at you, corporate America ;)
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The very notion that the occupy protesters are “just a bunch of lazy thugs looking for a handout, who’ve never worked hard a day in their life” (and I truly can’t believe we’re STILL having this legitimacy argument) is ironic to the FACT that most of these people HAVE worked hard all their lives, and have seen shit for it.
First generation that’ll have a lesser quality of life than our predecessors. What a dream we’re living here!!
I started this blog a few weeks ago thinking nobody would ever see it or read it, it would just be some stupid, silly thing that my roommate and I started.
With the occupy protests, I feel like it has the potential to become so much more.
This was in response to this: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/12/1025555/-Open-Letter-to-that-53-Guy and some other girl who wrote a sign about how she doesn’t blame Wall Street for all her problems. And it’s like, that’s great, but, you obviously don’t get it. And even if you do and don’t agree with it, stop telling me to shut up and go home. I have a right to speak out against whatever it is that I want to.
QOTD - Paul Krugman
“We may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people.” - Paul Krugman
QOTD
“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.” — Helen Keller, 1911
You don’t have to be blind and deaf to know you’re getting raped.
