Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Thoughts/reply (9)

Representing a minority voice always brings me back to my person frustration with Occupy Wall Street, and teh "one percent".

When I read the very very very original movement, it was yes, about the greedy banks and corporations, but it was more about the lower income saying "things are fucked up for me like you cannot imagine". This was not the 99 percent, it was the below 20K wage earners who are sickenly, still the 20 percent in this county.

but when middle class america "took over" the focus of OWS, they changed it to "I make 60K but it's not enough. I have everything I could want, but since someone has more, I'm mad". That makes me furious. I am sorry that people in the US who make 60K don't feel as if they are being heard. But having grown up a member of the 20% who put myself though school all the way to a PhD; who waited in lines to get free health care and glasses in my elementary schools; who didn't eat brekfast on MWF cause the program could only afford t th, i get frustrated at people who - with some smaller changes in their style of living, would be just fine - taking over a demonstration that was about the kids, the elderly, the poor, and the jobless.

Then I'm told not to "dismiss real claims of some, cause others have it worse", but to me I NEVER go there. See, to me, you must FIRST address the most important, and the lowest before drawing attention to the "slightly disadvantaged" or teh "inconveinanced". It it harder on my husband and I since our employers tell us to buy our own insurance? fuck yes. would it be better with national insurance, god yes. But can I afford that 100 a month, actually, yes. and we only make 40,000 and have a home we are paying on. some people make less, and cannot afford even that 100 bucks a month. I always think that is where we need to start addressing our problems, and not with spoiled "I've always had my suv, and been able to have my company pay for my insurance, and got 30 days a year vacation time" saying they are the ones with the problems that need fixing.

I don't know if it's cause of how I grew up, or because I've lived at length in France but our 40-50K a year buys us a townhouse, we have one car that runs well, we eat out somewhat frequently, we have internet and something like 7000 computers (ok, 8 actual working, used all the time computers including 4 laptops), and live a fucking good life. I really don't get the need for more.