I have also review the "We Are the 99%" website" and while some of these stories are truly sad the majority of them are 20-30 somethings that are whining because they compiled huge student loans, sometimes in fields that have no marketability or think that everyone owes them a living.
Here is how they chose to "define" who is of the 99% (taken from occupywallst.org)
We need to retake the freedom that has been stolen from the people, altogether.
- If you agree that freedom is the right to communicate, to live, to be, to go, to love, to do what you will without the impositions of others, then you might be one of us. (That"s the 1st amendment. However your words and actions sometimes have consequences. That's life)
- If you agree that a person is entitled to the sweat of their brows, that being talented at management should not entitle others to act like overseers and overlords, that all workers should have the right to engage in decisions, democratically, then you might be one of us.(So we no one is in charge of anything and we all just do what we want. Seems I've heard this before, flower power or Lord of the Flies maybe?)
- If you agree that freedom for some is not the same as freedom for all, and that freedom for all is the only true freedom, then you might be one of us. (Freedom comes with a price and everyone has to contribute)
- If you agree that power is not right, that life trumps property, then you might be one of us. (but yet your symbol is the up raised power to the people fist? Life trumps property? Really, so if I try to take your property you won't defend it with every fiber of your being?)
- If you agree that state and corporation are merely two sides of the same oppressive power structure,(but George Soros spending 23.5 million dollars to defeat G.W. Bush ok?) if you realize how media distorts things to preserve it,(You mean like when they bash the Hell out of any conservative but glorify any Democrat) how it pits the people against the people to remain in power, then you might be one of us.(I kept expect Jeff Foxworthy to pop in with a punch line, but no such luck.)
And so we call on people to act
- We call for protests to remain active in the cities. Those already there, to grow, to organize, to raise consciousnesses, for those cities where there are no protests, for protests to organize and disrupt the system.(since you have nothing else to do go out and become a nuisance)
- We call for workers to not only strike, but seize their workplaces collectively, and to organize them democratically. We call for students and teachers to act together, to teach democracy, not merely the teachers to the students, but the students to the teachers. To seize the classrooms and free minds together. (Who else remembers the 60's? sound familiar?)
- We call for the unemployed to volunteer, to learn, to teach, to use what skills they have to support themselves as part of the revolting people as a community.(Whoever thought that to refer to themselves as the "revolting people" was a good idea, really needs to ask for the money they spent on college back)
- We call for the organization of people's assemblies in every city, every public square, every township.(Again, since you have nothing else to do, go out and become a nuisance)
- We call for the seizure and use of abandoned buildings, of abandoned land, of every property seized and abandoned by speculators, for the people, for every group that will organize them.(Go squat on land and property that isn't yours, just take it over)
We call for a revolution of the mind as well as the body politic. (because as things are we can't get what we want)
- Human greed, everyone one always wants more, it's human nature.
- If no one makes any money who pays for all of this?
- Without rewards there is no incentive to improve or advance. (The main reason most of the people with huge student loans are in that situation)
- "The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of someone else' money".
A number of the people that have been interviewed have described themselves as "Socialist, Marxists, Communists". Is it just me or didn't we spend the last half of the last century pouring trillions into defeating these types of governments and parties?
I know that I am part of the 53% that pays all the taxes. I am not, part of the 1% and if I have to take a side I will side with the 1%. Why? Because I work for a living I am not expecting the government to molly caudal and wet nurse me in exchange for drinking their Koolaide.
If you are in debt up to your eyeballs take a good in the mirror. NO ONE forced you to sign those loan documents. Maybe if the 99% worked at fixing the problems with government instead of looking to the government to fix itself and take care of everyone. We wouldn't have to hear about the redistribution of wealth. But, that would require more effort that camping in city park, making a cardboard sign and whining about how bad your life is. Grow up stop sniveling and contribute to society!!