WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?
goog question probably sleep…….sleep is good!
I am 39 y/o, a married, father of two teenagers. I have a solid job, but live paycheck to paycheck. I have seen what greed and fear of a volatile Wall Street can do to company.
My wife can’t work full time because she has major depression and a bi-polar disorder. My son is home schooled for the same reasons. My daughter has ADHD and an anxiety disorder. I don’t go to the doctor so i can save on co-pays.
My son needs a spacer removed from his upper jaw, but i cant afford the dental co-pay and heating oil.
I gave up my dream of being an actor to start a family. I worked hard in dead end retail jobs until i lucked out and landed a sales gig at a small company. I have worked that same job for almost 13 years.
Until my wife lost her job, her and my son got sick, and oil and gas prices skyrocketed to nearly triple what they had been, i made a very comfortable living. After that, we dodged 5 foreclosures in 3 years.
My employer was bought by a public company this year. We now are being told we need to cut costs next year. Hours will be cut, and there will be an increase in our Health Insurance contribution. This will likely mean a new (read: cheaper) Ins. plan and an increase in my co-pays as well.
I have seen this happen before when i worked retail.
Apparently our profit ratios are off from the accepted norms made by stock analysts. This despite our profits being over 40% higher than last year’s.
My friend’s family lives on my couch. His wife and daughters (1 and 1 month) are a joy to see every day, but things are cramped in my little house. My friend would love to get a job and move out. He wants to set the right example for his daughters. But no one is hiring laborers.
I am very lucky. I can help my friends, feed my kids and heat my house. I am almost privileged by comparison with others here. But i am one illness, one car repair, one catastrophe, away from another foreclosure.
I am afraid to post a face or any real references to my identity because i fear the Big Brother machine will locate me and report me to my corporate overlords. There may yet be enough for those who know me to pick me out.
“But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” - The Declaration of Independence
People before Profit
Worker’s Rights are Human Rights
Help your fellow humans when and how you can
“I am We are the 99 percent.”
occupywallst.org
I am a 27 year old Iraq war veteran. I volunteered to go to Iraq because the mainstream media led me to believe the US was building schools and hospitals. Shortly after entering the military despite my extensive construction experience I was trained how to shoot to kill and blow up buildings using minimal amounts of explosives. Around my 7th month in Iraq I realized we were not building schools and hospitals but instead enforcing laws the general public were uninformed of. It was at this time I began to internally side with the iraqi people and ever since have been afraid to speak up for the people around the world the USA oppresses for the sake of cheap oil and profits for banks and department stores for fear of being branded a traitor and terrorist. I have attempted suicide out of shame for being a part of a world war/domination in which there is no end in sight. Due to my injuries I am on VA disability and continue to live in fear that if I speak my mind on all of the horrible things the American government does to people all over the world the government will take my disability pay since I am unfit to work. My story is like many other’s but I do not seek pity instead I beg all of you to turn your attention not only to student loans and foreclosed homes in the US but to all of the sweat shops and slaves to corporate America all over the world. To the 40 year old women whom haven’t seen their children for a year or more because they work 80+ hours a week for $2 a day. To all the people all over the world that die because they don’t have health care. To the farming industry putting patents on the seeds of life. To the people’s RIGHT to Healthcare and Education being free for everyone. To corporations denying funding to free energy and cancer curing because “there’s no money in it”. To the fact that Millions marched in New York in protest of the wars when they first began and nothing happened because they didn’t see that protest is only the first step of action.To all of the gay Americans that take their own lives or are brutally beaten by their peers because the American Government refuses to agree with majority of America over gay rights sending a message that gay is wrong. To The Patriot Act being one of the most inhuman laws in free society.To the fact that anytime there is a study on casualties of war the count is always “this many American troops” and “this many iraqis” but never “This many human beings” which only divides us human beings as a whole. To the fact that our declaration of independence is from british oppression and tyranny even though we stand with Britain in these wars. To acknowledgement that we will never be able to separate the banks from government until we write a declaration of independence from inhuman banking and business practices and a bill of rights guaranteeing free education and healthcare and a right to fair wage.
I fought for the US government in the name of freedom
Now I fight with the 99% for freedom
I am the 99%
occupywallst.org
I am 24 years old. I have lived in the U.S. since I was 10. I am $30K in debt because one day I went to the doctor…He could not tell me why I was sick. I attend community college full time and have a 4.0…I struggle to pay for tuition, books and my living expenses. I bartend in the evenings and make about $17K each year. In 2 years my Green Card expires, citizenship costs about $600 (sometimes more). I can’t afford this (and this is home). I also do not know if my American Education is enoughfor me to pass the citizenship test…
I AM THE 99%
