Guest guest Posted October 3, 2011 Report Share Posted October 3, 2011 Time to speak up and out in ways that you can. Silence will be to be controlled, and not to your advantage. http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/ WE ARE THE 99 PERCENT Allow Us to Introduce Ourselves We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution. We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we're working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything. We are the 99 percent. Brought to you by the people who occupy wall street. Why will YOU occupy? OccupyWallSt.orgOccupytogether.org 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 35 NOTES I have lived two months without gas in my home.I have eaten only instant mashed potatoes for nearly half of the summer. I don’t need HD cable television to survive. I LIVE SIMPLY AND THERE’S A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THAT.I am the 99% occupywallstreet.org 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 33 NOTES If the disease doesn’t kill you the treatment will. 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 8 NOTES 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 12 NOTES The inability of Washington and the banks to fix the housing market leaves hard-working, small time condo flippers (a.k.a. property improvers) stuck paying multiple mortgages with no money left to buy anything, to save anything or to make charitable contributions. I am the 99 percent. 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 9 NOTES 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 128 NOTES I am a college graduate with no job and nearly $50K in student loan debt. Since I lost coverage in 2006, I have only had emergency-basis treatment for bipolar disorder. My depression and anxiety are often crippling, and repeated bouts of mania ruined my credit. Medication costs $325. I have $15 to my name. I live with my boyfriend. If he loses his job, we lose everything. I did everything I was supposed to do and I have nothing to show for it. I am worth more dead than alive. I am the 99 percent. 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 19 NOTES My father is 64. He was a public school teacher for 20 years before being let go. He was unemployed for 2 years off and on between night jobs and private school gigs. He is currently a security guard at a cigar factory. At 62 he had to borrow early from his retirement pension and may not have enough for 5 years from now. He makes $8/hr with a degree. My mother is 60. She has worked in the insurance industry since she graduated high school. She lost her job in February and has applied for 700 jobs and has started losing hope at ever finding one at her age. The first line of unemployment ran out and she is uninsured. She has type 2 diabetes and hypertension. She recently was hospitalized because she bought food instead of medication. Now they are having their home of 36 years foreclosed on. They are filing for bankruptcy next year. Their credit limit was lowered to $400 between two cards. I am 23 years old and working toward my BA. I lost my Bright Futures scholarship (75% of my tuition paid) because I fell below half time status my third semester (I had to work full time instead to pay rent and eat). I am 20K in debt and am paying out of pocket for my current tuition while I start paying back loans with two part time jobs. WE HAVE DONE EVERYTHING WE CAN. WE WORK HARD. WE ARE THE 99% AND WE WANT J U S T I C E! OCCUPY JACKSONVILLE FL OCCUPY WALL STREETOCCUPY EVERYWHERE! 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 7 NOTES I have ALWAYS been party of the 99%. But did not realize it until now. I got married young, yeah I made a mistake, and put off finishing school, until now. I am getting my GED, so that MAYBE I can get a job. In February I lost my job. They say they fired me, unemployment says I quit. Too late to fight for money. I have a 4 year old daughter who needs clothes, she grows fast. We lost our son a week before I supposed to have him. Doctors fault, no money to sue them. Because we have a child, we get state health insurance, and food stamps. It’s enough food for a month, if I don’t make big meal (ex. meat loaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, and whatever fruit we have) and if we don’t shop at name brand groceries. Health insurance pays for everything for my daughter. However, my husband is disabled, and cannot work. They will not pay for him to go see a neurologist, like he needs to, unless he gets a referral. But after he was told to go see one, he got into a car wreck, which made everything worse, so he went back to his doctor, to get some pain meds until he could get into see one. Since there is a car wreck on medical history, none of the neurologists here will see him. He has been denied disability, because he has not went to see one. We get $290 a month in cash assistants, our rent alone is $625. Cheapest we could find, that my daughter has her own room. Luckily we have family that helps us. They are running low on their funds. All of this is taking its mental, physical, and emotional damage on us. My daughter wears hand-me-down clothes, because we cannot afford to get her new clothes. They are all clothes that others have grown out of. And a lot of them do not look nice (stains, rips, falling apart). She needs shoes, and I hate making her wear used shoes. Winter is coming, and I will not let her wear hats worn by others for worries that she might get lice, and that will be another bill we will have to pay. We were given a truck, that is made for two, we have to make work with my daughters booster seat. It’s a manual, and since I am so short, my husband has to drive every where. It’s getting to the point now that if we have to go some where, or do something, either I have to go, and leave him at home, or we get our his wheelchair, and walk. We need a car, that is not falling apart. His parents have replaced two tires on the truck both of them being the same tire, and we still need three more tires. The transmission is freezing up. The e-break does not work any more. We are tired, over worked, and FED UP!!! We are the 99% 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 11 NOTES With no choice by to work for my mothers business, I have given up all hope in pursuing my dream. I never thought I’d be in this situation at my age. My parents moved here from Pakistan and had me and my brothers here in America hoping to raise their children in a better economy with opportunities and fulfilling dreams. But all we have gotten is grief and struggle. If we all stand together, we can change it all!!! NYer’s join me and MoveOn.org on Wednesday October 5th at City Hall Downtown Manhattan, for a march to stand for OUR dreams!!! 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 13 NOTES 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 13 NOTES I am 28 years old and one of the lucky ones.I own 2 small businesses and work over 100 hours a week in order to cover: my rent ($1300/month for a small one bedroom)debt from college (>$10k left to go)credit card debt (>$6,000 and staying close to the same even though I am paying more than the minimum every month) car payment (on a loan with a 15% interest rate, which no bank will re-finance even though my credit has improved greatly and my income has raised since I purchased the car) I have no health insurance because I was denied due to a pre-existing condition and my status as self employed doesn’t qualify me for a group plans. I pay for healthcare out of pocket and get no preventative care at all. I live in fear of being injured or requiring hospitalization. I have enough money for food and my other bills each month, but that’s about it. I have no savings. I am lucky, but I am the 99%. www.occupywallst.org 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 146 NOTES I am a college professor, teaching our future generations. But like more than 50% of all college professors, I’m an Adjunct ‘contractor’. This means I can be fired for any reason; this means I receive no paid vacation; this means I receive no health insurance; this means I receive no sick days; this means I receive no retirement; this means I receive no unemployment; this means I pay double Social Security taxes! And I am paid little better than minimum wage. I too am the 99%. occupywallst.org 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 10 NOTES I am young.I am educated and hard working. I am not able to pay my bills.I am afraid of what the future holds. I am hoping things change. I am the 99%occupywallst.org 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 9 NOTES 3RD OCTOBER 2011 PHOTO WITH 82 NOTES I am 62 years old. I have worked honestly and hard my whole life (since I was 14) because that is how you “realize The American Dream.†I was a home builder and designer.In 1980, the “Savings & Loan Crisis†forced me out of work and out of business. (the government helped the banks survive…) I slowly rebuilt my life and business. In 2007, the “Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis†crushed me again. I lost my business, my home, my wife and my belief in that American Dream. (the government saved the banks again…) WE ARE THE 99% occupywallst.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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