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.

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28th November 2011

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Who are the 99%? All of us who were told that if we worked hard and saved money we could retire with few financial worries. They forgot to tell us about the tech bubble, followed by the housing bubble, followed by recession and anthropocentric global climate change. They told us technology and medicine would save us. They forgot to mention the CO2 issue and environmental degradation; the cost of healthcare and the deadly side effects of pharmaceuticals. They talked us into believing that our homes would appreciate enough to buy retirement and that putting money in the stock market was better than a savings account. They forgot to mention that only insiders, brokers, players, and the already wealthy get rich from the stock market. For the rest of us it is more like carnie midway games—there’s no way to win. Our 401Ks, pension funds, IRAs, and Roths are built on a house of cards, but it is too late: we’re trapped in the game. We hope the market will go up even though we despise the thought of corporate rule. We are at the mercy of the 55 wall $treeters who peer over the balconies and laugh at our angst. The corporations and the banks are sitting on piles of our money. They withhold jobs, pad their pockets, and offer us pink slips and .03% interest. And what are we told to do about this financial crisis? Go shopping!! Spend money! What money? We don’t have jobs! We can barely afford groceries. Capitalism has failed democracy. Let’s prove we can rebuild this nation with a new ethic, an economic prosperity based on creativity and progress not greed and development. Let’s create an inclusive vision of the future where education and social justice are better choices than war and wall $treet.“We’re citizens not consumers.” I read that on the Global Revolution live feed chat. It’s my new motto. I am the 99%.


Who are the 99%? All of us who were told that if we worked hard and saved money we could retire with few financial worries. They forgot to tell us about the tech bubble, followed by the housing bubble, followed by recession and anthropocentric global climate change.

They told us technology and medicine would save us. They forgot to mention the CO2 issue and environmental degradation; the cost of healthcare and the deadly side effects of pharmaceuticals.

They talked us into believing that our homes would appreciate enough to buy retirement and that putting money in the stock market was better than a savings account. They forgot to mention that only insiders, brokers, players, and the already wealthy get rich from the stock market. For the rest of us it is more like carnie midway games—there’s no way to win.

Our 401Ks, pension funds, IRAs, and Roths are built on a house of cards, but it is too late: we’re trapped in the game. We hope the market will go up even though we despise the thought of corporate rule. We are at the mercy of the 55 wall $treeters who peer over the balconies and laugh at our angst. The corporations and the banks are sitting on piles of our money. They withhold jobs, pad their pockets, and offer us pink slips and .03% interest.

And what are we told to do about this financial crisis? Go shopping!! Spend money! What money? We don’t have jobs! We can barely afford groceries. Capitalism has failed democracy. Let’s prove we can rebuild this nation with a new ethic, an economic prosperity based on creativity and progress not greed and development. Let’s create an inclusive vision of the future where education and social justice are better choices than war and wall $treet.

“We’re citizens not consumers.” I read that on the Global Revolution live feed chat. It’s my new motto. I am the 99%.

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