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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2nd October 2011

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We can afford to eat, pay our bills and mortgage and send our daughter to college. But that’s it. We are feeding bodies that are falling apart, due to the broken health care system. And the house we pay so much for, we can’t afford to maintain, so it...

We can afford to eat, pay our bills and mortgage and send our daughter to college.  But that’s it.  We are feeding bodies that are falling apart, due to the broken health care system.  And the house we pay so much for, we can’t afford to maintain, so it will be pretty much worthless by the time it’s paid off.

I homeschooled our daughter because the education system is broken and feel lucky that she is now in the college where she wants to be.  I pray she finds work in her field when she’s done…  But I now have a gap in my resume, and if my husband loses his job, I will not be able to support us all on my own.  I’ve run a small online retail business in my spare time for some years, which now makes nothing because no one can afford to buy things any more.

My mother is miserable where she lives, but cannot afford to move, and we can’t afford to modify our house so that she can move in with us.  My cousin and her husband both lost their jobs when their companies moved jobs overseas and now they, with their daughter, are living with my aunt.  They cannot find work and are losing their house.  I’d like to be able to help them out more, but cannot.  My husband’s elderly parents are depleting their savings still partially supporting his 3 siblings, who are all over 30 years old and have supposedly good educations.  This is all so wrong…

Our taxes keep going up, bills, gas and food prices keep going up, and the interest our bank pays keeps going down.  How much longer we will be able to consider ourselves some of the luckier ones, I don’t know.  It will only take one catastrophic event for us.  And then how do you choose between bills, food, health care and/or education?  How do you prioritize?  I feel deeply for those of you making these choices right now, and I fear for the future of my family and this country.

And if I feel guilty for just getting by, what do the 1% feel?  Are they that heartless that they would sit back in comfort and do nothing about all this suffering?

We are the 99%, too.

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