Posted by floatingbridge on December 11, 2011, at 15:36:13
In reply to Re: The top 1%, posted by Aquarius on December 11, 2011, at 14:14:09
Aquarius,
Thanks for digging this up. I live in this state, and it is not pretty here right now. The infrastructure has severe rot.
My little city's meridians are filling with ragged people holding cardboard signs saying things like "homeless Iraq Vet needs food work".
People are increasingly ridiculing OWS now that they are being being busted the way hobos were once busted by railroads bulls. They are told to go home. My husband and I said to each other about the homeless occupiers who are left, where do they go? This is like their last stand. They are the epitome of the 99%. Contrary to what may circulate as popular belief, they did not wake up at an early age and say, guess what, I am going to sponge off the fat of the land and live a fabulous life in my mud and detritus encrusted sleeping bag. Or to live out of a car with their children, eating from food banks. Are they to be ridiculed for asking for or needing a 'handout'? Is there something inherently wrong in this country in *needing* something?
From the state that grows the United States' grapes when they aren't trucked in from Mexico by desiel or flown in from
Chile by jet with jet fuel.It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we make of what has been done to us.
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