"I am here because my friends and family all over the world are suffering. Life should be easy and fun."Life should be easy and fun? Life should be, and is, very difficult and a ton of fun. You sound like Paris Hilton. She's an idiot.
"As an individual, or even as a small business, I can't function in a world where a massively wealthy corporation has the same legal rights as me. I can't fight against that - I don't have the money, and I don't have the political power."You want laws that favor you? Isn't legal favoritism one of the things that Occupy Wall Street is fighting against?
"We need more equitable wealth distribution."Go out and earn your wealth. Don't expect it to be handed to you.
"Capitalism has failed."You're probably right. We should abandon the system that built America into the global powerhouse that it is and move to something else. There's clearly a lot of alternatives that have been more successful. Just ask Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Gaddafi, or Saddam. They have extensive experience with this.
Afra is studying early childhood education and is worried that she won't find a job after college. She says a bachelor's degree is no longer enough to get a job, and that is part of why she is protesting. (Afra is holding up a sign that says "Where am I going after college???")Translation of Afra's statement: "I have to get more education? More school for me? Phooey... Life should be easy and fun. :( " I don't know where you're going after college. That's your responsibility.
"I don't think we should try to 'take down the system,' but if the system is not working for us we should just walk away."Another grand idea. You should go to those other countries that are better off than the U.S.
"The reason why I'm here is to be part of this movement to get something done about the 1% that has all the money and the power. We are the 99% that is waiting around for this revolution to happen so something can be done."And there's your problem. You're just waiting around for something to get done. Go do it yourself.
Reed believes that we need to "remove corporate dollars out of the pockets of politicians" and that political lobbying is "a fancy term for bribery."I actually agree. However, lobbying is legal. If that's what needs to change, Wall Street isn't the place to protest.
Williams attended the protest with her 2-year-old daughter, Autumn. She said she was inspired to join the protest by a Gandhi quote: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."Tell that to the guy above that's just waiting around for something to happen.
Labels: #OWS, Occupy Wall Street, politics