OccupyHouston - Topic: I am part of the 99% http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/ Simple:Press Version 4.5.1 bobdelfino on I am part of the 99% http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/#p3841 General Discussion http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/#p3841 JYBL said:

Naomi said:

Live in the low income housing, and without your connections go out and try to find a job without dropping a name or wearing your $100 jeans. Come down to our levels and let us see if you can rise up. Talk to the people and see how we got here and why we are stuck...

 

Instead of trying to 'lower the bar', why not spend as much time and energy trying to 'achieving the success' which put them out of the low income housing???  Seriously.  This is not a joke this time.  This problem #1 with the Occupy movement.  Instead of wanting everyone to come down to your low level, work like hell to achieve that which you envy.

 

I am by NO means part of the 1%, but at least I have something to shoot for.  Instead of complaining, break free from your limited sight and see the bigger picture.  I don't want to come (back) down to your level.  I lived in what qualifies for a ghetto when I was much younger, and by all means, I ain't going back there.  And I didn't get out by the means you listed.  I worked crummy jobs, into better jobs, and finally into a career!  All without beating a single drum or acting as a fill-in "Monty Python style" human megaphone.  (sorry, John The Almighty, I couldn't resist that last one.....)

 

Jim

Your

Benevolant

Leader

JYBL,  

 

It isn't so much of 'lowering the bar' as oppose to 'try to relate'.  It isn't about " let's turn the world into a ghetto".  What it is about is eradicating those ghetto's.  Come down to the lowest rung of society and RAISE that level.  " You don't know how deep hell is, until you have been there..."  

JYBL, what many people DO NOT realize is, that 'lower bar' is rising.  And is slowing overtaking what was once a strong middle class in this country.  Hence, the growing public outcry.  It is no longer a problem only plaguing the 'second class citizenry'.  

 

The supposed #1 problem of the occupy movement you claim is actually your misunderstanding of what the movement is about.  

" The more people learn, the more the numbers will rise..."

]]> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:58:08 +0000 John on I am part of the 99% http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/#p3779 General Discussion http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/#p3779 No problem, JYBL. Glad to read your post.

I really have to run, but what attracted me to the movement initially was my belief that there is powerful lobbying against the public interest--that by far, the most powerful forces exerted on the government are exerted against the public interest.

Again, that's just my personal opinion. No time to go into it further right now. Have a good night. 

]]> Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:26:04 +0000 JYBL on I am part of the 99% http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/#p3774 General Discussion http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/#p3774 Naomi said:

Live in the low income housing, and without your connections go out and try to find a job without dropping a name or wearing your $100 jeans. Come down to our levels and let us see if you can rise up. Talk to the people and see how we got here and why we are stuck...

 

Instead of trying to 'lower the bar', why not spend as much time and energy trying to 'achieving the success' which put them out of the low income housing???  Seriously.  This is not a joke this time.  This problem #1 with the Occupy movement.  Instead of wanting everyone to come down to your low level, work like hell to achieve that which you envy.

 

I am by NO means part of the 1%, but at least I have something to shoot for.  Instead of complaining, break free from your limited sight and see the bigger picture.  I don't want to come (back) down to your level.  I lived in what qualifies for a ghetto when I was much younger, and by all means, I ain't going back there.  And I didn't get out by the means you listed.  I worked crummy jobs, into better jobs, and finally into a career!  All without beating a single drum or acting as a fill-in "Monty Python style" human megaphone.  (sorry, John The Almighty, I couldn't resist that last one.....)

 

Jim

Your

Benevolant

Leader

]]> Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:00:25 +0000 John on I am part of the 99% http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/#p3634 General Discussion http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/#p3634 Off-topic for this thread, stefan

]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:55:33 +0000 Stefan on I am part of the 99% http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/#p3633 General Discussion http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/#p3633 Is there anyone who has not been arrested yet? Maybe we can get at least 12 half decent girls together and do a calendar to raise funds. We can sell them around the Galleria

]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:42:11 +0000 Naomi on I am part of the 99% http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/#p336 General Discussion http://occupyhouston.org/forum/general-discussion/i-am-part-of-the-99/#p336 I am part of the 99%. I am a nameless girl in the crowd, I am a faceless person walking down the street, and for too long I have been a voiceless girl in the corner. Today I walked with the crowd of other people in the 99%. I heard the desperate plea for relief, not a hand out, but a hand up. Today I found my voice and screamed along side those that needed to be heard. It was not a scream for free education, it was not a demand for income without work, it was however, a cry for jobs so that we CAN work. A plea for the bigger businessmen to create factories here, rather then outsource to other countries so that we can boost our own economy by giving some of us, who are unemployed a chance of finding jobs. We hear the screaming that we need to pay our taxes if we want the benefits we plead for, but how can we, when so many are out of work and the people on wall st are getting stimulus bonus's and tax breaks while we, the "middle class Americans" are forced to choose between rent and food. It is not about getting something for nothing, but being given the chance to do something instead of being stuck in a dead end job hunt that takes scholars and turns them into waiters, and gas station attendants, barely getting by. To all the 1% that read this, imagine losing your cars, your luxury homes, having to choose between a crappy 1-bedroom house in 3rd ward, the only place you have to call home or a warm meal on your table. Imagine having to give up your fancy restaurants and living off ramen and mac’n’cheese 5 days a week. You think we ask for this hell? You think we enjoy the stress of fighting and fighting to pull ourselves out of the deficit we start out in and never being able to get even an inch up, much less high enough to sit across from you at the crystal ballroom and be deemed worthy of your conversation? Absolutely not. Come out of your mansions for a month. Live in the low income housing, and without your connections go out and try to find a job without dropping a name or wearing your $100 jeans. Come down to our levels and let us see if you can rise up. Talk to the people and see how we got here and why we are stuck. However, do not sit high in your offices and judge us, saying not to blame banks and government offices for helping to elevate you while we are shoved down lower and lower. I am one of the 99% and I will be heard.

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