.We are the 1 percenters. We worked hard to get here. Now people want to disrupt our work and take our money because they do not have what we have. We are the students who studied hard for our exams and made useful things during our free time. We are the ones who saved money instead of buying luxuries. We are the ones who invest in companies so that they have money to hire people like you. We do not blame the government, investors, and others for our problems. If we do not have a job, then we go out and learn useful skills, and find a job that needs someone with those skills. Or we create our own job and work for ourselves. We don't waste time whining about our problems. We go out and solve them.
#OccupyCollege
When I first heard about the OWS protest, I thought that it was a good thing. People were banding together to take down the corporate elites who screwed everyone over while taking their multi-million dollar bonuses and golden parachutes. But now that I’ve looked through this “wearethe99percent” blog, I’ve been able to peel away all the sob stories and name-calling to get to the real crux of the matter. We are giving credit cards and student loans to stupid people. It’s the new bubble. First, we loan them sub-prime mortgages, and they screw that up. Now we’re giving them student loans and credit cards, and they’re starting to screw that up, too. I always thought that sending more students to college would be a good thing (we build more skilled workers). But, the problem is that these people aren’t learning a thing. Colleges must be accepting just any person to their campuses to profit off them, even though they secretly know that those particular students will not get a job with their useless degrees. I think sometimes even the students know it. If the 99% had a movement, they should occupy universities with a high acceptance rate, and occupy the companies/programs that are giving out student loans to people getting nothing out of college besides a good time. Yes, “Wall St.” may have screwed the 99% before. But that already happened. Now another scam is happening beneath their noses, and they don’t even pay attention to it. Colleges are not sacred. They are profit-driven. Heck, they pay millions to their football coaches and pay nothing to the student athletes. That pretty much sums up how profit-driven these businesses are. #OccupyCollege!
