My suggestion to us occupiers
I've been waiting for someone to take the lead and organize a march on washington DC at The White House and Congress.
We need to organize all occupied city demonstrators and move this on to DC.
While the winter weather conditions will not be friendly to our cause, I am suggesting we set a date of April 15, 2012 (tax day).
Who's up for this????
Please note, this suggestion will be NON-VIOLENT and PEACEFUL demonstration.

If you are going to college to get a worthless degree just because it is easy to pass and wonder why you can not get a job, stop complaining. You decided to go to college just to get that diploma. Go for something that is challenging and that will be worth it in the long run. Get off your ass, stop standing around in a park complaining how you cannot get a job or how you have no money. Get out there and work for it. Nothing in life comes easy. There are people dying all over the world and your complaining how you cannot buy more materialistic crap. If you own a car, or have running water, or are able to have one meal a day, you are better off then half of the population in the world. Im sick of hearing about this.

Last year I was misdiagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. I was fired for a bogus reason because I became a liability. A year later when my disability ran out and I was correctly diagnosed with a thyroid problem I wanted to go back to work but the State of California denied me unemployment as I searched earnestly for a job. They denied my unemployment because I did not earn enough income on disability and did not subsidize my disability income. I subsequently lost my home and have been homeless for three months now. My son is living separate from me. I am the 99%! Our Government is corrupt and it's their relationship with large corporations that are making people like me suffer. People are losing their jobs because big businesses are going overseas seeking cheap labor. The list goes on. People are mad, people like my 17yr old son who will wake up Christmas morning in a strangers house, away from me for the first time in his life. My son is the 99%. He is part of the movement and he has a right to be mad. God is taking care of me and I am fortunate for that reason alone.

Dear Mr. President, There is a very large demonstration being planned for January 20th, 2012 at the Federal Courthouse at 700 Stewart street in Seattle, - and at every Federal Courthouse in the United States.. There are many groups organizing and “gearing up” for this demonstration. I will be promoting and advertising it. This “occupy movement” has only just begun. I suggest you figure out your plan of action and response; The rules of engagement; - Need a way better understanding of what is going on; - than during WTO in Seattle. Treat the people like they are the enemy, and they will become it I feel the occupy movement does have a basic underlying message; Stop letting money decide political elections; And regulate corporate lobbying (and all lobbying) making it a public forum. Right now lobbying is mostly two old white guys sitting across from each other in an office. “They” have probably worked with each other or went to the same school; And “they” have promised you a job when you get out of politics, — tripling your present salary!. The “lobbyist” used to be a “politician”, it worked for him!. Who owns who? - That's a “Person-hood”. “I” was at the WTO protests in Seattle Washington, (with thousands of “other” really awesome “people”, and a few “freaks”) when a bunch of “anarchists” started busting windows with crowbars. We surrounded them, and they got in a circle with their crowbars. I tried to get the “Seattle police” to come arrest “these anarchists”, that were only fifty feet away and threatening violence and breaking windows… The “Seattle police” would not budge from their “police line”, making all of “us” the “enemy”…. (There were thousands of “union” and “other” people sitting and standing in the street, - it was a relatively peaceful protest until the windows started breaking…). ” I” am not the “enemy”. January 20, 2012 – Move to Amend Occupies the Courts! Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark this date — Occupy the Courts — a one day occupation on Friday January 20, 2012, of the Federal Courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States and as many of the 89 U.S. District Court Buildings as we can. (I am inspired by Doctor Martin Luther King who said; “a true revolution of values”, … “there comes a time when silence is betrayal”., “people are not gonna be silenced”.). Move to Amend will lead the charge on the judiciary which created — and continues to expand — corporate personhood rights.

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God is always watching. God bless America.

Because of the 1% to 99% income inequalities, the United States has the highest rate of child poverty in the developed world.

and occuping Walll Street is going to get them….on TV? a website? Not really seeing HOW this going to get anyone a doctor (what?), a job, or the house they apparently couldn't afford either…Did anyone do research on these folks? Could it be that some of them are simply undesirable as employee's? How do you all know they aren't drunks? or created a poor work enviornment for other's? You all have no idea WHY they are in a particular situation?!…Employer's do get to select who they want…Holy Crap…Life can suck and kick you just when you thought you could breathe..but this isn't the answer. I WOULDN”T HIRE anyone at that protest…the way some are acting, the way they are impacting others shows no respect and apparently no concept of reality. They seem more of a liabiltiy than an asset..a worker comp claim in waiting.
Pray they all find their way soon…and figure out how to be the King/Queen and not the pawn.

10 is seriously my problem ..lol

Oh. My. God.
I am so sick of people whining about the debt they've gotten themselves into by going to college. It's not necessary. Actual skills are more bloody useful than a piece of paper. You've gotten yourselves into the debt, so quit trying to blame everyone else.

#9 PRIVATELY. Come on, Doogie Howser.

I dunno. My family started off dirt poor in a third world country. My parents worked their asses off, got laid off several times, and we still made it. At one point, my father didn't have work for over three years, but we were fine since we lived well below our means when he was employed. Undergrad on full scholarship, Masters on full scholarship. If you're “overqualified” for most jobs, dumb your CV down. It's not lying, it's omission, and you'll have a better chance of getting something to hold you through the clusterfuck we're all in. There's always a way.

Some of these comments are really cold. Hope none of you end up in the 99%.

All this talk about college. Dont go to college just because you want a nice pretty piece of paper. Try to have a plan for what doors that degree will open for you before you start to spend money on it. The experience I got working at Whataburger and WalMart has done more good for me compared to what I learned in college.

Okay - my one big issue with these people, while I support them otherwise: Someone needs to pop this bubble of “higher education”. Students should not feel pressured to spend thousands of dollars and years in university when all they want is a job. That should NOT be the main function of university.
Companies shouldn't expect a four-year degree to mean anything - practically everyone can get one from SOMEWHERE now - so why pretend it's important?
Higher education should be available to everyone who wants it - but when I say that, I mean people who want to be in academic disciplines.
The whole stigma of vocational schools as not as valuable as a traditional college education needs to be eliminated completely. Think of how many people in our workforce could save money and time by pursuing a much more focused route of study instead of having to fill out division requirements for the sake of reaching some minimum bar on their resumes. The global service industry (providing our first world expertise to developing countries like Brazil and India) is a huge mine for jobs that hasn't been pursued nearly enough. Train people for that. It may be utilitarian, but our world needs a massive overhaul with rising population and diminishing jobs (I mean, what are we gonna do when machines can do everything for us?).

Seriously, what motivates all the Republicans in this thread to rush to the defense of the big banks that only survived because of TARP? They're not exemplars of your ideals. They're parasites that destroyed our economy and then used their death grip on both parties to avoid responsibility and receive the biggest corporate welfare check in our country's history. Stop trying to be the “good serf.” Stop blaming people who work and want to work. You're not going to get any bows and ribbons from your Wall Street masters. Reflexively defending corrupt, crony capitalism out of a misguided hatred for the working class doesn't mean you're John Galt. You're just going to get screwed like the rest of us.

“I have a degree; an Associates of Arts….” *STOPPED READING*

this makes me feel less alone, but not less depressed or angry.

11) noble work and a thankless job mostly. Thank you for your service. It is sad that funds run low for those kinds of programs. I don't know why you would be protesting wall street over that though. Unrelated unless you're out there passing out info for donations for your worthy cause.
12) You sir, are Awesomesauce!! America works. Never be a victim, live the American Dream. Yeah!
13)I don't know what priviled is, but it sounds like you had things going well for you. Why protest?
14)Where are the kids now? I can understand the protest if Wall Street is holding them against their will. otherwise if they aren't willing to help you out after all you've done for them….

6) *large group in unison* “My job eliminated”
7)I sympathize. Walmart is pretty cheap though, have you tried shopping there?
8)Your mom lost her job but you still went on to get your masters? that's good news. There's still hope if you could do that.
9)You and your mom are both in school working toward the American dream. That's the way it's done. Your grandma was there to help you out till you're back on your feet. That's the way it's supposed to work. You obviously don't need the government interfering in your lives. You're doing it right.
10)You're 20 years old. Your expectations are too high if you're not looking at minimum wage jobs like McD's or Subway. They're crappy jobs until you work your way up to management. You have to expect to start at the bottom, just don't stay there.