Occupy Wall Street? You Bet. Occupy My Street!

Peanut butter costs going up. Coffee has been up for a while. Gas has been up and now going down again. The price of vegetables and meat has already sky-rocketed and you wonder why the Occupy Wall Street protesters are angry? There doesn’t seem to be one single cause they are protesting about. I think that people are fed up with banks jacking their rates up, with not putting enough food on the table like they used to, and the crumbling of American morals and the crumbling of our infrastructure. Some cities should be featured on the X-Games with rundown roads and bridges that are cracking.

Americans have to put food on the table. It has been said that 1 in 5 American families struggle to make dinner for the family. Here in America? It shouldn’t be like this. Our education system is struggling to teach kids the basic skill they need to survive in life. Kids don’t take cursive writing anymore. Everything is based on computers, cell phones and other technology.

Houses are being repossessed and lost to the families who have paid their mortgages for years. The government said Social Security isn’t going to last for the latest generations. I’m 57 and hope I am going to be able to collect some Social Security. And you might wonder why the Occupy Wall Street protesters don’t have a single agenda? This is a social revolution that is becoming world-wide. People just fed up with the dying economy and saying, “Can you help us?”

We have troops in a lot of different countries. We have illegal aliens crossing our borders every day. We have people using the welfare system to support themselves by using and selling prescription drugs. It is time to focus on American now. Bring the troops home and have them patrol our borders. We need to figure out how to feed people in America who are starving and struggle to eat every day. We need to provide jobs at decent wages so people that are not as fortunate as rich people can live their own American dream.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters have recently been selected on CNN’s informal pool with a 70 to 30 percent over the Tea Party. The Occupy Wall Street protests have gone one step farther. They are on the streets and are not going to give up their various stances against the policies of the American and corporate policies that are holding us back from achieving freedom and the right to get ahead in our lives without interference from the Federal Government.

As far as the rich is concerned? We live in a country where Capitalism is promoted. I don’t have a problem with that. Should they pay more taxes? I think so. It doesn’t make us Socialist if we slap a tax on them. Two percent of people in the U.S. own more than 40 percent of stocks. This brings back Wall Street into the picture. It isn’t funny though to the average American people who lost their hard-earned money from their 401Ks during this recession. And we are still going downhill as a nation due to a bad economy and loss of jobs.

Hey, let’s talk about military veterans. I was glad to see President Obama institute a program to get all the homeless veterans off the street. I was part of the program and it helped me out tremendously. I now live with my girlfriend in a real house in Texas. I have a backyard with flowers and am trying to regain the American dream. But what do we do about the other families in America that live in tents or out of the back of their cars because of the economy? How can we help them and their children to become stable in their own homes?

I say check on your neighbors – especially the elderly and families with children. It is well known that the poor tend to give the shirts off their backs to help their neighbors even though they might not have the same things themselves. America used to be a giving country. Have we gotten so calloused that we can’t help our neighbors anymore?

Occupy my street and let us get a protest going. We have a mixture of baby-boomers, elderly and the poor. Occupy my street and see how we struggle every week just to feed ourselves and make ends meet. Occupy my street and see those in need buying something cheap at a yard sale to make their homes livable the best they can.

I side with the protesters and I applaud them. A new revolution has started in America. The revolution is made up of average people in our generation who are tired of an overbearing, non-caring government who say they are trying to help us, when in fact they are making prisoners of a bad economy that is not really helping anyone. This new revolution is not going away. I knew it was bound to happen. Whatever happened to, “For the people, by the people?” Has the constitution been done away with through Federal Government intervention? I think not. I do not think that Americans will give up on our country but we need these protesters and Americans to say, “I’ve had enough.” Congress and corporation should listen. Protesters are not going to give up and they shouldn't. I'm not giving up.