http://senoritaruth.com/archives/76 Life and society in sunny Albuquerque, New Mexico Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:41:27 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://senoritaruth.com/archives/76/comment-page-1#comment-6865 I Am The 99% And I Am Offended | Señorita Ruth Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:20:34 +0000 http://senoritaruth.com/?p=76#comment-6865 [...] It’s been build­ing since peo­ple first real­ized that their home loan was extended to them as a direct com­men­tary on their dis­en­fran­chise­ment. The move­ment has been build­ing up since the college-graduated classes of ’04, ’05, ’06 and for­ward found them­selves skim­ming by on jobs that don’t nearly reflect their abil­i­ties, and with wages that don’t nearly reflect the scale of respon­si­bil­ity these new pro­fes­sion­als have. It’s been build­ing since peo­ple have been forced into liv­ing arrange­ments based on finan­cial con­ve­nience rather than long-term goals. It’s been com­ing, with me, my friends and even those I dis­agree with, all watch­ing the ren­der­ing of the Amer­i­can Dream, the goals of our friends and neigh­bors derailed by debt, unem­ploy­ment, and a social mis­sion to dis­en­fran­chise and alien­ate even fur­ther. All the while I encour­age peo­ple my age and younger to go to col­lege, to get their edu­ca­tion. [...] […] It’s been build­ing since peo­ple first real­ized that their home loan was extended to them as a direct com­men­tary on their dis­en­fran­chise­ment. The move­ment has been build­ing up since the college-graduated classes of ’04, ’05, ’06 and for­ward found them­selves skim­ming by on jobs that don’t nearly reflect their abil­i­ties, and with wages that don’t nearly reflect the scale of respon­si­bil­ity these new pro­fes­sion­als have. It’s been build­ing since peo­ple have been forced into liv­ing arrange­ments based on finan­cial con­ve­nience rather than long-term goals. It’s been com­ing, with me, my friends and even those I dis­agree with, all watch­ing the ren­der­ing of the Amer­i­can Dream, the goals of our friends and neigh­bors derailed by debt, unem­ploy­ment, and a social mis­sion to dis­en­fran­chise and alien­ate even fur­ther. All the while I encour­age peo­ple my age and younger to go to col­lege, to get their edu­ca­tion. […]

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