"The economy is improving, therefore OWS will go away."

[JDPriestly]

115. We have a friend -- middle-aged also -- who

does not have enough to pay her rent or buy groceries. She relies on friends to help her out.

We suggested she apply for food stamps, but she said she has too much money. I can't believe that, because I know that she doesn't have money. She has a part-time job, but she earns far too little.

I don't know what the limits are on the amount of money a person can have to qualify for food stamps at this time.

I see more and more homeless people now. And, as you pointed out, these are not people who game the system. They can't even figure the system out. They are new to it, and they want no part in it.

I also have a friend who was crying recently at a meeting I attended. She told me her daughter had just come home from university. I assume that her daughter, like her son just a few years ago, is a college graduate now and can't get a job. My friend and her husband are having a very tough time, and now, at a point in their lives when they thought they had supported their children through college, they will have to continue to provide for at least one, if not two, of them.

The tradition in the US is that urban adults live independently from their families. That may change. We, like other third world countries, may have to accept the fact that children will live with their parents until the parents die. That has not been our way of life, but it could change.