Another 99 Percenter...

[WillyT]

Link: http://ht.ly/6S7kH

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[renate]

1. all of these stories are heartbreaking

http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

These are all human beings, living the only lives they're going to get (at least this time around), lives that have fallen into disrepair (or are at risk of doing so through a single stroke of bad luck) because of the greed of big business--not just Wall Street but insurance companies and multinational companies--and the far right who willfully lie to get people to vote and even demonstrate against their own best interests.

I really hope this is a tipping point.

[gateley]

2. +1 nt

[tblue]

4. Thank you! It's tearing me up!

Had not seen this site.

[tblue]

3. Ohhh!!!

Poor girl. I have a teenager, too, and nephews in their 20s and I want a better future for them (and all of us) than it looks like it's gonna be!

[Jamastiene]

5. I remember when Generation X was worried we wouldn't have

Social Security any more. We knew we would be paying into it, but probably would not get it. Fast forward about 20 years and we now know just how bad things are getting. We now KNOW we won't have it any more with the way things are going with this out of control greedy corporate controlled government.

Now, the next generation has to worry even more. I wonder if Gen X has recuperated enough from the rightward slant it took in the late 90s that if we ever have a Gen X president in the future, it might get better. I'm beginning to wonder if we'll even have Medicare or Social Security or any social programs to help people 10 years down the road.

And I still wonder why our Congressmen will not answer our main question: Why is it that there is ALWAYS enough money for more missiles, bombs, wars, etc. but NEVER enough money for programs that WE pay for through our taxes?

There is ALWAYS enough money for war, but never enough money for what we pay for with our taxes. They keep cutting Social Security and Medicare to pay for more and more wars, the thieving scoundrels.

On Edit: I forgot to add K&R to the post. K&R

[dkf]

6. "out of control greedy corporate controlled government."

Kind of makes politics irrelevant doesnt it?

[renate]

7. just found this one... it's terrible. This family played by the rules and then a daughter got sick

It's long (and there's more at the link) but I couldn't figure out what part of this wasn't tragic enough to include:

A single mom of three living the dream. my then (14) year old daughter was diagnosed with cancer, the 600$ a month private insurance company refused to pay, the private health care facility refused to treat her without payment, i drained my savings, my 401l (what was left of it),and everything else i could, the insurance company refused to let me cancel and kept taking monthly premiums even though they refused to pay for anything. (cancer costs $45,000 a day)Recently, i was diagnosed with a chronic illness and cannot work, my carrer of 28 years is over. My PRIVATE dissability insurance Company denied my claim,i lost my home, my vehicles, all my private insurance, my private health care, all my belongings, and my children were forced to live seperately with family and friends as every household is full and we couldnt stay together. My daughters cancer is out of remminssion & she is back in treatment,she works two jobs at $7.40hr while going through chemo and radiation to pay for it.(18yrs old) my health is deteriorating, and my living arrangement has been terminated due to inability to pay. I AM NOW HOMELESS,SICK,DESTITUE,AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE…UNABLE TO WORK. I watched my parents entire retirement savings be wiped out,their wall street investments bottom out, their home depreciate in value by 200k, and their life savings of 40 years gone.

http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/post/11283744716/i-have-worked-since-i-was-10-years-old-i-never