If any of us needed encouragement to keep at it, this gentleman’s and his young daughter’s story would do it.

A theatre I work with gets an “at cost” discount from a local rental truck agency. That agency has been cutting back its hours, and apparently will be going out of business soon.

A flat real estate market will do that.

He should become 25 years old. Then Obamacare will cover him!

The more solidarity we can achieve, the more effective we will be in changing this destructive system we’re trapped in. Stories like this help us resist the mainstream media propaganda that tries to keep us in the 99% divided by our prejudices.

Not all of us can show up at OWS, so we have to find other ways to get involved in resistance. Check out this very amusing video wherein a young business man explains how to turn the unsolicited credit card applications that clog our mailboxes into an effective tool of protest:

“How to really annoy the banks and finance companies. This works…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgkSiyIUz_w&sns=fb

Of course, this doesn’t take the place of getting out and working with other people, but it is something we can all do in minutes every single day.

Are you being a flippant ahole? This man is in bad shape and you make lame jokes about him?? Get a life!

Let’s see. No health care, house lost, savings gone, credit gone, but, hey, 1% ers got their bonus. I guess they got a safety net, but us?

A relative of mine runs a small business construction company. Although things are improving somewhat this year, the past several years have been more than rough with similar companies in their town all in bidding wars with each other for the very few jobs that are available. My relative indicates that the majority of the companies that “won” the bids for most of the jobs *had* to be working at loss bc what they bid was so low.

My relative (actually a relative-in-law) comes from an upper middle class family where grandparents had died somewhat recently leaving an inheritance. This is what has enabled the relative get by. I’m happy for my relative. Clearly this man did not benefit from having wealthier relatives to leave him money to help him through this economic depression.

Of course, we have trolls who would joyously swing by here to baldly state that this guy had better get off of his lazy welfare butt, move to another state pronto where there’s bound to be jobs a-plenty, IF only he didn’t have a “hand out” slacker mentality. Of course, the Land O Goshen where jobs are a-plenty remains a rather elusive place to find… kind of like Brigadoon, I think.

Thanks for the post. My best wishes to this man and his daughter. It’s all very sad.

#OWS! Power to the People!

He is just pointing out what Bullshit Obamacare is.

There is no justification for these travesties! Street Talk: There is but 1 goldbrick for every 99 of clay on Wall
Street! Remove the gold, and the wall and street still hold; remove the clay, and they both go away!! Yet, spread the gold around EQUALLY and EVERY Corner $HINE$!!!

This is the kind of thing the OnePercent love to hear. They know that all this man’s wealth has been reabsorbed by them. They also love to hear of a cancer sufferer who won’t be costing the Wall Street owned MHI any of their profits since he has been disenfranchised per their business model.

Anyone, including the sold out Dems and Obama, are part of the elite’s plan to consolidate all of the country’s wealth and real estate and kill off as many people as possible, only, of course, after they’ve cashed them in like a rancher taking his cattle to the slaughter house.

These idiots that think they are superior and safe from this are as stupid as it gets. The wealthy have been exploiting the poor forever and kept people poor for their use. They have been so greedy they are casting a wider and wider net now sucking up the middle class. The upper middle class will be next and so on and so forth. Everyone will eventually be on their menu if we don’t stop this and end this kind of wealth amassing through fraud and health care denial genocide.

United Nations Convention on the Crime and Prevention of Genocide (1948)

1. Genocide is a philosophy of divinely or morally-sanctioned conquest and extermination of others which manifests in a plan to destroy those others.

2. This plan involves the deliberate and systematic destruction of the essential foundations of the life of targeted groups, with the aim of exterminating the groups over time, by assaulting, dehumanizing and killing its members, transporting their children to other groups, annihilating their political and social institutions, families, culture, language and worldview, religion, personal security and liberty, health and dignity, economic livelihood and land ownership, and the capacity to produce life – and creating conditions which over time will cause their ultimate destruction.

3. Emerging from within the worldview and culture of the conquering power, and expressing its core values, this plan is not accidental or periodic, but inherent and institutionalized, and does not cease until final extermination is achieved.

Oh, god, this is heartbreaking.

Not a quibble I hope, but I prefer the punctuation as the gentleman has presented it in his sign. He puts the declarative exclamation point only on the statement “All is lost!”

I really hope and pray for his sake and the many like him, that all will not be lost now that there is a movement steadily growing and dedicated to his cause and that of so many others.

It’s appropriate, Kevin, that you blame this distress upon the economy. Economy at its heart is setting one’s house in order, homebuilding. The 1% struck at the very heart of this country when they put that basic process up on the auction block, shredded mortgages without any by your leave, and played Monopoly with them. Not only homes but businesses went down the tubes with that sleight of hand. And nobody is being prosecuted for doing this.