Life Off-Label

Despite what some people think, the point of the “99%” is not a bunch of people bitching about their personal situation on a Tumblr account (or at least it’s not supposed to be). Just as people should be held accountable for depending on welfare while being lazy, living above their means, or taking out way too many loans to go to a private school for a liberal arts degree, there are corporations that received bailout money and used it to further line their pocketbooks instead of repairing the damage they caused. And that’s why I agree with the point of the movement. I want to hold the people in the “1%” accountable for their bad decisions that caused the recession, housing foreclosure crisis, and skyrocketing unemployment. I want to hold our people in government accountable for putting the needs of their big corporate donors ahead of the people. It’s great if you’ve made the right choices and things are still working out fine and dandy for you, but that doesn’t mean the system shouldn’t be fixed. Look at the bigger picture.

PS – These charts help illustrate that bigger picture.