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[sce56]

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I come from a working class family from Massachusetts. Many of my family members served in the Armed Forces. My father is a Vietnam Veteran who moved to Oregon several years ago for cost of living reasons. He and my mother still had a hefty mortgage in Massachusetts after being bankrupted due to hospital bills incurred when my mother almost died years ago. My father, finally this year (after 45 ye...ars), is collecting PARTIAL disability for the PTSD he so clearly suffered from as well as agent-orange exposure as a marine infantryman.

I worked my way through college to become an RN. I have worked for years taking care of other people. I work full-time, often 12 hour days, and am barely getting by supporting my family in my small rental apartment. I would love to own a home someday. And yes, I tried that once with my well paid engineer ex-husband. We were forced to short sale when we divorced because of the "housing bubble" we were trapped in. Now, my once perfect credit is screwed.

I watch MY retirement money dwindle down to nothing. The only real savings I have because I was raised to believe that was the smart thing to do. I cannot access it because of penalties and service fees. Money I worked hard for.

I have health and dental insurance as a full time working nurse. But, when my tooth abscessed last year the dental work exceeded my benefits. Now, I still pay credit care every month for the work. In the same month, my 33 year old unemployed, part-time student friend severed his finger. He paid nothing (zero dollars) for the surgery that was required from OHP.

The system is screwed. I, too, am sick of politicians loyal to Wall Street. I, too, am sick of over-paying for food that doesn't nourish. And, insurance that doesn't insure.

I am part of the 99%.



I am a United States Marine! 9 years ago I pledged to defend America. While in Iraq 2 different times & Afghanistan once, I watched many cases of War Profiteering and watched the jobs of armed service members be stolen from them by lazy, overpaid cowards; not to mention billions of $$ in unused products products, that hard-working taxpayers paid for, get burned in original packaging. I wonder if this money was put elsewhere, would we be in so much debt as a nation or individuals. In a few months I will be jobless and more in debt myself. Can America help me help myself? I am the 99% occuppywallstreet.org


I come from a military family. I am the first American born to my family. My Canadian brother died flying choppers in Vietnam. I am a 53 year old Marine veteran. At least I thought so, until I was informed by some that because I served during a time supposed ‘peace’ and didn’t earn a combat ribbon (’77 – ’80), I’m ONLY prior service. So the few patriotic employers out there who put vets first, don...’t count me in that list.
Started going downhill in 2008, but in 2010, we lost our home in a [rubber stamp] foreclosure by PHH Mortgage.
My credit is for sh*#.
Nowadays, your credit report is run when you apply for a job. Bad credit = no job. Of course my credit is bad. I need a damn job!
Nowadays, your credit report is run when you try to rent a home. Not to mention the monstrous applications fees with no guarantee of placement.
Bad credit = no home.
Guess where that leaves us?
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[sce56]

1. Saddest one!

I am a different kind of 99%-er. If it weren’t for my premature birth I would be Occupying too. But I was not as lucky as most preemies. I was born 3 months early weighing 1 pound 9 ounces. Preemies usually pass away within the first 2 weeks, but not I! I stayed strong for my mommy and daddy, as they had to be strong for me. My mommy was medically discharged from the Army so she used the GI Bill t...o get her nursing degree. Her only income was her monthly housing allowance. Once I was born mommy had to put school on hold. I was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit attached to a ventilator and numerous other machines. Mommy held my hand and sung with me. My daddy is a very special man. He left his job to go work for a company that offered better insurance. The drawback was the hours he would have to work to provide for us. We would hang out together at the hospital until he left for work and then he would come back up for bath time, and occasionally we even got sleep overs. It was great!

My mommy and daddy don’t like handouts, but we preemies automatically receive Medicaid as a secondary insurance. Since daddy didn’t get his new job until after I was born no one knew who would be picking up the enormous bill. Mommy and daddy were told quiet often that it could be them. It began to eat at them. You could read it in their faces. They struggled to spend all their time with me, but “time is money”. It took money to put gas in the car, food on the table, keep bills out of the red. It drained my mommy and daddy.

I passed away after a battle with pneumonia on September 20, 2011.

They did everything they could to give me a beautiful spot on this earth, but they both had to turn to their parents and ask for money to bury me. They are only one paycheck away from getting my headstone ordered! (I would like to thank the ladies at memorials.com that have been helping us, you ladies are great.) This is not what my mommy and daddy thought becoming a parent would be like, but they are lucky. Today they found out that Medicare has covered all my hospital expenses! Today we found out, that when utilized appropriately, government programs work. We are lucky Medicare wasn’t abolished before I was born or my parents would have their last memory of me be a hospital bill. Mommy still can’t find a job and daddy’s income doesn’t cover everything, but they are strong and they will make it.

WE ARE THE 99%.

[The Wielding Truth]

2. Oh my. National healthcare is a must.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

3. K&R. nt.

[roguevalley]

4. they are us

[aquart]

5. We have to stop sacrificing the 99% to the greed of the 1%.

No man should be so rich that he has nothing left to buy but his government.