Occupy Wall Street -- Brianne

When the first Occupy movements began to appear on Tumblr and other Internet sources, I became very interested. I thought that I fit right in to the "99%", being an only child of a single parent that struggled from paycheck to paycheck just to live. And now being the first generation in my family to attend college, and take on the financial burden that will haunt us forever. I always agreed with the Occupy movements, and I knew it ran deeper than just bringing the big banks down, but Taibbi got the experience I never had the pleasure to view first hand.

Inherently, every point Taibbi makes is truth. Media and people who neglect to do their research just see movements like Occupy as another group of lazy people trying to better society, but only waste tax dollars. What you see on the news is so far from the truth. The people at the protests want everyone in society to take a step back and see how our culture is taking a toll on us everyday and discover how we as people of America, or rather people of the world can make a change if we want to.

It’s about time that people step up and take a hold of their lives. Enough of the government and its big business buddies controlling our every move. Enough meddling media thinking for us and telling us what is right and wrong, when we know nothing about the subject. Enough monopoly and conspiracy and corruption. The Occupy Wall Street protests were a perfect example of what our society needs to do to be better, and the fact that they were stomped out like a cigarette butt on the cold hard cement sidewalks of New York is a perfect example of just how bad our society has become.