OWS After Class Aftermath

Even after the class discussion, my opinion of the OWS has not changed: it's a great idea, but they're going about it wrong, and they are the ones being blamed for what they are doing when they are the good guys. The people in the OWS movement are trying to voice their opinion about the corruption in corporate America, yet they are doing nothing but speaking softly to the masses who don't care what they say. Then, the corporations have the police brutalize the protesters, acting like the protesters were doing something wrong and the police needed to act. In the end, the protesters look bad in the eyes of America because the police was needed.

OWS is a great idea: corporate America is completely corrupt, and too much money is being given to the greedy upper class while the lower and middle classes are being starved for money. the upper class doesn't need any more money, yet they are just getting more and more,  and the lower classes are losing more and more. the OWS protesters recognize this and want to change this, but as long as they only speak and don't do something more (but not violent), then their voice will never grow stronger.

As students, we are going to be indebted to student loans once we graduate, and we have to find jobs in a decreasing economy and market, find houses when there's little wealth to go around, and eventually pay off these debts, a process that can take months or years depending on how fortunate you are. Yet at the same time, many students haven't been following along with the movement because as students, we aren't immediately concerned with the economy. We care about our education and getting out of school and into the job market. However, the OWS movement's opinion affects us too: we are also part of the lower classes who are losing money, and when it comes time to pay back the loans and we've been unable to get jobs of enough money because there isn't enough in our class to go around, then we'll truly see just how much the movement affected us.

I agree with the movement: something needs to be done to bring more money into the lower classes and out of the upper classes. more money needs to go around, which will open up more job opportunities and, for graduating students like us, more opportunities to get a job out of college and be able to pay off our loans. However, I can't see something happening in the foreseeable future, unless the OWS movement becomes stronger voiced.