OWS Article Response and Feedback

After reading Matt Taibbi's article, I have to say he made some valid points. It got me thinking back to other times when I'm by myself and tend to think very deeply (let my mind wander, if you will), I've come up with good questions and concerns about my future. Will I be able to pay off my loans that I needed to pay for college? Will I get a good paying job once I graduate? Will my hard work studying my major actually get me a job? And when my parents pass away, will I have to deal with their debt? My father made some poor financial choices when he was younger (before my brother and I were even thought of) having him take out loans to which he is STILL trying to pay them off today (on top of trying to support a family of 4, paying for groceries, paying bills, paying for the house, paying for new renovations, etc.). It gets annoying (and depressing at times), when our phone is ringing a couple of times a day from companies who want to be paid. I'm sorry, but even with my Dad getting paid well, it's still not enough to pay off all the bills and support us (even worse is that they don't understand this point but want to be paid regardless). Our culture, our society, is so focused around money that it's ridiculous. If you don't have a high paying job (or have "a" job) then you're screwed in more ways then one. And I know this sounds morbid, but with the way how life is so harsh to survive each day financially, you're better off dead in order to escape these problems. But I digress. Taibbi says that, "we're all born wanting the freedom to imagine a better and more beautiful future," but we can't have a better future if we don't have the money to make our dreams come true. Want to start a company selling a revolutionary product that could change the world? You need money. Want to buy an old house and remodel it? You need money. Want to go to college in order to get a good career that pays well? You need a loan for that (a.k.a. you need money!). Point is: No money, no anything for you. Another point Taibbi made, is talking about the problems with Law Enforcement. He says, "It's not that the cops outside the protests are doing wrong, per se, by patrolling the parks and sidewalks. It's that they should be somewhere else. They should be heading up into those skyscrapers and going through the file cabinets to figure out who stole what, and from whom." The problem with this scenario is that police can't go searching through these records to catch the bad guys because of so much red tape. The red tape acts like a barrier to prevent corporate thieves from getting caught because they bribe a higher up in the police force to put a stop to any efforts being made. You end up banging your head against a wall, because no matter how far and how much evidence you get to convict a corporate bad guy, they will manage to weasel their way out of it. Still, I commend the Occupy Wall Street's efforts, I just hope that something good will come from this and that change we (the 99%) need will happen.