We are the 99%

I was surfing through The Huffington Post when this article caught my attention.
After reading the brief description- I was taken in. Looking at one picture turned into looking at the whole slide.
This is REAL. These are REAL people.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/03/we-are-99-percent-stories-victims-great-recession_n_992340.html

I do think about this stuff, it's not like its a shock to me. But it is incredibly depressing and frustrating.
Being at UT, I have to say, I DO have a problem with the rich kids here. The fact is, you have to have money to go to college, so it's no surprise there are a lot of middle to upper class students here. Them with their iPads, and their fancy cars, and their constant shopping. I feel bad enough for having a Honda Civic, how do they feel? I wonder.

I guess you can say I'm one of the lucky ones. Both my parents are employed, the bills are paid (okay, some are paid with credit cards) but the important part is that no one in my family is going hungry, I have a roof over my head, and my brothers and I are getting a college education (even if most of it is on loans)
So for now, I'm lucky. But there's a fine line that millions of Americans like myself face.

More pics are sent in to We are the 99 Percent at Tumblr
http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

I encourage everyone to read these, think about their own lives and think about what they can do to help.
As for me? All I can really do is protest, but that may lead to arrest--which costs money--which i don't have.  So, I don't know-- I'm working on it