Society, You're a Crazy Breed

    Occupy Wall Street is a popular topic right now. So I am going to write some honest feelings. These people demonstrating are kind of right. It does seem that people with an income of over 985,000 dollars per year can afford to pay a higher tax percentage. It isn't fair that they would have to, because they earned their money, I understand that. But we are not in a very good economic state, we need more income, and a lot of "the 99 percent" can't really afford to pay a higher tax. Life isn't fair, and it would be polite for the people making a huge sum of money to help out our country a little bit.
     That being said, There is a bigger problem that seems to be facing us, laziness. These people that are demanding the rich to be taxed higher are doing it by sleeping and living on Wall Street, that is wrong, and embarrassing to me as part of this society. These people aren't working, they aren't even trying to find jobs, they are literally just lounging in the streets. in their mind this is a demonstration that is important, they picket for a couple of hours a day, or sit next to their signs if they are too tired to stand up from all of the nothing they do all day.

People are sleeping under that plastic, at least they left their signs up in protest

It's sad that we live in a society that protests something by laying down next to a sign they painted. It's upsetting that people are saying give more money to the government and to us, and they are doing it by laying down.
     The last huge protest I can think of (not including gay rights, because those happen all of the time) the only one that has made a difference was Martin Luther King Jr's "Walk to Freedom." Black people refused to ride the busses because the bus systems were racist and cruel to them. People would wake up much earlier than usual to walk sometimes fifteen miles to work and back. Look what the people in our society do today to protest something, take naps in public places, this is so embarrassing. I almost want to change nationalities. These bums that are getting paid by our very generous government to live without jobs and have food stamps are using that money to sleep on government property. That's a good way to say thanks.
     Here is how I am going to try to contribute to society, become the 1 percent. I'll go to school, I'l work hard, and I will get a job that goes somewhere in life. One interview I read was a yoga instructor that was demonstrating at OWS. What?! This person thinks that they can have their dream job as a yoga instructor and gets mad at people that have real jobs. There are hundreds of self proclaimed musicians joining in this protest. I am not going to say that this is okay, people need to see the real world. You can't expect to be a rich musician or a painter or a yoga instructor, and you can't slam people that have real jobs and say that it isn't fair. If these people had become doctors and graduated from Johns Hopkins, and were poor, that would be another story. When people who have done nothing with their lives are upset about people making so much more money, I don't care. The 1 percent didn't just fall into richness, they earned it. Hard work will always prevail. Sitting around whining about how things need to change will never get anyone anywhere.