Protest it

For this week’s column writing assignment, Professor Fitzgerald asked the class to write a column about the Occupy Wall Street protest and our feelings about it.

 At first when people in class were talking about it, when I generally hear the word “strike” or “protest” I generally think of that it would be about people losing their jobs due to the lack of economy or about education.

Because in this world, and especially in the news it seems as if we can not get enough about the ongoing problems about the hopes of keeping jobs or budget cuts for education appearing.

So after watching a few news videos and reading a few columns, I learned that the Occupy Wall Street Protest is an ongoing protest that has reached people throughout the nation.  

To sum up what has been going on about the Occupy Wall Street is that, “Wealthy individuals who own giant corporations have bought off our Congress and bought off our government and, you know, the people no longer have a voice anymore,” one protester told CBS News (Cbsnews.com).

So what does this mean for the working class people? Does this mean that I am being fooled by Congress thinking that they are actually trying to make this world a better place?

I believe after reading one of the major articles that I have quoted that is featured on Cbs’s website, among the people who feel like they do not have a voice, I feel the exact the exact same way.

All the protestors in this movement and everyone around them had one message. One of the protestors Jesse Lagreca says, “The wealthiest one percent is taking advantage of working class people. They've been selling us faulty financial products, they've been taking huge bonuses while depending on society to bail them out” (Cbsnews.com).

It really does not make any sense for businesses to try and take the easy way out by creating more problems for the working class.

What lies in the future for the working class? I mean we already have a bad enough economy with the lack of jobs available out there. I think that businesses do not take into consideration of how bad some people have it out there.

Because of how ugly this protest and how real it is, I’m thinking that is there is hope for a big change between the working class and the wealthy.

Just because business executives get into a big mess they can just easily get out of it, but say if we as a nation got into a mess that we could not escape, it would be on us to get out.

I have never really been much into politics or protests, but this protest has me very interested to see on where this can lead. Us as a nation, we can only hope for the best. Like I said before, if we work hard as a nation to get a message across, big things can happen.

Like an old friend of mine once said, “Keep your coins, I want to see change.”

Throughout this protest, it is not only affecting the wealthy and the working class but it is also affecting every community out there as well.

It is almost like taking candy from a baby. Big businesses do not have to worry about anything that can mess up for them, but yet the working class has to work extra hard if they get themselves into trouble.

Having lack of a voice and lack of being heard is like being invisible. No matter how much you try to get a message across it sometimes does not work the first time around.

I am very interested to see more about the protest and to see and to feel the change.