theillustriousmissjo:

mmnro:

alexds1:

isaia:

espritss-libress:

yourskin-and-bones:

espritss-libress:

senpaichan:

blackenedbutterfly:

stfuconservatives:

• Unions are the reason you get paid a minimum wage at all
• Taxes subsidize your moderately-priced, in-state public university
• Wow, I wonder if you lived at home and had parents or guardians paying your living expenses so you could start saving for college?
• 95% of scholarships go to white people like you
• Have fun looking for a job after college, blowing through all your savings, and finally realizing what it’s like to live in the real world. You are the 99%. You just don’t know it yet.

Did your parents ever feed you or pay for a single item of your clothing? You’re a leech. Now shut up, you hypocrite :)

I am a college senior who works when he can because his anxiety levels are so high that he cannot take on a second job to work “full time” or even more than once a week if that. My grandmother and mother have been helping me save for college since I was born, and many birthday and holiday gifts were savings bonds specifically for college so that I would be able to get through with as little debt as possible.

I chose an in-state university despite the fact that I am over-qualified because I did not want to have to take out loans and go in to debt at age sixteen when I was applying to my first university.

I got decent grades in high school, but received no non-required scholarships because of the area where I was zoned. I applied for over three hundred. The only help I received was the $2000 the state is technically required to give someone when they graduate early because allegedly that is the amount of money they spend on each student for one year in school.

I live in a cheap apartment because I cannot handle living in a female dorm. My father helps me pay for that while the savings helps pay for all of my tuition and classes. In exchange for this apartment I have gone months where I’ve struggled to get enough food, and one month ate almost nothing except the oatmeal I got from a church’s food bank. I do not have a new phone, new car, or a credit card in my name. If I had debt, it would not be due to “bad decisions” that I’ve made.

I do not expect, but have received handouts in life and am grateful for what I’ve been given by my parents and friends who help support me. I have my own savings that have been eaten in to by banks taking out money for whatever reason they damn well please. I put as much money in to my savings as possible so I can go to culinary school once I am finished with the next two semesters and I expect absolutely no help there, though I hope that I qualify for scholarships by that point.

tl;dr - This person is full of shit.

Self righteous asshole. “I did it! so can you!” fuck kids born in poverty or kids who can’t fucking get a job in this economy! they are just lazy good for nothings! hey! the white guy can do it, and so can you!

Are you fucking kidding me? majority of scholarships go to minorities, in fact they even have their own individual scholarships that white people can’t apply for.

Majority of scholarships go to minorities? are you sure about that? and whites don’t have their own individual scholarships? yes, and for the same reason we don’t have straight prides or white history month or affirmative action for men.

The commentary is helpful for those who don’t know

Wow, the vitriol against the OP pic is really annoying. Someone had a different life experience and has formed a differing opinion! They aren’t comfortable donning victim status just because life isn’t perfect and are trying their best to make do in an inherently flawed system (and evidently succeeding)! They made a poster! Attack them!

jfc

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They’re also saying that if you’re the 99%, it’s your own fault because you didn’t work hard enough. Which is extremely ignorant, because that is just not how the world works. It’s very nice for OP that their life turned out fine, but many people don’t get these kind of chances. They can’t go to university, because they don’t have any money to begin with, and they can’t get a job because there are no jobs. They are the 99%, and that is in no way their own decision.

For fuck’s sake, I’m not even American and I understand the current situation better than OP.

The fact is, that the way the OP described their life, and where most of the ignorant remarks are coming from… you ARE the 99%. Whether you like it or not. If you don’t own your home (or even own only one home), a car (or only one or even two modestly priced cars), and you can be the 99% even with a credit card, new car, iPad, and smart phone — heck, I have two of those three. My car (which I make monthly payments on) is a 2005. I also have this laptop, a mini machine, a television (23”, flatscreen, no frills), a DVD player, a printer, and a Sony alarm clock with a broken snooze button. But none of that fucking matters. The implication that I DON’T work my ass off is insulting as hell as well as incorrect.

We are not protesting corporations themselves, or even debt. We are protesting what has happened in this country now that these things have gotten wildly out of control. Debt is one thing. The impossibility to pay it off due to circumstances beyond your control (illness, unreasonable rates from banks, unemployment — I know people will say “well if you don’t have a job your job should be looking for a job!” thanks Dr. Phil. But honestly there is only so much you CAN do. You can’t MAKE someone give you a job — and even underemployment) is not only discouraging but it causes bigger upheaval. 

I’m lucky because most of my experience with debt has been my student loans from undergrad. I get to defer those (and incur more debt, hurr) while I’m in grad school, and while I was in my year off I made my payments, but barely. That year was supposed to be so I could work and save money to go to school, but after working at most 30 hours a week (it was usually closer to 20) at two jobs for almost a year (I got one job in July after graduating and the other in October) I literally had nothing. I had to borrow money from my small, hometown bank in order to be able to move out here to NY and set up house. (No interest if paid back in 90 days, I used my student loan money to pay it back in full a month later. I doubt a large bank would have given me such a good deal.) Education loans from the government are much different than private loans, though, because they tend to be more understanding with decreased payments and  deferments and that. So I have some store credit cards (Lane Bryant, Old Navy) and one with BoA (I know, evil incarnate, sue me), and a car payment, because in order to navigate an adult world, I’m going to need a credit rating. I couldn’t even get a good loan on my car by myself a couple of years ago. My dad had to co-sign with me. When I need to get an apartment after I graduate, whether it’s in NYC or Chicago or San Francisco, I am going to need a credit rating and references. It’s just how our society works.

I could go on, but honestly I don’t want to. I just can’t stand the ignorance. Go on thinking you’re not the 99% if it helps you sleep at night. I’m glad that you were able and willing to work hard to put yourself through school — but please don’t insinuate that I haven’t/am not. I am. I work two jobs (as a TA which is not a fuck off job thanks and in retail) and am always looking for ways to have more income — because the funny thing about saving money is that you have to bring in more than you spend.

The fact is, unless you are your own boss and need more than six digits to tell me your yearly income, you probably are the 99%. Sorry to burst your bubble.