“I graduated in the top 25% of my class with nearly perfect SAT scores, only to be cheated out of my “scholarship” halfway into my first semester of college. With no car & a min.-wage job at McDonalds, I was forced to drop out. Things went downhill - I lived out of my car for a while, but thankfully I was able to couch surf through most of it, thanks to great friends. My husband and I are now blessed with steady work - him at a hotel & me at a gas station - both overnight. Once our car is paid off hopefully we’ll be able to get health insurance, so when we get sick we can see a doctor, instead of going to the ER, since they’re the only ones who will see someone who can’t pay. We pawned pretty much anything pawnable to make ends meet, but now we share a house with 3 other friends, & with our 5 incomes combined, we’re staying afloat and doing okay. We’re the lucky ones because we’re managing to survive this, but I know personally that there are people less lucky than me, who aren’t surviving. It shouldn’t be this hard just to LIVE. And I know that the gap between the barely surviving & fully thriving is far too high.
We are the 99%.
P.S. I can’t even go protest in person because I can’t afford the trip.
And it’s 20 min. away.”
我以班级前25%毕业，几乎完美的SAT成绩，仅在大学第一学期期中就被骗走了“奖学金”。没有车，在McDonalds做最低工资工作，我被迫退学。事情在恶化——我有一段时间没有车了，好在我能应付，感谢好朋友们。我丈夫和我现在有稳定的工作——他在宾馆，我在瓦斯站——都要上夜班。一旦我们付清车款，我们就有希望得到健康保险，那样我们生病的时候就能看医生了，而不是去急诊室，这是唯一可能给付不起钱的人看病的地方。为了收支平衡，我们几乎抵押了一切，现在我们和3个朋友同住一个房子，大家一共有5份收入，我们漂着，还OK。我们是幸运的人因为我们设法生存，但我知道有人没我这么幸运，他们不能生存。生活不应该如此艰难。我知道勉强生存和全面繁荣之间的差距深若鸿沟。
我们是那99%。
PS:我不能甚至和人们一起去抗议，因为我没钱旅行 |
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