I would say get off your butt and find another job like 9 out of 10 other Americans have!
Like I said before, this bunch of protestors are not the 99%. No group in America is. :no:
Personally, it is hard for me to lose my job, I own the company.
And that's why you think you are bullet-proof! But it all depends just how bad the economy takes a dive. I'm within 7 years of retiring....assuming things are as they are now. What I really expect is that I will have to stay healthy because I foresee the whole fake currency system blowing up before I have a chance to collect my pensions and cash in retirement savings. I don't like surprises, so I'm just not going to assume that it is actually going to be there near the end of this decade!
What is totally toxic with right wing ideologies is this notion that all success and all failure is personal. This selfish, greedy notion of everyone grabbing whatever they can is why we have no social cohesion any more. And a lot of what the Occupy movements are trying to do, is just to rebuild the sense of community that we had in most places 40 or 50 years ago.
I have lost my job many times due to economic recessions. I survived and so will you!
Most times when I looked for new work, I found an even better job than the last one I had.
I haven't been out of a job in over 20 years, and a lot of people would have to lose their jobs first, before I would lose mine. My despair is mostly connected with feeling something equivalent to an endangered species heading towards extinction -- younger people coming up and learning skilled trades, do not have the same prospects to earn a decent living or have the job security that I have enjoyed most of my working life.
Same thing goes looking at the wide angle picture, at being part of the baby boom generation. We have surfed and rode the biggest wave ever produced in history! Sure, we started our years living under the threat of nuclear annihilation...which is still with us actually....but we sure had it good, when it came to enjoying the new technologies that came to us after WWII; the rapidly growing economy (except for a few years in the 70's); even good weather! Which even climate change deniers have to admit is getting scary in recent years. Younger generations are not going to have the same material prospects we've had. Well sure, some will. There's always a lottery winner to talk about, in the midst of a whole bunch of losers! But the majority have an increasingly depleted and dangerous world to look forward to.
Same goes for all of those developing nations who've bought into the American Dream and want their share of the pie. Right now, the environmental destruction, wars and failed states, and rising costs of natural resources are all going to short-circuit the attempts by developing nations in the Third World, to enjoy the life we've had.
And all of our future descendents have a life of deprivation to look forward to, since we have used up so much of this planet's renewable and non-renewable resources in such a short period of time.