I don't know what % I am

So, I have $130,000 of student loan debt after having graduated from law school.  I was supposed to have a job making $150,000/year.  Which I did have, but after the economic collapse--I actually lost it.  last in/first out.  So, I was unemployed for a year.  Thankfully, a nice government agency gave me a job for less than 1/2 of what I was making before.  I do not own my own home.  Having lost it, when I lost my job.   So, I pay a mortgage in student loan payments--just yesterday, I noticed that I actually owe 20 dollars less than I borrowed on one.  After making payments for 5.5 years.  I'm just so EXCITED.   But guess what, I'm not sitting on my **** protesting in Occupy Wallstreet.  Nope, I'm working--and happy to be.  AND I'm paying taxes.   I don't know how going to college went from something that you earned to something that you were entitled.  Why should successful people who didn't go to college or law school have to pay for my student loans?  That said, would I be grateful if they were forgiven, OF COURSE I would.  But, in the meantime, I'm going to work and contribute to the economy. 

I do want to point out that no one's grandchildren will be paying for their student loans...as they die when you die. 

People keep running around saying that the government should pay for their college, or pay for their home, or pay for their health care. When do those of us who pay taxes and support all these people get a break?

I worked my tail end off to get money to send my children to college, will I get the money back if we forgive student loans? If not, why? I pay my mortgage and property taxes, will I get the money back if we forgive loans? I pay my health care and I also pay taxes that pays for others health care, yet the initial effects of obamacare has increased dramatically what I have to pay.

Why don't we try something new, lets get the government out of everything and quit worrying about what people think is "fair" and "equal". Lets get out of everyone's business. Lets eliminate all the idiot regulations. Lets reduce taxes so that we don't have to pay for others mistakes and life choices. Let reduce corporate tax so companies want to do business here and employ Americans. Lets get rid of illegal aliens that have no place in our society and are a growing burden. Lets get rid of most of the Federal and state agencies that over see our lives. Lets get rid of the drug laws and allow us to treat ourselves.

In short, less government is better.

While I am certainly not in the 1%, the OWS who claim the 99% do not represent me at all. I support their right to protest and demonstrate as a part of our constitution. But when it comes to Setting fires and destroying private property, I draw the line. Actions like that destroy whatever good they want to get out of their protest.

From what I'm seeing these days, it's more about class envy than anything else. Students who signed loans for their education now want the government to bail them out of that debt? Now I can putting an extension on them if needed. With the economy the way it is, giving the student a longer time to start paying them off. But to relieve of them entirely? NO WAY!!! They signed the note, they are due to pay for it.

The world isn't Fair? Who ever told you it would be?

I am recalling a time of class warfare in the past. During the depression in Germany Adolph Hitler proclaimed to the German people that the Jew was the cause of all their problems. That the Jews owned the banks and the business' that the average German worked for for peanuts. He called upon the public to hate the Jews, to protest against them.

The Jews in Germany, at that time were roughly 1% of the population. 

Just something to think about.

One of the key issues that the “Occupy” crowd tries to justify is increased taxes on 1 percent of the rich in this country.  Their thought process is that since the 99 percent shared in the payment for the roads, bridges and infrastructure that allowed the rich to do so well then the 1 percent does not really deserve all that money.  And, that the rich need to be taxed more.  However, what I have not heard addressed is where the 99 percent got the money to pay their taxes in the first place.  They think they worked to earn it but there is another way to look at this issue that makes more sense.  I will use Larry Ellison as an example in explaining my position.  For those who do not know who Larry Ellison is, he is one of the founders of and runs the company known as Oracle.  Larry is a billionaire and makes millions a year in compensation for his effort but in the process he employs 100,000 people.  Just a rough estimate but those 100,000 people pay 3 billion dollars a year in income taxes.  Oracle also, through its products, makes it possible for millions of other people to make a living and pay taxes.  So, although Larry is one of those evil rich who pay roughly 40-50% of all the taxes in this country he also makes it possible for millions of others to pay theirs.  You might be one of those people who say that I’m all wet…or worse.  However, imagine if you will, that there were no computers, no software, no light bulbs, no cars, no furniture, no bricks, no steel products or ships.  I could go on but if it were not for the creative people in this world who were willing to work their ever-loving rear ends off and get rich in the process, the rest of us would be living in caves.  They deserve all they make and more.  The ones who should pay more are the ones who would rather sit around and do nothing while complaining all the while that the world isn’t fair but then they don’t have any money do they.