I am the Ninety-Nine Percent...

No seriously, cousins I have never met are the rich ones. I can only get a free pass to the bemusement park in my brain that manifests itself here.

I am a lab technician, I like what I do even though the pay is so-so. I haven't had a raise in over five years, even though I get good performance reviews and the company has turned around. How do you ask for a raise when you're grateful just to have a job?

My wife and I are struggling mightily to put our kids through college. We struggle now so they're not tens of thousands of dollars in debt when they finish. That is a form of indentured servitude.The kids both work full-time because we couldn't come even close to paying for everything without their help.

We are just trying to give our kids the same thing our parents managed to easily accomplish with only one household income. Sadly we need four incomes to accomplish the same thing. My how times have changed...

 

We are the ninety-nine percent. I'm guessing that you are too...