Blog Post 9

I saw a very interesting picture on Facebook the other day that said some interesting things about the young people of the working class. The left side showed American soldiers going into battle and it said "20 year olds in 1944, giving everything” and the right side showed Occupy Wall Street protesters and it said "20 year olds in 2011, wanting everything." It just shows how drastically the mentality of young people has changed in the past 60 years. During World War II, so many young, working class people were willing to give their time, and some even their lives to serve and protect their country. According to the picture, young people today are the exact opposite. They want their country to provide everything for them without having to fight or work for it. They feel like everyone is entitled to the same things, regardless of their financial status. I’m not saying that everyone should join the military, but they should at least work for what they want instead of expecting everything to be handed to them. If all the people participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement would get jobs and go to work and earn money, they could afford some of the things that they are begging for and earn them on their own. Also, I think the Occupy Wall Street movement is very poorly organized. Many people don’t even know everything they’re protesting for, and for every person that believes in the movement, there’s another person participating because it’s the “cool” thing to do.