While the „Occupy Wall Street“ protests are expanding from Lower Manhattan to Washington and begin in other U.S. cities too, the middle class continues to complain that the participants in these protests don’t  have a clear message and straight political ideas.

The message and the decisions should be obvious to anyone who follows the events since the economy fell into recession. It still continues to shake the middle class but rich have already recovered and prospered. The problem is that nobody in Washington is listening.

At this point the message is this: income inequality increases the number of the poor and threatens to create a permanent class of people that are able and willing to work but are unemployed. To some extent the protestors, most of whom are young people, are the voice of a generation that lost its opportunities.

Last year, unemployment among American college graduates under 25 was an average of 9.6%. Among high school graduates the unemployed are 21.6%. This data do not take into account graduates who work but at low paid jobs that do not even require a diploma. Such pathetic perspective especially in the early years of one’s career promises a life with increasingly fewer opportunities and lower incomes. This is the basic definition of descent down the social ladder.

But these protests are more than just a rebellion of the young people. The personal problems of the protestors are just one of the example that the economy does not work for most Americans.

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