Something big is happening on Wall Street. Lower- and middle-class citizens alike are protesting the largest wealth divide our country has ever seen, and they are being ignored by the mainstream media.

While the elite 1 percent lives comfortably in luxury, the remaining 99 percent of us have to make tough financial decisions.

Some of us must choose to pay our rent/mortgage over food, or face homelessness. Some of us are being denied quality health care, and are dying from otherwise treatable health issues. Some of us are working 60 hours a week for little pay, and no rights. Some of us cannot pay our student loans because either we don't make enough, or we can't find jobs.

These are third-world problems happening within the borders of a first-world nation.

We cannot afford to remain blind to these issues because some of us have jobs and are doing fine, one day this social/economic sickness our country suffers from will come knocking at our doors too.

I think it's time for all of us, Democrats and Republicans alike, to stop pointing our fingers at each other. Instead, we need point our fingers at Washington and Wall Street, because when we are divided, we fall.

Go to occupywallstreet.org.

Joshua Flowers, Kennewick