Editor,

So far, I haven't seen anyone camping out in front of the Marysville City Hall. Does that mean everything is hunky-dorey here in our fair city?

Probably not. It just means that most of us are too busy trying to earn a living and keep an overpriced roof over our heads to spend our days sitting in a tent somewhere.

I know the protesters have been criticized for not having a unified voice or clear message. Maybe that's because there are just too many problems to distill it down to one. The overriding frustration, it seems to me, is caused by the disparity in the earnings of the top 1% of the country as compared to everyone else.

At least that's what frustrates me. I haven't had a salary raise in the past three and a half years, and with increases in my health insurance contributions, my take-home pay has gone down, not up. Meanwhile, property taxes keep rising (although my home value keeps going down), gas and groceries are more expensive, even my barber charges me more to cut my hair than he did three years ago.

So I understand the frustration, the anger and the desire to be heard. I just don't know if sitting in a city park is the way to go about that.

Gregg Chatman

Marysville

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