Elaine Fernadez's "Wii the People" website has been featuring interviews with Hudson Valley residents coping with the current economic crisis. This week’s short video clip features Steve, a 19-year-old college student Fernadez met at Hulme Park, the former site of Occupy Poughkeepsie. Steve calls himself an eternal optimist and said he doesn’t want to live in a world where apathy and bad economic policies continue to dominate everyday life. Although he believes the Occupy movement was fueled by anger and frustration, Steve said the movement also “feeds off of hope and optimism.” Ultimately, Steve joined the movement because right now he sees “a future that won’t be good for all of us,” meaning the majority of Americans. If policies don’t support the well-being of the middle class, Steve worries that our government will create a hopeless climate.