The Occupy movement has taken the nation as well as the world by storm. Corrupt politicians, disintegration of society, and financial inequalities are some of the reasons why hundreds of thousands of Americans, the “99%” who come from all facets of life, have joined the cause in cities across the country. “Occupiers” is the term used to describe the masses of people who have set up tents and taken residency in public spaces to show their dissatisfaction with the current establishment, and most importantly, raise public awareness.
The last time there was truly a “revolution” in this country, was almost 50 years ago; as ideas on civil rights, humanitarianism, and social equality flourished for the first time. But, assassinations of prominent leaders (JFK, RFK, and MLK) and a dividing cultural war unfortunately prevented any real change from occurring. However, what distinguishes the Occupy movement from the ‘60s counterculture is the very message that it has built itself upon, “We are the 99%”. The Occupy movement is not the left’s response to the right’s Tea Party. Many different kinds of people from diverse backgrounds and ideologies have shown support. Occupy is accepting of all ideas, under the basic principle that the current system by which our government functions is broken, and needs to be reformed. Capitalism is not what the Occupiers despise, but what politicians and bankers on Wall Street have done to it.
At one point, America was known as a nation of hope, freedom, and opportunity. Granted, I have only seen a different kind of America. Corrupt politicians, who follow the wishes of bankers instead of voters, have hijacked our democracy. The government spends hundreds of billions of dollars on fighting wars that do not make our country any safer, rather than improving conditions in our impoverished communities. A middle class is being systematically wiped out through mass unemployment and payroll cuts, as the income of the top 1% of wealthiest Americans continues to rise.
The financial situation of this country is only getting worse. Economists fear that the US might be on the verge of a double-dip recession. In general, people do not get involved in politics until they are affected directly. A free falling economy with no end in sight is something that will undoubtedly affect the lives of every single American. The impact on high school students is even more concerning. After high school, we will be greeted into the real world with less job opportunities than our parents, college tuition hikes (the average college graduate faces $20,000 debt from loans), and less government services to help out. At the end of the day, we are the ones who will be inheriting a nation that is falling apart, if no serious changes take place.
In recent weeks, cities have evicted most of the Occupy camps (LA, NYC, Philadelphia). The evictions may lead one to believe that the Occupy movement is now over. After all, the movement is called “Occupy”, so if no one is occupying an area, then it no longer exists. This is a common misconception as the ideas that have emerged from the Occupy movement will never die.
With continued public discontent, people will no longer be complacent with how things are being run. As the economy worsens, more people will take a stand. Americans are not asking for change, they are demanding it! We forget sometimes that this country is a democracy, and the power lies ultimately in our own hands. If the Occupy movement has accomplished anything, it has caused people to question their government, and that may be the spark that ignites this country to have a truly better tomorrow.
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HOW THEY KILL THE AMERICAN DREAM for the 99% by design
Submitted by Jim Evanhoe on
THE FACTS - READ - BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE ON HOW THEY DESTROY
It is absolutely Real Class Warfare
How did Our Economy, Congress, Military, Banking and the Justice system get so corrupted. We now have the most corrupt Nation on the Planet. One that has allowed Wall Street to destroy Our Economy "March of 2000"...started by Goldman-Sachs under the direction of Paulson who then became Secretary of the US Treasury under Bush and than again "October 2008" the latest economic collapse, by Blankfein, Goldman-Sachs......See and read Documented evidence to these facts by Matt Taibbi writer for Rollingstone Magazine and former executive and whisleblower from Goldman-Sachs Nomi Prins and my comments over the last 10 yrs. having personally watched Goldman-Sachs deliberately destroy the Tech Boom in March of 2000 in order to level the policial playing field and bring GW Bush to power.
PLEASE READ: CLASS WARFARE
BY THE BIG 5
GOLDMAN-SACHS, THE BANK HSBC, THE US WAR MACHINE, Microsoft and the Bush Family.
They are deliberately "DETROYING THE AMERICAN DREAM", for their own success, their greed, their power, their monopoly, their pathedic perverted egos.
....in large part designed by George Bush Sr. Bill Gates, Dick Cheney, Alan Greenspan, Goldman-Sachs Henry Paulson and Lloyd Blankfein and their many ciminal buddies from the Carlyle Group, HSBC, Halliburton, Texas Oil Families, Exxon, KBR Lockeed-Martin every weapons manufacturer on the Planet....and every large scale Drug Cartel.
The out right perversion by deliberately creating chaos throughout the Planet: Afghanistan to Iraq to Vietnam to South American, Central America and right here in the Good ole USA. through their Needless Wars, Drug Cartels ( they launder their money through HSBC ) and Prisons for Profit, Wall Street corruption.
Chaos created, deliberately "let to happen", example: launder Drug Cartel money so they stay in Business....Follow the Money,,,, this creates Chaos in Central America, Mexico, the USA. Now sell them more and more arms to fight the Drug Cartels who's money is laundered directly by Bush's buddies at HSBC. See READ "WORLDBANKING WORLDFRAUD" BY JOHN CRUZ..Now their making money off of weapon sales, laundering cartel money, lets keep this going, lets keep Afghanistan growing the largest Heroin crop on the Planet....with sales in the $$$ billions $$$ and over all Global Drug Cartel sales over a Trillion Dollars annually...from Southeast Asia to Mexico...all laundered by HSBC a Bush buddy for over 25 years. So how can America or for that matter the World ever have the American Dream with crinimals like the Bush Family, HSBC, Goldman-Sachs, Microsoft deliberately creating major economic collapse, needless wars, laundering drug cartel money, building prisons for profit, mortgage fraud, corruption by and through Congress and the White House.....deliberate Class Warfare .....crimes by this Group allowed to go on unpunished for more than 30 yrs.
Did you know: Had the USA economy been left to normal growth, with correct managment and accounting practices, > without < NEEDLESS WARS or created economic collapses the USA's over all standard of living, educational system, medical & mental health services and even OIL Companies profits would have been 152% better, made more money, the national debt manageable and the globe would have been financially solid for the long run. Thats right the Wars the Texas Presidents created or let happen might have raised falling oil prices by those Wars and created larger Defense spending but over the long hull those wars and the following economic collapses created by both Bush Presidencies destroyed our Future: "Father Like Son" War & Economic Collapse 1988,89,90,91,92 and again 2008,09,10, 2011. That's right those wars and the Bush Family cronies destroyed real growth. They destroyed stable long term growth, which is absolutely a must for global stability, global public health, global food production, housing, education.
IF YOUR AN ECONOMICS MAJOR you work this through from 1982 through to 2011. All Government Expenditures, Wars, Economic Collapse value of the lose to business, to pension funds, to real wages, production and sales, savings rates, standards in education, and health, U.S. & global families ability to survive etc. etc.
The BUSH FAMILY & THEIR CRONIES DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY """""Deliberately""""""
Every WAR created or let to happen by the Bush Family and their cronies detroyed this Country's ability to move forward in a balanced stable form, through stable growth, solid financial systems, solid planning, management, solid accounting, ethical and honest government. The Bush Family and their cronies destroyed Our World 100% deliberately. Again profiting from Global Chaos, now they need to control through corrupt power in order to keep their billions, and to keep from being Charged, Convicted and put to Death.
AMERICA THE WORLD LEARN MORE ABOUT
THESE INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS
U.S. TRAITORS, THROUGH their created FINANCIAL TERRORISM the deliberate destruction of Our Financial System, SOCIAL TERRORISM killing young Americans through their drugs, prisons, needless wars and corrupt legal system, ( deliberate Class Warfare ) the deliberate perversion Of Our Freedoms by and through the Bush Family and their criminal organizations World Wide, by Obama and Congress's absolute failures.
IT is time to CHARGE, CONVICT and put to DEATH these indiviiduals who are deliberately killing our brothers and sisters, our friends, our neighborhoods, our families, our homes, our jobs, our future....THROUGH THEIR WARS, THEIR CORRUPTED INSTITUTIONS AND CORPORTATIONS, such as Goldman-Sachs, Microsoft, Halliburton, Exxon Mobil, KBR.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND CLASS WARFARE NOW?
First step is to throw out the trash: Obama, Congress, Republicans and Democrats this November 2012
James P. Evanhoe
JAMES P. EVANHOE
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