OCCUPY WALL STREET
We are assembled because...
It is absurd that The 1% has taken 40% of the nation’s wealth through exploiting labor, outsourcing jobs, and manipulating the tax code to their benefit through special capital tax rates and loopholes. The system is rigged in their favor, yet they cry foul when anyone even dares to question their relentless class warfare.
Candidates in our electoral system require huge sums of money to be competitive. These contributions from multi-national corporations and wealthy individuals destroy responsive representative governance. A system of backroom deals, kickbacks, bribes, and dirty politics overrides the will of the people. The rotation of decision-makers between the public and private sectors cultivates a network of public officials, lobbyists, and executives whose aligned interests do not serve the American people.
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The link did not work. But this is just the beginning of a very good document and I think everyone should read it all. You can Google it as: The Declaration of the Occupation of Washington, D.C.
Consented to in committee November 15th, 2011.
There is a resounding echo coming from this movement and that is the fact that our government has been taken over by selfish (indiviudal) interests and nothing the government is doing is for the common good or takes the future in consideration.
"Power to the people... right on," John Lennon.
Those who are in power...
Those who have the wealth...
WRITE THE RULES... and,
Those who win the wars write the history books...
So, what else is new?
Even though our system is corrupt, it is still better than other government in the rest of the world...
I remember when I was protesting this same type of stuff in the 60's that those who were in power told me, "LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT," in other words I could either accept the greatest country in the world and its politics or move to another country and accept their way of life...
I chose to remain here... obviously, a the right decision to make; however, we have come full circle and there are another group of protesters, 40+ years later, who feel the US Government and US Businesses have again let them down and/or taken advantage of them....
And, to this I say YES, YES, YES, it is true oh how so TRUE, but the electorate will always be controlled by those in power or by those who have wealth until they decide, as a group, to change the situation collectively... and, this cannot be done by just a handful of protesters.
WE MUST take the same course of action that our founding fathers did, who were willing to risk their lives for that in which they believed.
DO WE HAVE THAT FEELING inside of us and do we have that feeling inside enough of us to make a change?
Otherwise, we are just spitting in the wind...
If we feel strongly enough about what is going on, let's vote all of them out of office and bring in a new group of people from the President of the United States all the way down to local government officials... Let's remove them all and start over...
POWER TO THE PEOPLE, RIGHT ON.....
Bill Clinton said, "You can't be just against something. You have to be FOR something." Sort of like you can curse the darkness or you can create a light. The potential is there, but how to work it into our political system is the question. Some of the answers are right in our own hands. We do NOT have to do business with "evil" corporations. We do NOT have to keep electing people who DO NOT represent us. That's a start.
I'm moving to the happiest country on the planet, Denmark! In reality, there really is nothing great about this country anymore. We have 50 million children who go to bed hungry every year, 50+ thousand homeless veterans, 240,000 unemployed veterans, too many to count incarcerated veterans. Here we have entire families living in tents in the woods because they are homeless. We have become one of the most disgusting countries on the planet for leaving behind those who need "us" the most.
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