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Published on Saturday, 08 October 2011 04:56
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Written by RickB
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We as a people recently began the initial steps of standing up for the majority, the people that advantageously fuel this countries work force, keep our service industries alive, manufacture our countries products and produce our countries GDP. Movements have been sending shock-waves through the bedrock of our national news media, city, state and federal government and private as well as public industries who have a lot to lose if the reforms that this movement is demanding are met. This decentralized yet organized force are every day Americans, mostly young, college age or older individuals that are passionate about improving our countries enormous problem with how we view and reward wealth. The primary argument is typically the fact that simply saying "The rich should be taxed at a lower rate because they are the job creators" is no longer a valid statement. The consensus is that everyone should be taxed at the same rate, a flat, fair tax for the sake of fixing our broken and swiss cheese like laws that allow companies like General Electric to skip out on paying any taxes, period. Barack Obama has designated GE's CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt as his liaison to the business community. Faith in the election process has all but burnt out, the ballot box has been turned into a fallacy. I am one of the 99%.
My personal opinion on the matter is that, over the last 25 - 30 years there has been an agenda slyly embedding it's self into the micro fiber of our government. We have turned our countries financial system into a ticking time bomb that reached the last few segments of fuse in 2008 and it's still burning. We started this off by removing the boundary between the securities industry and the banking industry. We've created a system that is open to exploitation, Bernie Madoff proved that point by embezzling billions of dollars and doing it with a smile on his face collecting his defrauded royalties with arms wide open. We've allowed banks and large corporations to coin themselves as "too big to fail" thus creating a situation where our citizens must prop these corporations up with their hard earned tax dollars to prevent them from fail thus putting off financial Armageddon for a few more years. With the loss of so many US jobs there are millions of people out of work and millions more collecting unemployment and other government benefits that will eventually expire or reduce to a point that is unsustainable. In the US we have created this strange, corruption friendly form of government that the powers that be are still referring to as Capitalism. Occupy Wall Street is the first wave of awareness that has really polarized other organizations like the Tea Party movement and other alleged "grass roots" efforts, there is no sinister motive or ideology, no catch or contract, it's simply a group of people that all agree on at least one thing, there are major problems with our country in multiple critical areas and if the government doesn't fix the many problems it has created we will take it into our own hand.
In New York last week the NYPD arrested over 700 people after corralling them onto a bridge and arrested them one by one as they walked onto the roadway from being over crowded by the same people who were zip tying people up and illegally disrupting a peaceful demonstration by means of entrapment. The kicker is that on October First, the day things were getting interesting JP Morgan "donated" 4.6 million dollars to the New York City Police Department essentially bribing the police to take action against the protesters, 700 some arrests later and numerous injuries caused by use of force and the situation was "brought under control". This tells me that if you're a large company with billions of dollars at your disposal, and something is going to effect your bottom line you can simply hire the government to enforce your companies every whim. I think this was a critical mistake because now people are no longer preparing for a peaceful rally they are preparing for confrontation. This has caused a domino effect, more people are now participating, threatening to render police incapable of restoring order if the situation does spiral out of control. These people are generally peaceful and intend only to stand up for what they believe in but with any movement this viral there is always potential for extremists and anarchists to take refuge within the crowd. A line has been crossed and now people are angry and much less open to giving up the cause for fear of getting arrested. The US is simply following suit, much of the world has already began to stand up and do this, some did it constructively and other destroyed property and did more damage than good. Let's hope these peaceful demonstrations do not fall victim to illegal intervention.
We shall see what happens tomorrow in many large cities all over the US, there are over 853 cities worldwide involved in this, it's not just New York or Cleveland, this is a world wide cause that is decentralized yet organized. The people involved are smart, resilient and caring individuals who aren't willing to take concessions or compromise, they want the problems fixed, "We are the 99%" is being chanted at this very second, somewhere in the world, rather day or night, sunshine or snow storm the people are invested in this movement. I would like to congratulate the government for opening Pandora's box, you've created a resurgence in activism not seen since the 60's. We have common ground now, what we accomplish from this point on is going to help us strike fear in the government, not the other way around. Stimulated minds all over are working together as a team to right the wrongs and make this country work for us, the people, not the super rich and politicians.
Get involved Americans, google "occupy wall street" and the name of your city or nearby large city, there is a good chance you'll be close to a rally. Please attend, spread awareness and remember, strength in numbers, stay safe out there.
We Are The 99%!
