“OCCUPY” THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE
We have been conned into believing that our power lay in our ability to vote for the candidate of our choice. The candidates across the board tell us whatever they know we want to hear. They “sell” us on the belief that they will in fact represent our the peoples’ agenda, what we want and need for our country and from our country.
. . well, how well does congress work these days? Collaboration between the two parties is gone, compromise is gone and the Republicans have abandoned civility. Our politicians are owned and controlled by the money brokers known as “lobbyists- big money, the .09%. These are 400 American billionaires that control legislature and regulations across the board which affect banking, trade,the markets, drugs, health care, etc. The government does not represent the voice of the majority, it represents the agenda of profiteering for the few.
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It’s a load of crap and even well intended politicians who do get elected find their hands tied by the machinery that is fixed solidly in place and run by the good old boys, those supported by the big money. Ceo’s are selected for powerful positions within the presidents cabinet. Supreme Court judges are hand selected.
The government is corrupt. It is no longer a Democracy in practice. Voting is meaningless. Campaigns are funded and designed like commercials and marketing works very well on those of us who don’t take the time to separate emotional sound bytes, unsupported statements, claims and downright boldfaced lying from facts. How many of our representatives are financing romantic affairs with our tax dollars while they should be in their office earning their salary?
The mainstream media is controlled by a few billionaires and the news isn’t news at all. It’s a commercial meant to encourage us to fight with each other: right against left, liberal against conservative, wealthy against middle class keeping us too busy blaming one another for us to notice who is really the culprit of a global economic meltdown.
The system has to be reformed and returned to what in theory is fair and just and effective. Democracy and Capitalism are excellent systems in theory and they work well when special interest groups and individuals are not in control over them.
The internet is a transparent vehicle. It express the voices of everyday people, everyday. It gives us hope for a truthful and fair future for all of us, our children, and the world itself. Information abounds. It’s time to start reading more. Do your own research. Don’t believe a single article or speech. Read and read some more. Without an educated public Democracy will make bad choices. I don’t mean school, I mean current affairs in our modern societies.
This isn’t about Republicans or Democrats or liberals and conservatives, but
the 99% of us who have our government usurped from us by the power of corporate money and the corruption of our political system. Some of the corruption has even been legalized BY the corruption empowering the government. The brokers, businessmen, and movers and shakers of corporate power who have purchased and now control the media in this country and who, in collusion with many politicians who have written legislation to further empower their 1%; that’s what this is all about.
Remember the American Revolution and what motivated it. The cry at that Tea Party was, “No taxation without representation!” How happy are you with the way your money is handled and what it’s being allocated for?
The Occupy movement is simply about informing people that the current state of affairs affecting us all is due to corruption; bribery, deregulating essential constraints on banking and Wall Street. Corruption is a soft word for “crime”. When the average citizen commits a crime he goes to prison. When a political official is caught in a criminal activity, he may lose his job or his support in the next election. Crimes that result in making and losing of billions of dollars and the transfer of that money from millions of pockets into the few. We need one another to occupy “ truth” and “fairness”...”Justice for “All”.
We have an opportunity to grow the truth in the streets of America. It’s happening all over the world. Get caught up in the excitement of the possibility of recreating a healthy,prosperous nation that works for 100% of the people. Make your voice be heard. Don’t think someone else will do this work for you. If the movement doesn’t grow it atrophies. One way or the other. Phoenix has already dropped numbers quickly. Don’t be apart from this but become a part of this. We must become an “us” if we are going to win the day. This is our chance and the time is now!
