Occupy Wall St. and Our Part in the Revolution
We have seen how local police forces have responded to the people's protests, now the question is; How will our federal and state governments respond to a growing force of citizens that are sick of our elected officials willfully taking part in the plutocracy that has wrecked this country, ruined our economy, and siphoned the money from we the people, dumping it into the accounts of their largest corporate supporters?
It's time the top 1% were held responsible for their hoarding of 40%+ of our nation's wealth. They've been given endless tax breaks, and ridiculous incentives, they've gobbled up subsidies and ripped open their own loopholes. They've moved OUR money off shore so as not to pay their share of taxes, and hid behind any congressman that could be bought off.
Pro Tip: They have ALL been bought off.
This is not about being anit-corporation, this is not anti-business. No one wants their local Main St. to suffer any more than they want their credit union to go under. This is about calling for an end to the influence and power that those will unlimited amounts money have on our government.
We are sick of voodoo economics, we are sick of living in a corporatocracy that benefits only those with the money to place senators in their pocket, hire a team of lobbyists to write and sway legislation, and pay regulators to look the other way.
It is time for the "Greed is Good" generation to be forced from power and allow for a true people's democracy to take hold. Power to the people, by the people, and of the people, makes no mention of corporations or the shareholders they are beholden to.
Corporations are, after all, comprised of people; they are not, however, themselves people. It is time for the people that run the corporations to be held accountable for any and all travesties their corporation has committed against the US population. The world population. It is time for every-day citizens to have influence over the legislation our representatives put forth.
This is not about being a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Republican, a Liberal or a Conservative; those separations have been reinforced by our inept, bought-off leaders, and relentlessly beaten into us by our mainstream media to keep us at odds with one another, while those that really seek to cause us harm, pull their puppet strings.
No more.
We are the 99%; we are black, white, brown, Tea partyist, Republican, Democrat, and Liberal. We are middle-class, lower-class, upper-class, and poor. We will not stop, we will not be broken, we grow stronger every day.