Personally, I'm skeptical about this protest. Parasitism is what I see here, why should those who have worked hard to get where they are, give a free lunch to those who didn't? Why should I be punished for working hard to get where I am today by having my well earned pay cut down and given to some slob who might just spend it on alcohol and drugs. But that's only my opinion if these people are calling for more benefits; since I saw quite a few of these down with capitalism signs, this is what I'm assuming.
In all honestly I'm not seeing what these Occupy people are trying to accomplish, they keep talking about their fight against corporate greed and corruption on their website, but really that's not saying much. That's not presenting any solution to whatever their problem may be. These people seem to be there just to complain, not to do anything productive. If someone could tell me what exactly their goal is, in very specific non-generalized answers, I would appreciate it. Oh, and actually offering a solution would be good.
They are angry, and corporate run media in the US has everyone confused on whats real and what isn't. A leader will rise up soon enough and the angry will have direction.
The everyday middle class, and used to be middle class have everyright to be extremely pissed off. Cigarettes and Alchol is illegal, but in some states doctors are not allowed to perscibe Marijuana. In some states being found with so much as a single seed is a felony and can ruin your life. Limit jobs available. Make it much harder to become super rich, and being super rich is the only way to succeed in America. Education system is just one example how corporate greed effects the long term health of our nation. It only takes common sense and google to know that there is a high correlation between repeat felony offenders and High school dropouts. The
numbers are stagering. As well as income and race. Its sick.
That rate, more than 600 prisoners for every 100,000 people, is by far the highest in the industrialized world. The U.S. incarcerates its citizens at a rate six times higher than Canada, England, and France, seven times higher than Switzerland and Holland, and ten times Sweden and Finland.
It can be looked at 2 ways.
1. People in lower income areas are more likely to drop out of school, as well as go to jail/prison, and get jobs that move them out of whats considered poverty. The number don't lie. If you have money, then you more likely to not go to jail, graduate highschool, and get a job that supports you enough to be above the poverty line.
2.Too much Money made from investigating, trying, conviscating, and incarcerating people. Our jails and prisons are at max capacity. They have to in order to ensure the highest possible profits. They are funded on a inmate by inmate system. Empty spaces in jails is lost profits.
Prisoners in 2004, the Justice Department number-crunchers found that people sentenced for drug crimes accounted for 21% of state prisoners and 55% of all federal prisoners.
Imagine if all those prisoners were not in jail. Our tax dollars would not be going to the private and state owned jails. Lots of money saved, money that wouldnt have to be taken from medicare and education.
Now image if the $1,268,254,911,000 that we have spent on the wars in the middle east didnt go to the companies like haliburton(Dick cheney was former CEO). Imagine if it went to education. The sports and music programs could all be returned to schools, and they both improve students graduation rates.
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A little insight. 20 years ago in the military, other servicemen did everything for you. Other soldiers sized your boots, fed you food, filled your papers, especially if you were deployed overseas. Now civilians do all of that even in iraq and afganistan. You know why? Because Haliburton gets paid alot of our tax dollars just to provide those services. Our tax dollars spent on a company that is 405 owned by the former vice president.
The Carlyle group which is the overhead company of Lockheed and martin(the company that makes alot of military weapons equipment) has ties to both the bin laden family and the bush family. They get paid alot because we are at war in the middle east.Thats why we picked the middle east. Its the one place were fighting has and will be going on for a long time. Its a guaranteed gravy train, but in the process its killing our young men and women and wasting our tax dollars. Wanna save money? Stop fighting useless wars. Then tax the rich just as much if not a little more than the middle and low classes. Then spend wisely with social programs, that are effective and provocative.
Ill say it one more time so everyone sees it.
I say again. We want the laws to be in the benefit of EVERYONE. Not just the 1%.
Edited by supertrap, 25 October 2011 - 12:13 AM.
