The Occupy Wall street Movement

Thousands of people have banded together to protest the fucked up governmental policy that we are forced to endure. Be it bailing out rich scum, and throwing our economy into a downward spiral, or refusing to tax said rich scum. The 99% as these protesters are calling themselves are sick of the injustice that the American public face on a daily bases. While those fat cats that make up the 1% of our country are, eating caviar and chartering trips to the Bahamas the rest of us 99% are fighting a losing battle to feed our children, and ourselves, losing our jobs, and trying to make sense of the mess our country is in. Here is the mission statement taken form Occupywallstreet.org

"Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. #OWS is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to expose how the richest 1% of people are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future.”

We are paying for the mistakes of a group of qualified people that run the show. But the question on my mind, that should be on every other American’s mind is this; What makes you people any more qualified to run a country than the rest of its population?  Tearing America down is the solution, for too long have the American people sat back and idly let the government fuck them. When we are the very lubricate that makes it possible for America to ram its big dick into the asses of other lesser countries. That right there has also been an issue, because unless I have lived in an asshole for the last three years, which I have, NOT mind you! The debt we are now faced with was exacerbated by the “War”.  Based on a photo slide interview of different protesters on MSNBC.com everyone is there for their own reasons. Whether they want to end corporate greed” or “see what comes of the protest, these people are out protesting for their own agendas.  I am shocked that the meager Americans have finally taken an interest in the way that this country has been run for over a hundred years. Corporations are the backbone of this country because they provide funding to officials running for election, they provide “valuable” services to the public such as loans and shit like that…They provide beautiful little gadgets, search engines, and all sorts of nifty things. However, they apparently have a dark nasty side that has always been there, but we are just now seeing it because of a “recession”.  As touching, as it is too see Americans rally together in hopes of changing an age-old way of doing things in our country, I do not think this movement will amount to much. I think that the people have waited too long, and have allowed the officials’ excessive freedom in deciding what happens to us “99%”. We should have protested when the economic crisis happened and the bailouts began. “With the $700 billion authorized by Congress in October 2008 via the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, the Treasury Department has been doling out the money via an alphabet soup of different programs”—ProPublica.  I guess better late than never, after all this is America, and apparently we just don’t have enough interest in our lives to take action until we are pushed so far down that the bottom looks like the top.  Corporate greed is always going to exist, I may sound like a shmuck for saying so, but it is the truth. Protest all you want, you are still going to end up with the same set of bullshit regulations to live by…and in the great words of Hunter S. Thompson “There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It’s a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.”
 

          Works Cited

Leitsinger, Miranda. "Who Is Occupying Wall Street? Not Just Your Average Joe." MSNBC.COM, 6 Oct. 2011. Web.

"History of U.S. Gov’t Bailouts."  ProPublica, 15 Apr. 2009. Web. http://www.propublica.org/special/government-bailouts

Wall St, Occupy. "Occupy Wall Street Marks One Month." Occupy Wall Street.org, 17 Oct. 2011. Web.

Thompson, Hunter S. “Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ’80s”, 1988. Print.