There are thousands of reasons for the ‘Occupy Wallstreet’ people to be out there. They just don’t seem to be educated in the oratory business. You know, the people that are paid to speak well. Even then they aren’t very good at it. Look at them as story tellers, each trying to out do another, but wanting to be paid well.
One grand reason that they have for being out there is over the utility companies. For the last thirty years they have been getting price increase after price increase and claiming that it was to rebuild the infrastructure. I would guess that trillions of dollars a year is taken in for that reason. The president offered a $450billion jobs bill,paid for with tax money, but it was declined by the senate. If the Democratic party had done the right thing, they would compel those companies to start paying for it.
They have lobotomised millions of Americans (including infant children) through depression medication. When you are on your last leg, of course you trust the government in which you are a part of?
The healthcare for workers didn’t get too expensive, it was redistributed to the share holders. Right along with safety issues, and any basic rights for workers just gone. For a little more security, they used illegal aliens. Not to enrich them, but to drain the Other half of the Americans.
What bothers me is the lack of specifics of this campaign. I live very close to Cinti.
We have Western & Southern trying to bully (through zoning lawsuits) a rooming house for poor women (Anna Louise Inn) out of their existing building because they want to build “upscale condos” for the rich.
We have P&G making parts for the military, but calling themselves “multi-national” for tax evasion purposes. Also plenty of people in congress being paid off by lobbyist bribes. …and the banks, of course.
Maybe they could divide off into groups holding signs with details of each of their wrongdoings. Now they are getting ticketed for being in the park after hours. Somebody somewhere near downtown areas must have some space in their yard for a campground…..Come back at 6am, and leave at 10pm.
I wish my yard weren’t so tiny!