Occupy wall street and other protest movements are springing up all around the country and the world. I believe in the right they have to protest but
I believe the focus of their protests is all wrong. Here's why:
The occupy movements are mainly focused on the banks and how they have reaped the benefits of our tax dollars, leaving us out of work and struggling.
Its all the corporations' fault. That seems to me like they are really missing the root of the problem and rather, attacking the middle man. I'm not
suggesting that banks are all angels, looking out for the greater good, but the real problem here is who allowed this to happen. THE GOVERNMENT.
Our elected officials felt it would be prudent to use our tax dollars to bail out national banks and other large industries. They demand (steal) our
money and use it in ways we (the people) would never have used it. Think about it.
If a small business fails, the bank forecloses, people lose their jobs, have to start over, change. If the people are dissatisfied with that business
enough for it to stop making profit, that business is no more. If the bank fails, the government bails them out, no change. Allowing the same CEO's
who made the mistakes make them again.
This would never have happened without government interference. In fact I would have to say we would have been better off without it. The economy
might have suffered for a brief period but even after the bailouts, which were supposed to help the economy, we have already had a major recession and
the unemployment rate is at the highest it's been in over 50 years. And it's not looking up in the near future. But the more important thing, for all
you OWS people out there, is that the banks you're campaigning against wouldn't be doing all the awful things you protest against. If the government
offered them no amnesty from their shady dealings and unfair practices, they would be left to the people.
People think of a free market as allowing big corporations to do whatever they want with no repercussions, when it is exactly the opposite. If the
people had their way, and didn't allow the government to meddle, those banks and lenders would all be out of business. Allowing governmental control
of our money does nothing but hurt us.
These are the people we elected, we pay their salaries (officially). Unofficially is a different story. We should be able to fire them. I mean, we
are, technically, their bosses. They work for us and they should have to answer to us. Yet they are the only organization that can tax what we earn
and penalize us if we decide we don't want to pay. Unless you count mandatory unions, and everybody loves those. They steal your earnings and call it
stealing when you don't give them the money you have worked hard to earn.
This is America. The home of the phrase "No taxation without representation!" The people aren't being represented anymore, only those fortunate enough
to be able to pay our elected officials enough money. We need to wake up and confront the root of the problem, the disease we willingly accept called
the government.
edit on 16-10-2011 by rockintitz because: (no reason given)