Forum Post: Cause
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 18, 2011, 2:48 p.m. EST by 1pctguy
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from Washington, DC
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Can anyone succinctly articulate what is being protested?
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q&feature=related
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CjrZNi49bE&feature=related
Perhaps we should protest Charlie Sheen's return to sanity. He was much more fun off his medication!
Too broad! Do you want to add world peace to the list too? Sounds like a big Whine to me. You gotta be more specific if you want to be taken seriously!
1 - Big Business (and Wall Street) controlling our Government by means of excessive Lobbying and Campaign Contributions.
2 - No regulation or controls on Wall Street to curb or hinder the excessive greed and corruption that the tax-payers ultimately pay for.
3 - Corporate bail-outs, Wall Street bail-outs, Bank bail-outs, with both Congress and the American people left in the dark as to how it was distributed.
4 - 16 Million people Unemployed... Poverty and Homelessness on the rise... and the rich are getting exponentially richer... all while we continue to fund useless wars and dole out $Billions to other countries in Foreign aid
5 - College Students graduating $40K to $100K in debt... with American jobs being outsourced and transferred Overseas. The job market looks more dismal by the day... and yet the rich keep getting richer.
And this list is just the "short" version. :oD
Our economic and political systems are designed, almost from the ground up, to benefit a few elites while everyone else is left with the bare minimum required to keep us in line!
The reasons why the system works this way are varied and subtle (and often debated!). The solution to the problem is a matter of debate which is why the movement is unable, and largely unwilling, to release specific demands.
I hope that helps somewhat?
in a word...NO