Forum Post: Objectives
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 17, 2011, 10:12 a.m. EST by confusedinnj
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What SPECIFICALLY has to happen (by when) in order for your efforts to be considered successful. Who is the person(s) responsible to put together the action plan to achieve the objective. What do you want to happen in order to end this demonstration - in other words - what does success look like?
Ultimately, the movement should strive for two things: getting the money our of politics so politicians can't be bought, and regulating financial institutions by limiting the ammount they can leverage and by forbidding the sales of securities made up of financial instruments that are likely to fail, such as mortgages given to people who obviously cannot make the monthly payments.
My question exactly! And jay1975, I agree. I have not been a supporter, as in, standing in a position to actually protest, but I am trying to hear the message and decide if I support or if I am against the movement. I would agree 100% that there are many, many issues that need to be taken up with our government. I'm just not sure that OWS is the movement I wish to support. The message is too unclear...of course media bias doesn't help. I came to this site to see what I could learn. So far I still get very mixed messages and a VERY broad definition of what the movement stands for.
Seems to me, as others have said, that they should be against the government rather than business. I know that some businesses are corrupt and buy our government....but shouldn't that be on the backs of the government...after all if they weren't able to be bought in the first place there would be no problems....there wouldn't be lobbyist buying the government....big business, big pharm, big bank wouldn't matter because the gov would/should say NO to all corruption. So ... doesn't the root of the problem begin with the gov - therefore the root of the solution begin with the gov? I don't know...I'm not in big business, I'm not in politics. I'm just an average joe ... don't know much. Just saying how I see it.
I have become extremely concerned with our freedoms and our rights being diminished right before our eyes. I think something must be done. I'm just not yet convinced this is it.
The businesses are the drug users and Congress are the dealers. As Congress makes laws that allow them to be bought out and exempt themselves from many regulations, they show that they are where the focus needs to be. There refusal to "occupy" DC shows that they are just a tool for the left being used by forces behind the scenes.
So when will the right movement begin? When it's too late because they've taken away our right to protest "for our own safety" because other movements turn violent and cause civil unrest & community anger or whatever ... not sure what the right words are there.
LOL there is no goal to this movement. There are people who are being incentivized to be there, going there just to "protest something" because it feels cool to do it, and others who have ridiculous goals like establishing a Communist government that will never happen in a million years. This ship had a hull breach before it left the dock.
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Judging by what this movement has become, the objective is to protest any and everything. There is no stated end goal and the leadership hides out of sight driving these people to disrupt the lives of others only serving to turn people away from the cause. I was an early supporter, but this thing has turned into a lefty joke.
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