Forum Post: Opportunity Knocks but Once
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 6, 2011, 12:03 a.m. EST by Rmarks1701
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OK I said something like this yesterday, but let me re-iterate.
Everyone involved with this movement has a choice, everyone has an opportunity. This movement has become a very public forum on change, change for the better. But the question is change into what?
Winston Churchill once said that "democracy is the worst form of government ever invented, apart from all the others have been tried"
they have been tried, and failed. But here with this movement is a golden opportunity to spark new idea's, to come up with new forms of government that have not yet been tried, forms of government that keep the basic freedoms we hold dear while looking to redress the inequalities we see in the present systems.
We should not waste this opportunity in order to gain a small short term victory. Because that is what is going to happen, we gain a victory and 50 years, maybe 100 our grandchildren find themselves right back at square one, protesting what you guys are protesting today.
End The Fed.
They OWN you.
Actually they do not. I have no mortgage, no credit card debt, and my wife's education is just about paid off. We are living debt free with no holds over us.
And all your savings is in silver, gold, or other non-cash assets.
Bravo!
If you hold dollars, they pick a little out of them from afar every day.
And debt-free is relative. The 'rest of it' is almost up to $15 Trillion now.
As for that part? It's not my debt, and I'm not paying it.
Good for you, paying off your debts is a good way of responsibly arranging for your economic future, something most people are too lazy to do. But the fed is devaluing your cash, he right about that.
Ban corporate campaign funding.
This I can agree to. the massive lobbying of corporations in order to sway votes and change political opinion does need to end. the corporations do not represent the people, they represent only their own best interests.
Elect the middle class. Make fact 1 term everything. Teach legislation as a 7 year degree, like doctors and lawyers. Let us represent us.
Elect the middle class? What do they know about the impoverished class?
http://occupywallst.org/forum/if-youre-going-to-remove-our-re-posts/
agreed. and why we needed a wiki and a lot of sub forums a week ago.
Democracy is a great start though, forming government around the system of organization the occupy movements have adopted would be a better start.