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Forum Post: PROPOSED LIST OF OUR DEMANDS (please help edit/add so this can be submitted for consideration to those maintaining the official list)

Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 12, 2011, 12:40 p.m. EST by Constitutional (0)
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Our number one demand is that President Obama admit that he has economically terroized the United States and he must resign from the office of the President. If he does not, we will have to vote him out in 2012.

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[-] 1 points by whyRwelikethis (1) from San Francisco, CA 13 years ago

Phul-ease!..... I am one of the 999%! Scrabbling to take any pick-up work I can to stay in my apartment. But his notion that "Occupy" is NOT a political organization is ridiculous! It HAS to be a political organization, otherwise it will just be a collection of squawking "hippie activists" and will achieve nothing! That is how those in power will see it. Let's admit it! We need to have a serious well thought list of demands and someone DOES actually have to be "in charge," or at least the singular voice of the movement. So! How's this for some demands: (those of you that understand the workings of the financial industry need to help here)

  1. Meaningful financial regulation AND ENFORCEMENT! No financial institution can be allowed to be "too big to fail," and shall NOT be bailed out when they make stupid decisions. Issuing home loans to those who clearly can't make the payments is one of those stupid decisions.
  2. Issuers of Credit Cards can NOT be allowed to raise rates at will. If someone doesn't have the financial ability to carry a credit card, it should not be issued.
  3. No one institution shall be so interwoven into the economic structure of the country that when it fails, it drives us into a depression OR recession.
  4. This notion of a business needing grow every year in order to be viable is STUPID! The only thing we know of that grows and grows is cancer, and it eventually kills it's host! What is wrong with having a business that simply supports it's workers (and their families) and makes enough each year to stay in business. WHY must it grow grow grow and grow? Our schools, our government (it's regulation), and "WALL STREET" has to understand that unlimited growth is NOT a sustainable model.

OK folks. You get the idea. Yes, it's necessary to protest, and to "raise awareness" by causing a scene on Wall Street and other financial centers. But we need to do more. We need to shape this into a CLEAR voice about what SPECIFICALLY we wish to change.

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