Forum Post: Sad to say it but OWS is losing support
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 4, 2011, 12:54 a.m. EST by thetruthtobetold
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and Manhattanites are ready to sing that old song na na nan na hey hey hey goodbye! Free Speeh is fine but a nuisance such as what occured in oakland with what can only be described as a riot is beyond the pale, the much lauded strike pales in comparison to other strikes that ultimately failed and this is no different, go home you made your point and tested the working 99%'s patience, game over!
In my opinion this is completely ignorant. This movement, if it fails, will just be a start. It has already shown what many people believed was impossible, that American's would stand up from their simple, comfortable lives and protest against the major issues in our country. If this movement ends, another will be born in its dust.
If it fails, that's a start!
Catchy!
movement has already succeeded. end game is awareness. the longer it goes on, the longer this much-needed conversation transpires
Are you one of the guys who put the Black Bloc up to that stuff?
The ugly truth. America's wealth is STILL being concentrated. When the rich get too rich, the poor get poorer. These latest figures prove it. AGAIN.
According to the Social Security Administration, 50 percent of U.S. workers made less than $26,364 in 2010. In addition, those making less than $200,000, or 99 percent of Americans, saw their earnings fall by $4.5 billion collectively. The sobering numbers were a far cry from what was going on for the richest one percent of Americans.
The incomes of the top one percent of the wage scale in the U.S. rose in 2010; and their collective wage earnings jumped by $120 billion. In addition, those earning at least $1 million a year in wages, which is roughly 93,000 Americans, reported payroll income jumped 22 percent from 2009. Overall, the economy has shed 5.2 million jobs since the start of the Great Recession in 2007. It’s the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression in the 1930’s.
Another word about the first Great Depression. It really was a perfect storm. Caused almost entirely by greed. First, there was unprecedented economic growth. There was a massive building spree. There was a growing sense of optimism and materialism. There was a growing obsession for celebrities. The American people became spoiled, foolish, naive, brainwashed, and love-sick. They were bombarded with ads for one product or service after another. Encouraged to spend all of their money as if it were going out of style. Obscene profits were hoarded at the top. In 1928, the rich were already way ahead. Still, they were given huge tax breaks. All of this represented a MASSIVE transfer of wealth from poor to rich. Executives, entrepreneurs, developers, celebrities, and share holders. By 1929, America's wealthiest 1 percent had accumulated around 40% of all United States wealth. The upper class held around 30%. The middle and lower classes were left to share the rest. When the majority finally ran low on money to spend, profits declined and the stock market crashed.
Of course, the rich threw a fit and started cutting jobs. They would stop at nothing to maintain their disgusting profit margins and ill-gotten obscene levels of wealth as long as possible. The small business owners did what they felt necessary to survive. They cut more jobs. The losses were felt primarily by the little guy. This created a domino effect. The middle class shrunk drastically and the lower class expanded. With less wealth in reserve and active circulation, banks failed by the hundreds. More jobs were cut. Unemployment reached 25% in 1933. The worst year of the Great Depression. Those who were employed had to settle for much lower wages. Millions went cold and hungry. The recovery involved a massive infusion of new currency, a World War, and higher taxes on the rich. With so many men in the service, so many women on the production line, and those higher taxes to help pay for it, the lions share of United States wealth was gradually transfered back to the middle class. This redistribution of wealth continued until the mid seventies. This was the recovery. A massive redistribution of wealth. Then it began to concentrate all over again. Here we are 35 years later. The richest one percent now own well over 40 percent of all US wealth. The lower 90 percent own less than 10 percent of all US wealth. This is true even after taxes, welfare, financial aid, and charity. It is the underlying cause. No redistribution. No recovery.
The government won't step in and do what's necessary. Not this time. It's up to us. Support small business more and big business less. Support the little guy more and the big guy less. It's tricky but not impossible. No redistribution. No recovery.
Those of you who agree on these major issues are welcome to summarize this post, copy it, link to it, save it, show a friend, or spread the word in any fashion. Most major cities have daily call-in talk radio shows. You can reach thousands of people at once. They should know the ugly truth. Be sure to quote the figures which prove that America's wealth is still being concentrated. I don't care who takes the credit. We are up against a tiny but very powerful minority who have more influence on the masses than any other group in history. They have the means to reach millions at once with outrageous political and commercial propaganda. Those of us who speak the ugly truth must work incredibly hard just to be heard.
troll troll troll...
Way to go with circular confidence logic. I'm out of energy for hatred though. I'm going to stare.
there is no 'spreading power' of ows. ows is beginning to believe it's own propaganda which is the first desperate act, i have believed this from the start that when ows became a quasi hunger strike it was doomed to failure, oh it can use it's dollars to become something like moveone.org etc. but america's bright and better future will be determined unfortunatley by investors on wall street and not protestors on wall street
that is....... until..... the oils gone..............
no way. the peaceful, loving and marginally informed humans on the planet are in full support of it. the system is failing. awareness is taking over.
and yet they will use their chase, bofa or citbank visas to buy christmas presents....
Hey, that's why a lot of us are trying to get others to pull their money out of the banks and boycott big business this Christmas. Some of us are blind, but not all of us.
snore.
The lies of the enemy only confuse the weak-minded.
you've been drinking the kool aid.
That is a tired expression. How about you've been sucking on the Koch's.
You sound confused and in despair at the spreading power of the OWS. This is a movement that will carry America into a better future. Your insignificant blabber is already overtaken by time and left by the wayside.
this movement will sputter out eventually, carrying america to a brighter or better future?, oh please Americans do that themselves not with the aid of a movement some win some lose that is the way the game has gone on for millenia and won't change because a group of people partake in a camping trip. they are deluding themselves and their rhetoric at least in this forum shows their desperation. and oakland was well, really depserate.
U sound deluded and kinda stinky. Gross hippy.
actually he kind of sounds awesome and right. your pathetic insults make him sound more right.
Deluded and stinky are just observations, sir.
I don't believe in civil disobedience, I believe in working for constructive change. When the system is broken, you still have to work within it until you can create the change that needs to happen. Disobedience is provocative and the outcome to provocation cannot be guaranteed not to result in violence, injury, or loss of life.
Unless the stakes are subjugation to the anti-Christ, resistance or disobedience should not have the ability to rise to the level where people are injured and possibly killed. When the battle comes down to giving your soul to the anti-Christ or dieing to hold your ground, well in that case anything goes, use whatever methods you can come up with; other than a situation with the extreme consequences like that, civil disobedience is not the best course of action.
Funny, the Tea Party is growing every day. But we're not nearly as hip, and use boring conventional bathrooms.
We would love you to join if you would work and take a shower
No thanks. "Protesters" who aren't willing to get arrested and who need to get permits to march are just pussies. Who do you people think you're kidding? LOL...
We're not protesters. We're adults.
And no one's paying any attention to you...
lol : )
I think you mean, the Koch bros, would love you to join us.
Why is a riot beyond the pale?
This "leaderless" movement cough Soros cough is a laugh riot...
Oh, really? Then why are pussy police departments around the country acting as though the protesters are the second coming of Nazi Germany? They sure are scared of SOMETHING...
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You shouldn't be surprised. The weather's getting colder outside. It won't be long before they retreat back to the comfort of their parents' basement.