Forum Post: Super Committee can Fail... Really?

The super committee is here to save the day. They will reach the compromise that the American people expect their very own government to reach. The very government that the people entrust to keep their interests safe and their rights maintained. As thousands of people take to the streets and fight for their rights as the 99% of the population, the government is supposed to be listening and heading the voices of the very population that they are elected to protect. When is it that we allowed this government to overtake the people? Is it not in the deceleration of our independence that we as a people have the right, nay the duty to overthrow a government that does not keep our interests in mind? Here we sit, a nation divided against itself, once again. So the democratic party is willing to allow cuts to the needs of the 99%, but yet the republicans refuse to allow the 1% to be taxed their fair share. How does it work that a nation of working class people are able to see their own paychecks taxed and taken for every spare penny, and then forced to survive on what is left. Yet we do not believe the wealthy should give up the same percentage of their pay? We do not ask for any one person to give a higher dollar amount. We ask that every working person who earns an income to have to give up the same percentage of their pay. Is it unfair for a person who earns $20,000 per year to give 15% of their pay and leave them barely making ends meet, but not expect a person earning $2,000,000 a year to give 15% of their pay? Who is to say that the percentage of the wealthy is any less taxable than the percentage of the middle class. We hear constantly from the Republican party that people should just 'pull themselves up by their bootstraps'. This is not possible for every person. If every single person in America could pull themselves up and be the wealthy Americans, who would work to maintain that wealth? No company in America can survive without workers to maintain the company. No company in America runs strictly on the wealth of the owner without the hard work of the average worker. When did we become a nation that allows our leaders to change the rules to meet their own needs? Who allowed the congressional party to redraw the lines of their voting areas so that the same members are always allowed to stay in their undeserving seats? When did the American citizens get duped into believing that this government is looking out for the interests of the common man? Worse yet, when did this government stop looking out for the common man? We finally have citizens willing to give up everything they have in order to make a statement. We finally have people out there fighting for the basics promised to us as people when this great nation started. And we have the government fighting these people under the guise of concern for their welfare. The scariest part some see is that they have convinced the police to fight for their side, when the police force themselves are so underpaid that we ask them to risk their own lives for so much less than we pay people committed to a “Super Committee” that can simply end their task by saying “We Failed.” Imagine if any other person in any blue collar job in the country walked up to their boss and simply said “I failed.” No company could survive that admission. I applaud the strength of today’s protesters to hold strong and continue to stand for their rights. At the same time I am disgraced by the way the government hides behind the “Safety and Sanitation” of the people when trying to shut down what they are standing for. I suppose it all comes down to just a few questions.... And the 99% are out there asking all of them.