Forum Post: This is the answer all of you are looking for.
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 2, 2011, 8:36 p.m. EST by fewdea
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I have not participated in an occupy protest, but I am a token supporter. I think they stand for something and they do, but that's all they're doing is standing around, doing nothing, pissing people off.
The solution is this. You want to change the world? Be the change. Do you think everything should be free like I do? Then go spend your time doing things for to make the world a better place instead standing in a park whining about how everything sucks, wasting time. Yes, volunteering. Anywhere. A random business that you dig. Go in right before close and ask if they need help closing. Or help opening. Or maybe someone called off sick. Then go blog about it. Record it in a journal.
Seriously, you vote with your actions. Go change the world as you see fit and don't ask for a penny in exchange. Tell the people you help that you want everyone to work for free; to make the world a better place according to according to their own ideas.
This movement can either fizzle out and do nothing but complain about police brutality or it can start a revolution of goodness with their actions.
We can create our own Renewable Energy Economy
10 Things We Want
A Proposal for Occupy
a) A constitutional amendment that fixes our broken electoral system by
1) completely removing campaign contributions from the political process;
2) requiring all elections to be publicly financed;
3) moving election day to the weekend to increase voter turnout;
4) making all Americans registered voters at the moment of their birth;
5) banning computerized voting and requiring that all elections take place on paper ballots.
b) A constitutional amendment declaring that corporations are not people and do not have the constitutional rights of citizens. This amendment should also state that the interests of the general public and society must always come before the interests of corporations.
c) A constitutional amendment that will act as a “second bill of rights” as proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt: that every American has a human right to employment, to health care, to a free and full education, to breathe clean air, drink clean water and eat safe food, and to be cared for with dignity and respect in their old age.
Eradicate the Bush tax cuts for the rich and institute new taxes on the wealthiest Americans and on corporations, including a tax on all trading on Wall Street (where they currently pay 0%).
Assess a penalty tax on any corporation that moves American jobs to other countries when that company is already making profits in America. Our jobs are the most important national treasure and they cannot be removed from the country simply because someone wants to make more money.
Require that all Americans pay the same Social Security tax on all of their earnings (normally, the middle class pays about 6% of their income to Social Security; someone making $1 million a year pays about 0.6% (or 90% less than the average person). This law would simply make the rich pay what everyone else pays.
Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act, placing serious regulations on how business is conducted by Wall Street and the banks.
Investigate the Crash of 2008, and bring to justice those who committed any crimes .
Reorder our nation’s spending priorities (including the ending of all foreign wars and their cost of over $2 billion a week). This will re-open libraries, reinstate band and art and civics classes in our schools, fix our roads and bridges and infrastructure, wire the entire country for 21st century internet, and support scientific research that improves our lives.
Join the rest of the free world and create a single-payer, free and universal health care system that covers all Americans all of the time.
Immediately reduce carbon emissions and implement a new lateral power energy economic paradigm with renewable energy targets; to live without the oil and stop burning the peoples money with oil – that will be depleted and gone by the end of this century.
Require corporations with more than 10,000 employees to restructure their board of directors so that 50% of its members are elected by the company’s workers. We can never have a real democracy as long as most people have no say in what happens at the place they spend most of their time: their job. (For any U.S. businesspeople freaking out at this idea because you think workers can’t run a successful company: Germany has a law like this and it has helped to make Germany the world’s leading manufacturing exporter).
New Age silliness will accomplish nothing.
keep telling yourself that. at least we know who doesn't want to make things better. you'd rather keep them just like they are. you must be content.
Yeah, that's just what I said. Sigh.....goddamn you liberals are brainless!
Don't really need brains when right is on our side. "Reality has a clear liberal bias" as they say. Brains are there to be manipulated, don't trust them! Either that...or...expand your mind beyond the pathetic excuse for "thinking" that so many of people like you are accustomed to.
Don't need brains when right is on your side? You know how many nations have gone to war with similar beliefs? You really are a retard. Whatever.
Well the war against the 99% has been waged, in EARNEST, at least as far back as the 80's, so it's simply time that we're fighting back, only fighting without fighting in this case, but fighting without fighting can only go on so long....all this post is saying is that capitalism is inherently broken, or unjust, and that we need to basically be the change that we need to see. I'm doing my part as a community organizer, among many other things, and I can sleep damn well at night. It isn't about paper, it's about people.
A....community.....organizer............now where have we heard that before?
Prarbly on the farx newz marchine hurhurhur....prarbly when somone went and done said dat Obama is a kenyan n uh extremist.oooh!....hurhurhur....
You don't know the slightest thing about me and what I do, and how I've been thanked personally for helping less fortunate people's lives FOR FREE, simply by taking small steps a few times a week and volunteering and staying active in the community. Is it a bit drastic to talk about eliminating the capital system? Absolutely, but if you actually knew what all the poverty and inequality was based on, it'd be an easy conclusion to come to. I personally believe there are other solutions that are more viable and easier to work towards, but the plutocracy we're living can make a man insane if you think about the big picture too much...
Well now are we proud of ourselves?! What a wonderful liberal you are! Good job!
You are pointless, you come in here and say new age silliness that will accomplish nothing, and I simply tell you a very tiny bit about my activity in the world that accomplishes something, you have no argument or point. Good job. And I was just paraphrasing a Stephen Colbert quote in my first response because you deserve a harmless verbal jab for the dumb comment that you originally posted.
You are right. Continue with your world saving activities saving a few and trying to project you ego onto the rest of the country. Watch a lot of TV now don't we? Go away. You haven't even been sufficiently brainwashed yet.
No, on the contrary, it is you who lacks the freedom of thought to see that you've been duped this whole time, and that every political belief you hold is merely placed there by the conservative media to subvert your mental powers and lobby against your own self-interests. You should leave. And stay away. Fool!
Oh the waste of a young mind....
The waste of my 11:40's you mean, because talking to you is indeed a waste it seems. What do you think would be a better use of my "young mind"? Working at some useless job that's owned by a multinational corporation? Slaving away to fulfill consumeristic desires that were dictated down to me? Trying not to change the system of government that I have that doesn't even have the guise of functionality and republican goals any more?
You're right about one thing though, I do watch too much TV. At least I did. If you noticed that Colbert quote I used was from 2004, when I did in fact watch too much TV, but all those shows are hardly funny anymore now that I know what's really going on, unfortunately....
The war against the 99% was won in 1913.
I know what you mean about the Fed being a huge step in the wrong direction, but I don't think the class war was as NEARLY as much an up-hill battle as it is now that the elite has effectively eroded the integrity of the republic system, and placed lots of easily accessed sources of propaganda to get members of 99% fighting against their own self interests without them even realizing it. THAT'S the war I'm talking about, and that's what we're up against. Nothing is set-in stone however, and if you give up and act all hopeless, then you are already defeated before you even tried. All it takes is a bold unstoppable plan!