Forum Post: We need to come together

I am absolutely delighted with the OWS movement and the forum is has created for all of us to share our thoughts and ideas. However, if we want change, and I know I do, we need to come up with goals and a plan to enact these goals. Now, I know a large section of the country is angry with Obama. I too am upset that more has not happened during his presidency but he was given a disaster to handle. During the 8 years George W. Bush and Dick Chene ran this nation, they did nothing but run this country into the ground by starting 2 wars, one of which was and remains entirely unnecessary and another that should have been handled much differently, and by initiating a government bailout of the banking system. The government decided it was okay to give billions of dollars of taxpayer's money to large, rich-is-not-the-word companies so that their CEOs could still afford to take their private jets to retreats in tropical climates.

My point is we need to stop electing politicians whose allegiances lie with big business and not with the people of this nation. In my heart of hearts I believed and trusted in Barack Obama and I still do. Now he is faced with a Republican senate who wants nothing more than to keep his from passing any legislation which would help him help the people. I only wish he could speak his mind on the issues the way we have been able to in this forum and in the streets. Obama needs to come down to Wall Street to support this movement and we need to realize that goal #1 is educating the rest of the 99% that voting for Republicans simply because Obama has not accomplished all of his goals is counterintuitive and will not help this country or our voices.