Seriously... We're talkin' 'bout a revolution.

I have known for many a year and had that thought further cemented after the election of president Obama, that big things are coming up in America's future. Here in these United States of America, we have the destitute and the filthy rich living in what used to be the land of the privileged. We have families who are homeless because of decisions of a few to get rich QUICK and get out of Dodge. It frightens me that we have lost our ability to care enough about each other enough to take time to reach out a hand and lift folks up from the bottom. I am not lost on the purpose of Occupy Wall St. I am not lost on the plight and desperation of many of my generation; buried in debt fearing for their future and the future of generations to come. I liken the Occupy Movement to a child who has no other way out of a damaging environment. This child wants it to stop. They have no one else to talk to about it. so they act out. but you don't always offer consequences. you look for the cause of the behavior. *takes a deep breath* **IMHO** America was founded by an oppressed people who brought their own oppression over on ships and oppressed the people already living here then went to another country and claimed some new oppressed folk. Through the oppression of others they presented themselves as superior, all the while taking the ideas that one such oppressed society used to manage a mostly peaceful nation and set the laws of the place we call America today. *breathes* I get really irritated when protests and demonstrations are brought down because someone uses their power to wrest control. In the case of OW and the branches of the Occupy movements in other areas, force has in some places been excessive. Maybe dialogue is still what is needed and not duct tape over the mouths of the public. Firing on a crowd of human beings........ *sigh* Rubber bullets are supposed to sting, like a cut section of hose on a dogs back. With humans and with dogs you have to be careful how you use the weapon. People are getting hurt because everyone is growing impatient. I still think that we need to do more for one another as a community than splitting each other off into groups. When you label and segregate, you lose sight of your goal. *sigh*. I'm not even going to spell check this rant but I'm not talking out of my ass when I say to check the history of our founding fathers introduction of "how to set up a nation" presented by the Iroquois. The number 13 for the colonies had to come from Somewhere and it was not a random number. http://www.lightparty.com/Spirituality/Iroquois.html Occupy Wall Street is not all about politics, it's about our lives and how our ability to manage them has been placed underfoot by the politics of our federal government. It's about people who own homes they are so far upside down on that they can't afford to keep a roof over their families heads. It's about the students who graduate college and can't find a job or jobs for that matter to allow them to live AND pay back their student loans (did i mention students are in school longer trying to specialize so they can find a good paying job when and if they graduate?). It's about the public education option that has gotten so far out of hand that students are having to borrow significant amounts of money to graduate from state college with nothing more than a useless piece of paper. It's about the bailout... The one in which the trickle down evaporated before it to to the bottom of the hill. It's about america for us. The 99% and not everything for them...the 1% regarding the blocking of the Oakland Ports The idea was to block the ports. The business in many cases should pay their employees but the choose to add to the flame. I am a college grad with no job, student loans rolling in, an unemployment check that won't cover my mortgage (which the homes made more affordable only lowered by TWENTY DOLLARS) and allow mento feed my family. There are so many people out of work that we can't all be put into the "lazy ass ahole" category anymore. I am trying to start a home daycare because I cannot get a job teaching preschool. I am a MASTER TEACHER! Why because all of the unemployed teachers who are getting tossed from the substitute roles because the retired teachers want to double dip because they either want more money (read:greed), or need to (read:necessity). Like i said, it's a tough call. Just tough all over. Our financial infrastructure is not a working design. It is currently a front that the banks have learned to manipulate with physics and lobbyists to make more money (1%) while many of us (up to the 99%) struggle trying to eke out a meager existence. I follow and support the protesters because I am afraid and want things to change. Traditional methods have failed. It's time for a change. I am sure during women's suffrage and the civil rights movement people thought those people needed something better to do, but this is what oppressed people do... They get up and get shit moving. That is what I feel is happening with the Occupy Wall St. and I pray that it continues in a positive light with benefits for all in need. Goddess
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