OH HECK YA! OCCUPY WALLSTREET!!!

[BeeNo]

well, i think this fella says it better than i ever could!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8svbm4WYmU

[totte]

beväpna er

[zarrock blackheart]

considering the police in most citys have started to shoot the protesters with rubber bullets and throw canisters of teargass into crowds of protesters.. that are protesting our country being governed and controlled by a bunch of fat greasy rich slobs. who use prison inmates for slave labor and pay the government officeals to support thier campaighn just to get laws and bills past that benifit the rich and the fat while money thats needed by the lowerclass and midclass and getting it all to thos rich fat people... the protesters should be considerd just.. yet thier "literly" being shot down by the government,

and dont even get me started on the government programs desighned to help people. i have a freind whos been homeless living out of a van for months.. becuase the government housing in her area "literly" make a game out of it, they take all the names of the people who have so little money that they qualifigh for it. and put it in a hat
everyfriday... the one drawn gets the help they need. between finding out about this and people being shot for protesting **** like this..... my fiath in the good old us of a has plumited,

[BladeEWG]

Protesting has a rich history in the US.
Womans rights, Equal Rights, Against the War..etc etc.,each with a specific goal

However this Occupy Wallstreet and the like makes little sense to me.
To protest without an agenda is pointless.
The 99%? Thats grand..but SAY WHAT YOU WANT!
The banks to close? open the vaults? lower taxes? legalized pot? cheaper gas?
Give people something they can rally around and thats not accomplished with a shotgun approach.

So now we have peple camping in the parks, comparing it to Valley Forge.
"We'll be here all winter"
FOR WHAT?

[BladeEWG]

and sorry Beeno, I didn't know that was your new country name.
Else I'd have stayed clear..but it was my largest grab to date.

[BeeNo]

hehe, well i actually haven't used a turn yet so

your right, there are a multitude of voices all with varying views. but there is one overwhelming message i'm getting. take the big money out of our election process. it produces a corrupt system where politicians sell themselves to the highest bidder. now i'm not saying corporations are terrible, and that big business is terrible, we need them. i am saying that their influence on political elections needs to be put back in check. in our current system, these companies don't even need to be American owned. what business do they have funding candidates in our elections? our current president is aiming at raising over 1 billion dollars in his campaign for re-election. to me that's ridiculous. they are also the ones doing the majority of funding for political parties. you vote against the party, the party funds someone else to defeat you in your next election. no offense, but its this two party system where both sides can't come to agreements or meet in the middle that is so embarrassing. its dysfunctional. the message is clear, stop taking their money so your free to pass laws ensuring companies like exon who recorded over 35billion dollars in profit last year in the united states pays more than 0$ in taxes. so GE does the same. How did this happen? i'll tell you, they bought it. they don't have the good of America at heart, only profit.

now some of that is my voice, but if your asking yourself what the message is, its protests aimed at bringing power back to the people, let our voice be heard over the millions upon millions of dollars being heaved at political candidates to ensure our political system remains corrupt and bought.

now here is a little more just to spice things up.

-political parties- “serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force to put, in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by mutual interests. However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” -George Washington

why oh why do we continue to cut funding to education? you can't even run a representative republic without an educated populace? what do i want to see? i wouldn't mind higher education completely payed for, instead students are asked to pay more and more each year. the unemployment rate in American for people with a 4 year degree is right around 4.1%. for people with no higher education it sits at around 18%. when you continue to cut funding to students what you see is less and less people able to afford college and less and less people able to be competitive with the global economy.

and all i hear from both sides is slash and cut everything. not going to work for me.

[BeeNo]

the person i really want to hear from on this, is Mr. President! tell us Mr. President how you feel about the occupy wall street movement

Misguided? Exciting? Moving? or are you not at liberty to discuss?

(our mr. president, not obama )

[BeeNo]

the funny part about this, most people aren't hearing this message. your normal news outlets aren't getting it, aren't saying it, and aren't showing it.

[zarrock blackheart]

presedent obama- to help enshure my vote in this reelection iv taken abillion dollers that was ment to help the homless. to put a 50 foot statue in every major city, so everytime you you to vote. you see me and how much greater i am the the other canidate...(23% of usa population is homeless due to government housing programs cutting funding,... my best friend is enrolled in one and they pull a name out of a hat every friday to play a game to see who gets helped... 1B dollers for my best freind to be homeless .. this is the american reality)

[Canada]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=N8o3peQq79Q#

This is our demands, created from our Manifesto.

July 4th 2012 is the first international convention.

It begins in 2012