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Name: Corporate America
Age: ageless
Occupation: the people who run our country
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: forcing a revolution
Age: ageless
Occupation: the people who run our country
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: forcing a revolution
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Ladies and gentlemen, people are doing something.
And that thing is called "waking up".
I remember just a few short years ago, I went and saw Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story and there were hardly anyone under 50 sans myself. It opened the same weekend as four other movies, and one of them was some zombie movie with Woody Harrelson and that Jewish kid who played Mark Zuckerberg. It was the top movie at the box office while Capitalism left theatres as a dud.
Finally, after two years of being sick and tired of living in mommy's basement with two college degrees that have become worthless, the young Americans are finally speaking out.
Thousands of people are marching the streets of New York and Wall Street to protest against the corporate greed that has ravaged and bankrupted this nation. The event is called Occupy Wall Street and its main idea is to have a protest similar to the ones in Egypt that called for the ousting of its government. These protests call for the nation's wealthy to start paying up to reduce the deficit and to create jobs to lower the unemployment rate.
Many celebrities have lent their hand to the cause, including Michael Moore, Alec Baldwin and rapper Lupe Fiasco. The event has no leader and it is heavily liberal, although independents have showed their support for the case.
So far, the protests have gone well, although nearly 800 people have been arrested for everything for crossing police barricades, disorderly conduct and a few for entering a building belonging to Bank of America. However, it was the crossing of the Brooklyn Bridge where some 700 people were docked. It was discovered that JP Morgan donated equipment to the police, which may have led to the arrests.
The protests have proven one thing and one thing only: we've had enough. We the Americans are fed up at the fact that thanks to Republican bullshit that the wealthiest Americans pay little to no tax while 99% of the rest of us are paying through the nose to the point that we have no choice but to use credit cards - and JP Morgan owns Chase - just to buy the essentials.
Look, we were duped. We got fucked with Reagen, we got fucked with Bush I and especially with Bush II. We started seeing change with Obama from 2008-2010, but hey, looky here! There's a man dressed like Uncle Sam but in blackface on the sidewalk! It's the Tea Party! And tragically, they got their way in 2010. Now, the House is overrun by corporate assholes and so are our governors, like Michigan's. End result: high unemployment, high gas prices and many Americans still wondering how to survive.
In the end, the people have learned. We need a revolution, and we need it NOW. We want jobs, and good paying ones. Not the ones that only pay a few cents over minimum wage and no real chances for raises. If our government can't find a way to fix anything, we will make a change in 2012. It's time to throw the thugs out. We need an all Democrat House, Senate and President to end the wealthy's free ride. No more key words from the right like "tax cut" and "spending". It's time for the wealthy to do what's morally right and bring America back.
And the revolution's only beginning.
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And that thing is called "waking up".
I remember just a few short years ago, I went and saw Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story and there were hardly anyone under 50 sans myself. It opened the same weekend as four other movies, and one of them was some zombie movie with Woody Harrelson and that Jewish kid who played Mark Zuckerberg. It was the top movie at the box office while Capitalism left theatres as a dud.
Finally, after two years of being sick and tired of living in mommy's basement with two college degrees that have become worthless, the young Americans are finally speaking out.
Thousands of people are marching the streets of New York and Wall Street to protest against the corporate greed that has ravaged and bankrupted this nation. The event is called Occupy Wall Street and its main idea is to have a protest similar to the ones in Egypt that called for the ousting of its government. These protests call for the nation's wealthy to start paying up to reduce the deficit and to create jobs to lower the unemployment rate.
Many celebrities have lent their hand to the cause, including Michael Moore, Alec Baldwin and rapper Lupe Fiasco. The event has no leader and it is heavily liberal, although independents have showed their support for the case.
So far, the protests have gone well, although nearly 800 people have been arrested for everything for crossing police barricades, disorderly conduct and a few for entering a building belonging to Bank of America. However, it was the crossing of the Brooklyn Bridge where some 700 people were docked. It was discovered that JP Morgan donated equipment to the police, which may have led to the arrests.
The protests have proven one thing and one thing only: we've had enough. We the Americans are fed up at the fact that thanks to Republican bullshit that the wealthiest Americans pay little to no tax while 99% of the rest of us are paying through the nose to the point that we have no choice but to use credit cards - and JP Morgan owns Chase - just to buy the essentials.
Look, we were duped. We got fucked with Reagen, we got fucked with Bush I and especially with Bush II. We started seeing change with Obama from 2008-2010, but hey, looky here! There's a man dressed like Uncle Sam but in blackface on the sidewalk! It's the Tea Party! And tragically, they got their way in 2010. Now, the House is overrun by corporate assholes and so are our governors, like Michigan's. End result: high unemployment, high gas prices and many Americans still wondering how to survive.
In the end, the people have learned. We need a revolution, and we need it NOW. We want jobs, and good paying ones. Not the ones that only pay a few cents over minimum wage and no real chances for raises. If our government can't find a way to fix anything, we will make a change in 2012. It's time to throw the thugs out. We need an all Democrat House, Senate and President to end the wealthy's free ride. No more key words from the right like "tax cut" and "spending". It's time for the wealthy to do what's morally right and bring America back.
And the revolution's only beginning.
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