From Denny: This new American Revolution, Occupy
Wall Street, caught fire across America in less than one month of protests. OWS is spreading to 25 cities like an oozing peanut butter sandwich overflowing with jam - and is now international too. There is just something so appealing about this
protest movement because of its common ground that cuts across the spectrum of race, gender, lifestyle, generations, education and economic class.
Occupy Wall Street Protests Mantra
Occupy Wall Street
protesters have been smart in targeting the lynch pin of American society: the financial sector. It is the financial sector that buys the politicians to pass the laws to unleash business to have free rein and never enforce what laws are on the books.
It's the financial sector that buys the police force to intimidate ordinary citizens like those incidents of pepper sprayed women during the protests. Notice they didn't go after men who could pummel them; they went after women.
Media coverage of OWS
There are those in my fellow media who just plain whine this movement is supposedly difficult to cover because there is not one leader, a spokesman, for the cause. And why do you require one leader? So you can get those easy lobs over the net for the sound bites? I call that lazy journalism and just plain lame.
The more people you talk to the more you will find a pattern of attitude and beliefs. This is not difficult; it's called interviewing - and regularly. The
Vietnam War protests began much like this and slowly built into a critical mass that finally ended the war. This is no different. When American citizens take to the streets then things have to be bad, really bad, just like it was during the 1930's and the
Great Depression.
How our national leaders have failed America in both political parties
By culture Americans are a patient lot and give our politicians a chance. But now it is clearly evident our politicians are just not connected to the people. Nor are they doing anything significant about job loss. We have a president and a Congress that has thrown political food fights for three years - trying to get the next presidency - while ignoring the economy was melting down.
None of them did anything about disallowing
Big Business to send jobs overseas by the millions, for decades now. Shedding jobs by the millions was bound to finally create an economic meltdown. Why no one with an ounce of common sense could not predict the obvious is beyond me.
GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt duplicitous about jobs creation by creating job loss
What's worse, the so-called Jobs Czar, GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, is the same corporation that made billions in America and paid absolutely no taxes into the American treasury. Yet, this is the guy Obama turns to for growing jobs in the economy? You have got to be kidding me. He just sent tens of thousands of jobs to China,
moving the headquarters of his 115-year-old X-ray imaging business from Wisconsin to Beijing.
Obama has several of the same greedy
CEOs on various councils advising him, the same Big Banks that throw people out of their homes and refuse to hire folks over the age of 40 or minorities or women. What's wrong with this picture? Plenty, say the folks in the OWS protests.
From Sen. Feingold (D-WI) about GE CEO's statement when interviewed on CBS
The Early Show, "Well, Mr. Immelt is not recognizing thst you root for corporations when corporations are making sure your jobs stay here in the
United States. His corporations has had more to do with shipping jobs overseas than almost any corporation in the world."
"And, so the deal here is, we root for corporations and we support them if they are fair to us. But these people who are protesting are recognizing that just about everything that has happened to working people has been unfair in recent years. you have the greed on Wall Street. You have the very wealthy insisting they not contribute at all to solving our deficit and our debt problems. You have corporations buying up the political process through secret donation. People have had it."