As I look out over the crowd this evening it warms my heart to see such diversity. This is not a crowd of hippies or college students or radicals, rather it is a crowd of American citizens who are fed up and disillusioned at the current state of affairs in this country. The Occupy Wall Street movement is not about regime change. We don’t want welfare, we want jobs. We don’t hate business, we want fairness. We don’t want handouts, we want justice. We understand that this movement might still confuse you and that is okay. We want you to join us but understand that you may not be ready. In the meantime we will continue to fight for fairness and justice for all Americans.
For now, just stay frosty comrades.
The American Dream
Someone once said, if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth.
The American Dream. Wake up America, that dream ended a long time ago. The American Dream is now a carrot on a stick that is being dangled in front you so that you will be lulled into a sense of complacency. While many of you have been pursuing the American Dream a huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244. Yes, there are people in America living the dream but it ain’t you. In 2010, CEO’s were making 343 times what the average worker took home. But most of you do not care about this obscene gap because you are too busy watching the latest episode of your favorite show or downloading music or wondering when the next iPhone will be available. Nobody complains as long as their ability to consume is unaffected. You are blissfully complacent. Ignorance is the new American Dream.
Wake up America.