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Change Is Not Human Nature
For example, they are doing construction on the roads in and around the campus of the University of Minnesota and as a result there are several detours you are forced to take in order to avoid the work being done. For the past several weeks there was a section that forced all traffic to share the right hand lane in order to cross through an intersection that is undergoing a lot of work. Today they changed the flow of traffic over to the left hand lane and as a result almost ever driver coming from either direction was momentarily stymied by this change, myself included. It didn’t matter that they had put up new signage to indicate the direction of traffic, we had all become accustomed to the previous method. We were comfortable and familiar with it even though we didn’t necessarily like it. But things changed and so we followed our instinct to fight that change. Just like now. The Occupy Wall Street and other Occupy movements represent change.
The Ramblings of a Pot Smoking Radical Socialist
I can’t speak for every American so I will simply speak for myself. I love my Android phone and playing Xbox 360 and having high speed internet. All of these things are brought to me by corporations and I am good with that. I am not against capitalism or the free market. I am not necessarily anti-corporation. I am against unchecked greed and corruption. I am against the fact that politicians in Washington D.C. answer to corporate backers, lobbyists and special interest groups with deep pockets. I am against the lie that the ultra-wealthy are “job creators” because they are not. They are in fact, wealth creators. Namely their own. I am against the lie that U.S. corporations are saddled with high corporate taxes. In truth, the U.S. does in fact have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world but many in the media conveniently leave out the fact that due to so many tax loopholes, most large corporations get away with paying far less than their fair share. This is something that I am against.
When you post a photo of yourself online and declare that you are one of the 53% I support your right to be ignorant. When you broadcast to the world that you work 70-80 hours a week and hold more than one job and are proud that you never graduated high school what can I say? Maybe that you are an idiot. Do you seriously enjoy having to work that many hours in order to afford college or to buy a house? Should anyone have to work more than one job in order to enjoy the so called “American Dream”? Seriously. When you get right down to the issues, the Occupy Wall Street movement is trying to address the fact that one percent of the people are basically forcing you to work that much harder just to stay afloat, much less prosper. Think about that. When you buy into the hype that those protesters are just dumb kids or pot smoking, socialist radicals then you overlook the fact that a minority faction in this country is quite happy to allow you the pleasure of working long hours for the rest of your life just to chase a fantasy that might not ever become a reality for you. Wake up people. Think about things on your own for once. Look past the drama and see what is going on. If all else fails, Google it.