"Cookie Monster" Offers Best Explanation Yet for Occupy Wall Street

[kpete]

Anyway, here's a burst of Cookie truth that should be copy-and-pasted everywhere all across the Internet. Today, we are all Cookie Monsters!


"C is for Corporate Malfeasance"

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Capitalism great system. We won Cold War because people behind Iron Curtain look over wall, and see how much more plentiful and delicious cookies are in West, and how we have choice of different bakeries, not just state-owned one. It great system. It got us out of Depression, won WWII, built middle class, built country's infrastructure from highways to Hoover Dam to Oreo factory to electrifying rural South. It system that reward hard work and fair play, and everyone do fair share and everyone benefit. Rich get richer, poor get richer, everyone happy. It great system.

Then after Reagan, Republicans decide to make number one priority destroying that system. Now we have system where richest Americans ones who find ways to game system -- your friends on Wall Street -- and poorest Americans ones who thought working hard would get them American dream, when in fact it get them pink slip when job outsourced to 10-year-old in Mumbai slum. And corporations have more influence over government than people (or monsters).

It not about rich people having more money. It about how they got money. It about how they take opportunity away from rest of us, for sake of having more money. It how they willing to take risks that destroy economy -- knowing full well that what could and would happen -- putting millions out of work, while creating nothing of value, and all the while crowing that they John Galt, creating wealth for everyone.

That what the soul-searching about. When Liberals run country for 30 years following New Deal, American economy double in size, and wages double along with it. That fair. When Conservatives run country for 30 years following Reagan, American economy double again, and wages stay flat. What happen to our share of money? All of it go to richest 1%. That not "there always going to be rich people". That unfair system. That why we upset. That what Occupy Sesame Street about.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/10/guy_called_cookie_monster_offe.php

[flvegan]

1. That is BRILLIANT!!

Cookie Monster gets it.

[WillyT]

2. K & R !!!

:bounce:

:kick:

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

3. 99% of the world's cookies are consumed by 1% of the monsters

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Beat me to it!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

5. Capitalism IS the problem.

I'm sick of these memes that gives the illusion that somehow this is a deformed version. It's not. This is the natural progression when the means of production are owned by private interests.

[leftstreet]

6. +1

[socialist_n_TN]

8. Word! "I'm sick of these memes that gives the illusion

that somehow this is a deformed version...." EXACTLY! Until people realize this and do something about it, the absolute BEST that will happen is "reforms" that will be overturned in another few decades. When people other than the working class own the means of production, THEY WILL HAVE TOO MUCH INFLUENCE ON EVERYBODY ELSE! And that influence will ALWAYS lead to the overturning of any laws and regulations eventually.

So the question becomes Cookie Monster :), do you want your cookie monster children and grandchildren to be fighting this EXACT same battle in a few decades? Because there's always the possibility that we lose the battle and become the Fascist States of America. That's always going to be a possibility as long as capitalism is the economic system of the country.

[socialist_n_TN]

9. BTW who would be the socialist on Sesame Street?

:)

[Fantastic Anarchist]

12. Good question ...

... I haven't watched in years. I'm at a loss to think of one.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

11. Yep, we keep thinking "If only capitalism will just drink a little less ...

... he'll/she'll be kinder to us."

We need to stop acting like abused spouses and get rid of our tormentors altogether.

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. Elmo loves cookie monster! n/t

[OHdem10]

10. Unfairness of the Rigged System.

[Hotler]

13. k&r n/t