OWS Must Succeed For The GOP Experiment In Plutocracy To End

[Galraedia]

America was conceived as a type of representative democracy that was successful until conservatives devised a plan to shift power from the people to the wealthy elite during the Reagan administration, and after thirty years what is left is a government controlled by corporations. In very simplistic terms, the Occupy movement represents the 99% of Americans who have lost the ability to decide the direction and policies the government takes that will benefit the people instead of a small, but powerful, group of extremely wealthy families, Wall Street, and corporate giants. The growing discontent among the people that fostered the Occupy Wall Street movement is not diminishing and as more Americans come to grips with the stark reality that regardless the will of the people; this country is heading towards a plutocracy that will last for generations without intervention and interdiction by the people.

In poll after poll, the American people overwhelmingly support government created jobs to give the economy a jolt and put unemployed Americans back to work and raising taxes on the wealthy. President Obama and Democrats have proposed following the will of the people, and yet Republicans who are beholden to Wall Street, corporate America, and the wealthiest 1% of Americans have blocked and obstructed Democratic efforts to grow the economy and create jobs. The Republicans tell the people that the only way to bolster the economy and create jobs is to cut spending and the nation’s deficit, and to eliminate environmental and financial regulations as well as give more tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations. They are saying, in effect, to return to the Bush-Republican policies that decimated the economy and jobs in the first place. It is stunning, but a segment of the population falls for the GOP’s lies and continues advocating for the same Bush-era failed economic policies as if, this time, things will be different. In the final analysis, they are complicit in aiding conservatives reach their goal of killing democracy, and they are fools. However, they are in the minority.

One of the primary reasons Republicans and their wealthy corporate donors continue killing jobs is the lie that deregulation will create an atmosphere for big business to invest and expand, create corporate confidence, and eventually more jobs. Republicans, with assistance from the financial sector, have put forth with great success, the insane notion that if the government slashes spending, the nation’s debt, and corporate taxes, then jobs will come as if by magic. There are no Republicans, or conservative financial experts, who can give one iota of proof that killing jobs and shrinking the government will create even one job, and yet because of corporate money influencing Republicans in Congress, they forge ahead cutting taxes, social programs, and regulations that only benefit the ultra-wealthy and their corporations.

The financial sector that controls Republicans benefits from the sluggish economy they caused and, instead of supporting stimulus programs that definitely create jobs and grow the economy, convince many Americans that government stimulus spending is the problem so they can pursue their agenda of lower taxes for the wealthy and corporations and downsize the government they claim will create jobs. The sad truth is that for the past two years, many Americans fell for the financial sector and Republican’s lies and the result was sweeping conservative victories in the 2010 elections and the rest, so they say, is history. History will show that although Republicans tanked the economy in 2007-2008 and beyond, they are poised to repeat the economic disaster again at the behest of wealthy campaign donors and Wall Street lobbyists who will reap the benefits of the next great recession by manipulating the markets to control government policy now and in the future.

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“All that is needed for EVIL to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” ~Edmund Burke

[Huey P. Long]

1. I say it another way. Support OWS or things will get much worse.

Actually, things are going to get worse either way, the inertia of the system will dictate it so. No, support OWS now, or wait till later. It will be worse, and maybe more pain is needed.

[jwirr]

5. I think you are correct either way it is going to get worse. However,

with OWS I can at least hope that it will mean that we will all hang together through the bad and the good. With the corporatist it will mean that we get to experience all the bad while they push us further and further into poverty if not what we saw in Germany in the 30-40s. I for one will go with OWS.

[Lorien]

6. Amen. I think that OWS should pull back over Winter

just long enough for the elite to think that they have "won", then go all out come Spring. Protests so large that we even dwarf those in Madrid. Catch them off guard and ignite the movement so that it gathers strength through to the election season.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Unfortunately, I can't lay all the blame at the feet of the Republicans.

There seems to be another major party that has pretty much sold out to the highest bidder.

But I think your subject line has great truth: OWS NUST SUCCEED.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Duh. Doop.

[LWolf]

4. Yes, except that Republicans aren't alone in plutocracy. nt

[Zorra]

7. Big K&R.

It is critically important that all that desire democracy and freedom participate in the OWS movement.

[ZenaD]

8. Too little too late on the jobs push by Dems

Dem leadership spent the better part of 2011 diddling themselves over the deficit and trying to earn "courage" cred with the Beltway crowd by embracing entitlement cuts. Yes, the Republicans are the true villians but Americans don't see a clear distinction from them with the Dems.

[WillyT]

9. K & R !!!

:kick:

[sandyd921]

10. K & R! Our best hope for a real future

is the success of the Occupy movement and the end of the pernicious form of capitalism that is decimating everyone except the 1%.