It's About Time!

The protesters on Wall Street may have started with frustrated young people who have no job prospects, but if you look closely the crowd has changed.  As the movement spreads I see more and more people with gray hair, middle class professionals, and labor union members who are out of work.  Finally, people are getting angry about corporate greed in America and it is about time!

For years now I have been asking myself, "Where is the outrage?"  Where is the outrage over a war in Iraq that was not necessary?  Where is the outrage over driving this great nation and the world to the brink of a depression?  Where is the outrage of conducting two wars, expanding government in the  form of Homeland Security, passing a prescription drug plan that lines the pockets of pharmaceutical companies, and selling people junk mortgages they knew they couldn't pay back.  All of this was done without paying for it and nobody went to jail.  It was reckless, irresponsible, and immoral but nobody said a word until now.

Corporations are sitting on over two trillion dollars of profit, their stocks rise everytime they announce layoffs, and they send jobs overseas.  They are the so-called job creators who are not creating jobs in America.  These are the same people who took a bailout from the taxpayers and then proceeded to take their annual bonus money on our dime.  Every year since, the bonus money gets larger while they continue to layoff workers.

No one has been prosecuted for this injustice either.  We have become very complacent in this country and it seems like we just accept whatever we are told.  At any other time in history a preemptive strike against a country that had nothing to do with the attack on 9-11 would have resulted  in war crimes against Bush and Cheney. Yet the American people just shrug their shoulders and re-elect the people that were responsible. 

Everyone agrees that it was deregulation without any oversight by the Republican, Cox, of the S.E.C. that caused the meltdown of the Great Recession.  Yet now, the Republicans want to do away with the regulations passed by the Obama administration.  They want to go back to the ways of doing business that got us into this mess in the first place.  It is beyond reason that they actually took back the House in 2010!

So I am very proud of these young people on Wall Street who are speaking for all Americans who are frustrated with our system.  Finally, someone stood up and said, "No more!"  Hopefully, this movement will grow stronger as more and more people lose their jobs. It may just have an effect on the way people vote on Capitol Hill.  I remember another time when young protesters actually stopped a war.  It can sway public opinion and open people's eyes to what is happening to our great nation.  Wake up, America!