The U.S. economy is looking more and more bleak as the weeks pass. The closer we come to 2012, the worse our situation looks.
Unemployment numbers aren’t actively improving, jobs aren’t paying anything extra, and inflation is really hitting us in all the wrong spots.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is making waves across the country. Thousands of protesters are lining up on Wall Street in New York, all over Washington, D.C., and in other large metropolitan cities across the nation.
What are they protesting?
• The widening gap between the rich and the poor.
• The inappropriate influence corporations wield in politics.
• That power needs to be restored to ordinary people instead of it being sold to the highest corporate bidder.
• And many other economic problems.
Though the protesters mean well, they do not have a clearly-stated action plan, and many protests have been getting out of hand.
Protesters in New York City flooded the streets and chanted slogans at officers, such as: “Who are you protecting?!” and “Our tax dollars pay your salaries, not Wall Street! Fight the corporate stronghold!”
The sudden onset of thousands of people blockading NYC streets, restricting traffic and causing commotion left police with little choice but to constrain the protesters to a designated area.
The protesters, refusing to be silenced, retaliated against police, who reacted forcefully. They not only arrested a good number of protesters, but injured a handful of them in the process.
When a protester was asked what the group’s message was, he stated that they are attempting to “denounce the systems and institutions that support endless war and unrestrained corporate greed.”
The problem is the lack of cohesion in their message causes problems such as potential rioting, as well as confusing onlookers about what they actually are supporting.
Their movement is being overshadowed by an incidental revolution against police.
What started as a peaceful protest quickly turned into hysteria. Claims of censorship abounded every time a person was arrested for ignoring police orders.
The situation is exasperated as women scream when young men are arrested.
There is nothing wrong with protesting the power of corporations, but there is a problem when protesters don’t know why they’re protesting.