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Forum Post: I understand all the complaints I'm just contributing to how to actually pay for it

Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 11, 2011, 4:11 p.m. EST by poltergist22 (159)
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re-post I am confused about this movement I keep hearing different versions of the goals and do not see any leadership even this site has a page asking people to submit suggestions about what the goals should be...And it states that posts will be decided by "People who are making these decisions" Who are these people?Two years ago I started a non-profit called nationalday911.org I started it because i see people losing their homes and jobs so I started researching what happened that got us in this situation.(I have to tell you I have had financial problems myself and I am not running for office) I know about the financial misdealing on Wall Street and in the housing Industry and with globalization there were jobs sent overseas but you know what seemed to be the deciding factor in our economic downturn IT WAS SEPTEMBER 11th 2001, just a few blocks from where the main demonstration is now. First I keep hearing that there is only so much money and it isn't trickling down to us (yep I would be included as a 99%er) but if you look at the bailouts the first one was the airline industry (because of 9/11) then of course came the wars(9/11 again) (to date about 4 Trillion dollars)and building a new Homeland Security Agency(9/11again) ( to date about 3 trillion dollars) now at this point the Government is way in Debt they don't raise any taxes to pay for the wars or new agency and then Partly because of the climate of wars and terrorism the other bailouts begin T.A.R.P for the banks who made bad loans and didn't anticipate the economy slowing down to the extent it did because of yep you guessed it 9/11 A.I.G. maybe because they paid out Billions because of yep you guessed it 9/11(they have always given huge bonuses but those were nothing compared to what 9/11 cost them. Now we have a government who is scared to raise taxes to pay the bills ( not a good re-election platform if you know what I mean) Does not have the man-power or gonads to prosecute wealthy swindlers. But I do not believe we should be prosecuting any one who has become successful legally. I do not believe Americans are demonstrating against some symbol of the 1%ers and the 99%ers if these 1%ers have committed crimes then prove it, present it to the authorities ,do not generalize accusations against people because they are successful. I do not want to Spam this site but when I heard what is going on there I had to write this and ask people to visit nationalday911.org and see a different way to do this. It is a nationalistic web site but I have complaints myself about corruption and power I believe working within the system is the best way to accomplish FREEDOM but in today's dangerous world we need to unite to help everyone.

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[-] 1 points by glenn1984 (57) 12 years ago

For me you can sum up this movement as "Fairness for All"

  • fairness in taxes,
  • fairness in elections,
  • fairness in work, pay, corporate responsibility, etc.
[-] 1 points by poltergist22 (159) 12 years ago

Then check out nationalday911.org I can't think of a better way to start fairness except to unite everyone in a common goal...everyone pays...everyone benefits

[-] 1 points by glenn1984 (57) 12 years ago

add your goals and ideas for implementing it here: http://occupycommunity.org/propose-a-goal/

so we can distill them into a single common clear message.

[-] 1 points by Febs (824) from Plymouth Meeting, PA 12 years ago

Yeah most people can agree to that but lots of people have different ideas about what fair means in those regards.