Occupy Wall Street

                                 Fleeing the Country
                                                             By
                                                Tired Americans
                                                       
                                                              Drafted by

                                                Chrisgregory43@yahoo.com



What you’re about to read is the truth. Unfortunately this is so true that unless the American people act on this by passing this forward then it will never be heard by those who need to hear it most.
The news companies, the politicians and anyone who could do something are all too scared of losing what they have so they say nothing.
We all know the news companies are a business owned by the ruling class. These companies will never report on the essentials spoken of here but rather only report on the un-needed fluff.

This is why you, the American person, must pass this forward so what we fight for , live for and die for can be heard.

Lately I have heard several people talk about what seems to be the beginning of something, a united protest by the 99% of Americans.
People are already starting, and right now at the very moment which I’m writing this, the American citizens are camped out by the hundreds on Wall St. They’re protesting, standing up in defiance and yelling everything I’m speaking of, here in my words for the American people.

The only way I believe our words can be heard is by us, the people of America, joining together in the masses. Now they, the ruling class, know from history that eventually these people will slowly disperse after a short time and cur come to their ways.
We can see evidence of this every where we look. At the gas pumps, the price is risen until consumption slows, then lowered just a bit so consumption begins again.
This will happen once again. Things will change just enough to cool some and the people will slowly disperse, nothing will change.

The only way we’ll ever be seen and heard is by continuing to show yourself and stay visible in the masses then and only will they take notice. It might take thousands protesting in one place for weeks, maybe months but you will be heard. Change will happen. Right before your eyes Congress will work. The world will hear and things will change.

Just as the citizens of this continent banded together in unity over 200 years ago so too is the need for the same now and now is the time to speak up.

You are not alone, if you feel weak, if you feel like you can’t make a difference just look around, you’ll see you’re not alone.

If we fail to stand up against these injustices to the American people then we have no right to complain or expect anything to be changed. We need change, not just in one part of the problems but in all, not just a little of each problem but the total of each problem.

Set up a location on each coast where this can happen and instead of coming and going , come and stay, take turns staying, make your body seen and your words heard.

What I’m hearing is coming from all measures of people and from all parts of this country. What I’m hearing is the same thing, their tired!
People are tired.
In just the past two days alone I have had conversations with many people over 50. The topic spoke of was about fleeing the country.
We built this country and now need to leave, not because of lack of love for our country but because we’re tired.
The last conversation I had was with a Cornel who retires in 4 years and can’t wait to leave This Cornel just happens to be a doctor who’s fed up with everything here.
He’s been in the service since 1973, giving his life and time for this country and feels as the rest of those I hear from, “there’s nothing left here for those who built it.”

All I hear from so many people in there 50s 60s and 70s is there’s nothing left for us here.
We all feel that after giving decades of our lives to build this country we’ve been forgotten.

The politics of this country have finally done what they worked so hard to do, divide Americans into two categories, the haves and have not. The consensus of the American citizen’s which I’ve heard from is the haves keep on taking and the rest are tired of being taken from, in fact they have nothing left to give and they still take.

People are tired, they’ve been used and now they’re starting to see just how badly they’ve been used.
I always said to myself , “ when the American people start to loose their jobs in masses then they’ll start to see just how little they have and just how little in control of their own lives and destines they truly are.
First the job goes, and then some personal cut backs, not enough so one car goes. Still not enough and on the run from the 1% whose chasing after the last dollar, the house goes. Then after all is given to the attorneys and attempts to pay the over inflated debts on credit cards and mounting medical bills, now living at the relatives house or worse yet in a car it gets worse. Sooner or later that second car goes, making the $600 monthly payments on a car worth half of what’s owed proves to be too much.
Now there’s nothing left to give, the streets are the home for the family and they still want more.
When we desperately need jobs to move out of the car or off the streets and back into a house the government creates jobs for millions. The government saw a problem and came up with new jobs for America but then our government just gave these new American jobs away.

These are our jobs, paid for by our taxes, just part of these funds come from every gallon of gas you buy. Our jobs, on our own soil, rebuilding our roads and bridges paid for by all of us, and the government gives this to China. Soon we’ll have millions of Chinese people moving here to our country taking our taxes, living in our houses while we have families living on the street and consuming our needs while we do without.


The wealthy ruling class will always keep the American people in check. Your salary increases 3% and the annual inflation adjusts to 6% always keeping you in check. Now when your salary drops the inflation doesn’t go back down, the price of carpet, cereal and other needed items continue to go up. Eventually the salary goes back up and so does the inflation only now rising at a hidden 12%.
The salary for a teacher in 1960 to now is up 1000% but the cost of a house has risen 5000% The average national salary 1990 $21,000 now $43,000 up 200% while gas has gone up almost 500% since 1990, Same with food.
 
If the ruling class ever allowed inflation to parallel salary or even better fall lower then salary there would be no need for people to sweat so hard.

From what I’ve heard by the consensus it seems many feel as though their tie to living here in this country has become that of an old tired out marriage.
Don’t get me wrong I love this country, we love this country, it’s just that me, those I talk with and all the rest of the people of this country are just so tired of the fixable problems that aren’t being fixed.

There’s not a problem that the people of America can’t take care of as a team, there’s just too many people greasing their palms.

There was a time in the 1930s where all of San Francisco consolidated as one being, they did this for better wages. The entire city of San Francisco shut down as everyone went on strike.
The people won but I believe today, 80 years later the citizens of The United States, even though closer connected through the internet, believe they are to much apart when in fact we almost all feel the same way.

The average American doesn’t care what the problem is, just fix it, but nobody does and there’s your problem. It seems just to get something as simple as a light bulb changed takes 5 years of form filing, filler busting and lobbying then by that time the light bulb has been banned.
 

Americans are tired of the outrageous utility bills with scores of unknown charges, we’re tired of automated phone systems where nobody ever answers and tired of reaching India when trying to get help for a purchased product.
I received my electric bill the other day, years ago you received a bill with an amount. Now I get a bill with 10 different charges on it where everyone gets a piece.

Everything’s changing, what used to be included is now a la cart. The wealthy have nickel and dimed the American people to the end. Americans are resilient but everyone has a breaking point and for most Americans that breaking point is now.

Americans are tired of doing twice the work for half the money.
I know a person who was actually contemplating a restaurant job where she would have to sign a 5 year contract to work 13 hours per day 364 days per year @ $38,000 per year with only 1 day off a year. This ridiculous offer is made because the company knows they can and will get someone willing to take it along with the 5 days off in five years.
By the way, this was and still is a Chinese owned Chinese restaurant.

People are tired of fees. I wrote this paper and within only one week B of A announced they would start charging $5.00 per month if you use your card just once.
Can you imagine, you use your card one time in a month to buy one 43 cent stamp and now you’re charged over 1100% for doing so.

These are the very same people who worked the financial public to use plastic so they could keep the cash in the bank and now they’re charging the customer for doing what they asked.

The people are tired of flooding and drought. Solution, put people to work and build an aqueduct from the flooded areas to the drought areas, problem solved, no more flooding, damage or lost money, instead they have the much needed water to grow new crops and jobs to last 5 years.
These same rains and droughts happen every year how long and at what costs will it take before this problem, if ever, is fixed.

A pipeline for oil was built so why not water when it can save lives and feed people, answer, there’s no money to be made by this, I mean trillions of dollars for the ruling class.
It’s like the bean counters, I guess to them it’s cheaper to let these people die and drown rather and build an aqueduct that goes 1000 miles.

We’re tired of losing our homes, 3 million and counting since 2009. This was due to a combination of greed on all parts, the buyer who couldn’t afford and pretended to not know or absolutely didn’t understand what they were signing, the house flipper who only saw dollar signs and the banker who again only saw dollar signs.

No matter the cause of the problem all others have to feel the grind? I had nothing to do with any part of that problem so why are so many Americans paying the price.

Many of those foreclosures were single family homes but just how many were apartment buildings with many families. The foreclosure is technically considered one foreclosure but is actually displacing several families. I have seen this happen.

We’re tired of poor customer service and the double talk that goes with it, we’re tired of the salesman and politicians who show us one thing at one price but the total fees add up to 50% more.

Americans are tired of seeing people reaping 10 , 20 , $30 million or more per year for a salary when they themselves are forced to decide between a much needed pair of shoes for their child or the food on the table that night to feed their family while working 72 hours per week.

Americans are tired of un-employment and false claims about the amount of those who are un-employed. These statistics don’t include those whose unemployment has expired or those who are in need of work for the first time or those soldiers who will be returning by the thousands seeking employment or even those who simply just gave up looking. If we were told the truth for the actual amount of those un-employed the figures would be a staggering 60% not the 9, 11 or 14.1% said. The government will never tell us the truth, they know we as a people would be so scared that panic would set in and make the 1929 depression look like a picnic. Money would be withdrawn, banks would close by the scores and business would all shut down.

We’re tired of insurance companies who sell you a policy but when you need the coverage someone in the claims dept. tells you that your policy didn’t cover the fire in your house because it was the flood which broke the gas main and in turn started the fire, you loose everything and their off the hook, because of words.
Now you spend 10 years fighting the government who contracted the work to build the levy which broke to a now bankrupt company only to be told “unfortunately” while you loose everything.

Americans are tired of high medical costs.
Next month I’ll travel to Costa Rica for a simple surgical procedure which here in the states could cost $50,000 but in Costa Rica the best of everything, $9,500.

For me and others we shouldn’t need to go to another country to have medical procedures performed. I pay for insurance which the deductible set for this procedure here is three times the cost of the procedure there. The deductible alone is $32,000.

This is a 4 hour procedure and here $50,000, that’s $12,250 per hour, how much do you earn, I doubt it’s $12,250.


Were tired of giving to other countries meanwhile we here at home are starving and living on the streets.
My finance always says, you can’t help others until you help yourself.
Why are we taking care of the world when our own people are starving?

While millions of American citizens are jobless and losing their homes the government is handing thousands of jobs over to a country which assisted in the job loss in the first place. I have nothing against the Chinese, I’m engaged to one. The jobs just need to be given here.
Just another slap in the face to the American people and rest assured that the American people believe there is someone somewhere in the U.S.A. who is reaping the profits from this decision.

We’re tired of NAFTA which benefits every other country but our own. We’re tired of ID checks and the rights removed from us by the Patriot act as well as being totally fondled at airports.
Any parent would become angry as a grown man put his hands all over their 4 year old little girl but you’re told to stand there and watch or be labeled a terrorist and land in jail if you protest. Along with this you now have to explain to the child how it’s ok this strange man puts his hands all over your body because of terrorists, enough words to scare any child.

People are tired of the injustice of the justice system. If we’re to have a fare legal justice system then each side should be given equal amounts to defend themselves and before we murder make damn sure their guilty, if there’s even a .001% doubt then don’t execute but for those who are truly without a doubt guilty, don’t delay do it that day, no waiting 22 years. Just this week a man was put to death when there was much doubt. Two Presidents and the Pope along with millions of people asked just to review the case, but he was put to death. There was a doubt but still our government murdered this person.

Americans are tired of crooked cops who kill, lie and beat. Most all the people I hear from don’t believe the police can or will protect them and most all believe that police will in fact harm and lie to them while going through the motions and pretensions of assisting. The American people don’t trust those who are supposed to be there to protect them and if a society lacks trust for those we count on then the American society will begin to take matters into their own hands, this is to come and will be devastating.
The action of the New Orleans police department saw many of their own sent to prison for their actions during Katrina. It was the police who stole from the banks and killed.

A movie call Crash deals with this and is a good portrayal of what actually goes on.
    
In over 50 years I’ve seen this country fall so deep that all those who built it can’t even own a home, can’t afford medical, can’t afford to eat , can’t even get their kids educated and the people in DC wonder what’s wrong. I guess all those who aren’t rich are now incorrigible because they’re done and don’t want it anymore. I’m sure that someone will say such about me because I write what the people of this country think though are too scared to say.



The people of this country are tired of $600 government toilet seats and wasteful spending like the $850,000 15 foot bridge for a bike path in Ventura county. This is a recession and that much money could feed for 1 year over 550,000 people or 65% of all the people in Ventura County whose population is now at 850,000.
I have no doubt that very same bridge could be built for under $100,000.

The bridge will be built and maybe 1000 people will use it each year and maybe some contractor will pad his pocket and maybe some politician will get a secret envelope.
Point being we’re in bad times and a project such as this should not be. Feed the people, it’s their money.

We’re tired of the government lying to us about what’s not harmful to us because some company pays millions through its lobbying to keep the truth hidden.

We’re tired of dependency on oil and the high cost of oil ( human and monetary) and we’re tired from lack of rapid forward movement of new power and transportation solutions which can no longer be referred to as alternative or optional but must become the standard and norm. Build power stations in the ocean using the strong natural current of the water, it’s clean, non-polluting and safe.
At one time I built a perpetual automobile just to see if it could be done, guess what, it worked.

We’re tired of oil companies setting their own price; most people feel that if a company is to do business in America then that business should not conduct themselves in such a way as to disrupt the flow of commerce. Products which run this country such as oil should be regulated and prices set which cannot be changed without a vote. Land is taken from the little guy by eminent domain why not the oil companies,
As I said, up 500% since 1990.

We’re tested all the time by oil. The oil companies inflate the cost of oil to test the tolerance of the consumer, when the consumer quits buying the maximum price is set and lowered a small percentage to regain their interest. With this these companies control our everyday lives.
We are also tired of these very same companies coming to our country and creating disasters which takes an act of Congress and God for them to own up too. Then when they finally do half heartedly own up to their actions the mess is still left which will never go away. This is my country but my government is giving it away.
This is our oil and the politicians allow other countries to come here, take it and then sell it back to us.

These are not Red, Blue or colored problems these are American problems so quit with the childish bickering and get something done. This country is dying and it needs you, the politicians, to do your jobs not just order $16.00 muffins and $5.00 Cokes.
Those two items total $21.00, more then some people have to spend on feeding their entire family for a day and the people we count on to do the right thing laugh in our face while their jowls are filled with $10.00 brownies..
Americans are taxed to the hilt and this is what they do with our money.
The government calls this leakage, I call it theft.

I always say, “a person who takes a little, will take a lot”, so how much do they really take, what else is free. I remember when the last speaker of the house thought she deserved her own jet airplane at the expense of the American people.

Americans are tired of having their hard earned money being stolen by the very people we hire to act with honor. Take the city of Bell Ca. The entire city council and top brass of the Police dept. were caught red handed stealing millions of dollars from the taxpayers.

The American people aren’t fooled, they know politicians go to work for those who contribute the most those being the wealthy. There is little to no concern for the average American who built this country. Either we take this country back, or continue to be slaves or just leave.

Politicians listen up, Americans are tired of your lies, they’re tired of the lies from the government and they don’t trust a word you say. When election time comes around all the people that I encounter say they look at the options and just shake their head with
disbelief as to the poor choices at hand. The last one elected to be President was to be our golden child but it just looks worse now then ever.
Americans are tired of nobody doing what they’re supposed to be doing, we’re tired of crime. We say we’re hunting down terrorists but what do you call street criminals who band together to cause harm and terrorize neighborhoods here in America.

I hear mayors and other politicians all speak of these criminals as those who terrorize neighborhoods so if they are called terrorists by our politicians shouldn’t something be done.
I hear judges sentence these criminals to jail for street terrorism all the time, so let’s bring our troops home to cure the problem here. Let’s have our troops patrol our streets and actually make it possible to walk without fear, problem solved, and most likely a 95% reduction in crime by stopping the terrorism right here..
Set up their basis along the boarders instead of in the high deserts. I doubt any illegal alien would dare cross a boarder if they knew they were walking right into a U.S. military base, problem solved.
I think if Middle Eastern terrorists were here on our soil then we would spend anything to rid our selves of them so why not American terrorists, the street gangs.
We are taxed to pay for the military, and we are taxed to pay for the prisons, so why not have the military patrol the streets and help stop crime. The amount then saved from courts and jails could now go into education, building more jobs and feeding the poor.




We’re tired of seeing our people come home in body bags and pieces missing and lives destroyed, for what?
Listen, if a person is going to do harm there’s no way you’re going to be able to stop them. We can send 10 million troops to the Middle East and spend trillions and still not stop the one person who wants to kill as many as they can.

Every where I turn I hear the forked tongue the American Indian spoke of.

I listened to the President talk the other day about a stimulus package. This was to be the big new surprise that would save us.
This stimulus package is almost word for word the same tax section which I built into my own business plan months ago. How would I know to put this into my own business plan months prior to this being revealed to the American public? Because if you research the internet these tax credits already existed. These same tax credits have existed for years without results, the exact same ones, nothing new, only the ruling class can and will ever be able to take full advantage of these incentives.

Now, after I guess some criticism they have changed the name for this calling it the, “Amended Jobs Bill.”

What makes this speech worthless is this. You can give a business a huge 500% tax break, meaning a huge refund, much more then they paid, but if that business can’t get the funding to hire and expand and make money then what good is a tax break that you can’t spend. The magic word here is funding and I heard the President spend less then 30 seconds on the topic without any explanation

The motto, “the best country in the world” is no more. That’s a left over saying from the 1950s. We have so far to go to ever make that claim again. We love our country but it’s just not the same. Of all the top countries in the world, we, America, are falling far behind. We’re last in education, last in medical care, last in quality of life, highest in sickness, highest in poverty and highest in prisoners.

It’s already been proven that our prison systems don’t work. 80% of all offenders re-turn to prison after being caught for just one crime out of how many. It costs more a year to house one person then the average national salary. The justice system in this country is a multi billion dollar a year business. Can you imagine if that much money were to be put into the system in a positive way.
There’s a serious problem, that’ll keep getting worse by square unless serious changes are made.


We are the home of the internet and while other countries, even third world countries have internet speeds 3 times as fast as our own we run at 3.1. So I must say we have a long way to go in order to make the claim of being the best.

People are homeless while the government is sitting on hundreds of thousands of homes that are now decaying. Eventually these homes will fall into the hands of those street gangs I call the American Terrorists followed by further decay and then tagged as un-inhabitable. Why not get these homeless people off the streets and into these homes.
Problem solved, as simple as that. Sure there would be some problems but the big picture and problem will have been addressed, decaying homes fixed up, communities rebuilt and homeless people off the streets. If you went to any other modern country you won’t see homelessness let alone children on the streets.
I saw some years ago that a lender decided it was cheaper to tear down brand new homes and write it off rather then to take a loss when the market went down.

And speaking of children, what about the millions of un-wanted children. As a person who was once one of these children I know all too well just what problems these children face, most of the time these children come from broken homes or abuse which they try to flee. The system does these children a great injustice as for the most part these children are just locked away in some detention facility and then eventually placed in an abusive foster home where they flee again and now they become an incorrigible child.

There are closed military bases all over the country with full facilities. Take these installations and turn them into small cities for these kids. Problem solved, children off the street, learning a trade, and not joining gangs.
Next, as they grow these children now adults can stay on working with new children. Only someone from this kind of background could understand what these kids are feeling. We have people with degrees working on this problem and nothing gets done, the problem only worsens. In reality all these kids want is to be loved and cared for which they aren’t. Without this care these kids turn to each other which leave’s them vulnerable to predators, so they group together, create gangs, and sooner or later fill the prisons only to return for committing more crimes. A never ending cycle that’ll be passed on to their children and cost the tax payers several billions of dollars per year.

If this country doesn’t get a grip on this problem alone there’ll never be enough prisons to house them.



These are the American people speaking, not just me.


Christopher Gregory Thomas















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This country needs to reinstate in its entirety the Glass-Steagal Act. The loss of the restrictions contained in this legislation, which resulted from the stupidity that led to the Great Depression, and the current depression, are a very large part of the causes of our current troubles. A good start on curing the present banking, securities and insurance insanity would be to REINSTATE THE GLASS-STEAGAL ACT!

    GOP platform? Well lets see. They are bought and paid for by international banks and wall street who are shipping all our jobs to China and India where people work for over 14 hours a day at 2 dollars a day. No child labor laws. No regulations, like the endangered species act, lead in children toys, or other pollution standards. No social security. No health care. No medicare, medicaid. currency manipulation to force export prices down and the list goes on.
   The "American" wall streeters, and corporations love this slave labor, so the rich here can have cheap products. But China and India cant afford our products so republicans want to have no minimum wage here. No labor standards. No Social Security. No medical care, accept for the rich who can afford it. No EPA, No endangered species act est. To bring us down to there standards, so we can compete in the name of free trade. Instead of imposing tariffs, import taxes to level the playing field, like our founding fathers had before income tax, For a race to the top, instead of a race to the bottom. Making it profitable to bring corporate jobs home again.
   But the American government says that's protectionist, well news flash THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! not wall street banks and big corporations that put them in office.
   Republicans say getting rid of tax loop holes, and ending the Bush tax cuts. Bringing the taxes on the rich back to Clinton levels is class warfare against the rich. Well I really don't think the rich 1%ers in there multy million/ billion dollar homes want to continue their war against the 99%ers, including the homeless and hungry. They say "GET A JOB" well most of occupy wall street protests have jobs but wages and benefits are getting slashed. The rest would love to, but they all went to China and India in the name of profits.
   Well democrats aren't much better, they are bought by the same banks and wall street corporations.
   And lets not forget the fed. They print trillions out of thin air , not based on anything, to bail out banks and wall street with no accountability. So we can't check their books!
   We should stop insuring federal banks that invest in wall street again, and tax every wall street trade.
   We need campaign finance reform to get big money out of politics and majority rules, No one should be allowed to take office with less than 50% of the vote. If all are less, there should be run offs, so voting for a third party isn't a wasted vote. Keeping republicans and democrats in power.
    Things I feel should be every americans rights. Food and shelter for the poor, and free college, and health care for all.
    If some are wondering why people are protesting at occupy wall street, world wide now. This is some of one protesters thoughts.

I'm sorry Chris, but everything I read here sounds like a paradigm for communism. You're asking people to quit their jobs, stop feeding their families, stop living their lives in order to go demonstrate where it DOESN'T EVEN MATTER!!! You want those who are working for their money to be taxed (the only way a government can force people and businesses to give up assets is through taxation) to just give it to the poor, disfortunate, homeless, and hungry. I don't believe we need the government for all that. I believe we need people to stop living in fear of losing what little they have left of their pay so they feel safe enough to give to NPO/NGO's that specialize in this type of philanthropic work. To see some ideas on how this can be done.....keep reading.

It's glaringly obvious that we have a problem in America, it's obvious that this problem is systemic in nature, our government is heavily involved, the top tier of wealth is pushing the buttons and turning the knobs on this greed machine, and the major corporations, banks, and financial instutions are along for the ride! Yet, the undertone I denote in your excessively long winded writ can easily be deduced to "We need Robin Hood and his Band of Merry Men" to come rescue us.

The banks will not stop profiting, Wall Street will not stop running the numbers, and big businesses will not stop trying to make as much profit as they possibly can JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE CAMPED OUTSIDE THEIR DOORS! The problem is our policy makers. YES our politicians! Here is the answer, One, every single person who is Occupying "X" Street, needs to get off their arse and move it all to Capitol Hill. YES! Camp out in front of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. March on Washington D.C. And when it's time to re-elect, if the candidate has YEARS of political experience, MILLIONS of dollars made on Wall Street Investments, STRONG ties to our current establishment...DON'T VOTE FOR THEM THEY ARE ALL CROOKS AND THE PAST 40+ YEARS OF GOVERNMENT SHOULD PROVE THIS!

Two, we need politicians who do not support Big Business, Big Banking, and Big Government, while at the same time, they allow businesses both big and small to be profitable and competitive. This requires using some common sense in the realm financial policies. We should have easily learned by now with three risky economic downturns that allowing the financial and business sectors to run amuck, having open door international trade agreements, and an unwillingness to let large businesses and banks suffer the same fate as smaller ones that we can no longer attempt this path. We must let the grass grow wild here.

There is no need to flee America, there is no need to occupy anywhere except Washington D.C. and your state capital if it bought into the nonsense (are you listening California?), there is no need to force money from the shrinking middle and upper middle class to give immeasurable free gratis to those unwilling to earn it. What we need is a sound and simple economic policy that encourages job growth, small business ownership and lending, large corporation investment in U.S. production, and sensible foriegn investment policies.

Yet, with all this, and so much knowledge and information at our fingertips, we buy whatever CNN or FOX News sells, go back to our soaps, reality TV, and Farmville.....America, you're embarrassing.

Actually I don’t want people to flee. What I do want is jobs for the country as I thought I had spelled this out. What I did mentioned was the loss of jobs to the Chinese and the possibility of creating jobs by building an aqua duct. There are many projects which could put this country on the right track however our elected officials have failed us.
When I mentioned fleeing the country I am merely conveying what I’ve heard from so many.
A person actually has little understanding of what it’s like to loose all they have until they have lost all. Talk to these people.
I and millions of other Americans built this country, all we want is to see the country we built thrive once again and this cannot be done as long as people miss the target and focus on spelling.
Yes, my spelling is sometimes off, this is due to dyslexia but even though I suffer from this disability I wanted dearly to have my words heard, it’s the meaning of the words and not the spelling. Now if anyone is actually bothered by my spelling then please by all means correct the spelling, don’t just complain about it.

People are protesting by the tens of thousands and what I hear them say is what I wrote
If a person doesn’t hear this then they just aren’t listening.

I have nothing against the Chinese in fact I am engaged to an authentic Asian Princess who is half Chinese I just believe we Americans should have these jobs.
I am not planning on leaving this country as I am needed right here. My company is designed to assists the disabled Vets and we put much care and dedication into doing the best job we can. What I am relaying is the discontent of millions, these aren’t just words, these are the words of the people who are out there and they hurt.

I have read remarks about what I have written, remarks such as comical. I see nothing comical about the pain this country is experiencing or children living in the streets of the greatest nation. For someone to actually completely read what I wrote and then to consider this to be comical demonstrates to me just how disturbed a person can actually be.

I have heard others interpret what I said as saying people should quit their jobs and walk away. I never said anything close to this and in fact I feel completely the opposite. I have no idea as to where this interpretation came from.
Throw, toss or fling my words away or just ignore them if you fail to comprehend the meaning of these words. This is America, the land of the free and no one has to read or respond to anything I say. I an American and very proud to be, if the people actually knew who I am and what I have actually done for so many sick children of this country they would thank me and not criticize me as I have given my life to help so many of these children. Few people know just what I have done for these children though people all over this country see the results of my actions everyday. I have never done this for recognition which is why few know of me.

Christopher Gregory Thomas

Obviously you didn't read well what I replied with either Chris. To back up my statement though about asking people to quit there jobs and go somewhere to demonstrate I will add a quote from your original dribble,
        "The only way we’ll ever be seen and heard is by continuing to show yourself and stay visible in the masses then and only will they take notice. It might take thousands protesting in one place for weeks, maybe months but you will be heard."

1) It's not the only way. We do have a democratic process that allows registered voters to vote politicians in and out of office at scheduled election times. You may also contact our government if you have substantial evidence that a member needs to be unseated or impeached. You also have the right to form a committee or group and establish a means of lobbying Congress to have your voices heard as a collective. Demonstrations are allowed in D.C. all the time with the appropriate permits and such. I made this a suggestion previously since you seem to be hell bent on using this method, which in this country has shown to be least effective. If you believe laws are being violated, feel free to hire a lawyer and push the matter through the court system looking toward having your concerns taken up by our Federal Supreme Court which handles all matters regarding U.S. Constitutional law.
2) Having an expectation of "staying visible in the masses...thousands protesting in one place for weeks, maybe months..." is only going to encourage our law makers to create more laws infringing on our right to demonstrate. If you take into consideration the enormous mess being created by Occupy(xyz) you will notice that it is a really big issue with many of our lower level political figures, and with many of our very, very prestigious and highly welcomed (on Capitol Hill) environmental groups. Whom, might I add, already get a hell of a lot more attention and consideration then the massive number of high school and college drop outs that are 'occupying' in various venues like it's Woodstock or something. This is the point that YOU'VE made that I regard as asking people to quit their jobs and go join some protest in some city that is only going to destroy the right to protest because of the serious amount of irresponsibility and disorganization of the protestors.

I wish you the best in your quest to be a part of one of the small minor groups that seem to be doing a great job of ripping my freedoms apart through irresponsible actions. Who cause more harm than good by forcing the hand of Congress to enact grotesque public policy that requires tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in oversight paid for by ME and all the other taxpayers. (Please note a very large tone of sarcasm where I use the word 'best' as I truly hope that this Occupy movement becomes a complete and total failure, and every individual involved learns a hard painful lesson about being irresponsible with their right to assemble and demonstrate).

This article is saying what every American believes. When I am out to dinner, lunch, golf and parties it takes about 5 minutes before we are in deep discussion's about the state of America. The movement to rebel is starting to take hold as seen by the Wall Street protests and the formation of the Tea Party and from where I sit Americans are going to weigh in by the millions. Our Politicans and Business leaders will be held accountable.

The cost of living is now astronomical, jobs are scarce,the debt continues to rise,food prices are out of reach, home energy is now a profit center ,health care benefits are no where near as good as ten years ago, recreation continues to rise , goverment is taxing our ability to stay healthy and have fun ,gas is crazy high, America has lost its status and the rich keep getting richer.

By example have you tried to watch Monday Night Football on ESPN lately? A one hour game takes four hours to watch because we are inundated with commercials at planned times, at every time out, injury and change of possesion. The NFL supports this. I will no longer watch Monday Night Football I don't have the time or the disposition. The same goes for every TV program and radio show. These Networks want so much revenue they have destroyed the entertainment factor. This is on top of the $100.00 fees (plus) we pay for Cable or Dish TV. How much profit is enough?

 My gym membership is $94.00 a month I will cancel that by end of the year out of protest. My Country Club is now over $8,000 a year for just golf, the cart is seperate, the restaurant is public and New Jersey taxes me 7% of that $8,000. Yes, the State of NJ is even taxing recreation now! I quit the C.C. in protest. I purchased a Life Insurance policy from Nationwide Insurance in 1990 and paid $15,000 for it. The Nationwide representative sold it to me under the guise of an annuity tied to the market and at age 62 I could elect to cash it out for total value which he said should be in excess of $60k conservatively or keep it for a $300,000 insurance policy. The policy kept losing value then after 15 years of it being managed out of Ohio they moved it to the state of NY as I watched the policy expire because it had no value left. I tried to protest (me against Nationwide) and got the 10 reasons why it expired ......all bad. Nationwide never tried to manage this policy so I am out $15,000 but more importantly a $300,000 inusrance poilcy. I have moved all my other investments away from Nationwide except one but I am looking for a home for that one as I write this. I left Nationwide in protest. JP Morgan/Chase had a good portion of my investments they charged me 1.25 points to manage the portfolio. The problem is my investments never grew, they also failed to register my cost basis when I moved it to them yet I kept getting charged the 1.25% whether I made or lost money I moved my portfolio from JP Morgan/ Chase out of protest.

The point is I am done with American Companies who raise my prices , show to many commercials, move jobs to other countries etc.

 I am only one in protest but when all Americans begin to do this over time things will get better.

It's just one of many ways we can make America great again but we have to start somewere. Start with your wallets its the only voice they understand.

I'm a freshman in college and I'm doing a report on this movement and to be completely honest I wasn't interested in it at first until I read more about what's been going on. I've attended some class discussions about this movement and I have to say out of all the things that I've come across about it, this article moved me the most. I believe that my generation and the generations to follow will prevail and overcome that small percentage of "the man" who has control over the rest of us. People will argue that of course I'm too young to really know anything at this point, but after reading this, I plan to join the movement since it's so inspiring to watch grow right before my eyes. If anyone who's my age or even a bit younger reads this, I really hope that you decide to let your voice be heard. Even the smallest voice in a large crowd can be heard, but with a crowd, it becomes even louder.

Judging from the misspellings I assume this is a joke.Seth Macfarlane is probably behind this.

Thanks for reading this Seth. I have serious dyslexia and to actually write 2500 words is extremely difficult but the meaning should not be lost by someone looking at the grammar

Don't you think the publisher of a magazine would use Spell Check? Don't miss the new Family Guy,it's hysterical!

The 99% is really a tiny minority. This article reflects that tiny minority (which is amplified by our irresponsible media). It mostly appears to be immature college students who complain about the amounts of their student loans.
As one who pays for the 1% represented by the label 99%, I am tired of paying for your freebies. I took out student loans. I got a job - which didn't come easy. I paid my student loans. I never received one penny of government aid.
I am tired of the whining by the spoiled generation that is brain-washed by college professors and other educators. Give up these tiny and useless protests... LOL! It is actually quite comical to see news reports of "hundreds" attending these silly protests. And we never seem to get an answer as to what these protesters want as a result of these infantile protests....

If only those of Occupy Wall Street knew the truth, then they could ask for something worthwhile.

They could for instance be asking for capital requirements based on job creation ratings, because, if as tax payers we are to be the ultimate pick-uppers of any bank crisis, then we should at least be certain that the purpose of the banks is acceptable to us.

Right now, the only purpose for the banks that the regulators have de-facto defined, by means of allowing ridiculous low capital requirements for banks when lending to what is ex-ante perceived as not risky, and which allows immensely high leverage of bank equity, is for the banks to make huge profits… and that, as purposes come, seems a bit vulgar and dumb, to say the least.

(Dumb because never ever do systemic bank crises occur as a result of excessive exposure to what is perceived as “risky”, they only result from excessive exposures to what is ex-ante perceived as “not-risky”, and which are in fact the only exposures able to generate huge unpleasant surprises.)

If you allow me here is a video explaining current regulatory madness it in an apolitical red and blue! http://bit.ly/mQIHoi

    GOP platform? Well lets see. They are bought and paid for by international banks and wall street who are shipping all our jobs to China and India where people work for over 14 hours a day at 2 dollars a day. No child labor laws. No regulations, like the endangered species act, lead in children toys, or other pollution standards. No social security. No health care. No medicare, medicaid. currency manipulation to force export prices down and the list goes on.
   The "American" wall streeters, and corporations love this slave labor, so the rich here can have cheap products. But China and India cant afford our products so republicans want to have no minimum wage here. No labor standards. No Social Security. No medical care, accept for the rich who can afford it. No EPA, No endangered species act est. To bring us down to there standards, so we can compete in the name of free trade. Instead of imposing tariffs, import taxes to level the playing field, like our founding fathers had before income tax, For a race to the top, instead of a race to the bottom. Making it profitable to bring corporate jobs home again.
   But the American government says that's protectionist, well news flash THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! not wall street banks and big corporations that put them in office.
   Republicans say getting rid of tax loop holes, and ending the Bush tax cuts. Bringing the taxes on the rich back to Clinton levels is class warfare against the rich. Well I really don't think the rich 1%ers in there multy million/ billion dollar homes want to continue their war against the 99%ers, including the homeless and hungry. They say "GET A JOB" well most of occupy wall street protests have jobs but wages and benefits are getting slashed. The rest would love to, but they all went to China and India in the name of profits.
   Well democrats aren't much better, they are bought by the same banks and wall street corporations.
   And lets not forget the fed. They print trillions out of thin air , not based on anything, to bail out banks and wall street with no accountability. So we can't check their books!
   We should stop insuring federal banks that invest in wall street again, and tax every wall street trade.
   We need campaign finance reform to get big money out of politics and majority rules, No one should be allowed to take office with less than 50% of the vote. If all are less, there should be run offs, so voting for a third party isn't a wasted vote. Keeping republicans and democrats in power.
    Things I feel should be every americans rights. Food and shelter for the poor, and free college, and health care for all.
    If some are wondering why people are protesting at occupy wall street, world wide now. This is some of one protesters thoughts.

Wall Street is a confidence trick, a dazzling edifice built on paper promises, gambling, bets and rampant speculation. Wall Street doesn’t manufacture or produce anything. The Wall Street however attractive it may appear is built on paper.
Modern day bank robbers are at Wall Street but they wear grey suits and not masks. Rampant speculators, propagandists and financiers of Wall Street are given some unfair advantage over the average consumers and taxpayers and the cumulative effect of the people watching selfishness prevail over the public interest has been an undermining of the public’s trust in the present US government. There’s no question the Wall Street is rigged against the average consumers and taxpayers. The Wall Street has a lot more information. Wall Street jerry-rig the system so that Wall Street always win. If the Wall Street loses trillions, the US Treasury will bail the Wall Street out so it can go back and do it again.
50 trillion dollars in global wealth was erased between September 2007 and March 2009, including 7 trillion dollars in the US stock market, 6 trillion dollars in the US housing market, 8 trillion dollars in the US retirement and household wealth, 2 trillion dollars in the US individual retirement accounts, 2 trillion dollars in the US traditional defined benefit plans and 3 trillion dollars in the US nonpension assets. Greed, arrogance and incompetence created a massive meltdown, cost trillions, and still Wall Street comes out richer and more powerful.
There are trillions dollars of new money taken again from Americans to make deals and hand out outrageous bonuses. And when these trillions run out Wall Street will come back for more until the dollar becomes junk. The value of the US dollar declined very significantly during the last 70 years. The value of the US dollar in 1940 was worth 2,000% more than the value of the US dollar now.
Many big US manufacturers are outsourcing to Mexico and China to increase their profits, adding more unemployment in the USA. Manufacturing jobs in the USA declined 37% between 1998 and 2010. Since manufacturing industries declined in the USA, the US competitiveness in the global marketplace is also declined.
The demise of Glass Steagall act helped spawn the credit crisis by allowing the US Banks to reinvest money that was not theirs; they gambled; they failed; they passed down the burden to the people.
The top 6 US banks had assets of less than one fifth of US GDP in 1995. Now they have two third of US GDP. The financial crisis was created by the biggest US banks to consolidate power. The big banks became stronger as a result of the bailout by the US Treasury. The big banks are turning that increased economic clout into more political power.
Oligarchy is the political power based on economic power. And it’s the rise of the Wall Street in economic terms, that it’d turn into political power. And Wall Street then feed that back into more deregulation, more opportunities to go out and take reckless risks and capture trillions of dollars.
Wall Street only has the lobbyists. Today more than 42,000 Wall Street lobbyists manipulate USA's 537 elected officials with huge campaign contributions that fund candidates who support their agenda. It no longer matters who's the President
Since the heads of Wall Street and their representatives are afraid because they don’t have the substance or the arguments, they will not come out and debate with the people who occupy the Wall Street.
The political and economical leadership of the US has chosed to cartel profits and transformed the US economy to serve the colluding and unlawful oligarchy. The political and economical leadership of the US is bailing out failed paradigms with trillions of dollars while committing social injustice to its people. The political and economical leadership of the US including the US Congress have now become Wall Street's "Trojan Horses". The US banks are borrowing money at near zero interest from the US government, then lending it back to the US government at even mere fractions higher interest than they are paying. The net interest margin made by the US banks by lending the money back to the US federal government in the first 6 months of 2011 is 210 billion dollars.
Due to the oligarchs’ rapacious looting and their purchase of a politically protected luxurious lifestyle, the people of the US are on the road to permanent serfdom under a police state. The democracy was not given to the people of the US on a platter. It is not theirs for all time, irrespective of their efforts. Either people of the US organize and they find political leadership to take this on or they are going to be in deep trouble.
The failure of governance to address the current critical issues have already produced catastrophic consequences. Now we are experiencing a major global paradigm shift and it is still unfolding.

If you read 200 or so OWS signs, it's pretty clear they are looking for ECONOMIC JUSTICE.

Success would probably include legislation such as:
* Reinstate Glass-Steagall Act separating FDIC-insured banks from brokerages and trading firms.
* Make the tax code more progressive, return to tax rates of Clinton boom years (on income, capital gains and estates)
* Tight restrictions on lobbyists, maximum $2K political contributions for people, eliminate corporate political donations.
* Significant Job creation legislation
* Eliminate tax incentives for offshoring jobs
* Legislation offering options for working off some forms of student loans through public service
* Aggressive push to getting underwater home owners into 4% fixed mortgages allowing them to keep their houses

Success would also include Cultural shifts such as:
* Increase in Activist Shareholders demanding boards eliminate excessive executive compensation (which correlates poorly with company performance anyway).
* Popularize "onshoring" jobs, which reduces command and control costs, improves service, and leverage high-productivity of American workforce.
* Using rational "Utilitarian" calculations as the determining factor for most industry regulation, consumer safety, environmental protection...the greatest good for the greatest number of people, instead of plutocratic and kleptocratic enriching of robber barons to the detriment of the overall economy and societal good.

Peaceful Wall Street Protestors and others might consider carry signs containing two parts. One part might be a sound bite like “Taxes are enriching the elite.” The second might contain a COMMON SENSE question like “Why are big businesses making record profits outsourcing jobs getting tax breaks?” When asked by mass media why one is protesting, answer the question with yours. How mass media responds will tell whether they’re reporting the facts or spinning stories protecting their advertising dollars likely dependent upon big business.

During the Vietnam War the message was simple, “Get out of Vietnam.” Today’s issues are complex, not easily lending to one message. Consequently, the various messages might be highlighted in different cities. For example, Wall Street protestors might focus on Wall Street. Protestors in Portland could ask questions about why our taxes are being used to enrich the elite; Oakland Protestors on why are politicians are accepting huge untraceable campaign donation, and why politicians are allowed to accept high paying private sector jobs shortly after writing government rules and regulations benefiting the elite; Los Angeles Protestors might focus on Big business overcharging tax payers for services (Medicare Part D; etch); Protestors in Atlanta might focus on how big business, especially those controlling necessities, raising prices faster than wages leaving little money for small businesses traditionally employing 50% or more of the private sector jobs, thus high unemployment. Las Vegas on whether government regulations are being written by the elite making small business less competitive given big business can pass cost of regulation to consumers and small business can’t. Baltimore protestors might possibly ask about the relationship between politicians and big business; Houston on wealth distribution; Dallas on the influence of big business advertising dollars spinning mass media news; Memphis on how tax breaks to big business making record profits enrich them while creating a shortage of revenue to fund road and bridge repair, etch.

Credit cards charging 29 percent interest rates, As long as the American public are being charged this outrageous rate our economy will never recover. Make that the spear head and the public will follow

 BISOP park OWS
1/6/2012 rev.
Dear Bishop Jeremiah J. Park!
Please review the spiritual status of the Episcopacy, mocking Jesus.
I am glad to learn that bishop Park 박정찬감독appeared for OWS service. ‘Please let me remind you that now you have to clean up first the ages old financial scandals at the Korean United Methodist Church and Institute according to OWS spirit..
Please reveal who deceived the Supreme Court justice F. Dana Winslow secretly that the mass murder charges against me and my beloved son was real and the church related although fake Columbia MBA Steve H. Park, fake M.D. Young Kim, CUNY Sophie Davis, Rev. Won Tae Cha, Rev. Chul Woo Chang’s mentor and others falsely filed three lawsuits against us, me, my wife and my beloved son as the attempted mass murderers, demanding total $8,000,000 damages from us while they used the stolen church money to pay for the fake lawsuits torturing us for many years. It was their trick to steal the Church Building Trust Fund. Eventually they hijacked the church.
The members did not want Rev. Chul Woo Chang 장철우먹사ministry anymore, but you kept him, strengthening your deviant church group.
Tell to the Methodists why you keep silent for these criminal clergies, elders and others. Rev. Won Tae Cha 차원태목사reportedly joined UMC reform movement. For what?.
Why do you support the fake lawsuits and the fake mass murder charges against me, my beloved wife and son?
You must recover the stolen church money from the thieves.
 This criminal history of the Korean church clergies and members clearly indicates you are falsely representing God as the Bishop unless you do recover the stolen church money from the embezzlers. Why Rev. Chul Woo Chang team blocks the audit?
 Why do you cover up the scandals? My wife and my Son laughed at when I told them you joined OWS. Now you are wisely cheating the Christian community and public, employing UMC.org, on Websites in this cyber age. Now the United Methodist Church systematically conned in American society in a fake Korean saintly way.
On December 16, 2008, Wednesday, when church officer Shin complaint about Rev. Chang’s financial mismanagement at the charge conferences, Elder In-Taeg Rhim 임인택장노shouted call “police”; at the charge conference Superintended Rev. St. St. Clair Samuel yield to call “police” when I tried to reveal the church financial scandals at the charge conference. (12/9/2011) Poor souls! Re. Samuel repeatedly asked to call police to stop my right to speak as he granted me the floor to say about, “What is your vision for the church?” He wanted to me to stop revealing the clergies and the church officers’ financial scandals of the church.
Rev. Samuel made a insulted me in the church public and incited a group riot against me in premeditation. The group repeatedly shouted to call police and the group pushed me round unimaginable, unbearable barbaric assaults in the church meeting. I should have had a self defense right. It is absolutely unnecessary superintendent Rev. St. Clair Samuel’s unethical and unfaithful conduct against an innocent church member. He saw me a Korean ghetto kid. The bishop is responsible for the troubles sending such superintendent to one of his churches.
Do they believe the police could cover up their church crimes? But nobody questioned him, “Why?” as they are well brain washed during “Standing prayers” Rev. Chul Soo Chang’s demonization against me
(Later it was learned only one elder, a long time member opposed to call police, but Rev. Samuel ignored it)
. Recently I joined OWS marchers from Columbia University walking about 40 blocks on the Broadway. (11/7/2011); another evening from the Liberty Park to Judson Memorial Chapel at NYU (11/20/2011). My slogan was to REMOVE THE CHURCH CROOKS. Do you understand how deeply your church is corrupt under your leadership of the Episcopacy, abusing the hard earned apportionments?
It is about time for Bishop Jeremiah J. Park 박정찬감독to Occupy Korean Church Street to clean up if you really honor the spirit of Occupy Wall Street.
Rethink Jesus in this Christmas and New Year! For renewal of our historic church.
.Chae S. Sone
If there is any Methodist, he or she should explore the bishop’s hypocrisies on OWS, UMC.org to awaken our faith community in Jesus name. (You made my house a robbers’ den. Mat 21; 13)
In prayers. Chae S. Sone Csone@optonline,net
REFERENCE GOOGLING
1. Call to 'remind people to honor each other' - UMC.org
www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c...b=5847613...
Dec 6, 2011 – Retired United Methodist Bishop Alfred Johnson, senior pastor at the Church ... listens as Bishop Jeremiah J. Park of the denomination's New York Annual ... 4 interfaith worship services for Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park. ...
2. Fake M.D. Young Kim.
3. Fake Columbia MBA Steve H. Park
4. Rev. Chul Woo Chang.
5. Rev. Won Tae Cha.
6.Dear Mayor! Please cleanup the church street garbage too
Permalink Submitted by chae s. sone on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 4:34pm

The United States of America is not a democracy and never has been. It is a representative republic. The founders realized that a democracy would pass laws that were unfair to some of the minorities. It would seem to me that your "occupy" time would be better spent looking for a job. Camping out, getting high, and being a public nuisance is doing no one any good. I see that mostly it is a bunch of students and other assorted losers that do not know what the real world is about. You have to experience life to know what the problems and solutions really are. You are not the 99%, you are the 47% that does not pay taxes or contribute to our country. I am sick and tired of funding you bunch of losers.

http://the-occupy-wall-street.blogspot.com/ TIme to Occupy the money supply for ourselves . Join to occupy the $$$ !!

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