On September 17, 2011 a small group of people gathered in New York to begin a protest that would soon turn into a non-violent revolution with people around the world joining in. The protest was staged to bring attention to that 1% in the nation that hold most of the country's wealth gained through collusion with state and national government and the back breaking labor of the other 99% of the American citizens who have sweated for generations to further line the pockets of big business.
It wasn't a shift in power that brought about the OWS (occupy wall street) protests. It was the recession that gave most Americans and indeed, the citizens of the world, a look into the true economic function of this country. For the first time, Americans saw first hand how these big companies greed lead us to financial disaster and while the average citizens of the country were losing their homes and their jobs, the government was busy giving handouts to these companies so they could give their wealthy CEOs bonuses for bringing our country to it's knees.
For the first time Americans saw the connection between government and big business and how the two have endeavored to ensure that the haves have more and the have nots have less. At first, many in the country were shell shocked by the recession and all eyes turned to the new president to make things right and to establish justice for those who needed it most. But, slowly they opened their eyes to the fact that nothing was going to change; that the government and big business were mated for life and nothing short of a revolution would change America's economic system.
At first, individual communities dealt with the economic crisis and the realization that neither business nor the government carried about the plight of the average person, by banding together and trying to help each other survive. But, finally shock was replaced with anger and the desire to see change a real change in the economic situation of this country. The Occupy Wall Street movement is the result of American' eyes finally being opened to the very real equality that has existed for generations and the need to shift the balance of power back to the American people where it belonged.
Now that the collective eyes of America and the world has been opened there is no going back. The Occupy Wall Street protest is just a beginning. If the Government is unable and unwilling to break their ties with the 1% of the population who have profited from the sweat of the common man, then the average citizen must make the changes themselves. They must shift the axle of power by learning to support the small local business turning their backs on the banks, and big business. If that means learning to grow their own food again, bartering for services, then so be it.
Unless and until the Occupy Wall Street protest can convince the America people to turn their backs on the very businesses that turned their backs on the American people, then nothing will change. The OWS protest will have brought attention but, little else to to their cause. And if nothing changes, then more people will lose their jobs, their homes, until finally the 1% will fail because they have bleed America and the American people dry and like every other parasite they too will die simply because they have no host of people to keep feeding their greed and their financial nests.
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