We The People....kind of

Before I begin, I want to make it perfectly clear that money, material wealth, social status and so forth, has never been "my thing". I'm perfectly content with what I have, thank you. Now that my 'personal note' is out of the way, I also want to make it clear that although I am very much in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I do NOT support any type of non-peaceful protesting. In other words, I did not agree with the protest actions as they tried to march themselves across the Brooklyn Bridge, which not only put people in the protest in harm's way, but also put people not involved in the protest in harm's way. Ok, all that's on the table and off to the side now, so let's discuss this "OWS" movement for a bit.

Personally, I think this is a good thing. I think it's allowing US Americans to vent their unified frustrations and grievances regarding the extraordinary distribution of power and wealth in this nation to only 1% of the entire nation's society. The people of the USA (i.e.: "We the people") are also showing the rest of the country that they're not blind, nor stupid, to the big money game that's been going on in this country for decades. Simply put, they're tired of not having their voice in matters.

Let's face it. When someone who is working their ass off for minimum wages, just making enough to barely keep a roof over their heads... and they hear about some corporation's CEO getting a $42 MILLION dollar BONUS check, on top of their multi-million dollar annual salary, on top of their income from financial and/or real estate investments...there's a few question that are going to be raised by that person who's barely making it.

I also want to point out that this has nothing to do with "financial jealousy" or "wealth envy". It just simply doesn't. It has to do with equality and democracy. It boils down (in essence) to the old term "shittin' on the little guy". Yeah, well, the 'little guy' is the reason the 'big guy' even has a job in the first place. Why? Because it's that 'little guy' that built the offices that the 'big guy' calls his "work place" (even though the big guy is often either not in the office at all, or, if he is, he's not really 'working').

"Economic Justice" just about says it all really. It's the term used to encompass the entirety of the many issues and problems the bulk of the US population has with the financial distribution and power. Corporate USA has quickly become the largest black market industry ever known in this nation's history. Approximately 43% of the nation's power is held by the top 1% of the people in this nation. i.e.: Multimillionaires and Billionaires.

People might look at this and think "Well, that also means that because they have more money, that they pay more taxes". Truth? They pay almost no taxes at all. In fact, it's the middle classes in the US that pay the bulk of all the taxes we even have. Sales tax is about the only exception for the upper crest of the financial powers that be.

Larger cities are over-crowded due to the lack of "funding" available for building new housing, creating new jobs, increasing medical treatment availabilities and over-hauling the public education system. When we look at this 'lack of funding', many hard-working and law-abiding people will turn and look to the CEO who just brought home a 42 million dollar bonus check and think "Why does he get 42 million dollars just for sitting around on his ass all day, while thousands of people in the local communities would be able to really put that 42 million dollars to good use towards helping others?" Good question!! So far....there has been no other answer outside of the "because" realm.

The 'common folk' in this nation also have no problem with members of prominent families who use their wealth, power and status for humanitarian efforts that help people INSIDE this nation. Example: The Pitt-Jolie family. Unlike most of the A-lister stars that decided to 'make an appearance' in the wake of hurricane Katrina...Brad Pitt has taken money out of his own pocket to help the people in the city of New Orleans get back into a home. Still, with all his efforts, and those of his partner, Angelina Jolie, New Orleans is still in need of a massive over haul. Certainly anyone who takes home a 42 million dollar bonus check would be willing to invest some of that money into helping people that just got their lives ravaged inside out by a natural disaster. After all, it would be an extremely kind and humanitarian thing to do. Right? Well, apparently not.

So, what is the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstration all about? Well, think of anything about this nation that really pisses you off, and basically, that's what it's about. Everything from unfair business, to corporate greed and manipulation, to crooked politics...and back again. It's all on the table...and so far, that table has stretched to 150 cities throughout the USA. These aren't homeless people marching for a better way of life. These are hard-working people who are sick and tired of being told one thing, only to have it all turn out to be one big lie. Sad, isn't it? It has to come to a nation-wide protest just to get even a handful of people to not have any choice but to start listening....very sad.