OWS or occupy Wall Street is an ongoing movement that protest against corporate greed, corruption, and the fact that 1% of Americans controls 40% of Americas wealth. OWS primary goal is to force the rich to pay taxes proportionate to their wealth.
These attacks have been criticized as merely the poor complaining about lack of work but have also been called a cultural revolution, an end to the rich controlling America power.
The problem being, of course, is it right to be angry over wealth that someone has rightfully earned. The answer cannot be answered with a simple yes or a no, we must look back on our nations founding.
Funny that the reason we became a nation was because of refusal to pay unfair taxes. (History has a way of repeating itself) When Britain decided to pass stringent tax laws, an angry group of colonist created a revolution that not only spread through their own country but to the rest of the world.
Todays “revolution” is not only changing Wall Street but has” spread to more than 250 American cities, [and] more than a [hundred] countries — every continent but Antarctica.”
Now the only question that remains will the months of protest pay off or will it go down in history as a misguided folly. I believe that it will pay off; obstructing the largest financial center into the world is bound to force Obama and congress to act.
Then again the chance of such a “miracle” occurring in congresses current climate, is not likely. (Partisans these days.) Only time well tell if the protestors months of effort will pay off.
I think it really is time for us to stand up against the oligarchy we have in the US. It is getting to the point where we cannot successfully work our capitalist society because so few people have any capital. The 1% are not necessarily to blame because they have just used the system properly. But now we need to use better control of our distribution of wealth.