Occupy Wall Street vs. Tea Party

[duffman1278]

Originally Posted by axiomatik

What a joke of an analogy. A better analogy would be if the Yankees started every game with a 5 point lead, and the Manager happened to be a good friend of the umpire and was a big contributor to the Ump's election campaign. They've got the most money, and they get a better starting position. Sure, every team has an 'equal' chance of scoring points, but translating that into wins is a different story.

I'm not a communist. I don't want to see all money divided equally to every person. Money is a powerful motivator. Some people work harder, some people are more talented, they should be able to make more money and keep it. But I don't think it is in the nation's best interest for the super-wealthy to collect a larger and larger share of the nation's wealth. I don't think that tens of millions of people should be one hospital visit away from bankruptcy. I don't think that losing your job should mean homelessness. I don't think losing your job should mean the end of your health insurance. I don't think children should be punished for the bad decisions of their parents. I think kids should be given as much opportunity to excel regardless of where they came from.

And right now, I don't see that in our country. Is it an unobtainable ideal? Maybe. But I would like to see our country work towards those ideals, not away from them.

Very well said, this is what's going on and I don't understand why people don't see this.

[kingkilburn]

Because they insist America is the land of the free and the home of the brave and all that other nonsense they teach us in public ed. Even now that the senate has literally made the US a police state in which you can not effect change outside of the system(sounds an awful lot like china to me) people still want to believe this is that nostalgic 1950's utopia.