Reply #23: Corporate news thanks all for taking the bait of their hypothetical manderings

[FrenchieCat]

based on connecting some of what Obama has said (stuff that he's been saying,
even before there was ever any OWS movement) to conclude to the headline's
convenient finding based on the fact that Obama has had supportive things to say
about this movement (and apparently he's damned if he does, and he would be damned if he didn't).

That's is what is sorry; folks willing to jump on a bandwagon set up by the corporate media in their normal attempts to divide us in order to encourage us to take pot shots at this President...

Here's the point....

Simply put, the Occupy Wall Street Movement is Americans’ individual calls of shame on corporate greed, but done collectively. It represents the frustrations of millions of Americans who did everything right, but have been forced to realize that their hard work no longer brings with it the promised spoils of the American Dream. It is the father whose job was shipped to China while he watched a padlock put on his castle, now only one among millions of foreclosed houses. It is the teacher who dreamed of working on his long-yearned-for though ill-paid passion, only to be demonized and given a pink slip. It is the tale of a young college graduate who sacrificed to attain a degree and, saddled with massive student loans, is unable to find work in her chosen field, or perhaps any work at all. It is the young war veterans coming back to barely nothing. Or the owners of small businesses whose efforts were nullified for not being able to secure credit to weather the current business downturn. These and others scenarios are the diverse tales of 99% of us, those who aspire to achieve and yet have been let down at every crossroads.

Interestingly, there are various diverging interest groups who seek to mold this burgeoning movement into their own image....
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We should resist corporate media’s attempts to define for us what this movement is about, or even which political force it may help. The media would like nothing more than to be in full control of this phenomenon, and they won’t stop trying any time soon. Furthermore, although most of us are the 99%, even that doesn’t mean that, as individuals, we’ll get to dictate where this movement goes or what it will do. What’s reassuring is that it appears that the values of the OWS movement are based on a common goal of making the nation better at managing the collective general welfare. In other words, it is a protest movement which generally demands the betterment of this country, and that is what may make the difference; it is urging us to move toward something good for Americans… or at least for 99% of us.
http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2011/10/10/projecti... /