People are in tents, people are getting support from moneyed causes and unions — the Occupy Wall Street movement is showing no signs of slowing down . Now it’s drawing attention from some of the most prominent republicans in the Senate.
The Occupy Wall Street has been going for an incredibly long time. Have you ever been camping for four weeks? You start getting sick of it, unless the entire thing has a point to it. Thankfully, the 99 percenters aren’t going anywhere and are prompting a national conversation about the way wealth has been unevenly distributed in this country for the longest time.
More importantly, though, they’ve caught the eye of prominent officials. House majority leader Eric Cantor criticized the movement in a recent speech to the Values Voter Summit in Washington. Notable highlights include him expressing concern about ‘the growing mobs occupying cities across the country,’ and that people in Washington have ‘condoned pitting Americans against Americans’.
I don’t know if you’ve paid attention to election cycle, but that’s all Washington does. They pit Americans against each other, because it pays to sell a narrative that isn’t necessarily true. We want everyone to do well. That’s all — and there’s no reason to sacrifice other people’s well-being to turn a profit. Otherwise we’ll keep bottoming out.
Protests are springing up across the nation.
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john dahodi
October 7th, 2011 - 3:03:17 PM
If Eric Cantor and his cronies think that the "Wall Street Protest" is nothing but a MOB and messy gatherings, he is living in the foolish world. He should thank his God that these hundreds and thousands of people who have joined this protest around the Nation are still behaving civilized way, have not damaged to any property or have done any harm to anyone, and did not go to teach lesson to the individual politician but if Cantor and his groups will come out openly against them and give them wrong label, some of them will surely behaved differently taking march and protests and hunger strikes to their homes and offices and demand time bound programs to restore America 's reputation, prestige and economical stability by cutting trillion dollar tax loot to the millionaires by Bush, stopping wars at once and closing all loop holes to the large corporations, banks and wall street goons. Cair &Cantor has not to wait too long, when the protesters will start demonstrating on his home and office very soon.If less fortunate Arabs can revolt against their dictators and kings, why American cannot raise their voice to their politicians who have sold their souls to the millionaires and billionaires.
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