Cookie Monster has something to say here about occupying ....
Yes, there always going to be rich and poor. But we used to live in
country where rich owned factory and make 30 times what factory worked
make. Now we live in country where rich make money by lying about value
of derivative bonds and make 3000 times what factory worker would make
if factories hadn't all moved to China.
Capitalism great system.
We won Cold War because people behind Iron Curtain look over wall, and
see how much more plentiful and delicious cookies are in West, and how
we have choice of different bakeries, not just state-owned one. It
great system. It got us out of Depression, won WWII, built middle
class, built country's infrastructure from highways to Hoover Dam to
Oreo factory to electrifying rural South. It system that reward hard
work and fair play, and everyone do fair share and everyone benefit.
Rich get richer, poor get richer, everyone happy. It great system.
Then
after Reagan, Republicans decide to make number one priority destroying
that system. Now we have system where richest Americans ones who find
ways to game system - your friends on Wall Street - and poorest
Americans ones who thought working hard would get them American dream,
when in fact it get them pink slip when job outsourced to 10-year-old in
Mumbai slum. And corporations have more influence over government than
people (or monsters).
It not about rich people having more
money. It about how they got money. It about how they take opportunity
away from rest of us, for sake of having more money. It how they
willing to take risks that destroy economy - knowing full well that what
could and would happen - putting millions out of work, while creating
nothing of value, and all the while crowing that they John Galt,
creating wealth for everyone.
That what the soul-searching about.
When Liberals run country for 30 years following New Deal, American
economy double in size, and wages double along with it. That fair.
When Conservatives run country for 30 years following Reagan, American
economy double again, and wages stay flat. What happen to our share of
money? All of it go to richest 1%. That not "there always going to be
rich people". That unfair system. That why we upset. That what Occupy
Sesame Street about.
