Occupy Wall Street Banned From Democratic National Convention

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106. One thing that people who did not live during the Great Depression do not understand -

Many people survived the Great Depression because people parked themselves and their families in tents.

I grew up in a far south Chicago neighborhood, and the older people would talk about how many tent "villages" had existed in those plots of land back in the thirties.

Those who have been affected by the manipulations of the Power Brokers on Wall Street have not been inconvenienced only between the hours you lay out as decent hours for an inconvenience.

If you haven't eaten for days, your stomach is hurting 24/7.

If you are living in your car, it is not inconvenient only between 7Am and 11Pm.

If you have a chronic bodily ailment, and no health insurance, as many of us between the ags of 45 to 62 are experiencing, it is not a 7Am to 11Pm matter. It is 24/7.

If the people in power, of both parties, had not allowed themselves to be bought and paid for, perhaps the provisions of our great economic system, which included Glass Steagall, would have remained as they had been since the late thirties. Rather than those protections and provisions being legislated out of existence.

So that now some Fourteen Trillions of dollars have been handed over to the One Percent. While the rest of us work wearily at unfulfilling jobs, watching as every thing once held sacred in this nation is crumbling.

We need the tents to be visible as a reminder to everyone of why these tents exist. The powerful, including those on City Councils, have spent their lives avoiding the realities, while sucking up to those who write the campaign checks to them.