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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-23-11 05:25 PM
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Occupy Wall Street: The 99%’s Rendezvous with Destiny
http://www.politicususa.com/en/occupy-rendezvous-destiny

Now is our time. Now is our rendezvous with destiny.

Occupy USA is spreading with fevered determination across the nation. Citizens occupying cities across the USA are courageously rising up against the status quo, and in doing so, fulfilling Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s prescient observation that some generations have a “Rendezvous with Destiny.” Occupy USA is our rendezvous with destiny, and FDR’s speech could serve as our battle cry.

When the wealthiest one percent hold an estimated 40 percent of the country’s economic resources, conflict is inevitable. The Princes of Wall Street justify their entitled status under the guise of “free market capitalism,” while in actuality the “success” of the “chosen” few has been funded by our tax dollars. The cherry on top of this liberty-stealing insult is that the economic royalists are misers with their money, leaving it out of the system where it could create jobs. Instead they are the spoiled Scrooges of America, petulantly hoarding it all for themselves.

Living wage jobs are scarce after years of catering to and funding the royalists, now referred to as “job creators.” We were meant to have liberty, not to work as slaves for royalists whose money would run and ultimately threaten to destroy our hard-fought for freedom. The despotic royalists of Wall Street try to justify their position and entitlement by painting the American people as lazy, unwashed spendthrifts. FDR beat this meme to a bloody pulp in 1936.

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socialindependocrat Donating Member (379 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-23-11 06:43 PM
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1. We came to the U.S. to get away from these people..
I'm not saying "the rich and wealthy" I mean the control freaks.

Our ancestors came to America to be free.

The wealthy have the means to redistribute wealth from the middle class and the poor.

Congress has the ability to make laws that rob people of the freedom to pursue their goals

To the people who want to steal other's dreams - GO THE HELL BACK TO EUROPE!!!!

We are taking back control in order to lock it away and allow the people
the freedom they came here for and the freedom we were told by our parents
that was here to work toward.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-23-11 06:59 PM
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2. K&R!
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-23-11 07:12 PM
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3. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!
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