Cantor says he’s concerned by ‘mobs’ at ‘Occupy Wall Street’.
House GOP Leader Eric Cantor decried the protests that started several weeks ago in New York, and have spread to major cities across the country. Cantor said in a speech at the Values Voters Summit (annual gathering of religious right) in Washington that he is “increasingly concerned” about the “growing mobs” represented at the protests.
I find this very interesting because over two-thousand years ago when few political and religious leaders gathered together because of mob concerns they ended up crucifying someone named Jesus. But before anyone thinks that this is a religious blog, I am telling you now… it is not.
This is about asking what happened to our nation’s leader. Are they this callous nowadays to the plight of Americans? Are they this ignorant now that they don’t know the American people anymore.
The people are on the streets because they have no homes to go home to. The people are on the streets because they have no work to go to. Millions of people have nowhere to go and nothing to do. So they go to the streets. And our nation’s leaders, instead of helping them find homes once again, instead of helping them find work to do… they go out there calling them as growing mobs. The American people deserve better treatment than this!
I used to think that the main reason why our leaders are ineffective in leading is because they are out of touch with realities… they don’t know the issues of the people. But now it seems that what they don’t know is the American people. Ignorance breeds prejudice. They are so entrenched in the world of the 1% that they don’t know the 99% anymore. No wonder we have a government that only caters to the needs of the wealthy. Our leaders don’t know the poor anymore. They see them as classless and lawless people that even though they gather peacefully in search of solutions to their frustrations, what our leaders see is not the reason behind it. Instead what they see are the potential mobs among them.
American people deserve better treatment than this!
Jo Ma. Selroma
Here we go with politicking again. President Obama said that this protest is a sign of broad frustration about how the financial system works. Or should I say how the financial system doesn’t work?
As reported in the MSNBC:
Obama said he understood the public’s concerns about how the nation’s financial system works and said Americans see Wall Street as an example of the financial industry not always following the rules.
“It expresses the frustrations that the American people feel that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street,” the president said. “And yet you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place.”
Meanwhile here’s what VP Biden said in an interview with David Gregory as part of The Atlantic/Aspen Institute’s Washington Ideas Forum: Biden called Bank of America “tone deaf” for their new policy charging customers a fee to use their debit cards. “At a minimum they are incredibly tone deaf,” he said. “And at a maximum they are not, they are not paying their fair share of the bargain here and middle class people are getting killed!”
WOW!!! Incredibly unbelievable! I am beginning to wonder where the men and women of D.C actually live. Do they live on earth or in some first class planet? Here are two powerful men that are in position to do something about this stagnant economy and one of them only sees a sign of broad frustration while the other one only sees tone deaf banks for what?… Charging people for extra $5.00 for using their debit cards.
The American people have seen the signs many years ago, we’re way beyond signs. We’re not looking for signs anymore… we’re looking for answers. And yes, that extra $5.00 may just be the last straw that broke our backs, but then again, we, the American people are no longer about saving our backs for no one has our backs anymore. The American people is way beyond saving $5.00 anymore. We are now saving our lives, saving our family, and saving our dignity!
While it is so easy for the powerful men and women of Washington D.C. to blame the banks and big companies. Actually it is, it’s all for show. The truth is, it is much easier for them to be not only deaf but also blind to the plight of “small” people. When the recession hit us back in 2008, our nation’s leaders didn’t think twice for standing up for these companies that are too big to fail. Potential failure that the same companies orchestrated themselves. Under the pretense that they are too big to fail we, the Americans, the “small” people were asked to support them and bail them out, for our survival is dependent on their survival.
We are now running into the fourth year of this economic doldrums. While these big companies are well on their way to recovery, we the “small” people are still on our way to emergency rooms. We are now so sick. We’re sick of losing our jobs, sick of losing our homes, sick of losing our retirements. WE ARE SO SICK OF BEING SO SICK!
Since we have no more homes to go to and no more work to go to, for many of us, the only place for us to go to are the streets. Whether we take the streets to live or to protest we still hope that out there lie the answers to our frustrations. Maybe by doing so, we will open our leaders’ eyes, not to see the signs… but to actually see the truth, that… “we may be too small to help, but we are too many to fail.”
To the people out there in the streets, and to those that Occupy Wall Street… I am with you as well as millions of Americans!
Jo Ma. Selroma
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