11-20-11
Don't count on the corporate media to provide any real substance regarding the Occupy Wall Street movement. They're too consumed with ignoring real journalism in favor of disingenuous rhetoric to enhance confusion about the movement's goals, framing everything in political instead of human terms to perpetuate the same old worthless partisan arguments, and highlighting the violence instigated by corrupt cops and agent provocateurs to keep people from joining the movement out of fear for their safety.
Television is perhaps the most effective tool in the one percent's arsenal, as is evidenced by all the people who simply repeat the sophomoric propaganda that emanates from network and cable news programs. Like the anti-Occupy dunce I saw in a CBS New York report the other day who, in the midst of an argument with one of the protesters said “It's tax cuts and deregulation that creates jobs.” I'm sure he was quickly reminded that we've had ten years of Bush Tax cuts, extended by Obama, and asked where all the jobs are, and reminded that it was financial deregulation that enabled Wall Street criminals to crash our entire economy, but the report was conveniently edited immediately after his bogus claim.
This is how today's corporate media works, folks. You'll never get the whole story, because it reveals their naked subservience to the one percent. They don't want you to employ the critical thinking skills that are central to determining what's really happening. They want to keep you mired in a fog of pseudo enlightenment, parroting the one percent talking points to all your friends.
The last thing the corporate kings want is for you to understand that the Occupy movement actually does have a clue, and that there are many easily workable solutions to the problems we face in this country. This is because these solutions eliminate the one percent's ability to keep raping the rest of us.
The 99% Deficit Proposal is a must read for anyone with a genuine desire to see what the solutions are. As WarIsACrime.org points out, the proposal is a comprehensive, evidence based report that:
Raises $600 billion in annual revenues thereby achieving the deficit reduction goals in two years; shrinks the wealth divide by taxing wealth more and labor less; restores a progressive tax system; taxes speculation by investors; and taxes wealth held overseas.
Cuts hundreds of billions in annual spending through reducing the bloated military budget and ending the wars, stopping corporate welfare and negotiating better pharmaceutical drug prices.
Creates millions of jobs by solving the housing crisis; creates public sector jobs for much-needed work on infrastructure, transit, education and other areas; creates health care jobs as part of improving Medicare and expanding it to cover everyone in the United States; invests in the more efficient civilian economy rather than the expensive military economy; and stimulates the economy by erasing student loan debt.
Saves and strengthens the safety net by restoring the amount of income covered by Social Security to 90% of all income as was always intended; ends poverty retirement by expanding Social Security; reduces spending on health care by expanding Medicare to cover everyone in the United States.
Presents steps to creating a democratized economy, the already developing new economy that will replace the failed finance, corporate capitalism.
Enough with the phony claims that the Occupy movement doesn't know what it wants. Enough with all the corporate media hacks gleefully doing the bidding of the one percent. Enough with pretending there's any fundamental difference between democrats and republicans, or any of the mainstream media news programs.
Time to remember that the phrase “freedom is not free” is not just sentiment for fallen soldiers. It's a reminder that with citizenship comes the responsibility to stand up for the greater good of your country. You don't have to agree completely with the 99% Deficit Proposal. You just need to understand that it's a serious effort to fix what is so badly broken. Please read it and pass it on.
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99% DEFICIT PROPOSAL
TELL CONGRESS TO READ IT
**Don't think of it as a lost cause because they're corrupt. Think of it as making perfectly clear to them that you're on to their game, and that they will lose unless they start working for the people who elected them. Silence is complicity.
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