Democracy Now Response

I find the Occupy Wall Street to be really significant in that not only does it show corruption in the United States, but also with other countries who also feel corruption within their money system. I only heard about Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Lexington when my teacher first introduced the topic. Then recently I heard Rome, London, and even Japan was involved in this outrage. It has been spreading throughout the world. What I see here is that the money that is needed for the poor is being given to the rich.

Clearly this is not how it should be. The plan for the Obama’s bailout was to give money to the banks so that it would trickle down to the poor and eventually get the US out of this mess. However, instead banks are just keeping the money. One thing that bothers my friends and I are the availability of jobs. College students work hard to get the degrees they deserve. When they get out of college the degree they’ve worked hard on goes to waste because there are no job offers.

I might not be feeling it right now, but others are suffering. People have no jobs and families to feed. Greed. It is all about corporate greed. The funny thing is that people my age are unaware of what is happening with Occupy Wall Street in the US. They need to know what is going on. The only time that I am really educated about this stuff is when I am in the classroom discussing protests and topics like this.

I believe that the government doesn’t want certain information to be revealed to the public, because it would anger people. People are angry right now because we want to know what is going on. Something is wrong with the system. The move, Inside Job, talks about how there are some things corporate banks don’t want us to know. I don’t even think that it is just affecting people in lower classes, but people who have high paying jobs. On a personal level, I know doctors who have had problems with Medicaid and Medicare. Wasn’t the bailout supposed to help everybody? Instead it was a waste of a lot of money.

What I am hearing is that money that was used from the bailout was spent for bonuses for bankers who spent millions. Think about how that money could have been used to make new jobs? On Youtube I have seen multiple videos of the hacker group, Anonymous. I saw that they were supporting Occupy Wall Street and how they supported WikiLeaks.

In my opinion, I don’t think people take this seriously, mainly young adults. We don’t take it seriously because it is effecting us little or not at all. Eventually, it will affect everyone. It has been growing all over the world. From New York to Italy. I feel like there is a need for people to be informed about Occupy Wall Street through Social Media or any type of media, so that they can join the 99% and bring justice to the greedy.