Angry at the lack of accountability for those responsible for the destruction of America’s economy just three years ago, young, debt-ridden, and unemployed American’s took to the street as a collective known as “the 99 Percent”, referencing the gross gap in wealth distribution in the US where 400 Americans control the same amount of money as the bottom 40% (120 million).
But is this excitable energy coming from a wide variety of socio-economic backgrounds and cultures going to waste?
The protests lack a political orientation (so forget the left’s response to the Tea Party), any specific goals or targets (only working with vague statements involving wealth distributions and unemployment) and consistency (shameful pandering to Steve Jobs, a man who outsourced a majority of his production facilities to China).
If the “99 Percent” really want to affect change to the economic environment, they must decry the legislation that got American into this position (Bush-tax cuts, the 1.6 trillion in the Federal Reserve) and back the Democratic party, because God knows (or Joseph Smith) that Romney and Cain aren’t sympathetic. Case in point, Cain believes the people languishing in unemployment should be getting “educated and finding jobs”. That is powerful stupid.