First, Thank those of you with the courage to stand up and get this started. There are more people supporting this movement than anyone knows yet. I'm a little old - so that blows the "young hippie" stereotype some were trying to promote. I work, pay bills. all that herd mentality stuff.

We have had the government we deserved. Through our neglect and inattention we have been led by fools and corporate greed to the place we find ourselves now. Every person that cares must stand up and say NO MORE now. There's great power in what is beginning to happen here and we can change the way business is done in DC. I'll be in LA tomorrow - see you then.

I will be there on the intern. day of action for the march.  Mrs. Bea

The more this message gets out, the more support it will receive. I've been asking everyone I talk to and many hadn't heard of it. Many people don't watch network news (rightfully), many don't read newspapers; so if they're going to hear it has to be online or person to person.

If 10 people speak up they're ignored -100 people , pushed aside - 1000, marginalized. Once 100,000 speak up, the people we're talking to might listen. They know that it's a momentary leap to 1,000,000. Once their precious re-election is at risk this message will become important.

I'm not an expert regarding the law, but I searched a little and this should certainly be protected by the First Amendment. Several articles indicate that protests and marches are excluded from applicable regulations for that reason.

I've been reading several articles commenting about the goals and progression of this movement. Several journalists and politicians are taking liberties with the message. I saw Michelle Bachman interpreting Occupy DC as protests against the administration. It seems to me that it would be in our best interest to find consensus and somehow define more clearly what we are trying to acheive. The message is so expansive that few will have the patience to follow it. We can't hope to address all of the faults in the system at once. Many of the issues are connected and could be better represented if addressed as such.

I have great confidence that many intelligent people are trying to come up with the appropriate direction to proceed. One problem I've found in relating this to friends and family is that each city has it's own identity. Wouldn't this be simpler if a common unified front is presented? Someone in Indianapolis, for instance, won't feel connected to "Occupy Los Angeles".

I hope we can find solutions to some of these minor problems before someone attempts or succeeds at hijacking or subverting the message. I've been using "we" liberally throughout this post because I am a part of this along with the rest of the 99 percent we are trying to stand up with and for.

Please follow the link ,this article makes some great points

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/opinion/panic-of-the-plutocrats.html

OMG I am so excited for Saturday!!! Im taking my friends and my sisters

We will be marching with our Spank of America sign in support of the movement!

http://www.stuver.com/spankofamerica/

http://tinyurl.com/3hlxpf6

A disturbing thought has been in my mind for several years. Our society decided years ago that we couldn't afford to care for people with mental disorders, so we closed the hospitals and put the patients on the streets to fend for themselves. Now we try our best to look away as they beg for change to survive. We should be ashamed.

Pension agreements have been negated, funds have been decimated ,causing more and more elderly people to have to work until they die. We have failed to care for the very people who raised and fed us. These people fought wars to ensure our survival and the continuation of Democracy. We have turned our backs on them and really wish they would just die and get out of the way. Stop taking our Social Security money and Medicare and just go away. We should be ashamed.

Our society requires both parents to work full time to afford to pay the rent and put food on the table, then we chastise those parents for not giving proper time and attention to their children. We punish the children for having poor values and morals, for using drugs and stealing. We imprison them and turn them into a sub caste with few rights and very little hope for a future. If by some chance they grow up to be less damaged; there is very little hope that they will be able to afford an education, thus ensuring the cycle will repeat. We can't afford to educate our children properly to give them a chance to achieve their full potential. We should be ashamed

We can't afford to house or feed millions of people wandering our streets hopelessly. I said MILLIONS.

Every conversation eventually comes back to money. Now we can't afford to house our prisoners. we can't afford to repair our bridges and highways. we can't afford to build or repair schools . College tuition is rising rapidly and will soon be available only to the wealthy. We can't afford to help the poor and disabled. We can't afford Social Security. Some have suggested that we should allow the infirm to die - it would be more cost effective.

What have we become? How have we deviated so far from the path our fathers laid out for us? When did money become the entire focus of our existance?

I have done many things in my life . I've earned and spent quite a lot of money. When my life is over, the only things of value that I will have done have had absolutely nothing to do with money. Trying to be a good parent. Trying to help those less fortunate than myself. Trying to be a good friend and neighbor.

I am ashamed that I can't change these things. I am ashamed of my powerlessness. I am ashamed of myself for my lack of dicipline and values. I challenge all of us, and particularly the obscenely wealthy to look in the mirror.

WE SHOULD BE ASHAMED