What's It About? A Look at the Occupy Movement

I hope people start to see beyond the wall of talking points regurgitated by the mainstream media and political establishment about Occupy Wall Street. It's not about trying to impose a radical leftist agenda on the country

• It's about corruption and the removal of money (at least corporate) from politics
• It's about the restoration of a government responsive to the people and not just the wealthiest interests.
• It's about restoring the tax system so that the middle class doesn't pay an ETR higher than that of the upper brackets.
• It's about reducing the income disparity, which is now worse than some African States
• It's about making sure the destructive practices that brought down the economy in 2008 can't happen again.
• It's about making sure those who brought down the economy are not rewarded for it
• It's about protecting students from deceptive banks
• It's about reducing the debt load on students and graduates
• It's about protecting homeowners from deceptive banking practices
• It's about protecting consumers from deceptive credit card companies
• It's about Wall Street giving back to Main Street
• It's about CEOs receiving pay more comparable to that of their workers
• It's about so much more than FOX, CNN and MSNBC can understand
• It's about restoring the neutrality of the media
• It's about restoring the fairness of elections
• It's about eliminating corporatism in the educational system
• It's about making American students competitive in the global stage
• It's about ending the assault on worker's rights
• It's about ending the assault on democracy
• It's about investing in our country
• It's about investing in our people
• It's about eliminating corporatism in Washington
• It's about eliminating corporate influence on Capitol Hill
• It's about turning a culture of greed into a culture of responsibility
• It's about protecting consumers
• It's about ensuring fair treatment of workers around the world
• It's about helping the poor, not leaving them to rot away their days
• It's about reducing America's staggering poverty rate
• It's about protecting our environment
• It's about ending discrimination
• It's about protecting homeowners
• It's about giving everyone a chance to succeed
• It's about ending unnecessary aggression
• It's about ending the buying and selling of elections
• It's about ending the buying and selling of politicans
• It's about making healthcare effective and affordable to everyone
• It's about making the world a better place for everyone

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