If someone calls for putting an end to, say, a life-support system upon which a patient relies in order to continue breathing, this should only be done when and if there is a solid back-up system in place to sustain life. Banking DEREGULATION by the wrong-for-this-economy right-wing Republicans is why first the housing and credits markets bubbles COLLAPSES or why those fake-pricing bubbles existed in the first place from 2002 on through to the COLLAPSE in 2006 and 2007. Republicans' DEREGULATION (for which banksters lobby in droves even now) is why we had a FINANCIAL SYSTEM MELTDOWN that came to a head in 2007 and 2008 (see PBS's "Frontline: Inside The Meltdown").
DEREGULATION is the "common enemy" that removes all oversight, all systems of checks and balances, and all consumer protections. The teavangelist fiscal ILLITERATES want to have even MORE deregulation! They also cannot see the fiscal value of SPENDING during a time when the economy has shriveled to a mere trickle---yet SPENDING is what is needed from the ground on upward and outward in order to GROW this economy and get some dollars pumping throughout the system.
Even former-pro-regulation Republican Alan Greenspan, serving four presidents as Fed Chairman, acknowledges publicly and under oath before a Senate subcommittee on the MELTDOWN: "I was WRONG to believe that they Wall Street, banks, AIG could or even WOULD self-regulate." If the Federal Reserve has sufficient oversight (the Constitutional ROLE of government), the bank cartel would function properly and in the best interests of this nation. When that oversight is removed, however, and no regulations are in place to prevent greed-driven abuses...well, we've seen what the Republicans caused from 2001 through 2008 with THAT failed policy, now...didn't we?
The OWS movement is against CORPORATE GREED, COLLUSION with the far-right-wing nation-destroyers, and CORRUPTION. More power to the movement!
A little. But most of them are anti capitalist nutjob socialists and communists who believe all power should be centralized to the state. And I have been told that by an OWS supporter.
"The state should have a monopoly of force." Think about that for a second. That and they cant wait for the revolution so they can stand over my corpse while my family cries as another so nicely put it.
Thing is I own guns and they don't. But being cowards they will just have someone else, aka the government do the murdering for them. Even alex jones doesn't care for these people.
Which is saying something. The tea party and OWS cannot be considered the same thing. They are both movements but what they desire are not the same.
And tea party people do not believe to have special entitlement like these OWS people believe they do. The tea party does not use the threat of death to make people fall in line to there ideology. That way of thinking is left wing.
And to someone like me that type of threat will not work and is not appreciated. And has to possibility of horribly blowing up in there face.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.