September 23, I have to admit that most of the pics coming out of Wall Street show what look like young hippie wannabes (there are pics of old women wearing yellow ponchos that read “Granny Peace Brigade”) but what else are they gonna do?
When a society has such a high unemployment rate for young people this is bound to happen. The U.S. Census Bureau says unemployment for young adults is 44.7%!!!
Young people led the revolution in Egypt. What’s the unemployment rate for young people in Egypt? According to a February 2011 report by the International Monetary Fund, 25% of Egyptian youth are unemployed. Mmmm, and there’s 44.7% of U.S. young adults unemployed?
Yet the main stream (corporate controlled) U.S. media continues to ignore the Wall Street protesters, most likely hoping they’ll just go away. Some newspapers are criticizing the protesters.
On September 21, an Indiana University newspaper called the Wall Street protests the “Ultimate fail”, and accused the protests of being instigated by Canada.
Also on September 21, the Associated Press wrote “What, exactly, they are protesting is somewhat unclear.”, then went on to list the ‘demands’.
On September 22, the Post Chronicle even blamed Barack Obama! “With millions of Americans unemployed, and millions of others losing their home and their savings, the almost constant anti-capitalist rhetoric — about Wall Street and corporate “fat cats” and “billionaires and millionaires not paying their fair share” — by elected leaders such as President Barack Obama, Senator Harry Reid, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and others is starting to take it’s toll.”
So this writer at the Post Chronicle blames politicians, who’re actually very Wall Street friendly, for the Wall Street protests, despite the fact that the very same writer mentions the true reasons for the protests: “…millions of Americans unemployed, and millions of others losing their home and their savings…”
Classic case of not seeing the forest because of the trees.
Yahoo even blocked protester’s emails from getting through: “People trying to email information about the Wall Street protests on Monday using Yahoo mail, found themselves on the receiving end of messages from Yahoo claiming ‘suspicious activity’.”
My son admitted to me that if it wasn’t for the fact that he finally got a job, after more than a year of looking for one, he’d be on his way to join the protesters on Wall Street. If corporate America doesn’t want people protesting in front of their Mecca, the answer is very simple, give them jobs!!!
