10/24/2011
Daily Kos: CNN misses the point of OWS
(Load)Collapse Article --> (Load) (Load) (Load) (Load) (Load) (Load) (Load)I love it when clueless people try to analyze things. I think the FOX-ification of CNN is in full swing. They've replaced their old standbys with attractive people with little depth and a handful of intelligence. It repulses me to no end. What repulses me even more, is their analysis of the 99% movement. They had this person analyze who the 1% of the country really are. She actually divided it into income brackets, and said anyone that made over 350k a year was in the top one percent. She then went on to say that most of them weren't bankers, but were also health care professionals and small business owners. Some of them held stock or investments, but it was a diverse group, and not indicative of Wall Street. Apparently, the average salary for someone working on Wall Street was 320k, just under the threshold. I suppose the implication is that the protesters are just angry and clueless about the real state of the country, and just angry about capitalism and people having Ipads.
Way to miss the fucking point CNN.
The 99% movement is symbolic. They see how much wealth stays at the top, and they also point to the mechanisms that a small group of people use to keep wealth within their special club. This blows that idea that these people are somehow superhuman and better than the rest of us. The 1% is not necessarily the nurse or doctor who makes 350k a year. They would be in the 1% if they are part of an HMO that gives millions to candidates to affect legislation and blocking needed health care reform. The successful small business owner who makes 500,000 a year is not necessarily part of the proverbial 1%. They are if they use their position to browbeat their employees, squeezing their hard earned benefits for their own profit, knowing full well the people under them may not have somewhere else to go. Hell, even the super billionaire is not part of the proverbial 1%, unless they spend their money propping up think tanks that are entirely designed to fit their own agenda, passing off fact and bunk science as truth, simply because the study was done by the "so and so foundation."
The 99% movement is symbolic, and it is designed to start a conversation on the American Dream. "I work hard and do what I'm supposed to, yet there is no end in sight. At least tell me if the American Dream is a lie." The OWS movement is about money in politics, it's about worker's rights, it's about the fact we spend trillions overseas but none on ourselves, and it's about the fact that sometimes, government regulation is a fine thing. Efficiency isn't necessarily to be worshipped and markets correcting themselves don't necessarily lead to good outcomes, it just might lead to a devious person become that much more devious.
Of course, CNN had no flipping clue. They just sat there as if to say, "I don't know what these hippies want either." If you don't get it by now, if you do not see the gross injustices perpetrated in broad daylight all around you, then why-oh-why are you on television?
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