Occupy

I'm mad about the way things are for us as a nation. Pissed off that it's "He who has the gold makes the rules" when it should be "Do unto others as you'd have done to you."

Sure I'm mad about the greed but I'm really bent about the machine the rich people run (where they virtually buy laws to benefit themselves) and I'm sick of one particular tactic that's used against us. Deception. It is okay to trick someone out of their money...IF you are a corporation. It is perfectly legal for them to decieve us by way of diversion and confusion. They prey on the uneducated, the young and inexperienced, the old and failing, the apathetic, and in general, the poor.

"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away." ~ Tom Waits.

One has to be sharp and on their toes to read the fine print and understand it. And we need speed-hearing to get the disclaimers offered up after some commercials.  Pretty much every legally binding document we sign contains information in the small print that would persuade us in some degree NOT to sign. This information is being as close to hidden as it can legally be and will usually contain words that the many don't understand. But yea, when you sign it, you declare that you do understand, so it's all "legal."

It's legal because the super rich want it that way and it's legal only for them because they own the corporations for which the (their) laws were written. There are laws, of course, that forbid any outright deception and those are written for us; the majority; the pawns ... the conditioned. We now expect the fine print to be bad news, we expect to have our interest rate to increase, sometimes without notice and we're all used to "hidden" charges now. We expect to be ripped off. We expect that the people responsible for atrocities like oil spills and economy crashes will escape unscathed and with their money because, well, they have most of it and just trade it amongst themselves. Call me cynical. I call me conditioned.

Well, I may be conditioned but I'm pissed and now is the time for us to be heard. Occupy Savannah begins tomorrow.