Economic Emergency for the 99%

[babsbunny]

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On November 17th we will declare an Economic Emergency for the 99%. People will gather at structurally unsound bridges and other infrastructure sites to demand that America be put back to work now. We will call on Congress to create jobs, stop cuts, and make Wall Street pay.

[Newest Reality]

1. Yes!

Economic emergency is right on spot! Declaring it so cuts through the rancid butter the media paints on the rotting corpse of an economic system we are living with.

The decay may be long and slow, but just how many people need to experience the long list of suffering, loss, displacement, homelessness, lack of dental and health care, insecurity, injustice, and the plethora of other grievous deprivations that are befalling vast numbers of us here, and of course, around the world?

Is there some sort of threshold to wait for, or do we start now to consider just how badly the after-effects will affect the quality and nature of the lives of all of us as this oppressive onslaught of greed and gross inequity continues to spread like a plague across the world.

Really. The more poverty and homelessness we accept and allow, the more vectors for illness with little prevention you will have. There are so many negative factors that we will reap from crime to increased mental illness, not to mention the results of the trauma and malnutrition that will have an impact on the development of a quarter of our children living in poverty right now.

This is no way to expect a better future for ourselves, (no matter how well we might be doing) when the conditions being created and allowed continue to degrade the quality of life for so many and decay the fabric of communities. You don't go forward with optimism when we cannot open compassionately to the whole of us as we are.