The Occupy Movement
Image by SEIU International via Flickr Several years ago, when the economy began its spiral downward, I predicted that there would come a tipping point when the middle class would rise up and revolt. The past few weeks have fulfilled that prediction as a small group of protesters staged an occupation on Wall Street. Today, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has inspired protests across the country and around the world. Why are these protests spreading like wildfire? Mainly, it is because 99% of the world is fed up with the 1% who are making huge sums of money, yet not paying their fair share. Here in the states, we have a Congress made up of a huge percentage of the 1%. In fact, there seems to be more millionaires in Congress now, than ever in history. Unfortunately, the 1% has forgotten that history repeats itself. They really need to take a crash course in American and World history...especially focusing on the happenings during the...