A dot being the only thing in a post is hardly appropriate for a section outside of Bean Rua.
Care to clarify then, if you're so frustrated?
It would be way more if every homeless man was given somewhere to live and three meals a day.
And I don't actually know what Medicaid is. Is that an American thing? Canadians just pay everyone's health bill through taxes.
A dot being the only thing in a post is hardly appropriate for a section outside of Bean Rua.
Care to clarify then, if you're so frustrated?
Sadly, this isn't an ideal world, and if we're making sure everyone doesn't have to worry about food, shelter, and clothing, that's more government agencies that have to be created, more chances for government officials to abuse their position, more opportunities for people to exploit loopholes, and more money for taxpayers to dish out. There have been government housing projects to provide cheap housing, but most haven't turned out well; you might have heard about what happened in one of them from the "Bed Intruder" song. I feel that what the "We are the 99%" movement's main goal should be is increasing political awareness and brainstorming what potential laws could be drawn up. While the protesters are upset, it seems to me that many of them choose to remain apathetic about the workings of the government and want the politicians to pass a bill fixing their problems without understanding the process. These politicians aren't likely to care about making things better unless the American public is fully aware of what's going on and the protesters are better organized, because blocking off Wall Street doesn't solve a thing. Putting information about the offending laws and how they should be changed in the "We are the 99%" tumblr posts would be a constructive start.
I agree, with the latter part of your post. They're just somewhat unorganized at the moment, they are slowly reaching a unified way of conducting things. Although, I never expected the "We are the 99%" tumblr website to provide much in information; I saw it in more of a way that brings attention the the poor practices and whatnot that the government and huge corporations are committing and blatantly overlooking. Then, by bringing attention to it, people themselves can investigate it further if they please. With most people if you just come to a website full of a bunch of text and information, it will probably pique your interest less than those pictures.
They are somewhat disorganized at the moment, but that is to be expected, most 'protests' start out rather sporadic and then start garnering support from others, and as they join the 'movement' the unified goal presents itself and a clarified set of things can be presented to everyone.
There is just too many protesting groups that have the same ideology that have yet to band together as one, so I'm sure the information you're calling for is out there, but is it attributed to the whole movement yet? Probably not.
Because of that, we have angry, but still uninformed masses. There's no reason that you can't put both shock pictures and relevant information side-by-side.
Never heard of protests that start out like that. All of the major ones I've heard of had a goal to achieve and worked from there. I'm not confident Occupy Wall Street will yield any results, except more people arrested.
It should be. It's already been 18 days since Occupy Wall Street has started, and if I have to dig deep to find that information, that shows how disorganized this movement is. An angry mob can easily push someone out of power, like the protests in Egypt that inspired Occupy Wall Street, but that same mob would have a difficult time doing anything constructive.
Let me preface my response with saying thank you for actually reading my post, and not misinterpreting it to fit your response. I was getting tired of the posts in response to mine that blatantly disregarded what was actually in my post, it was rather confusing and worrisome.
I agree, entirely, though. The movement isn't organized well, at all, and because of that it's not having the intended impact. If it doesn't become more organized soon, it still may have an effect but not nearly on the scale it possibly could.
What I meant by most 'protests' start out rather sporadic is usually because they are a quick response to something and then support gets garnered. Groups with separate reasons for being there end up banding together because their unified goal has correlations to each of their individual reasons for partaking in protest.
Yeah, it has been quite a while since they began, but I think they are finally starting to put out the right information and organize themselves in a pragmatic and rational manner. I always check back to their website, and affiliated websites and they are beginning to mention the information people are wanting; who they are, what they are about, who has joined with them, etc. I still have a qualm with those sites, the intentions and what they are specifically protesting to achieve is still somewhat hard to ascertain, which, as you said, leads to misinformation. It's rather unfortunate with the amount of people they have, that they don't have a central, unified group delegating.
It's not perfect, and it probably won't ever be, but attention negative or positive gets people talking and trying to derive specific motives about the movement; I think that is better than nothing. I am for most of the ideology, but against how embarrassingly unorganized it is, to the point it isn't really constructive.
This reminds me of a question I wanted to ask.
Is the human brain made to not be able to comprehend or care too much about all the tragedies in the world to keep itself from going into a panic mode or becoming over-whelmed or depressed or something?