Global Grind’s financial coach, Lynn Richardson, had an enlightening conversation with David DeGaw one week before the launch of Occupy the Dream and tells why we all need to Occupy the Dream on January 16, 2012.
GlobalGrind: David, what is Occupy Wall Street and what do you say to those naysayers who believe that everyone in the movement should just go out and get a job and change their financial situation?
David: Occupy Wall Street is hundreds of thousands, now millions of people fighting back against economic tyranny and defending their families and friends. The political and economic systems in America are severely broken. We have the most people living in poverty in American history. We have the most severe inequality of wealth in American history. Production and wealth creation has exploded and it’s all gone to the top one hundredth of one percent of the population. The four richest Americans have as much wealth as 450 million American’s combined. U.S. households currently have 46 trillion dollars of wealth. So the Occupy Wall Street movement is people standing up for themselves against a government that is no longer representing the 99%.
There are some who want to tell the people in this movement to just go out and get a job or somehow change their situation. First, the people who say that are living in a bubble reality where they don’t understand the scope of the crisis. The people who are working in this movement are some of the hardest working people I have ever worked with and I’ve worked for some of the top corporations in the world in my career. These are people who have sent out thousands of resumes, they have been bankrupted by medical bills, they have masters degrees and hundreds of thousands of dollars of student loan debt and they have still don’t have jobs or they are working at Starbucks.
We are fighting a nonviolent war and we need everyone to join us by visiting their local federal reserve bank on Monday January 16th.
