#OccupyDigest - Op-Ed - We are ALL Homeless...

By Mitakuye Oyasin - DJRaspy.com

I would like to share a story with you all...

I was at work last night, and there's been this old guy hanging around there. He's got to be at least 60, maybe even in his 70's. Because of his situation in life, it's kind of hard to tell his actual age. His circumstances have probably aged him quite a bit. You TOO could be a winner in the "Lose it all" Sweepstakes. Be kind, if you ever want anyone to be kind to you.

I saw him sitting there on the bench in the room with the pool tables, with several plastic shopping bags sitting next to him. Whenever he would get up and move, his bags would always go with him. And well they should, for though I am far too polite to have ever peeked into them, I am almost certain that I know what was in them. Those bags likely contained everything that the aged gentleman owned...

You see, the Gentleman of which I speak is homeless, one of the many, many people in this country that are, every year, forced by economic circumstances into that lamentable lot in life. As the few rich that are left get richer, and the billions of poor get poorer, and the middle class is completely wiped out by Laws and Codes, international and national, that are designed to help only a small segment of the population to prosper, while the rest are largely abandoned by the State...there are so many, so very many like the Gentleman of which I speak. So many that perhaps, at times, they almost seem invisible...

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#OccupyDigest - Op-Ed - Why am I Angry?

By Mitakuye Oyasin - DJRaspy.com

I get angry, sometimes. I get really, really angry about the way the world is. And the world..or at least those of you in the world who have any interaction with me...you know it. 

Why am I angry? Am I angry at the Bankers in particular? No. They were born into a society that is set up like a Game. They learned to play the game, and play it very well, and they won the game, or so it would seem.Here in the States, we consider ourselves lucky if we can make rent for the month. In other parts of the world, they consider themselves lucky if they can make supper for the month. Are we proud of Hierarchy and Inequality now?

Am I angry at the Governments of the World? No. They were born into a society that feels it needs them, and they were elected to office to do what Governments do.

Am I angry at Corporations? No. Just like anyone else in the world, the CEO's and the Board of Directors and the shareholders didn't make the world. They just live in it, and play according to the rules we've set up over the past 10000 years.

Am I angry at the Police of the world, the Armies of the world? No. They were born into a society which requires their services...a society that demands that some humans deprive other humans of their lives or their property or their virtue, while that same society demands that other humans deprive their fellow humans of their lives or their freedom. The Police and the Soldiers of the world, they didn't make the world either. They just try to live in it.

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