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212175
Tue, 10/11/2011 - 10:21
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Breeze of Arab Spring reaches Wall Street
TEHRAN, Oct.11 (MNA) -- Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election in the United States on campaign promises to concentrate more on the economy and the standard of living of U.S. citizens and to reduce the huge costs of the warmongering and security-oriented policies of the government.
However, after nearly three years, Obama’s economic goals have not been realized, while the people are facing a skyrocketing cost of living and the U.S. government is burdened by a massive amount of debt.
According to the latest polls, more than 70 percent of U.S. citizens are opposed to the policies adopted by Obama and his economic team at the White House, but that does not necessarily mean that they agree with the Republicans and their economic programs.
In fact, general disagreement with the institutionalized financial and economic mechanisms of the United States is the bedrock of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Governments in the U.S. should supposedly remain in power as long as they can serve the interests of the people. Otherwise, they will have no legitimacy to continue in office. However, with the current neoliberal approach to the economy, only a small segment of society, the very wealthy, is protected, and the rest of the people, especially the poor, have no voice in the government.
The current economic system of the United States favors wealthy capitalists, and most of the people, those who call themselves the 99 percent, do not enjoy the benefits of the wealth of the country.
This system is being harshly criticized by U.S. citizens across the country, regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans are in power. The Occupy Wall Street movement is actually questioning the legitimacy of the U.S. political system.
In other words, the protesters are not only dissatisfied with the situation; they are completely frustrated and feel that the bipartisan system leaves them no other option. The U.S. government once claimed it was nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan, but now their own nation is in trouble.
The tactics used by U.S. officials to repress the protests are always the same, and they cite the need to maintain security to justify their actions. They may be able to extinguish the flames of the protest over the short term, but U.S. citizens have begun to understand the true nature of capitalism and its impact on their lives.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has repeatedly warned Western officials about their oppression of their own citizens and declared that when people attain a certain level of consciousness, they can not remain silent and start to rebel against the establishment, like what happened in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, then in Europe, and finally in the United States.
Western governments expected the breeze of the MENA uprising to blow east, but the wind took another direction and blew west.
The protesters in New York have compared Wall Street to Cairo’s Tahrir Square. This indicates that U.S. citizens are waiting to feel the gentle breeze of the Arab Spring on their faces, like their fellow protesters in Cairo and other cities of the Arab world.
However, after nearly three years, Obama’s economic goals have not been realized, while the people are facing a skyrocketing cost of living and the U.S. government is burdened by a massive amount of debt.
According to the latest polls, more than 70 percent of U.S. citizens are opposed to the policies adopted by Obama and his economic team at the White House, but that does not necessarily mean that they agree with the Republicans and their economic programs.
In fact, general disagreement with the institutionalized financial and economic mechanisms of the United States is the bedrock of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Governments in the U.S. should supposedly remain in power as long as they can serve the interests of the people. Otherwise, they will have no legitimacy to continue in office. However, with the current neoliberal approach to the economy, only a small segment of society, the very wealthy, is protected, and the rest of the people, especially the poor, have no voice in the government.
The current economic system of the United States favors wealthy capitalists, and most of the people, those who call themselves the 99 percent, do not enjoy the benefits of the wealth of the country.
This system is being harshly criticized by U.S. citizens across the country, regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans are in power. The Occupy Wall Street movement is actually questioning the legitimacy of the U.S. political system.
In other words, the protesters are not only dissatisfied with the situation; they are completely frustrated and feel that the bipartisan system leaves them no other option. The U.S. government once claimed it was nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan, but now their own nation is in trouble.
The tactics used by U.S. officials to repress the protests are always the same, and they cite the need to maintain security to justify their actions. They may be able to extinguish the flames of the protest over the short term, but U.S. citizens have begun to understand the true nature of capitalism and its impact on their lives.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has repeatedly warned Western officials about their oppression of their own citizens and declared that when people attain a certain level of consciousness, they can not remain silent and start to rebel against the establishment, like what happened in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, then in Europe, and finally in the United States.
Western governments expected the breeze of the MENA uprising to blow east, but the wind took another direction and blew west.
The protesters in New York have compared Wall Street to Cairo’s Tahrir Square. This indicates that U.S. citizens are waiting to feel the gentle breeze of the Arab Spring on their faces, like their fellow protesters in Cairo and other cities of the Arab world.
