Cookie Monster Explains OWS

Yes, there always going to be rich and poor. But we used to live in country where rich owned factory and make 30 times what factory worker make. Now we live in country where rich make money by lying about value of derivative bonds and make 3000 times what factory worker would make if factories hadn't all moved to China.

Capitalism great system. We won Cold War because people behind Iron Curtain look over wall, and see how much more plentiful and delicious cookies are in West, and how we have choice of different bakeries, not just state-owned one. It great system. It got us out of Depression, won WWII, built middle class, built country's infrastructure from highways to Hoover Dam to Oreo factory to electrifying rural South. It system that reward hard work and fair play, and everyone do fair share and everyone benefit. Rich get richer, poor get richer, everyone happy. It great system.

Then after Reagan, Republicans decide to make number one priority destroying that system. Now we have system where richest Americans ones who find ways to game system -- your friends on Wall Street -- and poorest Americans ones who thought working hard would get them American dream, when in fact it get them pink slip when job outsourced to 10-year-old in Mumbai slum. And corporations have more influence over government than people (or monsters).

It not about rich people having more money. It about how they got money. It about how they take opportunity away from rest of us, for sake of having more money. It how they willing to take risks that destroy economy -- knowing full well that what could and would happen -- putting millions out of work, while creating nothing of value, and all the while crowing that they John Galt, creating wealth for everyone.

That what the soul-searching about. When Liberals run country for 30 years following New Deal, American economy double in size, and wages double along with it. That fair. When Conservatives run country for 30 years following Reagan, American economy double again, and wages stay flat. What happen to our share of money? All of it go to richest 1%. That not "there always going to be rich people". That unfair system. That why we upset. That what Occupy Sesame Street about.

See the original comment here.

(There's also a great Cookie Monster follow up, in which he says "In theory, this country a democracy, where everyone who share resources also have say in how resources used. In practice, ordinary monster have very little say, and super-rich basically do whatever they want and make government do whatever they want.")

 

Shared from:  http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/10/guy_called_cookie_monster_offe.php

 

Comments

[CindyCindy]

Thank you for sharing, Norma. And, Amen, Cookie Monster!!

[Garret]

Exactly, someone who finally gave us the truth without sugar coating it. (no pun intended)

[Becky]

Thanks, Norma! I think this is a very clear explanation of what everyone should be concerned about these days. I still cannot wrap my head around middle class folks who support the Republicans, I just can't!

[Barbara M.]

WooHoo! Cookie Monster have very good sense of reality, although grammar a little weak!

Thanks for sharing, Norma. I'm with Cookie, all the way. This is the first time I've wished I were back in NJ where I could get in to Zuccotti Park to join the crowd. NH is a little too for to commute, and I understand camping is now a little tricky.

Hope Mr. J is less odoriferous today.

[ruth]

Cookie Monster is one smart cookie. What kills me is those folks who vote Republican against their own self interest. Toss a little religion or a few gays into the mix, and these dummies get hysterical and vote for the conservative Conservatives. Ick!

[Seanna Lea]

I made the mistake of reading all of the comments on the original link, and it was mind bending. People seem unwilling to meet in a middle ground and agree to at least disagree on what caused the mess. It is more important now to fix things than to argue over which side was more at fault.

[Milla]

Everything is broken. Maybe it can be fixed. There is only one political party controlled by corporate "persons." Jeez, Norma, I wish I had your courage. I respect your bravery and your intelligence.

[Dorothy]

Thank you, Norma!!!

[Kelly]

Well well said!!

[Carrie#K]

While the Cookie Monster has really good points about lying about the value of derivatives and the INSANE gap between workers and owners, the US got a bit of a boost thirty years after the New Deal by not having to rebuild our infrastructure after two world wars flattened Europe and technology is replacing many jobs today.

But yes. It's crazy now and something needs to be done.