Gleno, The lowest income class of people, the ones with nothing to lose are the first to rise up. Only if things get real bad will the masses join in. This is the OWS movement now.
100 million Americans now live at or close to the poverty level, making just enough to survive and qualify for some form of aid. Only 47% of Americans make enough to pay income taxes. $45 billion a month is shipped offshore that becomes profit to corporations after paying slave labor wages to China's workers.
I don't think any republic or democrate voted for this. Which means they were lied to by their senators and congress when the bills were passed that caused this.
Jefferson was perhaps the wisest man who ever spoke. I'll leave you with his words of warning 200 years ago. He warned we didn't listen.
under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep. I do not exaggerate. This is a true picture of Europe. Cherish therefore the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, judges and governors shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions; and experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
