today we are awake and we have had enough

Virtually every government institution suffers from an inherent lack of accountability, whereas private enterprise cannot survive a hugh waste of money. Nothing prevents federal, state, and local government agencies from stumbling along in a loosely and inefficiently run system that has been plagued with problems for years. Private enterprises spend their own money within the constraints of a balance sheet. They are either efficient or they are finished. Not so with government agencies.

Inefficiency and waste are everywhere. The Post Office, railroads, solar projects, state governments and city governments and even banks are for the most part running on deficit spending. The list of failures grows as one after another defaults on payments, declares bankruptcy, or scrambles to find new sources of revenue to survive.

Unemployment and welfare are overtaxed by the unemployed or underemployed. Medicare and Medicaid are rife with fraud and over extended by too many qualified recipients as well.

The government agencies look to paternal government in Washington DC to bail them out of their difficulties. We citizens must declare bankruptcy, forego medical treatment or join the rest of the poor in inundating emergency rooms for our care, and we lose our homes to the very banks that were bailed out with our tax funds and we have nowhere to turn but to ourselves.

President Thomas Jefferson wrote many years ago, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be."

I believe what is happening today is a people waking up and refusing to live in ignorance, or refusing ignore what has been happening. It is time to reform government. It must be brought under control. It must behave responsibly to those who live and work or want to work and pay taxes and support a good nation with a good living standard.

Loose spending, bailing out those who have been gamboling and lost, is an action that cannot be supported. How did a corporation become a person? When did a business become too large to be allowed to fail? We the citizens have been sleeping and allowing things to happen without paying attention.

We have been foolish.

But today we are awake and we have had enough.

We are the 99%. We are those who are loosing jobs and homes and healthcare and we are uniting for the good of our nation and the survival of our people. Ignorance of what goes on has been allowed to destroy too much. We are no longer ignorant, nor ignoring, what our government is doing. That will not be the state of existence from now on. We are and will be free. We are willing, we are able, we are determined- we will be free. Our nation will again have jobs, an educated population, homes, the necessities of life for all, and we will pursue happiness wholeheartedly.