The quoted words are by Barbara Ehrenreich, whose first book was in 2001, 'Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America.'
Huffpo published the same story as the Guardian, although I would submit that homelessness is not BECOMING an Occupy issue.
It is THE issue. Who owns this planet? Living things or dead things?:
Throw Them Out With the Trash
Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue
'...What occupiers from all walks of life are discovering, at least every time they contemplate taking a leak, is that to be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born “illegals,” facing prohibitions on the most basic activities of survival. They are not supposed to soil public space with their urine, their feces, or their exhausted bodies. Nor are they supposed to spoil the landscape with their unusual wardrobe choices or body odors. They are, in fact, supposed to die, and preferably to do so without leaving a corpse for the dwindling public sector to transport, process, and burn...'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-ehrenreich/throw-them-out-with-the-t_b_1028715.htmlAnd again:
Nickel and Dimed (2011 Version):
On Turning Poverty into an American Crime
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-ehrenreich/nickel-and-dimed-2011-ver_b_922330.htmlI would suppose that the first article explains what our current plutocracy thinks of the poor, those who followed the rules and still lost at the rigged game.
They should die, and 'reduce the surplus population,' as Scrooge said; they are 'parasites' and it would be doing a service to the new
Supermen to eliminate them, as Ayn Rand, the tea party goddess proclaimed; or they are nothing but 'worthless mouths,' as the Nazis described those who were unfit for military duty.
In other words, if you lose your worth to the machine that is in the elite's possession, kindly stop *occupying* space on *their* planet.
It's been a long time coming, to try to get past all the divisions and distractions that the one-percent owned media offers, to ask some basic questions, which the OWS is asking, about the nature of life and reality itself. Why should a person be molested by other people who are paid to bother them for money, to enforce the limits of where they can breathe? Thomas Paine addressed most of this in Agrarian Justice. I'm pretty sure that OWS knows that work.
And whether we believe or not in he story of Jesus, he was an example of what happens for going against the powerful in the religious and secular powers. Personally, I like this narrative from OWS better than anything the desert religions or philosophies offer as a way to prove a few things:
That we are all one; that we are all equal; that it's about this life, this moment in time and space that we all have been so eager to share. Not about money, ego, nations or power. There is a river in the world's consciousness that goes beyond the physical. But we have created this system, mostly out of ignorance and blinders. The ignorance is hatred and the blinder is fear. That is why the 1% had to get control of all institutions and the media to keep their power.
The causes of homelessness, division and strife worldwide that this corrupted system feeds upon are listed prominently in the OWS's September 28th document generated by the General Assembly, otherwise called, the Declaration of the Occupation of NYC.
Wall Street is indeed War Street and the source of much of the misery on this planet. It's our duty as Americans to change this.
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