Occupy Kingwood week 16 was successful and continuing. We had a very good turnout; from the very young to the more mature. In fact the donuts were mostly gone by the middle of the event.
What I love about having a sustainable weekly short Occupy is that we get a perfect rotating participating group of Kingwood area neighbors. Most importantly they are all knowledgeable on all things political and economic including the real cause of our unemployment morass and our income and wealth disparity.
We had as usual a mostly positive response from our neighbors. There was however an engineer that was extremely upset simply at the sight of us. He was engage respectfully and peacefully by several of us.
One of his first comments was that we needed to stop being losers and get a job. Our Occupiers comprise several successful business owners, engineers, several professors with doctorate degrees, pre-med students, homemakers by choice, students aiming to improve their lives, and a myriad of other professions.
Our disgruntle engineer demonstrates that when one relegates their minds to Right Wing media like Fox News and Talk Radio, it short circuits mental function. As an engineer myself, I know engineers are taught advanced math and logical reasoning. Our current brand of Republicanism and their policies are mutually exclusive from learned engineering thinking.
It pains me when I see the disregard some professionals show for their fellow citizens. They more so than others should understand that the mosaic of America depends on many professions, low paid and high paid. We should however demand that every citizen at least makes a minimum wage and has affordable healthcare at their disposal. Every citizen is worthy of a decent life. No citizen is inherently better than any other. That is having real morality.
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