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To: koan who wrote (174378)	10/22/2011 10:13:40 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541695

"I had forgotten the cuts to the poor. Hard to see how that was necessary?" The Obama tax cuts in Dec. whacked the budget, People weren't in the streets yet, so the dialogue was all "balance balance balance." When the people lead, the leaders will follow as fas as they can. Now Obama and Cantor want to talk about economic inequalities. Last month Cantor wanted hurricane victims to do without to protect the rich. Won' t change his vote, but it's changed what he says. I wonder if it has any effect on the budget supercommittee. Eliot Spitzer: Why Occupy Wall Street Has Already Won OWS brought the issues of equity, fairness, justice, income distribution, and accountability for the economic cataclysm front and center. October 15, 2011 Occupy Wall Street has already won, perhaps not the victory most of its participants want, but a momentous victory nonetheless. It has already altered our political debate, changed the agenda, shifted the discussion in newspapers, on cable TV, and even around the water cooler. And that is wonderful. Suddenly, the issues of equity, fairness, justice, income distribution, and accountability for the economic cataclysm–issues all but ignored for a generation—are front and center. We have moved beyond the one-dimensional conversation about how much and where to cut the deficit. Questions more central to the social fabric of our nation have returned to the heart of the political debate. By forcing this new discussion, OWS has made most of the other participants in our politics—who either didn’t want to have this conversation or weren’t able to make it happen—look pretty small. alternet.org