Where's that curative monet, dude?

OCCUPY is now the 2011 Word Of the Year, Protestors the People of the Year on the cover of TIME.

I've heard Occupy used on TV as a synonym for Change, but notwithstanding, have things changed?

Yes; the banks (esp, Bank of America) are quite frightened...running full- page ads in the largest papers here (San Jose MERCURY-NEWS, S.F. CHRONICLE) ) about all the community & small-biz.programs (they call them 'products') they offer, are engaged in, etc., while houses are simultaneously being taken over by banks, mortgages going 'underwater'.

It's as though we all admit The (Economic) System is unfair & misshapen, but we do not dare to really change it that radically...yet.

Ditto The Tea Party...which has terrorized new Republican political candidates to go far anti-tax right, but the consequences are starting to scare even those new TP-loyalists.

There used to be a saying 'fat, dumb & happy' about Americans...said by the far-right, meaning not hard enough on Russian communism. I have not heard those words used since the Soviet Union collapse, (Why don't they apply to Vietnam, Red China?) & they certainly don't describe Americans any more in any way.

The fact that The Rich are being thought about unfavorably is a big change over the last 20yrs. when many aspired to become rich by 'flipping' far-overpriced houses. (I've described being a real estate millionaire as not being a real millionaire.) My point: calling things something & doing something practical about them require 2 different levels & types of awareness/action.

The Occupation talks the economic talk & walks the symbolic walk (via its via dolorosa) . For that we need them desperatey, but with a bit less suffering on their part this Winter, please. Can we stand seeing them beaten & evicted? A dying generatiojn of Americans saw this in the Great Depression but don't want to see this happening again in this Great Recession. Do we of the War-baby or Baby-Boomer generations? Most people still believe that enough money fixes everything. The Tea-Party adamantly opposes that, but the Occuparion movement believes that money, when shifted, will. Where's that curative money, dude?