[ranxer]

hmm, so perndog, you think the government is listening to the people at all? you think they will somehow just decide to listen at somepoint after every protester refuses to show up at thier closed door meetings?

i for one, as many of those at the protests, believe in a democracy where the votes count, some are saying that the next presidential election will be even more a fraud than the last.. we'll see.

and as one of the protest supporters, i vote in local and national elections, write the paper occasionally, write my congresspeople, and sometimes weigh in at local debates.. but my voice as many others are drowned out literally by stacks of money. if you try hard enough you find that there is a brick wall (of money) that a citizen runs into.. so really the protests where they wall off the private meeting that is discussing public policy is a symbol of what is going on with our government. and it's simply unacceptable.