It’s hard to imagine getting up from the couch and stepping away from the television, but it’s time for an American revolution.

The audaciously wealthy few who have recklessly driven the planet into a brick wall are stealing total control for their corporations. Just dig around on the Internet for ten hours and find the news from Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.

Despite the fact that 100,000 protesters supported by police and fire departments filled the state capital building, and fourteen senators were purposely absent, Wisconsin Republicans jammed a bill through that takes away collective bargaining and organizational rights of the state’s public employee union.

In Michigan, lawmakers are expecting approval of a financial manager bill that allows corporate run emergency financial managers to break union contracts and fire elected county officials at will. Thousands of people have taken over the state building in Lansing, chanting, “Kill the bill.”

There are similar scenes being played out in many other states, like Indiana and Ohio.

But it’s not just these desperate grabs for power that has hundreds of thousands of people sleeping inside of state building rotundas all over the Midwest; students of all ages have concerns too.

Huge cuts in education dramatically threaten the future of the youth all over the nation, which is why since February students in Wisconsin have been staging mass walkouts. On March 11 high school students walked from Milwaukee to Madison in support of union rights and to express their concerns about education.

Everyone is supposed to believe that this chaos is a result of a broke nation. There just isn’t enough money because of war debt and a faltering economy, so there must be drastic action to save it all.

Yeah, right.

That would be easier to swallow if for the last few years, while everyone else were losing their properties and jobs, the richest corporations and people weren’t reporting record profits.

As Michael Moore pointed out to a passionate crowd in Madison, the Forbes 400’s total net worth is more than half of the U.S.’s households combined.

And according to the New York Times, in November 2010 American companies reported their best years ever.

It’s obvious that mega-corporations that don’t care about the health or the well being of anyone but their elite shareholders are getting rich and powerful from debt driven systems.

Also, this system drives insatiable consumerism that is destroying the environment. The pollutants, dispersants, and emissions that are obviously destroying what could have been a Garden of Eden might have been actually handled decently if the responsible corporations hadn’t worked  diligently with public relations to hide the issues.

Why should we trust these people? How can anyone be content in this climate of blatant corruption?

Now imagine what it would be like if young people who cared about each other and the future managed resources responsibly.

Everyone needs to stand up and demand and end to the tyrannical rule of the rich.

Democracy Now reported via the radio that there are serious talks of a general strike throughout the Midwest, which will hopefully become nationwide.

That must be for the people who have jobs. The rest of the Americans who aren’t in school and don’t have jobs should go to their Capitols and drive these people out.

Why not? Egypt just did it.