Occupy Wall Street: Obama's Job Bill

In a dynamic article from author, Stephen Schlesinger, at the Huffington Post, he alludes to the recent “occupy wall street” phenomena in emphasizing his point of a true progressive movement. He gives his personal experience and observation of the protesting taking place on the grounds of Zuccotti Park. Schlesinger elaborates on the diversity of the people and the wide expanse of backgrounds and jobs they originate from when detailing the scene of the protests. Examples of the broad types of people categorized range from “Socialists Worker Party” members to New York “policemen” and “media people.” The prefacing of the scene leads the author to his point of interests which is jobs, “jobs, jobs, jobs,” in the words of the author. He inferences criticism about how the Wall Street protestors are unsuccessfully and unproductively making their point. Schlesinger emphasizes how the main issue at hand of job opportunities is going neglected by the rebellious protestors. The author makes a strong point on how the picketers are refuting an institution without having a solution to the problem themselves. The inherent problem with this specific situation of protesting is that no fix is presented or even being searched for by the group. This problem exploited by the author gives a different perspective on the issue of how the protest is truly doing nothing effective in terms of what they are fighting for. Schlesinger then offers a pragmatic alternative for the protestors which is to support and fight for the new Jobs Bill by Obama which is actually making an attempt at mending the job market unlike the livid activists. The root problem revealed in the article is that the protestors are too stubborn and close-minded to give the Bill a chance of being enacted. He does not deny the potential effectiveness of Occupy Wall Street but he logically inputs his views on how it should and could be utilized to get their desires. The author’s intended audience that is implicitly conveyed in the article is to the protestors themselves. He avoids bashfulness in attempting to aid the cause of fighting for more and better jobs for America. The author’s credibility is mostly reliable in with exclusive evaluation of the article. He offers well suited evidence and logical arguments with regard to the issue at hand and how to achieve a lasting repair. The author’s uses of claims and warrant are very effective throughout the article but his evidence in terms of data lacks a bit. He does not give enough background information on the Jobs bill of Obama to receive full credibility and influential potential. Although the claims were very logical, I cannot completely agree with his full intent due to the absence of information concerning the job bill that he is promoting.