I fully support the movement of Occupy Wall Street and related “occupy” gatherings around the nation.
The financial elite have been harming our economy in serious ways over many years. These financial elitists get wealthy at the expense of the people, and the nation.
These elitists obtain their wealth not through hard work over a period of years, but through repeated criminal and unethical behavior.
These financial elitists never face the consequences of their actions. They rarely pay for their crimes. In fact, they are often rewarded and praised.
The people have known about the problem for decades, yet only now is there a movement which has taken hold.
A common criticism of the movement (again by those in political and financial power) is that the people of the movement do not know what they are protesting. I counter that criticism: Yes the people DO know what they are protesting. They can’t always articulate it, they might not have the facts at their fingertips, but they know.
The people of this movement are protesting the repeated criminal acts and unethical behavior of the financial elite. These actions have destroyed successful businesses, depleted communities, stolen investors money, and worsened the financial state of millions of Americans. These actions have gone unpunished, even rewarded and praised. This is what the Occupy Wall Street movement is protesting.
And I fully support it.
However, in order to aid the movement, researchers and civic activists must help the people articulate the problem. We must gather examples of the criminal acts and unethical behavior of the financial elite. We must show the laws written by the elite for the elite, and the criminal acts unpunished by the government. We must take back our government and our finances from the criminals who are the financial elite.
