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What little I have seen of this on the news has been more along these lines than the more specific and realistic aims you mention.Those sound similar to the sort of thing UK Uncut has campaigned for here in the UK.

What about the legal actions he's already supported?Or were you talking about criminal prosecutions? It turns out, in fact, that it's actually not against the law to destroy the American economy.

My point was more about what youth ignited protest will acheive rather than about the specifics of the Wall Street protests themselves.But from what I gathered out there, there is no collective agenda. Yes, by tweeting how shitty capitalim is from their iPhone's and Androids, while blogging about it on their Macs and recording the protest from their Sony cameras to then upload on Youtube. The aim isn't to overthrow capitalism, its to try and stop what lead to and the post affects of the bailout/banking mess. That's what I think it's about at least, if I was to try and come up with some kind of collective opinon. There was plenty of weed and whitty banners at Vietnam protests, and those had some rather good effects.It's like this, baseball is a fun game and a great show of athletic ability in human beings that should be recognized and valued, but no ones sitting through nine innings of it without a beer.You can't rally and protest against corrupt bankers without weed, no ones going to hang out with you in protest. Duh - Oni

More Wall Street protesters have been arrested so far in Wall Street than anyone else! A few slaps on the wrist fail to convince me that any real action has been taken.- Oni

The media coverage of it has been, as usual, sensationalised I think.To be honest, most people I've seen interviewed have said 'I don't know, but something needs to change', a fair number mutter something about capital gains taxes and all of them seem generally unhappy about the unregulated gambling with pension funds that has occurred.Edited by Modulous, : No reason given.

By Obama?

By Yo-Mama- Oni

Touche!

Well that seems fair enough. I guess the chant:WHAT DO WE WANT - Better regulated pension funds and more fiscal responsibility shown by bankers.
WHEN DO WE WANT IT - NOW!!!!Just isn't snappy enough to get that point across in the average news bulletin.

What are they going to demand of their congressman, being most of them have no idea what they are protesting about, relative to Wall Street?Wall street is where millions of stock holding Americans who's stock dividends and earned income pays for the I-pads, the cell phones, the cigarettes, the beer, the bread, the pizza, etc that these non working sheeple buy with the tax money levied on the rich, the entrepreneurs, the corporate employees, etc.While these non-tax paying idle (many of whom are rag tag) routy mobs are on the streets, (abe: biting) the hands that feed them, the one's feeding them are working ever harder to pay the increased taxes levied on them to pay for the 2 years unemployment, etc. The idle loud mouthed mobs are demanding the blessings of America without assuming the responsibilities.If they contact their congressman, they should advise him/her that they are willing to give up their techy stuff, food, trucking companies that truck the stuff, motorcycles, autos and all else that Wallstreet affords them. Edited by Buzsaw, : No reason given.

Wall Street "affords" no one but the people that are actually working on Wall Street.It's time to return to a Progressive tax structure and a Progressive Inheritance Tax.

This whole discussion is ideologically driven. I think it is good to stand back and look at some simple truths. Frankly I believe in capitalism but capitalism like any other system requires integrity. The banks, particularly in the US, have acted not only without integrity but fraudulently.They loaned money out to hapless citizens, (in many cases knowing that when the sub-prime mortgage expired they would be unable to pay it back), then packaged up these loans and sold them to other financial institutions as blue chip loans.When everything blew up in their faces they then went cap in hand to the same citizens they had mistreated to bail them out of their financial difficulties. The government representing these people had no real choice but to pony up in response to this blackmail as the economic downside was intolerable. While all this is going on, those financiers that were responsible for these reprehensible policies kept raking in salaries and bonuses that are beyond what 99.9% of us can imagine.I think what the people in the street are asking for is that their government do something or anything that brings integrity and justice to financial institutions.What else can people do to draw attention to the situation? At least in Canada we had some regulation when it came to our banks and as a result we have what has been noted as the strongest banking system in the world. We did not even come close to having one of our banks fail.As I said it all comes down to integrity and it seems to be in short supply.

For starters, that Wall Street shouldn't get a second chance at destroying capitalism. Taxes have been cut, Buz. They are lower. Wall Street doesn't make any of those things. What they made was economic chaos. What they made was unemployment for the people whom you despise for being unemployed. If you hate the poor so much, couldn't you spare a little of that hatred for the people who made them poor?

Actually, they made the people who had fucking jobs unemployed. Those aren't the one's Buz hates. Buz hates the one's that were always unemployed. Mainly minorities.- Oni

Explain the effective difference between the OWS protests and the initial TP protests, other than one has been labeled conservative/republican (and worn that label like a shining star) and the other labeled (by people like you) as liberal/democrat (and has actually spoken for the 99%).