Finally, a few clear answers, lets break them down (of course after I break them down, someone from Occupy will contact me saying he doesn't speak for the movement, which is just becoming a terribly convenient defense anytime anyone questions anything happening with the Occupiers).
1. Everyone is against the income inequality - Ok, what do you propose? I'll tell you what's not closing the gap, at least in Boston anyway, is camping out in tents. I'm not sure that your level of income has risen comparably to executives in the last month...typically jobs and further education help here (ok that was totally snarky, I know. I'm for finding a solution to this actually, but just repeatedly saying it, isn't helping, do you have any proposals? Proposals that'll be taken seriously by mainstream America, not the media, but regular American folks? You've been camping out operating a think tank for a month now, you should have a proposal).
2. Regulating Wall Street - Ok...First, Wall Street is under far stricter regulations than they were three years ago...Secondly, they're not going to self regulate themselves, nor do you want them to...You're kinda protesting in the wrong place if that's the goal, maybe you want to try the state house or the Capitol Building.
3. Punish Wall Street Execs - For what? I'm on the record as hating that execs at bailed out companies profited from their bail out, so don't get me wrong here, I realize some shady underhanded business went on here, but the problem is, there was no law against it. The bailout was run horribly by your government, again this is something to bring to Capitol Hill...You're not going to retroactively punish execs for gaming a system that was theirs for the taking. Was it greedy of them to take advantage? Obviously. Would I have done the same thing? Absolutely.
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