On the Occupy Wall St. Protests #OWS

I don't understand the logic behind wanting a group of people who don't specialize in economics or government policies to come up with a cohesive stand alone message for what they want changed.

It's clear the biggest idea they all seem to share is

• A.) The majority of the country's wealth lay in the hands of too few people.

• B.) Those people are using that money to buy politicians, and there needs to be new laws and policies to stop it from happening.

• C.) More and more people are in debt, and unemployed every single day, and they need a better exit strategy than "You shouldn't have done this, or that, and you should have done this. I do this, and I'm fine."

It's not up to people who don't specialize in creating laws to write one. The demands are there, politicians need to stop screwing around talking about how they don't know what's going on, and start formulating plans. If you're a congressmen, or anything with very good knowledge about politics don't wait around until these people start throwing trashcans in windows out of frustration so you can just discredit the entire thing. Come up with an idea, give it to the public, and keep doing that until a compromise is met.

That's how a government is supposed to work. Not fucking around looking for sound bites of the people who don't know what they're talking about, so you can continue to not care about how you're ruining the country.

Edit: You know, if there is so much general dissatisfaction in the country that nobody can get behind one single message, maybe there is a far bigger underlying problem. I don't think so many people being outraged at so many different things is a bad thing for a movement, it's a wake up call for the entire system.

Another edit: I think the whole 99% vs. 1% slogan (while catchy) is detrimental to the cause. It's not the doctor that is making 450k a year who is the bad guy in this situation. The entire 1% isn't a problem, the problem is the fact that these people are in the 1%. When you think 1% of the population you think billionaires, but that's not who makes up the 1% anymore. That's how uneven the wealth distribution is now. The .1% are the people who are corrupting politics, not the lawyers, and doctors, and the guy who owns 7 burger kings.

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