"As long as you receive money from banks and corporations, you are allied with the banks," one person shouted at the Los Angeles City Council.
Then that would include every small business and local citizen taking out a loan to buy a car, a home, or make another major investment. Will the Occupy Wall Street crowd begin demonizing the same working and middle class crowd that is the engine of economic growth?
Regarding the releasing loans and the real estate bubble that burst and busted many incomes and broke many lives, rather than demonstrating in front of banks, why not crowd in Washington D.C.? How about picketing in front of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, or storming the office and holding those irresponsible bureaucrats hostage? Why not egg Congressman Barney Frank's house or block former Senator Chris Dodd's driveway? Their regulatory schemes and lack of oversight helped create the housing bubble that burst and broke a lot of people.
The ire of the working classes and Middle America is understandable, but they must articulate a coherent message of protect with a plan of action; above all, they need to start laying blame where blame is due.
If nothing else, the Occupy Los Angeles cohorts must coalesce behind political candidates (Democrat or Republican) who promise to cut subsidies to government agencies which played fast and loose with taxpayer money. Big Government, from Washington D.C to the City of Angeles, has wasted untold billions on empty political schemes to make some rich or to make everyone more equal, all of which has ended up impoverishing individuals, cities, and even state governments.
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