Why is it so hard to understand for cons to understand the Occupy Wall St movement?

They want economic justice. Which means we stop policies that make the rich get richer while eliminating the middle class and making everyone else the poverty class. What caused this is the economic meltdown due to Bush's policies, the lack of jobs, and the republicans who keep insisting that we all pay our fair share, but who insist the rich don't need to pay any share.

They talk about "rich" school teachers, but insist millionaires are struggling. It's also against the corporatocracy that is currently running this country. It's not just about capital gains.

The rich have all kinds of loopholes to get around taxes and so pay very little. They are also running the country, so government programs that help them (regardless of cost) are kept intact, but programs designed to help the poor, the schools, the rest of us, are cut with callous disregard of the consequences. Russell is very mistaken.

It's not about socialism, it's about fairness. The vast majority of Americans agree that the rich should pay more in taxes. He also forgets that the rich got that way on the backs of the rest of us - either through low wages, no benefits, and our buying their products and services.

They aren't lazy. They are hard working people who are tried of all their money going to support the incredibly wealthy. Since Obama came into office, corporate profits are at an all time high, as are corporate salaries and bonuses.

Meanwhile, working wages and benefits keep falling and the companies making these massive profits are not hiring any one, even though there is work.

It is mostly a contingent of left leaning students and other socialist oriented groups that feel the world owe them wealth. They honestly believe that they represent 99% of the population in spite of overwhelming evidence that they likely represent less than 30%. They have the chutzpah to demand that I pay them out of the fruits of my hard work.

That is pretty much what gangsters ask for when they demand protection money. A very sad, ignorant lot, all-in-all added: Allow me to rebut Librayria. Fairness IS a socialist tenet, and seeks to redistribute the wealth to the people.

Noble, but totally unworkable as the collapse of the Soviet Union will attest to. The simple truth is that the supposed 99 percenters are ignoramuses and tools, products of the left wing madrassas called public schools. The banks aren’t their enemy … they are their own enemy.

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