End corporate personhood! I believe that is what is at the root of the disease in our financial systems and with capitalism in general. When corporations and businesses won the same rights that an individual has in this country, the balance was suddenly shifted in favor of big business. Individual rights are what this country was founded on! No taxation without representation. But in this world where big business has taken over running our government from behind the scenes with their lobbyists and contrubutions to politicians and campaigns they sponsor in every election cycle with their deep pockets - guess what? That's exactly where we are-again-full circle. Big business controls the government and decides who gets elected, what laws get passed and on and on...Bottom line - we (the american people) are totally out gunned because they are taking all our money and using it against us. The Republicans want to talk about how higher taxes for the wealthy amounts to a transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor. What to you think just happened? A transfer of wealth - from the poor to the rich!
I am all for Occupy and the message it is sending. Protest, March, shut down the Banks, move all your money to a credit union (had all my 4 with them for 20+ years) - BUT NO VIOLENCE!!! Self defense is ok, but why damage small businesses that are innicent or cause people to be injured - it is not necessary and it discredits the movement. Kudos to all the occupiers who are putting their lives on hold and their comfort level aside to get the message across!