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Where do I stand on it?

I think the protests are all completely stupid. Trying to tell private businesses what to do with their money is ridiculous. That being said, I cannot stand the way the police are behaving. They are as much thugs (and more, often) as these protestors.

If you want a say on Wall Street, buy stock and vote. Show up, as a shareholder, at the shareholders meeting and be heard.

If you aren't a shareholder, you are in no position to gripe at the pay structure and money spent by a private business.

NOW, IF THE BUSINESS WAS BAILED OUT by the US Govt, I am ALL FOR the govt having control over spending of all forms until these businesses pay back every penny (in other words, basically never).

Nobody has ever been able to tell me how raising taxes on the rich will lower unemployment, raise home values, stabilize business. There simply is no link. Taking more money out of the hands of the employers, out of the accounts of business, will not create jobs or cause spending.

This country collapsed on two major things:

1) The crash of too many banks and 2) The failure of the US auto industry.

The banks mostly failed as they were forced by legislation (Dodd/Frank) to loan money to people who couldn't afford the notes. When the loans ceased being paid and the real estate market collapsed (no homes selling, tons of negative equity), the banks collapsed.

The big three failed (two heavily failed) due to the employees taking far more money out of the businesses than was coming in as profits. This situation was caused by expensive union contracts that were forced through under threat of strike many times over many decades.

Ask yourself this: Which party controlled the banking laws from 2001-forward? Which pushed these banking regs through? Well, the same party that hand holds the same unions that destroyed the auto industry: The Democratic Party.

Now, the same people who voted for these politicians and policies, for these unions, are protesting at the failure of the businesses they or their politicians kneecapped.

At least the unions and George Sorors are out there funding the protestors to lean on democracy and capitalism . Niiiiiiice.

Notliberal

Dear Sir,

I believe that are a few fallacies in your arguments:

1. Everybody that lives in America should pay taxes. We all use roads, schools, mail, etc. So when corporations, such as GE, have negative net income and receive a tax refund from the government while paying their CEO several million... I think I have a right to be pissed off.

2. Open a macroeconomics book and you will see a simple formula: GDP = Consumption + Investment + Government Spending + Net Imports. Therefore increasing government spending does in fact increase and this is even historically verified: FDR's stimulus and WWII enabled economic recovery in the 1940s.

3. Trickle down theory is a myth. When is one time in history decreasing taxes led to increased employment? Over the past years we've greatly cut taxes, decreased regulation, and have lost significantly more jobs than have been created.

It's okay if you disagree with my points. However, when our country's income inequality is equal to Yemen's, when home equity values have decreased 35% during the same period that Wall Street's profits have soared 700%, when student's are crippled by debt and can't get jobs, when the number of Americans on food stamps has reached a record 43.345 million I think it's time we set our differences of opinion aside and remembered that nobody is more powerful than the people united.

Carlos go to the occupy (local city here), Florida. Save the air fair.

It is not a left right fight but an up down fight.

2% of the population owns 50% of the country's wealth.
While 50% of the country owns 2% of the wealth.

50 years ago a person who barely graduated high school could work making cars and buy a house.

Those jobs are gone, but the people with the limited skill sets remain.

Like the occupy wall st, I don't have a solution to the lack of decent jobs, but the GOP idea of doing nothing is not a solution.

Has anyone else noticed that the NYPD is no longer wearing their name tags? See 2nd video.

With all this talk about the bad things going on with Police at OccupyWallStreet and other Occupy protests, I want to call SPECIAL ATTENTION to the DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT at OccupyDallas who are the EXACT OPPOSITE of what has been shown here and what has been happening in other protests.

The DPD has been HELPFUL, RESPECTFUL and PROFESSIONAL. They have been working to help block off traffic for us to safely cross the street, and are even working to help work with the protesters on setting up camp. The DPD has been AMAZING and has gone ABOVE AND BEYOND their jobs, doing MORE than they need to!

Carlos, if you want video, comments, etc from OccupyDallas on this (and/or) other things, you can either go to occupydallas.org, or you can send a message through me, and I will make sure it gets to the proper people.