Where are the indictments?

These same people demanded cheaper goods, goods that were unnecessary, multiple televisions in the homes.  Cell phones for their 9 and 10 year old children, ipods, iphones.

Multiple cars for their family.  Cheaper food so that they could waste more, paper towels, paper plates, throw away this and throw away that.  Even the poor are living a livestyle that

80 years ago would have seemed beyond the means of even the wealthiest.  A Lifestyle

that by Third World standards is beyond dreams. A lifestyle that to dumpster divers here in

the US is sumptuous.  The crybabies  that occupy Wallstreet don't want to work, they turn

their noses up at the millions of illegal aliens driving nails, shoveling dirt, or picking fruit

and vegetables for living and demand that someone gives them something.  I spent

nearly 30 years working in an American factory watching 30% of the well paid union workers,

complain how hard the work was in a year around airconditined factory, using automated

machinery to do the work our fathers and grandfather did by hand.  They stole supplies and tools from the company that gave them a great wage, bonuses, benefits and retirement.

The Union wore down the people that started the factories that gave them jobs until the

companies packed the jobs overseas where people would be glad to have the jobs.

So, Jim, you are putting most of the blame on "Congressionals Republicans seem addicted to the dollars of the rich."? Goodness, Congress was actually a democratic congress up until a year ago......does that fact have anything to do with the truth?

You also overlook the responsibility of the individual who signed their name to the dotted lines saying they could afford the homes they were moving into.

No one put a gun to their head and told them to borrow money they may or may not be able to repay.

No one in our society wants to take responsibility for anything anymore. We all have learned to pass the buck onto big business and big money.

There will be a time when our entire system will collapse because no one is watching the hen house.

 I do agree that Wall Street protestors don't have their banners right but this is a political statement that is being demonstrated and the masses are just out there not really having a clue what they are protesting.

Hold the lending field responsible and force write downs to current values to help keep good job holding people in their homes.

Change import tariff structures with countries whom we have a vast trade deficit with until the deficit is balanced. An individual has to balance the checkbook, our import and export should be no different. Will be painful in the short term for the consumer, but will turn us around in the long term.

Stop the bailouts and stop giving billions in aid to foreign countries!

If government wants to be big and regulate everything, step in and regulate energy commodities. The effects of energy costs are too great on our country. Why should speculators be at the helm?

Why will none of this happen? Because gov't is all puppets for those that would be deprived their billions in profits and bonus's by such changes.

The movement should be renamed "occupy government".

Jim,

You refer to the rich as "they" as in "they should pay more". Aren't you part of the rich? Why is it that many rich folks never think of themselves as being rich and don't include themselves in the group that should do more? One exception to this is Warren Buffet who thinks he should pay more. What is preventing him from writing a check to the government? Is he only willing to pay more if he is forced to by revising the tax laws? The whole system is a mess since the upper income folks already pay the lion's share of income taxes and such a large percentage of people don't pay any income taxes. The taxation system needs to be overhauled so everyone pays their fair share.