What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[Lissa]

Well, looking up how Real GDP/capita is calculated, then Kan's comment about wanting wages at 50% of 10k or 43% of 50k is actually a strawman argument...

I know how you want it to look, that we are worse off, but it doesn't look that way. It looks like we are slightly ahead (after taxes due to GWB and Obama tax cuts).

How can you say we're not worse off? The middle class is shrinking, the lower class is growing, the upper class is only slightly increasing. That doesn't sound at all like we're better off.

And, mysteriously enough, 2000 is about the time when I started talking about phantom growth (i.e the internet bubble was phantom capital that disappeared, the housing bubble was phantom capital that also just disappeared.) The financial institutions for some reason want us to believe that all is well and good, but I don't think it is. Something tells me that pensions are being looted, and retirement accounts based on the market continue to be at risk.

Hate to say it, but the pensions have already been looted. There's information out there and reports that show exactly that. The laws were written in such a way that a certain percentage of a pension could be retained by the prior company when said company sold or merged with another company. This means that a lot of top level executives were looting their company pensions and the workers got screwed. The overall problem is it was 100% legal because of how the laws were written by Congress.

But... This is a recent problem, and one that is correctable with the CORRECT leadership. We cannot suffer anymore of the funny US Treasury/Federal Reserve/Big Banks chicanery. I don't think this kills the American Dream. It certainly kills my faith in DC politicians to look out for my best interest.

Maybe, but I doubt that. The damage has been done and a clip I saw from MSNBC that was quite heated, but also quite true, real shows what needs to happen, that being that we need a TR right now to come in and clean out Congress because everyone there is bought, both sides of the aisle and those inbetween (the independents and few libertarians in there). Every single Congressman needs to be kicked out and legislation needs to be put in to make lobbying illegal (along with the government paying for the staff of each Congressman).