Occupy protesters arrested in NYC finance district

arrest all and send there parents a bill fro room and board + a $1000 fine!

Here's the fix:"You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more

than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible

for re-election." No more deficit!

Tell me why CEO's of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac deserve $5million bonuses.

The reality is that it will get worse before it gets better! :(

The real problem is and has always been a very corrupt Congress coupled with the power it wields, which is why this country is indebted and divided as it is.

There was huge wage disparity before WW2. The end of the war changed that since we were the exporter to the world and a true middle class was born. Now that we are a net importer, the wage disparity is returning. Bring back good manufacturing jobs at a decent wage and the middle class will be stronger than ever before.

It isn't 'earning' your performance bonus if your company had to be bailed out by the taxpayers. Bankrupting your bank and trashing the national economy is not actually 'good' perormance.

If you arrest them, please bus them to Washington. That is where the change needs to start.

Day of rage but the wrong target...It is the congress who design rules and laws which permit them to get re-elected forever...and thus ...the corruptions followed.

Why didn't the democrats do something about wall street when they were in complete control of the federal government? They didn't need one republican vote to pass anything that they wanted, and yet nothing was done.

The 60 minutes report last Sunday, nailed the coffin for me. Insider trading allowed for Congressmen and Senators #$%$ gives. These sob's can make millions and if we did the same we go to jail???

we don't have to occupy wall st. to bring them to their knees! Power to the consumer! I have vowed- Buy Made in USA Only. Refuse to buy cheap manufactured goods outsourced to China! We can change things during one Christmas shopping season. Buy USA- the job you save might be your own.

Statemnt attributed to Abraham Lincoln:

"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy.

It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."

Living and existing on the fat of the land is great until you run out of FAT.

Why are they not occupying congress??? These are the tools for the lobbyists and not you or I!!!
They should form their own political party if they want to change things permenently

congress is to blame ,their quick witted decisive answers for their stock brokers ,has screwed AMERICA !

Here is a list of the things that they want and also answers to why it won't work. it is nothing but pure socializum
1. Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90/hr to eliminate inequality. / The market won't be able to handle it and it will make the cost of everything go up.
2. Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation / So now you want to slow down productivity?
3. Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately./ If the money is not there to pay someone you have to lay them off simple math. If you can't afford to pay for your home then you should have to give it up also simple math it doesn't belong to you it belongs to who ever holds the note on it.
4. Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws.This is America this is the language of this country and it is the international language of business if you want to speak something other than english move there.
5. Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US./ This is the United states and we have the right to have our borders where they are and we have the right to keep out who we want . If you don't like the laws that are on the books well you need to get used to it because we are not the only country that has imigration laws
6. Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%. / That is redistrobution of wealth and that is socializum. I have a right to keep what I have earned. I don't Have to share it with you because you did not earn it
7. Pass far stricter environmental protection and animal rights laws. The laws that we have on the books are to the point of over regulation.
8. Allow workers to elect their supervisors. So if you have a problem with them you can just vote them out? a supervizor has their job because he or she was hired to do that job it is not a popularity contest he or she was hired for that job because he was the best for the position
9. Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits./ It is broke now and you want to put more people on it and drag it down farther?
10. Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich./ So now you want to raise the tax on the rich to 95% ? Again that is wealth redistrobution and it is socializum.
11. Ban the private ownership of land./ Again taking from others that have earned
12. Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda. / Home schooled children and private scooled children have higher test scores in math reading english and sciencethan those that attend public schools
13. Reduce the age of majority to 16./ To do what? Most of them at that age can't even balance a check book
14. Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row. / Take a life Forfit your own
15. Abolish the debt limit. / Where did you find the money tree? you can't just spend and spend. There has to be something to back up the money that you spend.
16. Ban private gun ownership.Not in this life time will I ever give up my firearms
17. Strengthen the separation of church and state. / This country was founded on the church and your interpitation of seperation is misguided. What the constitutions says that the country shall not establish a religion. That means that we can not have a notional religion ie Baptist Methodist, Lutheren. This is because when we broke away from England everyone had to be a member of the Church of England as required by British law.
18. Immediate debt forgiveness for all. / You made the debt you pay the debt that is called being responcable for your actions.
19. End the 'War on Drugs'./ Drugs kill people if you take them try to posess them try to sell them

They need to occupy D.C., they are the ones that REGULATE Wall Street and D.C. is now the RICHEST city in America, it's where the real 1% live

"Effectively shutting down Wall Street"? I'm looking out of my office windows at all of this. What a joke. Email CNN and ask them to zoom their cameras OUT and you'll see for yourself how FEW people are prostesting. It's a complete media over dramatization.

Protesting in the wrong location, needs to be in DC where the corruption begins and the bucks stops at. Get rid of all of the current politicans and put the constution back to pre 1860 on income and influence, also pay. This will flush out the rats....