[Igottago]

The area that I can really relate to the protestors is anger about the fact that there was no accountability for the financial crisis by those that actually caused it. The big businesses who are the first to whine about government intervention and constantly wave their free market pom poms were also the first to ask for a bailout when their ships were sinking. If that's not hypocrisy, I don't know what is. Its ridiculous, and the American population is generally too apathetic to care -- except for these "smelly hippies" who actually have the courage to turn off The Jersey Shore and become vocal about it.

I also think the definition and spirit of capitalism has been eroded into something that should probably be called opportunism. The market should be a place where you produce a product or provide a service that people need, in exchange for money. That makes sense to me. By all means make money doing that. But it seems so much of it, especially the financial sector, is now based on investments that people can't really understand and are more about screwing people out of money in order to make money for the banks -- instead of actually providing people something that tangibly benefits their lives. Is that legitimate business or is that just taking people for a ride? I'm no expert on how markets work, but I think people have a legitimate beef on some issues.