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Originally Posted by Muta
Personally, I actually don't think the movement is anti-capitalist (atleast not the main representative groups - fringe elements, maybe). I think it's more anti-cronyism and a call to regulate an industry that unfortunately put America in the proverbial toilet where it is today (that being the finance / banking industries). People are mad at the back-scratching / closed door activities going on that benefit only a select few at the expense of many. That said, I still don't think their message is clear enough. Wall Street is a symbolic protesting area, but Washington clearly would be better.
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There's nothing closed door about anything though, and in the end the Goverments of the world bailed out the banks (with make believe money that hasn't cost us a thing in reality) to save us poor schmoes who are in debt up to our eyes and couldn't handle a 7 or 8 percent increase in the interest rates. We are beholden to the finance sector because we live in a fiat system of deficit finance, if the goverments actually listened to the OWS you would have to see all of our goverments massively scale back on social programs, the issue I have with the OWS lot are they don't really want what they are protesting for, what they really want is deficit finacing with no repayments.