My view on Occupy Wall Street:

Although this may come as a surprise, I really think that the movement has a good thing going.  Although I may not agree with their conduct, they are standing on solid ground.  This battle is about much more than Wall Street, it’s about the American Dream.  Start out with nothing -> make something of yourself -> work your ass off -> get somewhere in life -> keep working your ass off -> move up in the world.  The trouble is the people who have done that forgot how they got there and now are making it impossible for anyone to come from nothing.  All they are concerned with is profits for their shareholders.

What they don’t seem to care about is how much volatility they are invoking in the market.  What may be nothing to them is everything that people have worked for so that they can retire and be able to live without working.

Here is the other side, and I will fight this concept to the death: Capitalism.  For the past for the past 230 years that is the principal this country has stood on.  Although people may not like it, some of the greatest developments the world have ever seen came from people trying to make a buck.

We must find a way to make both ideas work in harmony or we are digging our own grave as a nation.  Although I don’t believe in big government, I don’t know if there is another way to handle it.