It is a welfare mentality which is amazing since most of them have smartphones, drive cars, macbook pros and ipads.

Welfare, or just straight communism:

Proposed List Of Demands For Occupy Wall St Movement! | OccupyWallSt.org Forum

It seems that people forget the USA is a democracy in a republic (or, at least it was deisgned that way). Leave out that republic part, and you get lovely bloodbaths like the French revolution.

bluemele I hear you on that but most of these protest want more government. It is not just about not giving GS access to government. It is about taking money of rich and distributing to what they perceive as an inequality. They want the government to to punish the successful and give it to them. Has nothing to do with earning it or coming up with their own great idea. It is a welfare mentality which is amazing since most of them have smartphones, drive cars, macbook pros and ipads.

........ and having received no benefit whatsoever from the existent social structure. But they are of course primary beneficiaries of living in the context of a well-regulated, ordered and peaceful society. We have opportunities to conceive, develop and implement ideas because the government creates the appropriate conditions.

The people who do better than others, pay into and contribute to 'the system' just like everyone else that benefited from it, they don't owe it anymore than anyone else does.

Asher Edelman, the well-known corporate raider, told CNBC Tuesday that he supported Occupy Wall Street, saying “the greed of the banks are the cause for the terrible economic situation that we have today.”


Asher Edelman speaks at Occupy Wall Street

Edelman was a corporate raider in the late 1980s, known for going after big American companies like Burlington Industries, Lucky Stores and the Fruehauf Corporation.

He also helped inspire the character Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s 1987 film “Wall Street.”

Edelman, who appeared at Zuccotti Park, the site of the protests in lower Manhattan, said he is trying to help the protestors get direction so it “doesn’t remain amorphous as it has been.”

“We are all rooting for them and hoping they get (President) Obama and some other people moving in the right direction for a change,” he added.

“The banking system has become a system, which is one large hedge fund supported by the free money of the depositors and by the taxpayers whenever it loses," Edelman said. "That was not the banking system of the 1980s."

This time support is coming from surprising places. Like former corporate activist (and buyer of companies!) Asher Edelman.

Here's the problem for the "powers that be" who have been trying to ignore this movement: They erroneously believed, as did many others (myself included), that this would be like the Tea Party (which was de-fanged and turned into a fraudulent shell of what it began as) or the other "movements" such as the "protests" at G-20 meetings. That is, people would show up, they'd wave signs, a few would commit random acts of violence and guarantee severe negative billing on the local TV and then they'd all go home and wash the tear gas out of their eyes.

But something different happened this time.

The people came. They didn't throw molotov cocktails, sticks and bombs. They did wave signs, but then they didn't go home. They did what I said would have to be done - in 2008 - in order to make a difference: THEY STAYED.