Forget Wall Street, Protestors Should “Occupy Congress,” Mauldin Says

The problem is paid by the corporations government.

The problem is the government. The government keeps growing, more regulation, more fees (taxes in disguise), more oversight, more, more, more and small businesses can't get through it any more. The federal government must be stopped and made far smaller. Why is federal government in lending, in housing,in our healthcare, in our local schools, in states land?? Why, why, why? Get them out, give us freedom. Leave social issues (social engineering by govt) to families, churches, and social organizations. Fed govt should be in charge of defense of nation, interstate commerce, and interstate transportation. That is it. Read your constitution, read your bill of rights, take back your country, and don't believe the stupid, mindless media. They have stolen most of your social security money/retirement to get themselves re-elected. We have enough money, congress steals it and wastes it. Get rid of them.

Stop voting for the same idiots every year. That includes throwing out the idiot in your district that you like. You might like what you hear from them, but honestly, they haven't gotten the job done. Throw them out.

If you give a police man $50, it's called bribe.
If a company gives a congress man $100,000.00, it's called lobby

ELECT LEADERS, stop all campaign contributions
Stop lobbying. Our elections are corrupt, our politicians are the same.
It's not principles itis $$$$ and the $$$ for the party

So you folks can do it all over again? This recession has taught us all one thing; cannot have the fox guarding the henhouse!

review the 'economic crisis' of 2008 and ask yourself one question.... how did it really happen? The blame game is always on the sub primes, but sub primes didn't lock up the money system lending. Credit institutions simply decided they couldn't extend credit. AIG created the crisis due to credit default swaps. Investors decided they could win without losing, by buying insurrance against market loss. AIG sold policies, investors bought, the market flopped and AIG tanked. Motgages were stacked and sliced, packages were over rated. Home losses were no larger than any other time in history. Sub primes were stacked with prime mortgages. The invetment system and manipulation in the invetment system created the 2008 credit crisis. In other words, the investment markets created their own demise, not a handful of bad home owners. And yet economists and invetors can admit to it. It's always the home owners and the Govt. Historical revision never helps the future, only reality can change the future.

2012, No Snakehandlers allowed.........

Don't worry, the protests will eventually move to Washington DC. Everyone knows our US political system has become defunct and broken, but starting with the first major casualty of a broken government (Wall Street), is the first step. More regulation does not necessarily mean more spending. It needs to become more efficient and effective, and that will require a temporary infuse of spending to clean up the broken regulatory mess that currently exists. Its a three-fold fix: 1) Make Wall Street companies behave with integrity, 2) Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our regulatory organizations, 3) Remove anyone from office who thinks the battle between dems and repubs is more important than fixing the issues causing Americans to suffer.

Focusing on Congress would be a waste of time, its like arresting a prostitute, her pimp will just put her back out on the street again.

Stop the wars. Start no new ones.

Kill somebody write a book make millions, Dunk basketballs...make millions, Hit homeruns...make millions, work at any regular job for your life's food & make what?? Workers wages. We are paying the price for people handling money who don't have a clue as to real life. End of Rant!!

Tell Congress to fix America. During the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve magically came up with trillions of dollars, so where did it get the money? Obviously the Fed is printing money. So, the Fed can afford to pay all of America's bills. Instead of bickering over taxes, Congress should be making the Fed pay off the national debt and fund the budget 100% forever.

And the difference between the two is what?

Wall Street is tied to Congress in oh so many ways, including that Wall Street provides funds for politicians to run for office. In fact, in America you can't expect to be elected unless you are a friend of Wall Street. So then the politicians owe Wall Street more than they owe the American people and they look out for their interests not ours. Also, Wall Street can afford many lobbists to advocate on their behalf. I can barely pay my bills, let alone hire someone to fight for me. Finally, many former Wall Street executives hold esteemed positions within the government and many ex-politicians join the ranks of Wall Street once they leave Washingtion. It is the buddy system that needs to be broken, not specifically one or other. Any why in God's name do corporations get individual rights in this country, when they already have many more rights than I do. When will I get to pay no taxes like many corporations. I am special too. At least I like to believe so.

EVERYONE should see the movie "Inside Job". It basically implies that our Government did not go after the culprites because it would lead back to them (inside job).

These "where's my bailout" dead weight losers are too lazy to go to DC and protest for the day.

Just remember to vote for a president who will help out Americans first instead of everyone else.

Creating an environment conducive to starting new businesses is great in theory, but lack of businesses isn't why there is 9.1% and a 64% labor force participation rate. The problem is that the US government has sold out small businesses who can't take advantage of globalization.

You can import items from low labor cost countries for a nominal duty, and we can't export our way to prosperity, especially the way free trade agreements are structured and enforced.

Unless you have people employed, it doesn't matter what the tax rates are, because no one will be paying them!

We have the largest economy in the world, so we can certainly make products for ourselves. Even if it's more expensive ($5 more for a box of American-made nails vs. Chinese nails), what Adam Smith termed "the invisible hand" will kick in, and the unintended consequences of buying domestically will kick in (like people having jobs and earning solid wages/benefits, not living off the government). This is what they do in Japan, along with an unspoken rule amongst corporations that you should buy Japanese first before you look to products abroad.

Imagine our capabilities in this land of opportunity. We have everything to bring the heaven on earth for all citizens, if we had fair regulation to protect the people and the country resources.