Should I move to Wall Street?

What is Occupy Wall Street?
What do the Wall St. protesters stand for or want?
Is it a worthy cause?
Are the things they are protesting economically sound?
What do economists think of the Occupiers?


Talk to your local historians. They will tell you we are now in the same place we were just before the depth of the Great Depression, or at least almost there. Many of the conservatives hated what the progressive president proposed to do and fought tooth and nail against many of the President's proposed programs. However, if they had been instituted sooner, there is a real possibility that they would have worked better than they already were. Yes, its true. It was World War II that actually sprang us from our poverty. However, the plans and proposals for job creation, as I understand history, may have succeeded and definitely would have done so if instituted sooner.


So where does that leave us now? What do we do now? As a political moderate, whose eyes start to roll back in her head when you talk about economics, I still want to hear from both sides of this debate.
Is there a debate? Should there be one? I asked the other day on Facebook what the Wall St. Protesters were protesting and I got one response. It was from someone who is angry at the world and this is his most recent cause to wrangle his death-metal fed post adolescent male rage. I want facts, I want figures. I do not want anything that Michael Moore or Rush Limbaugh have to say. Additionally, I do not care what Michelle Bachman or Cornell West have to say on the matter. Give me some intelligent, well thought out, economically based (theoretically) information.


Before you call me a communist pig, tool of the socialist liberals,  pawn of the right-wing religious extremists, or a Tea-bagger (yes I know the dirty implications of that title), please be aware that I did not vote for our current President Obama. I did not vote for the Republican candidate either. I voted for the man that held closest to what I believe a President should be and stand for - he was an independent candidate.


Here is my thoughts on corporate greed at the moment.
Quit buying from Wal-mart! Pay an extra 30-cents and support your local groceries and hardware stores. The more you support them, the better you are on the environment, the better quality your produce will be. the most money will go back into your local economy, and the more people they can employ. Fine - you can work at Wal-mart. Fine. Take your paycheck from them; but for heaven's sakes, put that money in a place that benefits you.