Wall Street Protest – Exclamation Point

by YankeeJim | October 2, 2011 at 07:19 am

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Exactly what is the point of protesting Wall Street? Well, if you live in NYC area and you want to pick a target, Wall Street is as good as any, I guess.

Are the protests against capitalism? Are the protests against greedy and corrupt practices that helped push the nation’s economy into a rut? Is it about corporate political action committees and their undue influence on government? Is it about capitalists and corporations hording profit and capital in contrast with investing on the nation’s growth and prosperity?

If the protests are about the next 20 years of generations lost in the gap of no opportunity, the protests may be misplaced. The location for that protest is the Nation’s capital. For the students with unpaid tuition debt, I think you will have to wait 20 years for the economy to recover and then some legislators will either forgive you or you will decide to declare bankrupty.

“'We are not criminals'
Witnesses described a chaotic scene on the famous suspension bridge as a sea of police officers surrounded the protesters using orange mesh netting.

Protesters speaking out against corporate greed and social inequality took their "solidarity march" to Brooklyn, but battled in a war of words against officers, chanting "We are not criminals" and "Let us go!"

Some protesters tried to get away as officers started handcuffing members of the group. Dozens of protesters were seen handcuffed and sitting on the span as three buses were called in to take them away, witnesses and organizers said.

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The New York Times reported a few protesters had "clambered dangerously up the structure of the bridge to get to the wooden pedestrian walkway, which is about 15 feet above the road."

Erin Larkins, a graduate student at Columbia University who says she and her boyfriend have $130,000 combined in student loan debt, was among the thousands of protesters on the bridge. She said a friend persuaded her to join the march and she's glad she did.”

Wall Street Protest – Exclamation Point

Exactly what is the point of protesting Wall Street? Well, if you live in NYC area and you want to pick a target, Wall Street is as good as any, I guess.

“'We are not criminals'
Witnesses described a chaotic scene on the famous suspension bridge as a sea of police officers surrounded the protesters using orange mesh netting.

Protesters speaking out against corporate greed and social inequality took their "solidarity march" to Brooklyn, but battled in a war of words against officers, chanting "We are not criminals" and "Let us go!"

Some protesters tried to get away as officers started handcuffing members of the group. Dozens of protesters were seen handcuffed and sitting on the span as three buses were called in to take them away, witnesses and organizers said.

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The New York Times reported a few protesters had "clambered dangerously up the structure of the bridge to get to the wooden pedestrian walkway, which is about 15 feet above the road."

Erin Larkins, a graduate student at Columbia University who says she and her boyfriend have $130,000 combined in student loan debt, was among the thousands of protesters on the bridge. She said a friend persuaded her to join the march and she's glad she did.”