Wall Street Occupation

For the last week or so we have seen building protests on Wall Street with the occupy Wall Street movement. These protests are designed to protest the growing income equality in this country, rising and long term unemployment and of course the fact that those on Wall Street after a bailout are back to their old tricks.

The right wing spin machine classifies these as hippies, Dartmouth liberals and such. Inevitably there may be a grain of truth to this but what we do know is that there is much reason for protest. Many wonder if America could ever have protests such as what took place in Cairo and London.

It seems unlikely. However one thing that cannot be forgotten is that eventually if income equality does not modify there will be a time where protests get ugly. Many people think that if Teddy Roosevelt had not put in the measures to modify monopolies then there might well have been more anarchy than there was in the United States at the start of the twentieth century.

One thing is for sure. Our country is split. People are hurting. A market for protest is there. People might have to put down their ipads to get involved somehow.