They started out wanting wall street to be accountable for their role in the collapse. ‘Somebody’ needed to start pointing fingers because once again, we got screwed by wall street and no one went to jail. They did the same thing to us (US taxpayers) with the savings and loan crisis which cost over 200 billion in today’s dollars.

I get fed up with conservatives acting like "corporate lapdogs", blindly refusing to admit we have a problem. I keep hearing this line- ’if we don’t let them do business as usual, there will be no more business’.

It’s funny that most conservatives are enthusiastic to the point of psychosis when wielding budget axes (I’m guilty myself at times) but become catatonic when it comes to talking about any kind of reform for the financial sector

I think the occupiers had the right message in the beginning. It’s a shame that almost immediately the “down with capitalism” crowd swooped in.

“Crime is defined as price rather than punishment,” Greenfield notes. In the new normal, “corporations can say, ‘Well, is the crime worth the price, discounted by the probability of getting caught?’ Because you can’t make a corporation go to prison. They have no morality, no human personality or sense of morals, other than the morality of the market that reduces everything to money. If the only way to punish companies is with money, then the fine sets the price for crime.”

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Like I said, there was a legitimate bitch.