Forum Post: Ideas for Policy Initiatives. Anyone want to Add, Change, Incorporate, or Support?

A proposed list of reform actions to be taken by the United States government in response to the OccupyWallStreet Movement.

There has been a great deal of support for the Occupy Wall Street movement across the world, and it is now up to us the people to decide where the movement should take us. To do that a list of reform actions need to be developed so that policy initiatives can form around them and change can take place. Otherwise as throats get soar, and legs get tired, the movement will stop moving and business will go back to usual. Here are some suggestions I have to add to a list of policies and referendums that should be undertaken by our governing institutions. I think it would be great to see what everyone thinks and would like to add. Hopefully this will eventually cross the path of someone with legislative experience and be put forth as such:

1. The Federal Reserve should become a national bank attached to the Treasury so that all meetings, conversations, etc… had in that institution will hitherto fall under the direct scrutiny of the Justice Department, including yearly audits.
2. The office of Secretary of Treasury should become an electable position to ensure that the appointment of said position is no longer used for political favor.
3. The Security and Exchange Commission should be reassigned under the umbrella of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and its offices shall no longer be inhabited by former or soon-to-be executives of financial institutions, but instead with career white-collar crimes law enforcement.
   a. In addition no longer will it be acceptable for any employee of the SEC to engage in any conversation, meeting, convention, etc… with any members of the financial institutions that isn’t directly related to the business of protecting America from financial crimes and isn’t recorded by a court appointed stenographer and the records made public.
4. The entirety of the Glass/Steal act should be re-instituted.
5. The “AG settlement” be immediately abandoned and the “Too Big To Fail” financial institutions be faced with the full force of their crimes in civil and criminal courts at the county, state and federal level.
6. That all “Too Big to Fail institutions be broken up into smaller more manageable institutions.
7. Regulations and caps be placed on financial institution employees’ salaries and bonuses so that they more clearly resemble that of the rest of the working public as they did in the 1970’s.