Forum Post: My comment on the NYPost 'Angry Manhattan residents lambast Zuccotti Park protesters' article

Chip Parker commented on New York Post.

So... I spent 2 hours at Zuccotti just killing time and taking in the scene, and the only nasty words I heard tossed around in those cold 120 minutes came multiple times from the business people walking by. It was sad to watch, being one of them, expecting more, and being disappointed again and again. I was however quite impressed with the calm and thoughtful approach of the protestors. So many interesting people from all walks of life, with a myriad of real concerns that I would find could be boiled down to 2 key tenets.

To top off the disappointing performance by the white-collar ivey league investment bankers and assorted Wall Street cronies, some arrogant & pompous 'big business' man in his 60's was pushing his way through the crowd angrily, snarling, and finally knocked a woman out of the way while using the lord's name in a quite explicit way.

The woman was helped up by the protestors, revealing that she was wearing her Goldman Sachs fleece.

She was very thankful. And I learned the most important lesson I could in those 2 hours... about what is really going on down there. And everywhere in the world as the masses are starting to find a shared voice that says, "eh, something ain't right here."

A lot has been made about "no clear strategy", but I think that's due to liberal usage of horse blinds. It's a lot easier to not tackle the issue when you can claim it doesn't exist. (Thank you Fox News!)

These occupiers for the most part don't hate wall street or banks, (although many have clearly crossed the line of no return in believing they do not act in the general good of mankind and are systematically corrupt). They just think the system has failed. That capitalism, like socialism did in the USSR, has become corrupt. The distribution of wealth is far too vast. Prices go up all the time. People need to be paid a fair wage. Strike that. A fairer wage. The middle class needs to exist again. There is just no justifiable reason for such a small portion of mankind possessing such an astronomical amount of the wealth - a trend that has gotten worse in the last 30 years. And that's because in the last 30 years, a heavily bankrolled by the private sector representation in DC has loosey goosey'd the reigns on big business under the guise of 'free markets!', allowing those with means to work double time to keep hoarding more and more of the wealth using new ingenious securities, tricky mortgages, and betting against the market's success. An endless wide spread greed fueled by the materialism of this country. A veritable cesspool of humanity, that needs a shock to remember the importance of the brotherhood of mankind. A drive strong step in the right direction - the direction towards really differentiating homo sapiens from all other beasts that roam then world. Creating a species where offering your seat on a subway to a pregnant woman, helping a stranger in need, and simply holding the door for someone are inline with making sure that your family of employees are compensated in a way that they can live comfortably too. The social change behind this is strong, as more responsibility and reward drive employees to work harder and really feel a connection to what they do. It also will help alleviate the almost inevitable financial problems all so-called middle class families deal with, which should contribute to employees with clearer heads, more efficient, and a populous that spends and supports the economy to a new degree.