One of my customers said she was going down to the Occupy Portland protest. She then pulled out her Citi Bank Master card to pay for her purchase. Seems a bit hypocritical to me, if you are against big banks why do you have your account with them. I wonder how many Occupy (insert city here) protesters have accounts with big banks. There are a ton of local banks out there. If these protestors are going to make any kind of a difference they need to get organized and take an action that will actually make a difference towards the banks they hate so much. Instead of trashing downtown Portland, shitting in the park blocks they should be closing their accounts with big banks and move them to local banks. If the 99% moved their accounts would everybody be able to go back to work?
Some say It's not about taking big banks down, it's about the inequality of the distribution and wealth and expecting wall street to take some responsibility for the state of our economy.
However many of us have our 401K’s, IRA’s and other retirement funds invested in securities that are trade on Wall Street; we all participate in the system. So who specifically on Wall Street do the Occupy Wall Street Protesters want to take responsibility and if those people do take responsibility what do the Occupy Wall Street Protesters want them specifically to do?
Maybe they should just go to the beach!
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