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Originally Posted by Riot
There has been a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency put in place by the Obama administration, over the screaming objections of the Republicans, who blocked the appointment of Elizabeth Warren as it's head months ago, and are currently actively blocking the appointment of the second choice. Rendering the agency virtually non-existent for almost a year.
So some in Washington are desperately trying to "address" exactly what you don't like and are complaining about - but the special interest lobbies in Washington are blocking it completely through the Republican party.
Hence, Occupy Wall Street exists: to take back Washington and our government from the large corporations and special interests owning our government process and manipulating it to their, not our, end. Haven't you had enough of that?
Call Mitch McConnell and tell him to stop blocking the implementation of the CFPA and the appointment of it's head. That is what Occupy Wall Street wants to happen. Get corporate ownership out of our government.
Occupy Wall Street has nothing to do with how much CEO's make. It has everything to do with investment banks crashing our economy, getting bailed out by us, never being investigated for their malfesence, then we stay in the recession while they go on to record profits and bonuses, because Washington is owned by those corporations, and they won't let Washington make any laws that will benefit us, and threaten their profit margin.
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Warren isnt fit to be the head of anything in the real world (no Harvard isnt real world) which makes her a fine candidate for Congress. But if Congress hadn't passed the supposed consumer protection credit card reform bill we wouldnt be facing many of these new fees which were created in response to that new law.
Despite how much hand wringing or protesting goes on the reality is money buys power and there is nothing that can be done to change that. And if I recall correctly you were against term limits for Congress which would seem to be a good place to start the reform that you speak of.