The next 12.5 months are sure going to be interesting.
Just a note to all you protesting types. When the '12 GOP Convention takes place, be very careful.
It's here in Florida, Tampa. We have concealed carry here, thank God; and a very liberal "stand your ground law," praise Jesus. So I wouldn't recommend charging the bus lines, happened in '08. Or putting trash bins through store windows, also in '08.
Now back to our regularly scheduled debate. Your sides communism, fascism, and/or socialism has all been tried before and failed; always. It always implodes or stagnates. The Chinese are a few years from collapse. Read some finance papers. Their banks are way, way worse off then ours. Their population has a gender time bomb built in, due to one child. Their government at some point can't stimulate 10% growth by way of infrastructure projects. Those jobs we shipped out a generation or two ago, are now headed to Africa.
Cuba, what a joke. North Korea, their people are starving to death. Venezuela, has rolling black outs. So much for nationalization, eh Hugo?
Meanwhile. The former Soviet bloc states all made a bee- line for NATO and the EU. Why? They knew Russia would revert to being the barbaric little neo-commie/fascist state that it has become.
So I'll take capitalism and corporations anyway. Because in the current system I all but get to vote as often as I care too. I vote on election day, when I shop for goods and when I trade stocks.
Also not only due goods get better, they also get cheaper as each generation of them passes. By that I mean electronics, cars, household goods, appliances etc.
This whole "occupy" thing reeks of "bitching about farmers, with your full mouth full."
There's a ton of money, fortunes to be made right now. Every technological revolution of the Industrial Era has taken place during hard times.
Made by people who worked hard, took risks and reinvested their money into what eventually become OMG, corporations.
So, keep the change.