[kearnyirish2]

“I’m 99 percent sure, they’ll blame the gold speculators and will seize the gold.”

They’ve done it before, though I’m not sure what it will accomplish. I don’t know how it will work out, but it certainly has been worse: we’ve had similar economic problems, compounded by food shortages.

[rollo tomasi]

"I see a lot of anti-government sentiment in these protests, not just anti-Wall Street." I see a lot of "Government come rescue us" pansy ass demands.

By the way, your Charles Dickens hyperbole leaves out a lot of factors when the move from the agriculture to the Industrial workshops occurred. One factor is that the government forced child labor, hell, they even paid for their workhouses.

In the end, all this is the result of intrusive central planners. Get the government out of the heavy regulation/tax structure that corporations rent out (Politicians) and you will begin to have a functioning society. These Wall Street drones should be marching on the White House, Dodd's house, Frank's house, Pelosi's house, Clinton's house etc... if they were serious about solving the problem.