Yet Weidner spoke of: "[OWS'] ability to turn grievance into a political force capable of disrupting the establishment." as if it would've been a good thing for them to have had more of that, showing how he's sympatico with OWS goals. What an ignoramus!
Sure I'll give him a chance, providing people realize his pen deserves no more ink than Todd Akin's.
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I’m as conservative as can be. Yet I can tell you from personal experience that the corporations are out of control, bleeding consumers and their workers alike, sending money offshore and paying their top dogs obscene amounts of money just for leaving the company if the stock price misses a quarter point in a two-year period.
There is something very, very soulless in the business model that is multi-national and in which all the top management’s training is not in the product they are making, but in the business of making money. There is no love there for the product or the consumers who love the product; and without love, there is nothing but the venal pursuit not of happiness, but of money.
I do not claim to know the answer. But I do know that the ethos of top corporate leaders and Wall Street money managers is sorely lacking concern for their fellow man.
I believe, like most conservatives, that the little guy should be able to operate in greater freedom in this country. And I also see that too many little-guy operations once they achieve a certain level of success, or even score a good location, get either eaten alive or swallowed whole by the multi-national giants — such as a successful proprietary coffee shop that soon finds out that Starbucks has paid an outrageous amount for the building across the street so they can open up there and drive the little cake-and-coffee gal out of business.
Ask any vendor who has ever dealt with WalMart just how easy it is to get a fair wholesale price for their products from the largest retailer in the world.
The globalizing movement in business is bad for the people of the United States. And the first few weeks of the Occupy movement contained the hope that corporations and Wall Street would listen to the fears of the eroded middle class.
This is not to say that it was sweetness and light — obviously, the Occupy movement was immediately taken over by the same old communists who take over almost every legitimate protest movement. It’s all around us — the stupidity and lack of the actual experience of freedom of the generations who were bathed in Marxism in college. I recently spoke with a so-called Tea Party leader in another state who was trying to convince me that Romney is a conservative, and so was John McCain. Face it, that generation are our middle-aged leaders now. You have to make allowances for their ignorance in order to help them come our way.