Tornado Alley (PROG)

[PegnVA]

FOX is the media voice for the attitude of WS execs, depicted in this article as being a hedge fund manager, and for that WS execs are truly grateful...FOX has always been able to influence weak minds.

Whether the OWS movement succeeds in forcing changes in the financial industry will ultimately depend not on the 99% of us who know we've been screwed by this industry but in forming legit leadership prepared to take it to the mat to enact real change.
Almost to the day OWS announced themselves, Bank of America announced they would reward U.S. taxpayers who bailed them out in October 2008 by imposing a $5.00 fee on their ATM purchases beginning Jan 1, 2012 and although OWS demonstrations have grown and spread across the nation, BA has not recinded their plan which tells me BA is not concerned about what 99% of us think - the financial industry's lobbyists have taken care of things for them in DC! It has not gone unnoticed that no pol will get involved with the OWS demonstrators - other than issue lukewarm compliments!
BA will impose their $5.00 fee on ATM purchases, Wells Fargo who is currently testing their $3.00 fee on same, and other major banks will continue to screw U.S. taxpayers with help from the DC pols we elected!...No wonder the financial institution lobbyists worked so hard and SUCCEEDED in blocking Elizabeth Warren's appointment to lead the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau - she is the last person that industry wants looking over their shoulder!

It is clear, and has been before OWS began, our financial system is predatory and unless and until us 99% finally stand up and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and refuse to pay the petty fees banks impose WHILE HOLDING OUR MONEY, nothing will change and demonstrations such as OWS will sadly just be a footnote in history.

Note to OWS: Find a leader/s who will motivate the us 99% to finally take a stand and not just gather together at rallies in big cities...Channel this energy towards national elections because that is the ONLY language pols understand!!!