Questions for the Occupy Wall Street Movement

While many can agree that there has been greed and abuse by the corporate and governing elites, even those of us that consider themselves conservatives, realize that questions need to be answered and solutions found on how to stop this abuse and greed.

Socialism has failed in almost every place it has been implemented, mainly because sooner or later a dictator emerges and in the end the people are even more oppressed. 

Thus the questions are:"How to stop corporate greed.  How do you get a structure into society, without giving democratically elected officials too much power?  How do you accomplish better distribution of income, without stifling the economy?"

While greed is an indisputable major problem, so are the powerful lobbies that pay for political campaigns and then get favours in return.   In the United States both political parties are guilty of this and it has to stop.

CBS' 60 Minutes carried a segment last weekend that clearly demonstrated how politicians of both parties enrich themselves.   While they did nothing illegal, according to CBS, they clearly violated moral and ethical standards, if the allegations are found to be true.   Clearly Politicians should not benefit from insider information or  for public service.

Washington is full of career politicians, that have been on the hill far too long and void of ideas and out of touch with the general public.  

Our governing and corporate elite has their cheerleaders, commonly known as pundit.  In a busy world, with a 24 hour newscycle that fills the cables and airwaves short sound bytes and for the most part the sheep in society line up behind the pundits.  Just check out prime time MSNBC or FOX News any night.

Journalism has lost the fine art of investigative reporting, presenting two sides to an issue and coming up with possible conclusions.
 

Annie Leonard, of the "Story of Stuff Fame," visited the Occupy Edmonton movement yesterday to highlight the fact that we could build a better society together.  See her video "The Story of Broke" below:

While the Occupy Movement has sent a loud and clear message about corporate greed and is looking to somehow better distribute funds, it has come up with very few solutions.   The movement would have more appeal to the general public if the movement had clearly stated goals, clearly stated its concerns - offered recommendations for change.  

The movement should be aware of other powerful organizations that try to hi-jack it for political and monetary gain.  The grievance is clear, but the movement must also provide solutions and foremost remain peaceful. 

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