The message Wall Street is getting is, apparently, you can live comfortably in a public park, eat donated food and use public bathrooms at local fast food joints (whose corporate greed they are protesting).
Someone did, in fact, post such a list of demands eight days ago (I'm pretty sure many of the protesters didn't know this, either).
Included in the demands are free college education, a guaranteed living wage, $1 trillion spent "right now" for infrastructure and another $1 trillion spent for ecological restoration.
Infrastructure is something defined loosely as "Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid" -- some of which are, in fact, privately owned and operated, while others are under the auspices of state and local governance. No differentiation between them is made by the protesters. Had they been attending their government and economics classes instead of camping out, they might have known this.
The "decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants" is considered part of the ecological restoration is mentioned.
One wonders what the group might do if these demands aren't met by the time winter descends on the various municipal parks around the country and the nuclear power plants haven't been decommissioned. They might add "send hot chocolate and blankets" to their list of demands.
I doubt it, though. This would indicate something achievable and sensible.
Another notable demand: "Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all."
So, everyone's debt should immediately be forgiven and no one should have to pay for school. The money fairy should descend and magically imbue the budgets of a few select programs with trillions in funds. In anticipation of liberty and debt forgiveness for all, I suggest everyone head to their nearest college campus and charge up a ton of college debt.
All will soon be forgiven, apparently, because the Occupy Wall Street folks hold such sway with the private sector and public policy makers.
Their demands are irrational and sound like someone simply threw them together in response to criticism.
In fact, that's almost certainly what happened.
Occupy Wall Street is a misguided social statement aimed at corporate corruption -- or could be, if it organized and quit sounding like a bunch of kids looking for their 15 minutes of fame.
http://news.yahoo.com/occupy-wall-street-unrealistic-demands-wont-help-cause-162900712.html
