Matthew Good: Don't Occupy Wall Street. Surround The Pentagon.

Surely we should be far more disgusted that the 2012 defense budget is over a trillion dollars than at bankers mismanagement. Where did all that money come from? Well, if we're to be honest with ourselves, It Came from US. We invest, our banks invest, corporations invest and trade, and so forth. Many of those that end up with our money play with it, roll it around. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't, but the end game has always been the same, to make as much of it as possible. That, lest anyone has forgotten, is the entire point of a capitalist system. When things are good, people don't take to the streets. During the last two decades, when the gross mismanage -ment that would lead to all of this was occurring, no one was occupying anything. Insane credit levels were rampant, mortgages low, the world a proverbial oyster. We didn't care who was behind the curtain, or what they were up to, and that, whether you like it or not, isn't the fault of a hand -ful of people: It's everyone's fault! Why? Because you can't seriously expect a system that promotes greed to include accountability as one of its unshakable tenets. Surely that much is obvious. It's here that I'll forgo my usual rant about the plutocratic realities inherent within the system, and how the facade of democracy is used not unlike a pacifying lolly after one goes to the dentist. The richest 3% of the population have controlled commerce and government for centuries. Just because constitutions exist doesn't mean that reality has ever changed!