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The Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof suggests financial policies for the "Occupy Wall Street" movement.

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  • Mr Kristof: I admire and support your human rights work. However, as to your comment that corporations and banks raised our standard of living, this is , at best, a half truth (re-read The Jungle, history of the Great Depression). No, the most significant contributor to the (formerly) rising middle class (hence standard of living) has been unionized labor, collective bargaining, and labor laws like minimum wages, over-time, work man's comp, etc, left "alone" banks & corps. would enslave us.

  • i think we need to restructure the electoral system otherwise this will just happen again. the only way to do that would be through direct democracy because of the lack of spine in congress and the white house. i agree with your ideas but until you fix the system nothing will happen.

  • "...but to cover the latest of these uprisings it turned out to be a lot easier, I just took the subway to the wall street financial district ..." soo funny :)

  • Nicholas, you did not listen to the people you were interviewing. Your recommendations are chipping away at the edge with more TAXES. They were talking about changing the system entirely. BTW, that system may have done OK so far, but it is about to crater in on itself over too much debt. Nick, you are looking in a rearview mirror and not listening well.

  • "Pro-democracy" Soros street protests?

  • Banks have never raised he standard of living. Oh sure people might get access to soft credit, but its legacy is terminal both mathematically and historically. The global debts proclaimed to be so urgent needing everyone to pay are impossible to resolve.... it was designed this way.

    If you allow the building of a society that rewards the profiting of the vulnerable, the gullible and allow corruption, then expect there to come a time when the people suffer.

  • no, eliminate the fed. We'll pay them off, but they need to GTFO. next is fire most of everyone in office. If nothing else but to set an example for the next bunch.

  • YAY! Being first, wanted to say it is nice to see someone with your stature speaking CONSTRUCTIVELY... we need to make this a positive!

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