Occupy Wall Street: Explained!

http://www.theunlikelyconservative.com - Since the Occupy movement began, I've heard many, many different explanations of what they're protesting and what they're trying to accomplish. I've had people call me every name in the book because I haven't researched their movement to figure out what the actual objectives are. So I've posted this video to ask members of the Occupy Wall Street (and everywhere else) movement to use the comments area to explain to the rest of us: 1) What exactly the Occupy movement is protesting against, and 2) what exactly they're trying to accomplish.

So for those of you who are not part of the movement or who don't believe in it, please don't use this page to put up anti-Occupy comments. Let's keep this civil and use it as a way to find some common ground.

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[cerealbox99]

Hey Matt, when can we expect your next video? Im really curious on what youre going to say next.

[mattwillwork]

@cerealbox99 Next one coming soon!!

[aquarius10780]

This country has under gone a slow motion coup where corporations have wrested all power from the citizenry to the point that voting against the interests of corporations and banks like Goldman Sachs is impossible. We have no democracy. The media compounds the problem by keeping us uniformed. All we get is junk news- Casey Anthony, Charlie Sheen- Truth and important relevant information takes a back seat to ratings on all our major networks.We have an uninformed citizenry.

[CosmicFork]

What is the movement protesting against? SIMPLE: The movement is protesting the fact that the U.S. Government bailed out the banks for trillions of dollars, and then, the banks did NOTHING, but improve their balance sheets! People want accountability. They are holding the banks accountable! The Financial Meltdown in 2008 was responsible for tanking the economy across this entire country. The protesters are right, when they say: "The Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!" They're sick of it !!!

[vGxDuBsTePzZ]

there is a declaration of what we want and i say we because we are one and i support it 8)

[CosmicFork]

Banking Deregulation was a Huge Factor in the Financial Meltdown of 2008. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 dropped the barriers that barred Commercial Banks from taking on the risks of Investment Banks. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 allowed for the proliferation of derivatives markets. Derivatives formed an "avatar economy" (a system of illusory value built atop the real economy). When Debentures based on real estate turned out to be DogShit that caused a major Credit Crisis!

[CosmicFork]

@TechnologicalTyranny Oh, yes... just blame everything on the big bad federal government. It's so easy to do, and why try to understand what REALLY happened in the Financial Meltdown of 2008? The real truth is that LACK of Federal Regulation in the Financial Sector was a HUGE FACTOR in the Meltdown of 2008.

[TechnologicalTyranny]

@CosmicFork you are so stupid you don't realize that the federal government is the reason why a housing bubble was created in the first place.

You are so dumb you don't realize a health care bubble (medicare, medicaid) is in the making.

why are you so dumb?

honestly, why are you so blind as to what is happening around you?

[TechnologicalTyranny]

@TechnologicalTyranny either pay your debt or DIE like you were intended to.

Why the fuck did you sign onto an "Adjustable Rate Mortgage" in the first place?

[TechnologicalTyranny]

@CosmicFork "Banks got bailed out" stupid people like you signed a Bank's adjustable mortgage. Nobody forced you to sign an "Adjustable Mortgage", only your own dumb-face did.

I have no sympathy for dumb people like you. I want you to die in order to make room for smart people.

[503deadbeat]

you the man. occupy doesnt even know the point of their movement. FUCK them

[StonewallJackson26]

@CosmicFork Ok, great. The bailouts have NOTHING to do with Capitalism.

[freewriterguy]

You dont have to be a college edumacated idiot to understand the OWS movement, but heres ur 1 sentence: Land hogs charge poor people 500 a month for a trailer space, and local governments enforce codes to prevent these same poor people from owning land and parking their trailer on it. Now can you see the injustice, or is another sentence needing explained. I myself havent owned land, or a home for 3 generations now, though i just rented a house for 2x what the original land hog paid for it.

[SuPRn0A]

1- I think the Movement is protesting against the very excess of liberty of the rich "1%" banks and multinationals owners vs. the restrictions of rights and liberties of the poor "99%" employees, workers or modern slaves.

2- I think the goal that the Occupy Movement wants to bring, if there is a common objective would be to bring a balance in this Rich vs. Poor economic system, something that would be fair for everyone, not only for the USA, but for the world.

Perhaps each one has its own goal