Actually, they have a web site with a list of demands (marxist bastards that they are).
And the idiot at DU is wrong, they do not want the mess cleaned up, THEY WANT THE MESS TO GET BIGGER.
Here are the demands:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Yes, because creating an artificial floor will only result in an oversupply of labor and a shortage of jobs. Economics 101. How is that cleaning up the mess?
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Investors are the only reason that doctor's offices exist in the first place. Either the doctors themselves or investors and creditors start the business with capital. The need for capital won't go away no matter how much socialism and marxism you pass. It's better to use capital more efficiently than having a central planning body handle all investment decisions for the market. Economics 101 (or maybe 201).
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
See comment on minimum wage. Floors on wages create unemployment. Not to mention the fact that if someone has a guaranteed salary, they lose all incentive to work. Ignorant idea. And, not to mention the small, insignificant detail of who it is that will stand behind the guaranteed living wage - taxpayers. We have all kinds of nice God-given rights in the Constitution, but the right to someone else's property wasn't one of them.
Demand four: Free college education.
Yes, because campuses and college professors don't cost anything at all, right? Oh, you meant taxpayer funded college educations? More deficit spending. Brilliant.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Forcing failed technologies or technologies that aren't ready for prime time onto society only increases inefficiency, raises the cost of living, lowers the standard of living (brownouts anyone?), etc. Assinine idea.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
I'd love to see the math on this one. How'd you come up with the $1 trillion number? Probably out of your asses. Where will you come up with the $1 trillion? Tax hikes that will result in more unemployment elsewhere? How many jobs will this create? None. Higher taxes or blowing up the currency will only cause more private sector jobs to be destroyed than are replaced by this idiotic idea.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
Yes, because we just have a trillion dollars for everything, don't we? Moron.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Read the Constitution. It is already in there. And I agree with this request, though. End affirmative action.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Where will they pay your taxes, dipshit?
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
There are no independent parties these days. And this request wouldn't be necessary if they'd just require ID to vote so that dead people and felons would stop voting democrat.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Horrible idea. The money that is forgiven is actually in large part people's deposits in the bank. Oops. But go ahead with this plan, just let me go make a withdrawal first. I understand how this idea appeals to these idiots - they have no deposits to lose.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
How about you just pay your bills on time, like you promised?
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
Unions kill jobs and companies. Just ask GM, Chrysler, and every airline. To the extent that GM and Chrysler are still in existence, those union jobs have cost the rest of American taxpayers hundreds of billions of $$$. Union labor is subsidized by the rest of us. GFY.
These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
Go take an economics class, morons.
