Parody is often the gateway to the truth
There has been a lot of discussion regarding the so-called “Occupy Wall Street” protests taking place these last couple of weeks. Those on the left have been embracing this movement as a stick-it-to-the-man anti-capitalist infusion of Marxist energy desperately needed by their ever fading and ever failing political ideology. Those on the far right see it as a congregation of unwashed hipster d-bags looking for even more government entitlements above and beyond the generous largesse they already receive. Up until recently, I’ve been on the fence about this movement. It cannot be denied that there is a fundamentally unscrupulous bond that exists between Washington D.C. and certain corporate interests on Wall Street. After all, the current treasury secretary as well as his predecessor were both high-ranking executives for Goldman Sachs and both of these secretaries helped orchestrate massive bailouts and “stimulus spending” largely to the benefit of that company. So it would seem that there should by a massive popular uprising against Goldman Sachs and other finance companies who gambled with their shareholder’s money, lost big and then received a fat bailout check courtesy of the U. S. taxpayer. However, that does not appear to be what is happening.
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