The Greatest Threat
2011-10-12 - by
There’s been an outbreak of populism on – of all places on earth – Wall Street. It started when a hardy band of protesters camped out in a small park near the Stock Exchange, waving anti-Obama, anti-Republican, anti-Democrat and anti-Wall Street greed signs. For a while no one paid attention. Then, suddenly, the protesters became celebrities. And there were a lot more protesters. Then the unions jumped into the fray proclaiming the Occupy Wall Street protesters were their answer to the Tea Party – which provoked the Republicans in Congress into denouncing the protesters as wild-eyed radicals and levelers.
From there different groups of politicians set about trying to provoke a war between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. Darkness descended. Chaos reigned. Then Professor Michael Munger, former Chairman of the Duke Political Science Department, posted a link to a chart and a blog on the Internet that said, “Occupy Wall Street, at its core, is a reaction to the increasing power and influence of corporations. The Tea Party, at its core, is a reaction to the government’s constant interference with free enterprise. But…the greatest threat to our economy is neither corporations nor the government. The greatest threat to our economy is both of them working together.”
The Greatest Threat
2011-10-12/
There’s been an outbreak of populism on – of all places on earth – Wall Street. It started when a hardy band of protesters camped out in a small park near the Stock Exchange, waving anti-Obama, anti-Republican, anti-Democrat and anti-Wall Street greed signs. For a while no one paid attention. Then, suddenly, the protesters became celebrities. And there were a lot more protesters. Then the unions jumped into the fray proclaiming the Occupy Wall Street protesters were their answer to the Tea Party – which provoked the Republicans in Congress into denouncing the protesters as wild-eyed radicals and levelers.
From there different groups of politicians set about trying to provoke a war between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. Darkness descended. Chaos reigned. Then Professor Michael Munger, former Chairman of the Duke Political Science Department, posted a link to a chart and a blog on the Internet that said, “Occupy Wall Street, at its core, is a reaction to the increasing power and influence of corporations. The Tea Party, at its core, is a reaction to the government’s constant interference with free enterprise. But…the greatest threat to our economy is neither corporations nor the government. The greatest threat to our economy is both of them working together.”