gigantic facts, protest validation

To simply ignore GIGANTIC facts like the complete erosion of the manufacturing industry in our country (less than 7% vs. 53% at its peak) and to somehow insinuate that jobs are out there if you put the real hard effort into it when they are simply not (and won't be because we are competing with slave labor) is childish.

That coupled with the fact that anyone would attempt to justify the complete and utter exploitation and irresponsible behavior of much of the financial industry (specifically commercial banks now acting as investment banks and the total lack of regulation or proper legislation that allows this) is willfully ignorant.

The value of financial derivatives alone, mostly now issued by a few commercial banks, are valued at four times the Gross World Product. We have been completely raped by financial tools that were poorly understood or purposefully exploited. We are paying the price, literally through our tax dollars and the good faith in the US dollar. 16 trillion dollars in printed money that was issued by the FED and for which we have no information about.

So, despite the misguided manifestation of these protesters and their general naivety and apparent youth, simply suggesting what they are, at the core, protesting is not valid and that they are 'whiny' is borderline infantile itself.