I don’t belong to Facebook, but I saw this posted on a forum where I hang out and thought it worth promoting. It is on Facebook and the author says, “feel free to share…”

“Dear Wall Street:

Wondering what all the fuss is about? Let me tell you:

We gave you our blessing, and you laughed behind our backs for being gullible.

We gave you our retirement savings and you gambled it away on products even you did not understand – and reaped billions doing so.

We gave you plans for our children’s education, and you shredded each future sheepskin with your greed — well, everyone’s children but yours.

We gave you tax breaks because we were told you would create jobs as a thank you for the privilege. Instead you gave yourself bonuses and built edifices to yourselves that would feed thousands of the hungry and educate many of our youth who deserve it.

We gave your corporations break after break, and for what? So you could break the very backs that worked so hard to provide them.

We gave you the largest amount of cash and savings the world has known, and you threw a party — but forgot to invite us who paid for it.

We gave you our trust, and you stacked the Supreme Court to allow you a freeway to buying our politicians.

And now we are tired.

We are tired of giving to you who have proven so ungrateful.

We are tired of giving you breaks without a thank you.

And most importantly, we are tired of your self-imposed self-entitlement.

You have done nothing to deserve our trust, our money, or a break. And now we are going to work to take it all back.

And you can blame yourself for it.

And for the record, we do not hate money. We are not communists or socialists.

We are Americans. We are Italians. We are Spaniards. We are Arabs. We are Germans. We are Democrats. We are Republicans.

We are made of up many parts. Just like you.

Remember, you created the vocabulary for this discussion, and if the issue at hand is about money for you, then it shall be about money for us.

Steve Lyons
Boston, Massachusetts”

I think OWS is the most refreshing thing that has happened in American politics since the 1960s. I wish the movement every success possible.