OWS wants

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http://occupywallst.org/forum/list-of-goals-for-occupy-wall-street/

List of Goals for Occupy Wall Street; 1) Free and fair elections. Public funding only, with real debates like we were taught in high school and college with debate teams and references and relevant issues that are strictly adhered to. 2) Get the corporate money out of elections. Create public election channels that would be the venue for debate and campaign education. No paid advertising on corporate media channels. With public funding and public campaign channels there will be no need to solicit special interest or corporate campaign funds. By doing this our elected officials will not be “owned”, or owe favors to special interest groups or corporations. 3) After election there should be no financial or gifting requirements to meet privately with elected officials. We realize that elected officials need to meet with experts when evaluating new legislation. When these meetings or consultations are necessary, representatives from all organizations that feel they have an interest in the pending legislation should have the option to send official representatives of their choice to a venue where all interested parties will debate the pending legislation so that the elected officials can properly understand the concerns of all parties both public and private. 4) Televised, public and transparent investigations into the financial meltdown, mortgage derivatives, who knew what, when and why the decisions were made to bail out private institutions with taxpayer money, what the taxpayers are getting in return, and what is being done to ensure that this type of situation does not happen again. 5) Televised, public and transparent investigations into Social Security funding, history of that funding, how those funds were managed and borrowed from, and a truthful assessment of how much actual liquid assets are available to continue dividend payments. Replacement of all funding that has been borrowed from the Social Security Fund and a secure low risk investment policy to help grow those funds.
6) Foreign relations that will allow the US to compete in World Trade. For too long we have had to compete with countries that do not have to pay living wages and benefits, provide safe and sanitary working conditions, or operate their corporations in an environmentally responsible manner. The cost of producing goods while at the same time taking Care of the people that allow them to continue to operate and keep our environment clean is expensive. We will never be able to compete, and will continue to lose jobs to countries that do not provide these basic human and environmental conditions. Corporations will continue to move their manufacturing centers to these countries and American workers will continue to lose jobs, and the ones they have will continue to pay smaller and smaller wages.

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I have a problem with the "taking out of corporate money", since the corporations get their money VOLUNTARILY from those who invest, in said corporation, and PURCHASE products &/or services from said corporation (compared to Unions which TAKE money for their political causes.)  People can choose to not invest or not buy from said corporation, if they don't like its political causes

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http://getsatisfaction.com/americanselect/topics/on_strategic_legal_policy_organizational_operational_structures_tactical_investment_procedures


On the theroy that with enough co-operative people any plan will work.

   On Strategic Legal Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, & Tactical Investment Procedures
Edit Subject I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 10% Management Group of Business & Government, but there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers yourselves. Consequently, we need to debate and vote-upon the Strategic Legal Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to create our own 4,600 “new” Home Town Banks of 65,000 Members – nationwide – in EFFECTIVE and EFFICIENT opposition to today's Top 10% Management Group of Business & Government (and that's not as hard you think) – as follows:

Step 1: All Members contribute $500 apiece to create their own Home Town Bank of 65,000 Members, such as Occupy (Home Town) Bank. Why? Because this would create 4,600 "new" Home Town Banks nationally to completely replace all of today's "old" banks (at least as it concerns the Bottom 90% of Workers).

Step 2: With this $500 Capital Contribution from each Member each Home Town Bank of 65,000 would have an initial capitalization of $32M. Why? Because you need $10M to start a bank in any state, so $32M is plenty. In turn, this would result in each “new” Home Town Bank of 65,000 being able to make “new” Business Loans to it's 48 “new” Business Investment Groups of $320M (due to the nature of the Fractional Reserve System – see Step 5 below).

Step 3: Next, each “new” Home Town .......