A laughable quandary: Demonstrators Test Mayor, a Backer of Wall St. and Free Speech.The mayor wonders "...why don't you [Occupy Wall Street] get out there and try to do something about the things that you don't like, create the jobs that we are lacking, rather than just yell and scream?"
He's unaware, because of the billions clogging his empathy gland, that not everyone is a member of the divine Job Creator class he belongs to.
He figures he's engineered the perfect NYC, where anyone with initiative is worth millions, and where the rest of us should be content to Occupy Ourselves with the corporate morphine dripping out of iPhones and advertising as we underbid each other for the honor of running errands for the rich.
The mayor's done everything he can to make the city dependent on and servile to his Wall Street / 1% cohort, which has drowned the power of all speech but its own and turned democracy into a joke by purchasing the political process (see Oligarchy, American Style).
A few years after our banker-inflicted crisis, the world economy is still hostage to hidden dependencies buried in the shadow system built by Wall Street "innovation," with 29 global banks deemed 'too big to fail' and with a distant collapse bound to have side effects here (see Sad Proof of Europe’s Fallout).
But nothing's been done about personal debt, employment, or the next brewing crisis, and we can't do a thing about it through the political process because nowadays, thanks to people like Bloomberg, meaningful citizenship is restricted to the 1%, and its money chokes out any form of life that does not serve it.
