Yup.

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Also, there's this problem facing the protestors:

It's true.  Mindless anti-corporate blah blah which imagines a utopia without our highly interconnected global technology is the fantasy of high school sophomores who have read too much Thoreau.

And yet, despite all that, we recognize that there is nonetheless something obscene going on when GE generated $10.3 billion in pre-tax income but ended up owing nothing to Uncle Sam. In fact, it recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion. We know there is something wrong when Exxon Mobil, reported in 2009 a record $45.2 billion profit, but paid none of it to the IRS. We know there is something wrong when our Ruling Class increase their personal wealth by 3669% during the biggest economic downturn since the Depression while a million of the vets they sent off to fight their War for Empire are out of work.

As long as those facts continue to exacerbate, the attempts by Limbaugh and other apologists for the status quo will continue to ring more and more hollow. Particularly, as more and more of the middle class stop being the people who used to laugh along with Limbaugh and start becoming the people Limbaugh laughs at: namely, the poor. Yes, the OWS people are typically young people who don't have a clue what they want. But they do have a clue that something is very, very wrong. And they are not wrong about that.  And if the only answer they receive is mockery while that evil goes unaddressed, it is the mockers who will have to answer for that, not the young people who responded to the increasingly loud cry of conscience.

Personally, I still like my idea: Strip every member of Congress of all income in excess of the average income in their district and put that money into a fund for disabled veterans.  It will have the immediate benefit of causing the scum to flee Congress once it is no longer able to benefit them personally, it will cause only people who want to actually serve their country to run, and it will help take care of the people who have sacrificed for, rather than exploited, their country.  Everybody (but congressional scum) wins!