The question could be rephrased: should Americans protest Washington, or New York.
Tom Palmer makes an interesting point:
What caused the crisis, the indebtedness, the unemployment, the stagnation? The culprits are state agencies and enterprises, including our Federal Reserve (our government’s bank), Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), which jointly flooded the country with cheap credit and encouraged and subsidized unsound banking and subprime mortgages, all to encourage wider home ownership, paper prosperity, and cozy relationships with their cronies. We got a housing bubble, mountains of unpayable debt, and a financial crisis. Thanks, Uncle Sam. The Occupiers have the wrong address. The subprime crisis was designed in Washington, not New York.
I'm sympathetic to this point. But I wouldn't consider myself a Tea Party Supporter. Rough analogy: I like the food network, but Iwouldn't buy Rogers cable to get it. Why? Because i'd have to buy some terrible channels as well. Rogers sells cable packages filled, mostly, with trash. Same thing with the Tea Party. I like smaller government, less cronyism, free markets etc... but to get these benefits they want me to hate gays, disavow science, and support really terrible and inept political leaders like Bachmann and Palin. Sorry. Can't do it.
OWS, you win by default.
