After I have listened to news about Occupy Wall Street on all the major networks, one wonders if any of these reporters have actually visited the OWS web site and read their demands. One look and one can only imagine these are “cradle-to-grave entitlement” people who are hippes of the 60s, children of socialists of the 60s, communists, and anarchists. Their vision of what America out to be is not America at all. Anyone who has taken Economics 101 knows that these demands cannot be paid for and would turn the USA into a 3rd rate country. For the most part these demands are excuses of the lazy. As George Washington said: “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

First they want all worked unionized immediately. That was tried in Soviet Union and look what it has done to European countries that are at or near total bankruptcy. Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90/hr. to eliminate inequality. Okay now this is simply idiotic. Imagine a couple that invests $100k to open a restaurant and now have to increase dishwasher, bus boy, cooks, and prep workers to that wage? Now tell me who is going to pay $15 for a hamburger in order to pay for these wages? And what Doctor who spent 7 years in school and 2 years in residency or a CEO with 20+ years building billion dollar businesses work for that? Plus since this would all mean no profits, you can kiss goodbye to retirement investments as no one would buy any stock to invest in anything. Do these idiots think the federal government can do all the investing? Have these OWS actually seen the great job they have done with USPS and Freddie Mac? If you want that kind of wage automatically remember this – wages are earned by skills and accomplishments of your work. As Abraham Lincoln said, “You can have anything you want – if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”

Okay now this one is just funny – Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation. When was the last time you heard of great inventions by private companies in France? Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately. Again silliness here – banks go out of business and companies go out of business. So where do you now get your groceries, gas, and other needs now that a company that is forced to reduce their workforce cannot and had to close their doors?

Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws. Hello!!!!!! Have you any idea what the cost involved printing multiple language signs, documents, and interpreters? If I move to Brazil, is it not my responsibility to learn Portuguese?

Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US. Stupid, stupid, stupid. What other response can I make?  Create a single-payer, universal health care system. Does not work in UK or Canada which are MUCH smaller than USA, so what makes you think it will work for a country more than 3 times the size of those two countries combined?
Pass stricter campaign finance reform laws. All campaigns will receive equal funding, provided by the taxpayers. I agree with that.

Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%. LOL! Seriously half the people pay NO income tax at all – that is the problem. We already have a progressive tax system. And don’t give me that crap about it was 70% or 90% before Reagan and Kennedy. If you knew your history, you would know that that was for the ultra-rich who paid that – not the $250k to $5M per year income people of today.
Allow workers to elect their supervisors. What? Are you insane? Investors and Board members and the corporate officers decide who is a supervisor. It is their investment – their money – or the official hired to manage their investment that makes that decision.
Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits. Okay, so by the time you finish college at age 22 you expect a part time 30 hours per week work life of just that of just 33 years? Since the life span is now in the late 70s and 80s, you want only 1/3 of your life to contribute taxes but yet want all of these benefits? Where will that money come from? If you tax everyone making over $90 per hour at 90% of their income, that will not even cover 2% of the total costs to pay for what you want. As Dwight D. Eisenhower stated: “Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.”

Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich. Okay so 90% plus 5% – you want to keep 95% of someone’s money in taxes? Where is the desire to work to create wealth?
Ban the private ownership of land. Now this is insanity. Our founding fathers came here to get a piece of their own land – my house IS the American Dream.

Make homeschooling illegal. Not only are you bigots toward people of faith, but I went to high school BEFORE the feds created the Dept. of Education and believe me we were all fine with local school boards running things.  Reduce the age of majority to 16. Personally I would prefer that no one under the age of 30 gets to vote – that is just an opinion. But honestly until you have to pay for your own roof over your head or save to buy a house or start a family, you have no clue about anything other than tweeting and messaging and MTV.

Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row inmates from death row and transferred to regular prisons. In the South we prefer chain gangs because they actually work. And the death penalty carried out within the 2st year of sentencing would go far in detracting criminals from heinous crimes.
Ban private gun ownership. Have you heard of the Constitution? Are you even remotely clued into what give me liberty or give me death means? Do you understand that state militias exist from the beginning as a warning to the federal government? As Benjamin Franklin said: “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.”