Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 6:05am.
As a resident of Minnesota and a free American, I find it apalling that people occupy city parks and property in search of answers and solutions. Sitting on your butts complaining that you are unemployed will not get you a job. Nor will complaining to state officials about our economy do any good. You want real answer then you should go to the source of many of our nations ills. We have more people on the government dole than any other time in our history. We have a national debt that is out of control. We have democrats blaming republicans and vice versa. The truth? They are both to blame. Freddie and Fannie Mae should have been dismantled years ago. The federal reserve never should have lowered interest rates as low as they did. Banks shouln't have given loans to people who didn't have the means to pay them off (and the people getting the loans shouldn't have applied for loans if they couldn't afford them. Then we have the house and the senate giving bailouts to corporations, when the corporations should have been allowed to fail. That is how a free market economy works people! Where should you be protesting? Washington DC. Tell the elected officals to be smarter with your tax money. Tell them to stop giving into unions. Tell them to bring out troops home. Tell them to seal out borders. Tell them all of your complaints. Maybe, just maybe, you will be heard if you go to the right people.
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As a resident of Minnesota and a free American, I find it apalling that people occupy city parks and property in search of answers and solutions. Sitting on your butts complaining that you are unemployed will not get you a job. Nor will complaining to state officials about our economy do any good. You want real answer then you should go to the source of many of our nations ills. We have more people on the government dole than any other time in our history. We have a national debt that is out of control. We have democrats blaming republicans and vice versa. The truth? They are both to blame. Freddie and Fannie Mae should have been dismantled years ago. The federal reserve never should have lowered interest rates as low as they did. Banks shouln't have given loans to people who didn't have the means to pay them off (and the people getting the loans shouldn't have applied for loans if they couldn't afford them. Then we have the house and the senate giving bailouts to corporations, when the corporations should have been allowed to fail. That is how a free market economy works people! Where should you be protesting? Washington DC. Tell the elected officals to be smarter with your tax money. Tell them to stop giving into unions. Tell them to bring out troops home. Tell them to seal out borders. Tell them all of your complaints. Maybe, just maybe, you will be heard if you go to the right people.