When it comes to most choices between supporting big business or supporting the average voting public, I almost always take sides with the public. But when I read about the protesters marching into the lobby of the Stearns New York building, I have to say that I was on the other side of the line. The protesters are reacting to the bailout help offered by the federal government to preserve the stability of Wall Street giant Bear Stearns while failing to help out the struggling homeowners during the mortgage meltdown. The protesters have lumped JP Morgan and Bear Stearns together as culprits in the current housing crisis and planned to teach the children of the corporate workers how awful and ashamed they should be of their parents.
"We will go to their neighborhood, we will educate their children on what their parents do. They should be ashamed," NACA founder Bruce Marks said of employees at both banks.
May free speech be preserved forever, but please let us turn the volume down on the screaming protestors who so myopically focus on their own problems that can’t be fixed right now. A collapsed Wall Street will cripple everybody, not just the ARM holders. To keep things in perspective, there are riots all over the world because people can’t afford basic food staples for their families. I’m certain there are plenty of better things that we Americans can do to save the world besides dress up in yellow and storm a bank lobby asking for handouts.
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