What the hell NMA!?  I’m sorry you spent any time writing a song dedicated to the 53% “cause” because it was all a waste…

It’s naive to think that the so-called 99% are freeloaders that want handouts from the government. Throughout the Bush years, the financial industry was increasingly deregulated and the taxes on the rich and corporations were steadily decreased. In 2008, the financial industry collapsed under the stress of its own risky practices and the criminal executives made off with their golden parachute severances as ALL AMERICANS had to foot the bill in the form of the bailout.  The bailout wouldn’t have been that bad except that there was little restriction on how the money was to be spent, so rather than use it to HELP citizens by continuing to provide loans and essential services, banks instead paid off the investors (who TOOK the risk, so shouldn’t have been paid back), paid out bonuses to the bankers that caused the mess, and even used the money to expand and acquire other banks.  In the ensuing years, the majority of americans struggled to find jobs, pay for college, and feed their families while they simultaneously had their homes foreclosed-on by the same banks they paid to bail out. And despite all this, US politicians, both democrat and republican, have done little to solve the actual problem because they continue to be funded by the banks and large corporations.  Money controls our government.

Occupy Wall Street is not about collecting handouts, it’s about people who WANT to work but can’t find jobs (not as long as corporations continue to use their tax breaks to pay for cheaper labor overseas) and who WANT life to be better for the “53%” girl described in your song.  It’s comical how your lyrics describe the exact tribulations that 99ers are protesting:  minimum wage is not enough to live on, layoffs despite dedication to a job, healthcare costs too much, sub-prime mortgages are a form of predatory lending, credit scores (FICO) are used inappropriately to charge high interest on people already in debt, there is little socio-economic mobility, rent is too high,

Finally WHY THE FUCK are you guys being such tools!?!  Defending corporations and rich who actually pay LOWER effective tax rates than average americans? Glorifying police brutality? Occupy Wall Street isn’t trying to say that it’s evil to be rich or operate a company/bank, it’s saying that the top 1% is not paying it’s fair share and that they have more than their fair share of influence of the government. Capitalism is GREAT, but what we have is not capitalism: we have a small group of rich people manipulating laws to ensure that they stay rich and that their companies do not have to compete fairly. Stop discouraging people from thinking freely, stop encouraging obedience to a broken system, stop giving handjobs to scoundrels raping our way of life!  (and besides… many of you NMAers left America… why are you trying to defend it’s status quo!?)