5 Steps to Clean up Wall Street

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Posted by Wealth Wire - Thursday, October 13th, 2011

One of the main criticisms of the Occupy Wall Street protests is that when they talk about “economic equality” they don't have a specific set of goals in order to make that happen. And with a topic as complex as the financial sector, it's crucial to boil down your message...

“The primary challenge of opposing the 50-headed hydra of Wall Street corruption...is that it's extremely difficult to explain the crimes of the modern financial elite in a simple visual,” Griftopia author Matt Taibbi wrote this week.

“The essence of this particular sort of oligarchic power is its complexity and day-to-day invisibility: Its worst crimes, from bribery and insider trading and market manipulation, to backroom dominance of government and the usurping of the regulatory structure from within, simply can't be seen by the public or put on TV."

Taibbi, who infamously referred to Goldman Sachs as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity”, has volunteered his five step plan to clean up the financial sector:

http://www.wealthwire.com/news/finance/2039

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1. Fails to address campaign financing. n/t

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2. Regulate them to a fare-thee-well

And watch these fuckers like a grouchy nun watching the bad boy table; that is, like she knows they're going to do something wrong, and she has the ruler cocked and ready for action at a moment's notice or less.