Mother Jones tells us: How Occupy Wall Street Really Got Started

motherjones.com  "Months before the first occupiers descended on Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, before the news trucks arrived and the unions endorsed, before Michael Bloomberg and Michael Moore and Kanye West made appearances, a group of artists, activists, writers, students, and organizers gathered on the fourth floor of 16 Beaver Street, an artists' space near Wall Street, to talk about changing the world. There were New Yorkers in the room, but also Egyptians, Spaniards, Japanese, Greeks. Some had played a part in the Arab Spring uprising; others had been involved in the protests catching fire across Europe. But no one at 16 Beaver knew they were about light the fuse on a protest movement that would sweep the United States and fuel similar uprisings around the world."

TD is not in the top one percent. I am not even Joe the Plumber; I would have hoped to work for Joe the Plumber if his business was thriving enough for him to hire me. Often in my construction past have I seen government policies affect our chances of finding work. Mostly we hoped the government would leave us all alone so businesses would prosper and we would as well. Never did my wife and I wish that government would take from business and give it to us with no sweat on our part. We have no kinship with those protestors who seek something for nothing.