Let's Do Both

The hourly compensation for fortune 500 board members averages $934. Many board members serve more than one corporation, in what can be considered an incestuous plutocratic oligarchy.Meanwhile, American conservatives, who seem to have cast their lot with the 1%, insist that the Occupy Wall Street movement should direct its ire at the American federal government for thwarting economic prosperity through excessive regulation.

Without regulation, one can scarcely imagine the extent to which our corporate masters would go to enhance their own wealth and power, and eliminate the ability of the working masses to oragnize into self protecting groups, called "labor unions".

Conservatives  complain that labor unions require payment of dues, then use the money to support political candidates which union members might not necessarily support.

Perish the thought that this conservative concern  for the welfare for labor union members is insincere. Doubtless, the compassionate conservatives truly believe that when workers organize to gain bargaining power they are in reality harming their own interests. A single worker, acting alone, would doubtless fare better when dealing with billionaire owners.

Perhaps a compromise is in order. Perhaps the disempowered and unemployed should protest BOTH the corporate oligarchy AND the federal government; after all, they are the same thing.