If I were a member of the 1%, I'd be a bit nervous about now. I certainly wouldn't be hanging banners out of Wall Street windows saying "we're the 1%", and I might even consider laying even lower.
The Occupy Wall Street movement not only appears not to be going away, it appears to be growing, and its message seems to be clarifying. The protest is against economic inequality, corporate greed, and corporate political power, which determines policy at all levels in America.
America is a plutocracy, government of the wealthy, for the wealthy, and by the wealthy, and the non wealthy, finally, are getting fed up with it.
The fact that 99% includes about everyone, and about everyone has a mobile electronic communications device, greatly expidites the movement. There must be millions of people sitting at home, such as myself, who support the protest.
How long will it take the rebublicans to realize that most of the country wants to raise taxes on the wealthy, wants to save social security medicare and medicaid, wants to regulate big business, and wants to take political power away from the 1%, and give it to the 99%?
The Occupy Wall Street movement might very well force them to realize it.
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