I guess it's time to chime in with the Mind Jazz opinion on OCCUPY WALL STREET.

The conservative side ( fairly lopsided in that direction) of my Tuesday golf ensemble uttered the word "Socialism" when referring to the OWS movement.

Every time the concept of controlling corporate greed comes up, The Right simply scream "socialists".........

And the same name calling applies when talking about raising the taxes on the wealthiest people in the country....along with that silly claim that lower taxes for the rich is a method of job creation.

WITH CORPORUPTIONS SENDING THEIR MANUFACTURING OVERSEAS....ALL THAT IS CREATED IS SIMPLY MORE................

PROFIT.

SO MANY TIMES THOSE CORPORUPTIONS DON'T EVEN PASS THE SAVINGS ON TO THE CONSUMERS....THEY SIMPLY SHOW BETTER PERFORMANCE NUMBERS FOR THEIR SHARE HOLDERS.

AND HOW CAN SOMEONE , IN CHARGE (CEO ETC.), WHO HAS SEEN MARKET CAPITALIZATION DIMINISH....GET REWARDED WHEN REPLACED?

AND THE REWARDS ARE SIMPLY STAGGERING.

ARE THERE NOT PERFORMANCE CLAUSES IN THOSE CONTRACTS?

I am a believer in the free market system but I've always felt that excessive greed could totally undermine the concept. If an individual doesn't regulate his or her personal level of greed then many others will suffer. Those who are in a position to affect the economics of a large portion of the population must be the ones who say...."easy does it, let's spread this around a bit." Warren Buffet and Bill Gates seem to be addressing that situation by their projects of giving back. Of course The Foundations they seem to be giving back to have their own names attached, so I'm not really sure about their greed levels.

The problem is those of us who aren't in the 1% have become extremely paranoid.

The DISPARITY IN INCOME DISTRIBUTION is a numbers game and that game is currently operating at the same level that was operating in 1928......

(NOTE THE ABOVE CHART)

The middle class of America was basically constructed after 1935. Corporate America was basically constructed after 1970. Since 1970 everything has changed.

Job creation, or lack of it to be more precise, is why those people are sleeping on Wall Streets steps.

Economic inequality is created by lack of jobs and when manufacturing and service sector jobs are being transferred (at record numbers) to other continents then sh..t will hit the fan.

HOW CAN THESE JOBS BE REPLACED?

NEW INDUSTRIES?

NEW SALARY PARADIGMS?

REDUCED PENSION ANOMALIES?

REDUCTION IN PRICE OF GOODS SO THAT SALARIES CAN BE REDUCED?

Can a Baseball team cut their ticket prices in half if the players don't cut their salaries in half?

IS THAT SOCIALISM or simply responsible behavior so that more people can participate in the process?

Would Gillette reduce the price of their razor blades if CBS reduced their advertising rates...or would they just show a higher profit margin.

I'm thinking that something radical needs to be done other than a total collapse of the system similar to what occurred in 1929.

THE NUMBERS ARE CAUSING A PANIC IN THE 99%....AND THE 1% DON'T SEEM TO CARE AND ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET EVEN MORE.

REDUCING PRICES AND SALARIES AND BONUSES IS NOT A SOCIALISTIC IDEA....IT'S SIMPLY A NEW CONCEPT TO SOMEHOW SLAP FREE ENTERPRISE IN THE MOUTH AND SAY.....WHOA NELLIE......EASY DOES IT.......RELAX.

Everything cost way too much and nobody seems to know how to control anything.

WE ARE THE FURTHEST ALONG REGARDING ANYTHING.....

THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF BEING ALIVE AT THIS TIME.

WE ARE THE NOW

WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO CORRECT THINGS BEFORE THEY

EXPLODE AND COLLAPSE

Free Enterprise, Capitalism or Economic Liberalism is relativity young and can be fundamentally traced back to Adam Smith in the 18Th Century.

WE AREN'T COMPLETELY ASSURED THAT IT'S GOING TO WORK FOR THE NEXT 1000 YEARS.....or even 100 years. We simply don't know because we've never been here before.

We do know that PRIVATE OWNERSHIP is the backbone of the structure and most likely any future successful capitalistic system will be operated with that principle leading the parade.

But when I'm told that I'm part owner of Microsoft with my 25 shares when there are 2 trillion shares outstanding....who is diluting who and who's the sap?

Corporuptions have convinced us that we can share in the ownership....but we've got to put up with their employee reduction program and their moving cost overseas program or the stock will tank.

WE PLAY THE GAME AND THEN WE GET PISSED WHEN IT DOESN'T WORK OUT IN OUR FAVOR.

THAT'S THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM.

IT'S THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN......AND THE ONLY REAL PROBLEM IS THE GREED BEING DISPLAYED BY THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE POWER. THE SAME GREED WHICH CAUSED REVERSE MORTGAGE DERIVATIVES TO BLOSSOM AND A COLLAPSE TO FOLLOW.

IF YOU HAD THE POWER WOULD YOU BE ANY DIFFERENT?

It seems the people barking the loudest are college grads who seemingly are being left out of the game.....and that game is the game that possibly leads to them entering the elite one percent.

EVERYONE WANTS TO BE IN THE ONE PERCENT and everybody who isn't in the one percent swears they wouldn't be excessively greedy.

POWER has a unique way of redefining one's personal moral fiber.....just like poverty has a way of making anger a defining character of one's personality.

CJC.......CREATIVE JOB CREATION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION....AND WHEN POLITICIANS CLAIM THEY CAN CREATE JOBS....WITHOUT OFFERING VIABLE SOLUTIONS....THEN THE SMOKE IS SIMPLY BEING BLOWN UP OUR ASSES.

AS AN EXAMPLE OF CJC.....SERVICE SECTOR JOBS COULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO AMERICA IF CORPORUPTIONS SIMPLY SET UP INDIVIDUAL CALL CENTERS IN PEOPLE'S HOMES. THOSE SAME PEOPLE WHO USED TO MAKE $25 AN HOUR WOULD NOW WORK FOR $12.50 AND NEVER LEAVE THEIR HOMES. YOUR PHONE CALL WOULD BE ANSWERED BY SOMEONE IN AMERICA AND IT'S A WIN WIN SITUATION.

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS COULD BE CREATED BY AN ORACLE BUSINESS TO BUSINESS SEVER PROGRAM UTILIZED BY SINGLE FAMILY UNITS.

The OCCUPY WALL STREET movement is entirely different than the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party has numerous leaders while the OWS is just a bunch of pissed off people trying to slow down the greed train that travels right along side the free enterprise system.

THE ONLY SOLUTION TO EXCESSIVE GREED IS INDIVIDUAL ENLIGHTENMENT.....AND THAT'S PART OF THE NEXT STAGE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.............. WHICH IS STILL A WAYS OFF FOR MOST HUMAN BEINGS.

Anger and rhetoric solve nothing.

In the meantime.....everybody has got to relax and start using creativity as a tool to solve problems.

And I truly understand that THAT is easier said than done.

DONE!

Michael Timothy McAlevey