You know, I have to admit: The Occupy Wall Street Movement has some legitimate points. They really do! But for every legitimate concern they have 4 bogus points that make the entire deal ridiculous and unsustainable. There are actually too many to refute every single one… but I will hit a couple of them, and as more of them surface and tick me off, I will write about those later. 

 Let’s start with this one (keep in mind they are talking about banks and corporations):

 They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.

  I don’t understand what point they are trying to make here. When a bank loans money for someone to purchase a home, it really means that the bank owns the home until you pay the loan back. If you breach the contract that you sign for the loan, and after all payment agreements and options the bank has for you are exhausted, your house is foreclosed upon. It is simple common sense: If you can’t pay for what you promised to pay for, you don’t just get to keep it. Remember that people have invested their money into a bank so that the bank can loan money and so that the investor can make money. Just because you can’t live up to your end of the obligation does not mean that the bank, depositors, and investors should take a loss of their money simply because you say so. This isn’t heartless, this is simple common sense. Is this economy hard? Yes, absolutely. Should banks do all they can to help people stay in their homes by working out hardship payment plans, deferments, etc? Yes, absolutely. Should the bank, depositors, and investors be held responsible for your lack of work, lack of willingness to work, or lack of want or ability to pay? Absolutely not. There are options for help, many of them. However you don’t just get to keep things you can not pay for after promising to pay for it and demand that someone else pay for it. That is the “hooray for you and screw everybody else” mentality.

 They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.

 I can’t say that people aren’t out to end Unions, but the right to work movement is not to end Unions. It is to keep public sector employees from holding up the work and business of the people of their State and our Nation by demanding they get certain things. It is also to protect rights of those who are non-union. They are sent there to do the work of the taxpayer at a rate set by the taxpayers through the House and Senate of the Nation or of their respective State, not to be held hostage by sometimes greedy people. The OWS movement often demands that people have been stripped of certain rights, but they claim that you only have a right to work if you are in a Union. What a hypocritical statement. Unions are good when they are organized and operated properly, but they are detrimental to the economy and to the individual when they act like thugs to keep their power and when they try to control and corner the work market. Unions should be forced to be competitive with non-union workers just like the rest of the working world. They should have to participate in the free market economy just like everyone else. No special treatment. Everyone should be given a chance prove they are capable of doing a job if chosen for it at a competitive price. 

 They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.

 Since when was education free? Someone show me where it says that education is both a right and free in the Constitution. That’s because you won’t find it. Is college super-expensive? Yes. Does it need to come down. Yes. Does that mean that it is ok to rack up thousands of dollars in loans and school bills and then not pay them? NO! The American dream is built with hard work, not handouts. If you don’t want to be “held hostage” then don’t sign the loan documents, and don’t go to college. 

 This is not even close to the Tea Party Movement. Occupy has had thousands of arrests, breaking of the law, and tearing stuff up. It makes it impossible to take them seriously.