xenigo

If you look at economic inequality, at it's core, has everything to do with our education system. And beyond that, it's parents that can't and won't put a support system in place that fosters free thinking, innovation, and success. They were brought up to think they can't succeed, etc. and that parenting philosophy is propagated perpetually. Generation after generation of idiots, pessimists, assholes, and "I can't, and you can't either".

Parenting is at the core of economic inequality. Perhaps corporate cronyism and bailouts represent a minuscule subset of economic inequality, but by no means are those issues affecting the country like parents who shouldn't be parents and our education system.

If these OWS protesters want to do something real productive, why don't they lobby to have the teacher's unions eliminated? Right now teachers put kids through the system like DMV workers processing car registrations. No accountability, and little motivation to really make an impact and go above and beyond because they're protected by the union.

I really think OWS is barking up the wrong tree with their inequality agenda. Doesn't seem like they've given it enough thought, because even if you eliminate government handouts... it still doesn't put everyone on an even keel of economic opportunity. As long as you have a small minority of parents that support their children's success... and the majority of parents continue not to... you'll always have a system that is fundamentally economically unequal.