I hate to say it, but I think Fun is far more correct than people like to admit.
I wonder why you hate to say it, if it is the truth.
I don't agree that the problem here is with the 1% though. The problem is Government spending on wars, oil contracts, war contracts, lobby groups, special interests and the like. Occupy Wall Street IMO is misguided. Maybe "Occupy Pentagon" or "Occupy Politicians Homes" would be more appropriate outlet.
We can't fault the banker for being greedy. Bankers have always been that way. We can fault our government for stealing our money, legally of course. The reason our country is floundering is because our tax dollars were and are handed out by our leaders, like beers at a frat party. They handed it to bankers, big oil, the war machine and countless other avenues. We spend 4-6 trillion occupying Iraq. A country at did nothing to us and wasn't even a hotbed of "terror". We destabilized the region on top of it, overthrowing a dictator. All in the name of war contracts.
I find this sort of vague conspiracy mongering about greedy bankers and a shadowy military industrial complex pointless and misguided. Although I think generally that our foreign policy is preposterous and that military intervention in the Mideast was precipitous and unjustified, the US has somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 trillion dollars in unfunded social liabilities - that's enough to finance 100 wars in Iraq, lasting 1000 years. That is not the issue and that is not the danger.
Speaking of poetry: there's something happening here. Let me be exactly clear what's going down.
The United States is headed towards a social and economic caste system. On the one hand will be a 51 percent majority comprising three groups. (1) An underclass of peoples who subsist in the main by sucking on the government teat - cradle to grave healthcare and welfare, aid to dependents, food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare. Presiding over this bloated and ever growing bureaucracy will be (2a) a vast cadre of diversity coordinators and other pointless civil servants, abetted by (2b) a government mandated propaganda system comprising the media and the educational system, all of whom will receive generous salaries, benefits, and extended retirement pensions from their overseers, an (3) elite group of functionaries and officials who spend their days jetting to golf vacations on Marthas Vineyard in their taxpayer funded planes, where they dine on taxpayer funded Kobe beef and afterwards attend taxpayer funded gala balls, rising in the morning to send out communiques reminding the taxpayers to turn down their thermostats and debating what sort of toilet paper the taxpayers will be permitted to flush down their government seal of approval toilets.
On the other hand will be the taxpayers, aka the "middle class", a 49 percent minority of drones, who'll spend their days stooped over in the fields meeting an agricultural quota imposed upon them by the Assistant Vice Undersecretary of Rice and Other Cereal Grains, a recent Harvard graduate, at the US Federal Department of Agricultural Quotients and Quotas.
On the bright side I expect I'll be dead by the time this socialist utopia arrives. But I don’t doubt that my comrades will find a use for my ashes, as fertilizer, for the common good.
