Op Ed on the Occupy Murfreesboro Movement

A friend of mine and I went down to the Occupy HQ to speak with them. I was wondering like many others whether the occupy movement will stick around long enough to actually develop any coherent ideas for fixing the US financial system, or will it just continue to be a disorganized expression of the frustrations many Americans hold? 
The Occupy group calls for social justice, but too many times this is a code word for socialism. Taking from one party and giving to another, the redistribution of wealth, may increase the portion of the economic pie that the least may posses, but it also shrinks the overall size of the pie as well. 

 In the United States we enjoy a standard of living that most of the world envies. In fact the Occupier who claims to be the 99% when compared to the rest of the world is actually part of the 1%. Our poor and hungry do not starve to death, nor do most die of preventable disease, because of the overall high standard of living all people, both rich and poor enjoy. 
The Occupier calls for an end to capitalism, but I’m convinced that it was not capitalism that has caused our current problems, but the lack of capitalism. Many of the occupy movement call themselves socialist, but I think the real socialist are the government officials who continue to bail out big banks and obstruct the free market from doing what it does best. (allocate scarce resources) The government for too many years has been in the business of picking winners and losers. It’s unfortunate that most Occupy protesters feel that the solution to the problem of the government picking winners and losers is for the government to just switch sides and make some corporations the losers while others win.  Why not get the government out of this business all together and simply make sure that equal rules are followed allowing the chips to fall where they may? 
The message that this Occupy movement has been missing, but has been clear to me from day one is that there is a growing income inequality in our country, and even though I disagree with most protesters about the cause of it. They argue that it is the unfair advantage corporatists enjoy, whereas I’d argue it is years of poor immigration policy and a fiat money supply. Nonetheless, its very evident that our economy can not be sustained in the same fashion as it has been for the past 40 or so years.  Maybe the election in 2012 will help right these wrongs, but I fear that it will not, and the proverbial can will continue to be kicked down the road again.