Occupy Wall Street is fading. Instead of checking popularity polls or reciting reports on behavior, we could begin by looking at some individual lives and imagine ourselves there. Some are recent college graduates who expected dreamy gainful employment upon graduation. Whoops, such offers failed to appear.

Bad enough at that, many such graduates had huge debts to pay, debts incurred by their years of college. Placing ourselves there, we could imagine having great angst as we think about the post-college realities of our lives. What to do in an America which has become hostile to private business with its refusal to offer job opportunities.

Now, it is true that businesses have been profitable and are sitting on mountains of cash, much of that cash overseas, in places much friendlier to private business. And why should they not do this? Perhaps there are corporations which would offer jobs to Americans who would be willing to live and work overseas. Our sick economy has been shaped by bad politics, which we hope can be changed in next year’s election, bringing in a business friendly government.

Accentuating the positive,

Leonidas H. Miller

Mattoon