"The present form of government fails to provide for the pursuit of their happiness."

[phantom power]

The present form of government fails to provide for the pursuit of their happiness. They see that the time has come to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new one. The political class cannot accept this, and so fails to understand it. People in the streets, from Wisconsin to Wall Street to Washington D.C. are proving that we understand it perfectly well.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2052501&mesg_id=2053155

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. The purpose of an economy is to allocate resources in a way which maximizes society's happiness.

http://www.ou.edu/class/econ3003/book/area1c2.htm

+1

[phantom power]

4. What I love about this statement: it scores a preemptive strike on the usual conservative dodge...

which is "these protesters just want the Nanny State(tm) to solve all their problems for them."

By explicitly calling out the fact that our economy is now so broken that we 99% are losing any credible avenue for even the pursuit of happiness, it short-circuits that bogus argument.

[DonCoquixote]

2. not only that

But it allows FOREIGN OWNED companies to get right in the way of that pursuit.

[dtexdem]

3. Large corporations are neither domestic nor foreign owned:

they are a law unto themselves, sneering at mere governments.