Students for Liberty: Occupation or Education?

My friend from way-on-back in middle school is quoted in this article which presents a Libertarian perspective on Occupy Wall Street. 

It’s been odd for me to read posts from so many political camps and notice that I agree with different things from different sources. I find the marriage of one social ideology with one fiscal ideology to be somewhat difficult when it comes to associating with a party.

At any rate - the article is a succinct and well presented piece. Do click through. :)

Students for Liberty:

The demonstrators have rightly noticed that the problems that politicians claimed to have solved are worse than ever. Corporations seem to have even more power than before, while debt and unemployment are crushing the middle class. The problem, however, is not that democracy failed, but that it succeeded. The Wall Street protesters need to realize that it is that the government’s well-intentioned efforts to help the poor and middle class that has lead to the situation we are in today. We suffer from a system of unbridled democracy, not one of unbridled capitalism. Whether it is raising the minimum wage and driving up unemployment, trapping the poor in dependence on welfare, empowering Wall Street by regulating it, or subsidizing homeownership with low interest rates, it has been the determined efforts of politicians to give the voters what they want that has delivered the miserable the results that people are so fed up with today. Democracy delivered the programs voters wanted, but not the results they expected.