Yes, we've got problems here in the U.S. and who can argue with the sentiments on the sign? 

However, the 99% movement also gets on my nerves a bit. Lots and lots of people telling how bad they've got it, and - at least in the photos I've seen - they're all clothed and look well-fed. After awhile, it starts to look suspiciously like - um - whining.  Somebody should do something! I agree. However, who is "somebody? abd what is the "something?"  How? Where? (I always get hung up on practicalities, dang it.) 

Another problem I have with all this is that it's based on a zero-sum economic view. There's a finite amount of "stuff" and in order for one group to have more, another group has to suffer.

If that were really true, entrepreneurs would never get out of bed in the morning, much less keep creating companies and jobs.   Do I think it's totally out of whack that some people working on Wall Street can make such obscene amounts of money?  Absolutely.  But that sort of thing has happened throughout human history; we just now KNOW how the 1% lives. (The peasants would have revolted far sooner if they'd actually seen the inside of the Tsar's palaces.  That class warfare didn't turn out very well either; the top people were soon taking a disproportionate share of wealth and sending their "comrades" to prison.) 

I'm all for standing up, speaking out and marching...but for something specific. Just as Ms. Gbowee led a march through the Liberian capital, Monrovia, demanding an end to the rape of women by soldiers. Wow. I can't even imagine the guts that took.  

Say what you will about the differences in economies, societies and cultures - these three women didn't expect somebody to do something.  They simply went out and did it.