As many in the GOP continue their attacks on the Occupy Wall Street movement, it seems a worthwhile exercise to take a look at how our Founding Fathers —who Republicans constantly remind us are the guiding light whose vision is to be strictly adhered to—would view the effort of this movement to take back the nation from the corporate and moneyed interests. John Adams wrote that:
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in the Constitution or Confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
