Reader says the 99 percent is at fault

Wall Street occupiers are blaming corporations for everything, but is it the corporations or the occupiers who are to blame?

It's the purchases made by occupiers that make the corporations rich. Take Wal-Mart for example.

Sam Walton started with a small business. Then, thanks to purchases made by millions of occupiers and other people, the late Sam Walton's family is very rich.

Are we to blame Sam Walton for starting a store that sold products at a fair price and millions of people flocked to his store to purchase them?

Sam Walton did not force people to buy at Wal Mart. The decision to shop at Wal Mart is a free will choice made by each and every Wal Mart shopper.

How about the athlete who makes millions? If the tens of thousands of people, including the occupiers, did not plunk down a $100 bill for tickets and buy his franchised clothing, no one could afford to pay the athletes the million dollar salaries.

Is it the athlete's fault people are willing to pay to watch him play and buy his products? What is to stop the occupiers from becoming athletes except themselves?

Then there are the writers whose books millions of people worldwide are willing to pay $7.99 for a paperback copy. That is followed by the movies that the occupiers are more than willing to pay to see, the franchised toys, t-shirts, etc.

Is it the writer's fault that they wrote a book that so many people want to buy?

Then there is the question about all the other jobs that were created by these corporations, the clothing and toy manufacturers and their employees, the concessions at the ball park, the movie theater concessions, employees and owners, the truck drivers that deliver the products, the paper manufacturers, books stores, and the list goes on and on.

Is it the corporations' fault all these jobs were created or the occupiers that made it all possible by spending their money for the things they desired and wanted?

All these purchases were made possible by the very same corporations that the occupiers are protesting against. Perhaps the occupiers should think about these questions the next time they buy food, gas, computers, watches, clothing, and everything they use and do in their lives.

Somehow a corporation somewhere had a part in making it all possible.