Where is Robin Hood?

For too long, people like me have sat quietly.

Sure we campaigned for Obama and Hillary. Sure we stayed up and partied or cried when Obama won the election. Sure we watched anxiously and proudly on Inauguration Day.

It truly started, though, early this year in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and a select other areas. When Republican leadership at the state level tried to circumnavigate union contracts with state employees such as teachers and civil workers. We sat in their workplaces and forced them to hear our complaints. Our representatives left the state to prevent quorums and the passing of harmful bills.

We didn't win those battles but at least we started forming militias.

Nineteen days ago, those militias marched on Wall Street. New York City was joined by several other locations recently such as Boston and Chicago. Major financial greed-holes institutions are the target of tremendous scrutiny. For decades we have sat back and allowed our wallets to be gashed by insane mortgage rates and credit fees and other forms of corporate greed and extortion. For too long, these propagators of financial terrorism have made mistake after mistake. Instead of losing their jobs or some other form of punishment, these same institutions have seen record profits and their employees have received bonus upon bonus.

Congress can't support us. We're attacking their support and livelihood.

What started out as a makeshift protest of a few hundred has turned into a three-week sit in of thousands. Labor unions and special interest groups have lent their political and financial support. Donations of food, minimal shelter and bedding have allowed these groups to stage a 24 hour a day voice.

This army faces a major hurdle, however. Though thousands of faces have joined the crowd, each face has brought its own mouth. There is no cohesive message. There is no general. So far, they are a group of ragtag, frustrated Americans who are angry with super-capitalism and greed.

There is no Robin Hood.

Even though the protests have garnered attention from the AFL-CIO, their support has only brought news articles. Even though the sit-in has brought the media outlets from local stations to FoxNews to The Daily Show, we only hear more rhetoric.

The only politicians to get dirty with this situation is the GOP hopefuls, and none of them support the cause. President Obama has commented on our frustrations, but there is no leadership. There is no direction.

There is no George Washington.

Recently I was given a link to an interview with Roseanne Barr discussing the anger and even some possible, though likely unfeasible, solutions. Can she be the face we need? Will more join her?

Where's our politician who is standing up for the middle class? Not the one who uses rehashed sound bites at a campaign stop, but where is the representative who stands up in the House and proposes a solution?

Hell, what is the problem we're trying to solve?!

This nation became great on the backs of that same middle class. This nation needs the rich and the successful but have they forgotten the lower rungs of the ladder they so easily climbed? Do they forget the teachers that taught them? The janitors that cleaned their classrooms? The men and women who removed their trash and cleaned their streets? The drivers who transport them on the roads they didn't help to build?

There's a famous Charging Bull statue on Wall Street. It represents the bull market. It's a symbol of financial prosperity and growth.

It has a new meaning now. It's the golden calf from the Old Testament. It's a symbol now of greed and false idols.

Wall Street has its face and message. It's a bronze sculpture right there in front of the world. It wants wealth upon wealth.

It's time to stop sitting in and around buildings. It's time to sculpt our own message and put our own face to it.

It's time for our army to find it's general.

It's time for Robin Hood to stand up.