OCCUPY: Try this on, see how it fits

I have the ideal starter program for these Wall Street protesters. They are unlikely to get what they're after without some starter operation like this to set the stage so to speak. 

You who have 4.0 GPAs should transfer one point to those poor deprived souls who have 2.0 GPAs, giving you both 3.0 GPAs. Don't listen to those nasty parents and such who'll say, "Why should you give up the rewards of your talent and hard work to those who did not earn them?" After all fair is fair. Shouldn't everyone get good grades?

Now here's a program you can get your teeth into while proving your dedication to the cause. Isn't it far more important to make everyone happy than to give extra rewards and credits to those who worked hard to earn them? Down with this system of rewards for a few! Up with the masses! Don't listen to those who'll say that this will only encourage the slackers to keep slacking. Don't listen to that old, worn out philosophy that everyone should have equal opportunity but rewards go to those who have earned them. What nonsense. Slackers unite! Down with the privileged class!

Signed Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin with an endorsement from Josef Stalin.

Sorry guys. It's been tried again and again and made everyone miserable. And please no tear-jerker letters to the effect that this is not what you're after as it's only a few more baby steps down the road you're on. Even a recent My Turn column from a writer on your side of this issue made comparison with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia back in World War I days.

PHIL MEMBURY

Coeur d'Alene