No. Seriously folks…. If you thought these protestors were just flakes, according to BusinessWeek Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that started in New York show Americans want a “financial system that works” and don’t want new banking rules overturned, a chief campaign strategist for President Barack Obama said.
“I don’t think any American is impressed when they see Governor Romney and all the Republican candidates say the first thing they’d do is roll back Wall Street reforms and go back to where we were before the crisis and let Wall Street write its own rules,” David Axelrod said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” program. “That will be an issue in this campaign.”
Backers of the movement say they represent “the 99 percent,” a nod to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz’s study showing the top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of U.S. wealth….
Read more at http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-17/protests-show-wall-street-will-be-a-campaign-issue-axelrod-says.html
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