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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 04:54 PM
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The 1% (some of them) speak, you might be surprised...
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/silence_on_the_street_Y3p7LgVzsjCH5WrfSB4mVN


Even as the three-week-old protests against Wall Street grow louder, Wall Street itself remains silent.

As the “Occupy Wall Street” movement continues to spread across the nation, the traders, bankers and hedge-fund managers targeted as the “1 percent” have barely weighed in on the protests.

The few that have opined tend to express sympathy, if not always support, for the movement.

“The protesting is a statement the future is very clouded for a lot of people,” Larry Fink, CEO of giant investment firm BlackRock, said earlier this week at in event in Toronto.
A sign in the windows of the Chicago Board of Trade overlooking the Occupy Chicago demonstrators mocks the protesters.
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A sign in the windows of the Chicago Board of Trade overlooking the Occupy Chicago demonstrators mocks the protesters.

“These are not lazy people sitting around looking for something to do,” he added. “We have people losing hope and they’re going into the street, whether it’s justified or not.”

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/silence_on_the_street_Y3p7LgVzsjCH5WrfSB4mVN#ixzz1aEJ0DVQX
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 04:59 PM
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1. If you really care -- All are Welcome.
It might be even more enlightening.
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 04:59 PM
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2. Economically Michael Moore is in the 1%
Or at the very least the top 2 or 3%.

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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 05:01 PM
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3. If 1 out of 10 of them agree with us does that make us the 99.1%?
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 05:02 PM
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4. Earlier in the week it was reported, that a young woman(works on
Wall ST.-Name and Firm not identified). She stood
across from the Protestors holding her sign which
read--Raise MY TAXES.
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