Occupy Wall Street

[Riot]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/bu...s.html?_r=1&hp

In Private, Wall St. Bankers Dismiss Protesters as Unsophisticated

“Who do you think pays the taxes?” said one longtime money manager. “Financial services are one of the last things we do in this country and do it well. Let’s embrace it. If you want to keep having jobs outsourced, keep attacking financial services. This is just disgruntled people.”

He added that he was disappointed that members of Congress from New York, especially Senator Charles E. Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, had not come out swinging for an industry that donates heavily to their campaigns. “They need to understand who their constituency is,” he said.

And the above complete disconnect with reality is why OWS is growing and will not go away before the next election cycle.

BTW: "Financial services" = imaginary products. No wonder we're screwed. We sell ethereal, fictional "products", not real "things" that actual people manufacture, that require materials, factories, skills.