Occupy Wall Street: Populist Financiers Supporting Protesters Is Part of the Problem, Not the Solution

FINIAN CUNNINGHAM 

“…[O]ur leaders have pursued solutions that are not solving our problems, instead they propose policies that accomplish little … With democracy in crisis a true grassroots movement pointing out the flaws in our system is the first step in the right direction. Count me among those supporting and cheering on the Occupy Wall Street movement.”, Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States. 

“They [the Occupy Wall Street Movement] blame, with some justification, the problems in the financial sector for getting us into this mess, and they’re dissatisfied with the policy response here in Washington. And at some level, I can’t blame them.” Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.  
 
“There has been class warfare going on,… It’s just that my class is winning.  And my class isn’t just winning, I mean we’re killing them.”, Warren Buffett, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Hedge Fund, third richest man on the Planet.
“I think it takes that [the Occupy Wall Street Movement] to make things happen sometimes.  ….[Over the past 15 years] we saw large corporations really screw people…. There has never been a time in my lifetime when the government is going to cut an incredible amount of programs that support poor people and feed them.” Howard Buffett, son of Warren Buffett 

“Actually, I can understand [the OWS protesters’] sentiment, frankly…. And at the same time the decision not to inject capital into the banks, but to effectively relieve them of their bad assets and then allow them to earn their way out of a hole leaves the banks bumper profits and then allows them to pay bumper bonuses. And the contrast between the two I think is a large contingent [of both the Occupy Wall Street protests and the Tea Party movement].” George Soros, Chairman of the  Soros Management Fund. 

Finian Cunnningham is Global Research’s Middle East and East Africa correspondent. cunninghamfin@yahoo.com

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