#OWS PHOTO OF THE DAY - MBS Fraud
Paging Goldman Sachs, Fab Tourre and John Paulson, you presence is requested at DOJ.
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The strange but true story of a forest-dwelling man whose words wound up on a protest sign 3,000 miles from his home.
Browsing the Web just now, I had a surprising experience that could only occur in this era of political protest. Holed up in a redwood forest on the Northern California coast, the nearest McDonald's two hours away, I clicked through to some photos of Occupy Wall Street protestors in New York City, and saw that one of their signs displayed in big block letters 46 words that I wrote! They're being held aloft by an attractive 20-something blond woman I've never met before.
This is the story of how they got there -- or at least the small part of it I know, which is all that's required to see why it could only happen now, and how political engagement in America is changing.
Oct 17, 2011 at 6:57 PM
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“No, listen Bill, I have no trouble understanding what they are talking about.”
O’Rourke asked Grayson, “You passed econ?”
Grayson answered, “I was an economist for more than three years, so I think so…Now let me tell you about what they’re talking about.
They’re complaining that Wall Street wrecked the economy three years ago and nobody’s held responsible for that.
Not a single person’s been indicted or convicted for destroying twenty percent of our national net worth accumulated over two centuries.
They’re upset about the fact that Wall Street has iron control over the economic policies of this country, and
that one party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street, and the other party caters to them as well.”
O’Rourke joked that Occupy Wall Street has found their spokesman, then Grayson continued,
“Listen, if I am spokesman for all the people who think
that we should not have 24 million people in this country who can’t find a full time job,
that we should not have 50 million people in this country who can’t see a doctor when they’re sick,
that we shouldn’t have 47 million people in this country who need government help to feed themselves, and
we shouldn’t have 15 million families who owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home,
Okay, I’ll be that spokesman.”