Bloomberg's Cohan: OWS and Republican candidates find common ground

[banned from Kos]

We all know politics makes strange bedfellows. But how about this odd combination: the Occupy Wall Street protesters and a unified group of Republican presidential hopefuls?

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The Occupy Wall Street crowd takes its Fed ire to the belly of the beast on Monday. At 11 a.m., the protesters will congregate around the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, on Liberty Street, in downtown Manhattan.

They're both targeting the Federal Reserve. Of course, for different reasons. Republicans don't want monetary stimulus that might help the economy.

OWS? They are prone to Ron Paulism type reasoning:

“The Federal Reserve Bank is another problem that’s added to our melting pot of problems,” the anonymous organizers of the rally wrote on the Occupy Federal Reserve Facebook page. They continued, with less than 100 percent accuracy: “It controls and regulates all our money, and the increasingly high tax rates YOU are paying is what we owe them! And they aren’t even Federal; The US Federal Reserve Bank is privately owned. We will never get out of debt unless we stop them!”

At least the movement is realistic in its goals for the gathering. “We of course realize we can’t stop such a big bank in one rally,” the Web page notes. “But this is to inspire people to speak out. We are part of the WALL ST rally. Be a part of the next big thing. Let your voice be heard!”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-23/republicans-woo-the-occupy-wall-street-vote-william-d-cohan.html

[Vincardog]

1. Everybody is welcome BY OWS but neither Ron Paul or anybody else speaks FOR OWS