Bloomberg: "We'll See" If City Will Let Occupy Wall St Continue -Wall Streeters Are Struggling

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Bloomberg: "We'll See" If The City Will Let Occupy Wall Street Continue -Wall Streeters Are Struggling To Make Ends Meet

Bloomberg Claims ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters Are Targeting Bankers Who ‘Are Struggling To Make Ends Meet’

This morning, while on local radio host John Gambling’s show, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was asked about the demonstrations on Wall Street. Bloomberg condemned the protests, claiming that the protesters are targeting people who making “$40-50,000 a year and are struggling to make ends meet.” He then went on to say people are focusing too much on the causes of the financial crisis and that we need to be nicer to the banking industry so that it starts lending again. He concluded by saying that we are “blaming the wrong people” by “blaming the banks” for the recession:
Listen to it:

http://12160.info/video/bloomberg-says-wall-streeters-are-struggling-to-make-ends-meet

[NutmegYankee]

1. Sounds like he needs to pee into a cup. nt

[Scuba]

2. Gee, you'd almost think this guy was a billionaire. n/t

[rurallib]

3. There are some that think Bloomberg should run for President

this interview shows a high amount of stupid and bullshit. Thanks for sharing.
short of the interview "they stole it fair and square - let's move on"

[defendandprotect]

4. We'll see if we have a Constitution or not? Right to free assembly behind netting? Mace attacks?

Bloomberg should be tossed out of office --

along with Kelly --

[Aerows]

5. Struggling to make ends meet?

Uh, no, those people are not who this is directed at - those people are the 99%. It's the 1% that this is directed at, and frankly, at this point I'd like to see them try to remove the protesters. It's spreading to other cities, too. Bloomberg apparently thinks he is the king and can just get rid of the peasants because they annoy him.

That's not the way Democracy works, Mayor.

[mmonk]

6. When one tries to define the motives of others that one does not

like, that means their arguments are more often than not wrong. Nobody who is honest believes the targets of these protests are people making 40 grand.

[icymist]

7. Oh my! Those poor bankers. Bloomberg must think that everybody is stupid!

eom

[fascisthunter]

8. Bankers Who ‘Are Struggling To Make Ends Meet’

this is a joke right? Well NYers... now you really know whose side he is/was on.

[Celebration]

9. This all could have been avoided

By putting them all in a resolution trust when they were bankrupt, rather than throwing money at them as if they had to save us.

And then you know what? Wall Street AND Main Street would be better off now if we had done that.

[truedelphi]

10. Both Kucinich and Darryl Issa, the men who

Headed up a House Oversight Committee on Financial Matters during the Fall 2008 TARP creation days, said exactly what you are saying.

So it's not like no one out there understood this.

Rather it is like those in charge wanted to gain as much money as they could - and what better method than the "Shock and Awe" Emergency, Hey The Economy Will Implode - Unless All Of Us Give Everything to All Of them Without Restriction!

And they will keep creating emergencies that require more and more Bailouts until these protests expand exponentially and shut the system down.