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Polly Frost's avatar

Love this, Matt. Thank you. My husband and I went to Occupy Wall Street. One night during it we were invited to dinner at a restaurant uptown. Some WS people were there, all talking about how important it was for the government to bail them out. They had no interest in Occupy WallStreet or how the protestors felt or what so many people had lost. I've since seen the same contempt over and over again in the elites (most recently John Kerry and Gavin Newsom). They have contempt for people who have hopes and dreams in their own small businesses or middle and working class homes, life and family, or who are proud to work with their hands. I saw such emptiness in these WS people. They saw the world as winners (them, because not caring about what they invested in, just the profit made them invulnerable) - and losers (anyone who put their heart and soul into what they did and invested in, which made them vulnerable).

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VJ Hamm's avatar

The only person(s) I can think of as more greedy, inhumane, and power hungry than the fat cat Wall Streeters is Nancy Pelosi and her ilk who--by Nancy's own admission--withheld stimulus payments from desperate Americans so Trump wouldn't win the election.

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