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Monday, December 5, 2011

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Mic Checked at NC State by Occupy on 11/30/11 - Occupy Raleigh Day

I just love this!!!


"Stumpf made $17.6 million in 2010—672 times what the average American takes home. "
Occupied Washington  January/February 2012 IssuMother Jones 

Grotesque income inequality is just a symptom of our larger political disease.


But why single out Stumpf, who actually sounds fairly cuddly for a bank CEO? (His hobby is baking bread, for Christ's sake.) Let's turn instead to John Paulson, the billionaire hedge fund manager who unctuously admonished Occupy protesters: "Instead of vilifying our most successful businesses, we should be supporting them and encouraging them to remain in New York City and continue to grow." Or how about the homeless-themed Halloween party thrown by an upstate New York foreclosure mill? Or the financier David Moore, who, having been dressed down by a panhandler for proffering only a dollar, took to the Wall Street Journal op-ed pages to bray about Obama's class-warfare rhetoric: "The president's incendiary message has now reached the streets. His complaints that rich people must 'pay their fair share' have now goaded some of our society's most unfortunate."