The running critique of the Occupy Wall Street protests is that they
have too many bongo drums and not enough message coherence. But that
hasn’t stopped Washington’s elite–Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and President Barack Obama–from all
hearing the same, singular message loud and clear.
“I think people are quite unhappy with the state of the economy and what’s happening,” Bernanke said
at a Wednesday hearing on Capitol Hill. “They blame, with some
justification, the problems in the financial sector for getting us into
this mess, and they’re dissatisfied with the policy response here in
Washington. And at some level, I can’t blame them.”
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