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

I wouldn't say that people making $40-50,000 a year are well to do financially, but to that end people who have exhausted unemployment and are living far below 30,000 a year, because they were laid off are doing far worse. A lot of these people scraping by on $20,000 a year have wives and children, and have especially felt the hit that all companies took due to mismanaged investments in 401 k's and inferior trade information, all brought on by financial institutions. These sub prime commodities are the reason we are in this mess to begin with, and if we don't look at the cause then no remedy will ever be acceptable. Bloombergs statement about us moving forward is idiotic in that we spent trillions in tax dollars bailing out these institutions with tax payer monies and never held anyone accountable for why the cards fell to lie as they did. America is angry because even after these banks paid back these loans (supposedly) and patted each other on the backs for braving the storm, the rain only fell that much harder on the working class and impoverished. The devil in the details of tax loop holes and billion dollar corporate bonuses causes the struggling and hungry to question what crisis these banks really went through. People are still failing to make enough to get their heads above water on their upside down mortgages and student loans, and the bank shows us no pity when we run out of money because that's just not good business ethics. Fact of the matter is, we supported them when they were at their lowest point and here we sit staring at ravenous corporate wolves, bite the hand that nourished them back to good health, and pissing on the same tax payers whose backs they rely upon to stand on.
So if banks feel that we are treating them unfairly wait until you see how they treat their patrons when people start cashing out their principal balance, only to find that the banks never had the money to back up their balance due to the practice of fractional reserve banking. Congress is responsible to. Too bad we would have to rely on them to get a bill put into effect that would make it illegal to accept campaign contributions from lobbyist and elitists. How can we expect our law makers to be able to make fair and unbiased decisions when there are so many giving hands reaching into their pants and asking them to deregulate this and cut back on that?
Perhaps we could pay them more to turn favor form obliging their esteemed colleagues, but with salaries of almost $180,000 a year for the average senator, how much more can we reward them for fraternizing with any john looking for a good time with a whore on capitol hill in a thousand dollar suit with a $400 dollar hair cut. The only solution is to get revolutionary on their asses and cut the fat. We need another Thomas Jefferson, another Benjamin Franklin, A new Martin Luther King Jr.. It's movement time people! Now we just need to mobilize the masses.

WTF??

What's to say????? Talk about out of touch with reality in this world...oh that's right those are his buddies.

His days as Mayor are numbered. I am looking forward to the parade of new soulless dickheads that will pop up to take his place. That is if he does not change the law again and flout the will of the people as billionaires have demonstrated they seem to be able to do with little hindrance.

Bankers struggling?.....right, pull the other one.

Quoth the billionaire.

Wow, is he really expecting us to say, "Oh, those poor bankers in their penthouses in NYC."... No thanks- I know too many people struggling with families who want to obey the law and have faith in those who are representing them, but every time they try to, those representatives metaphorically spit in their faces.

Bloomberg ; perfect example of elite propaganda ....

Keith! heads up!!! worse, worser AND Worst@!

yes, bank WORKERS aren't paid much?, BECAUSE of the greedy overlords they work for. We aren't talking about the wage slaves! what a maroon! Again with the freddie fannie those po folk caused it all.....We know who are roots of virtually every malady we face. Wall Street Oligarchs. Follow the money! Idiot.

He's right, the vast majority of people that work for banks are paid an average wage and didn't have anything to do with the financial meltdown.

However, that isn't who these people are out protesting against.....it's the system itself and the people responsible for maintaining it.

Bloomberg's attempt to conflate the two are a classic example of how and why he himself is also part of the problem.

I feel confident in saying that I think most people will be able to see through this billionaire and his lame-ass deflection tactics.

Cry me a river.

Bloomberg: Leave the bankers alone your lucky they even perform for you Bastards

Put him on the enemies list.
40,000.00 --- 50,000.00 a year!
They drank that much champain on the balcony the other day.

hay! bloomberg, I have a fat bird in my pocket for you.

At some point the Dumb Bastards have got to acknowledge that

"Greed is Good ( or perhaps God?)"

Is not a philosophy that will stand the test of time or mortality.

Does he think that everyone who makes, as you say, WagonMaster, less than $2 million per year is an absolute idiot?

Right - it's OUR fault the country's in such a mess.

Remember floks, this is coming from a multimillionaire who isn't on the side of the lower classes...that is anyone making less than 2 mil per.

Mayor Bloomberg is a liar.

That's cute, aren't hedge fund managers literally in many cases the highest paid people on the planet?

Where again is it they work?

They seem to be doing just fine making ends meet. In fact, those ends are meeting all the time at cocktail parties and other high fashioned soirees!

Trying to make ends meat? Prime rib, Premium Sirloin Steaks, Filet Mignon, and a 500.00 bottle of fine wine to wash it down with. I also forgot the Lobster Meat. Must not forget the Lobster Meat.

Wow , there goes ALL his credibility ..... He is NOT gonna get re elected .

Bloomberg is a POS! Ignore that we were ripped off and focus on what we can do from here - NOW THAT THE BANKSTERS have run off with our money!? What a fool

hahaha the fuck....

One more attempt to show how out touch the GOP/Tea Baggers are with the real world.

I don't believe that Bloomberg just doesn't understand Occupy Wall Street.

Are you f**king kidding me, Bloomberg?! This Wall Street whore makes me puke! If he would get his head out of Wall Street's collective ass his words might make more sense, but that's never going to happen. And it ain't the workers these protests are targeting Einstein, it's the Lloyd Blankfeins, Jamie Dimons and their ilk you typically disingenuous right winger. And does anyone need to wonder why the rich of this country are spending billions on security companies to protect their asses? Here is Exhibit A.

The problem is that there is a large block of "uninformed" people out there that are willing to carry the water for the rich. All the wealthy have to do is lease the buses, make the "tea" shirts, get the permits, and pass the info on to their propaganda channel and they can sit back and watch the uninformed do their bidding.

The crazy thing is that those on the "right" get all the press whereas these people have been at it for close to 2 weeks and barely get mentioned. The media - no matter what Sarah says - is definitely on the side of the rich and powerful.

The media is so afraid of not getting access to those at the top they are scared to "report the news". So much for "freedom of the press". Unless it's "freedom" is meant to be able to pick and choose what is news and what isn't. But then again hasn't most of the "news" sources been bought up by the rich and powerful all across the country.

And this nut job has considered running for President as an Independent! But then again he's loaded with money and I guess when you have it all you hang around with people that have it all. At their cocktail party's they must be blustering about the nuisance of this movement. What a joke!

What planet is this idiot on? Right; the protesters are angry at simple folks who make $40-50k and work on Wall Street.

Not the millionaire and billionaire hedge fund managers... and mega greedy speculators and CEO's... or any of the ULTRA RICH who apparently OWN WALL STREET. This guy must think we're as stupid as he is.

I think part of the reason politicians can say such shamelessly stupid things is that they're completely out of touch with the lower classes and just reality in general.

Clearly, he lives in a fucking bubble.

Mr. Bloomberg, how much did they pay You to say these things? I hope it was more than they paid the white shirt officers to attack the protesters to try to drive them away.