Pelosi takes on Eric Cantor's Remarks About the "Occupy" Protests

Nancy Pelosi Backs Occupy Wall Street Message, Tells Eric Cantor To Shove It
Zeke Miller

In an interview with ABC News' Christiane Amanpour, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she supports the message of the Occupy Wall Street protesters that "change has to happen."

PELOSI: "Well, I support the message to the establishment — whether it's Wall Street or the political establishment and the rest — that change has to happen. We cannot continue in a way that is not relevant to their lives. I think one of the most angry responses I've seen to actions in Washington came after we passed the TARP bill. And that was the bill that pulled us back from a financial crisis — and this was during the Presidency of President Bush. The thought was that once we did that, there would be capital available and Main Street would benefit from the resources that went largely to people on Wall Street. That didn't happen and people are angry.

I think people are angry that they don't have jobs — by and large. There's nothing that makes you angrier than not being able to provide for your family or understand what your prospects are for the future. And I do think that, from what we saw after TARP, that the focus on Wall Street was one that they thought was a legitimate place to go: 'Don't do this again. Don't put Main Street at the mercy of Wall Street.' And again, not to paint everyone on Wall Street with the same brush. That would not be fair. But actions were taken that risked our economy, and that shouldn't happen again."

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Updates on the "Occupy" Movement

Occupy Wall Street fervor growing in South Florida
Hundreds mobilize to motivate change

Several hundred people gathered to voice their opinions on government and corporate policies.


October 08, 2011|By Wayne K. Roustan, Sun Sentinel

LAKE WORTH — Despite the stormy weather, hundreds of people showed up at Bryant Park in Lake Worth and Stranahan Park in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday to add their voices to the grass-roots chorus echoing from protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement in recent weeks.

Dispensing with the traditional organizational structure, this South Florida Occupy gathering had no leaders, no spokespeople, no organized agenda http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifand no relationship with any other established group such as the Tea Party.

Many participants said they simply came to share opinions, trade information and express outrage just like you might do on Facebook or Twitter only in a live, face-to-face social network, according to attendee Rachel Shidaker.

"We're trying to create a platform for people to voice their opinions and concerns about their government to create and implement goals to better their national and local governments," she said.

The crowd in Lake Worth grew to more than 200 from 19 at the first meeting a week earlier. About 150 people showed up in Fort Lauderdale.

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Back From A Long Hiatus

Back with coverage of some of the same problems and many new problems in our Nation and the World.

* Our Economy is still hanging on by a thread as is many in the world. * The GOP is still holding up everything in Congress. * We are still in Afghanistan and somewhat still in Iraq., and have taken part in the UN's action in Libya. * There has been an Arab Spring that has changed, for the moment, many North African Arab Nations with a populist movement. * We have our own populist movement that has started recently, just less than a month old, here in the United States called Occupy Wall Street which has quickly spread across the Nation and many parts of the World. * President Obama is trying to pass a much needed Jobs Bill which includes help for our crumbling Infrastructure and Tax help for Small Businesses and it's being blocked by the GOP which because of the Corporate backed Tea Party has turned extremely Right Wing.

And there's a lot more, so lets get started with news stories and comment.

"We Are The 99%" The chant from all the Occupy groups across the Nation.

Here's a video from The Rachel Maddow Show where Ezra Klein was subbing for Rachel, and his guest Naomi Klein who wrote the book "Shock Doctrine": 'The Sky's The Limit' A interview with Naomi Klein on Occupy Wall Street