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Saturday, October 15, 2011

'In Private, Wall St. Bankers Dismiss Protesters as Unsophisticated'

save the country, put the banksters in jail..........from nytimes.........READ MORE

"Publicly, bankers say they understand the anger at Wall Street — but believe they are misunderstood by the protesters camped on their doorstep.


But when they speak privately, it is often a different story.


one wall street banker said........."He added that he was disappointed that members of Congress from New York, especially Senator Charles E. Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, had not come out swinging for an industry that donates heavily to their campaigns. “They need to understand who their constituency is,” he said".............wow, and there you have the problem


Generally, bankers dismiss the protesters as gullible and unsophisticated. Not many are willing to say this out loud, for fear of drawing public ire — or the masses to their doorsteps. “Anybody who dismisses them publicly is putting a bull’s-eye on their back,” the hedge fund manager said.

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