IF they are protesting the economic factors at work undermining middle-class hopes, they would be well advised to notice the causes thereof. Keynes, Glabraith and many others recognized that when you siphon too much of the liquidity out of the system by redirecting it to the savings accounts and investment accounts of the megawealthy, it chokes the middle class and suppresses the economy, because of the billions that do not get spent and passed on to other earners from that spending. The current episode is pretty well traceable to the Bush cuts and the unfunded wars, plus hedge fund managers making a billion dollars a year, for example.

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