please DU this poll -- Is Occupy right to target Wall St?

[nashville_brook]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/todaysbuzz/os-todays-buzz-occupy-wall-street-congress-110311,0,1914027.story


Was New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg right when he argued that the Occupy Wall Street protesters should really be blaming Congress for the nation's economic problems?

Yes. Congress pressured banks to give mortgages to people who couldn't repay them, sowing the seeds for the collapse of the housing market and the recession. (45 responses)
48%

No. It was Wall Street's greed for ever-larger profits, not pressure from Congress, that led banks to peddle subprime loans and engage in other high-risk activities that made the economy crash. (10 responses)
11%

Yes. Wall Street wrecked the economy, but only because Congress had stripped away the regulations that would have stopped it from happening. (22 responses)
23%

No. Wall Street is the right target for protests, because that's where the real power in America lies. Congress proved that in 2008 when it bailed out the banks with $700 billion from taxpayers. (17 responses)
18%

[a kennedy]

1. done

:patriot:

[peace frog]

2. So far, the ayes have it

[pinboy3niner]

3. Done: 46/10/26/18 percent

105 total responses

[mmonk]

4. Absolutely. There is where the dictatorship funds its stranglehold

on economic policy and the political system.

[JoePhilly]

5. Some one needs to introduce these folks to Phil Gramm ...

while in Congress in the 90s, he basically worked for the financial industry, wrote Gramm-Leech-Bliley, which deregulated the financial industry, and then, with those barriers removed, Phil left congress and joined the board of directors at UBS, where he made MILLIONS.

[Ineeda]

6. Caution -- the OP question title is misleading regarding the poll. Vote NO.

[myrna minx]

7. This is the right wing framing so that it's brought to the feet of the President. Everyone loathes

Washington, but rarely do the people have an opportunity to scrutinize the real power brokers. Occupy has pulled back the curtain and this is making them all too nervous.

This poll is designed to blame Washington, thus changing the narrative. I love how one wealthy mayor has the power through the media to tell the hundreds of thousands of us what we really think and feel. Hubris!

[nashville_brook]

8. i think the 4th option is closest to this -- and yes, it's terribly written.

[dtexdem]

10. 'Yes' in either form blames Wall Street.

And Washington DID dance to Wall Street's tune -- as has Obama.

[myrna minx]

11. I agree with you, but the RW is trying to drag the whole mess back to Washington with their

government is BAD framing instead of focusing on the true power brokers - Wall Street and the likes of the Koch Brother barons et AL who are accountable to no one. There's plenty of blame to go around, including the President and his economic hit men Geithner and Summers, but *just* focusing on Washington fits the RW narrative. Occupy is exposing the *whole* disease, not just the corrupt symptoms.

[whathehell]

14. Agreed....It's the standard RW response: "It's Fannie and Freddie's fault"

...You know "Big Gubmint".

[dtexdem]

9. Only about a fourth of us gave the correct answer regarding lack of regulation.

But so far, three-fifths do agree that Wall Street is the culprit.

[DirkGently]

12. Wow, what a loaded, b.s. selection of answers. "Congress pressured banks?"

Right. Poor babies, arms twisted into pretzels, forced to package sub-primes into over-valued mortgage backed securities, bludgeoned into abandoning any semblance of underwriting or logical debt / value ratios, raking in billions with their tired, aching backs.

That was a sad excuse when the rightwingers made it up the first time. Can't believe the Sentinel would dig it up and push it in a poll.

[nashville_brook]

18. Orlando Sentinel "editorial board" could use a lesson in recent history

it's really poorly written, with the first option being appealing to those least endowed with reading comprehension skills...which is a manner of bias in itself.

[tavalon]

13. Way to miss the point Orlando!

Stupid is as stupid does.

[DirkGently]

16. That's the Orlando Sentinel. Orlando's Occupy movement is doing just fine.

[meow2u3]

15. "Yes AND no" is closer to the truth

The main reason Congress stripped away the regulations that would have stopped Wall Street from ripping off the people in the tune of trillions of dollars is that Wall Street bullied, threatened, and otherwise exerted undue influence on the entire government to do its bidding. Even the judiciary is captured by those snakes.

[Capitalocracy]

17. Want to protest the corporations that are screwing us over, go to Wall St.

Want to protest the government that's screwing us over, go to Wall St. Makes sense to me.

[workinclasszero]

19. Bloomberg spewing reich wing meme

But..but..hes a democrat! He's on our side..right??:puke::puke:

Congress is bought and paid for by wall street. Then the SCOTUS made sure nothing would stop those bastards from buying every pol they need for their fascist agenda to sail through Congress.

I blame Congress for selling out the vast majority of Americans, sure. They bailed out wall street with our money then let them walk on their crimes and paid them huge bonuses to boot! But its all that dirty wall street cash that made it possible! The right wing wants to deflect and misdirect the 99%

from their true enemies. The unrestrained capitalist raiders on wall street and the dirty corrupt anti democracy system they have imposed on us and the world as well.

[DirkGently]

20. Bloomberg's worse than the rightwinger liars that started the "blame the poor" fabrication.

He knows enough about the financial world to know better than anyone that what he's saying is false, and he has the balls to call himself a liberal. He's disgusting.

[RegieRocker]

21. Most people don't get it I see.

Still blaming home loans when it was and is the derivatives. Voted yes regulations.

[joeybee12]

22. Done, but I thinkI can safely say there are a lot of stupid people in Orlando...nt

[Romulox]

23. "Yes. Wall Street wrecked the economy, but only because Congress had stripped away the regulations"

You can't protest in favor of the status quo. :shrug: