Are Occupy Wall Street protesters the REAL tea party?

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Occupy Wall Street protesters were all over the news this weekend, and Republican candidates continued to dis them:

“I regard the the Wall Street protest as a natural outcome of a bad education system teaching them really bad ideas,” said Newt Gingrich on Face the Nation.

Herman Cain took another shot too… he says they need a lesson in the value of hard work:

“This is why I don’t have a lot of patience for people that want to protest the success of somebody else,” said Cain.

So there it is. They are misguided, badly educated, and lazy. But what if they don’t know that? I know a lot of people are crossing their fingers that these are a bunch of stoners, but what if reporters started noticing that they’re NOT:

“We have the young, we also have the elderly who are among the protesters here, you have lawyers, you have doctors, working class Americans who are frankly frustrated about low wages, about the lack of jobs,” said one reproter.

And a study came out today which seemed to confirm their frustrations:

“The US economy simply isn’t growing, then in that environment employers can’t give workers a wage increase, and workers are in no place to demand them,” said another report.

And look at this- today’s edition of the Occupied Wall Street journal even uses tea party language… pointing out that the Boston Tea party wasn’t just about taxes – it was in fact an act of sabotage against a multinational corporation – organized by people we now consider patriots.
To quote a protest sign carried by a thin young women with frizzy hair and glasses – “You know things are messed up when librarians start marching.”

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