In case you're wondering what some of these financial types (a/k/a the 1% and friendly "job creators") actually think of the OWS protestors, watch and learn from this charming exchange captured by RT.com.
The whole segment is worth watching, but if you want to cut right to the chase, tune in at 2:08.
Update w/ Video:
Okay, my quest to determine just who the “Wall Street tycoon” referred to in the RT piece led me to seek out the RT reporter who produced the segment. I found her in Washington D.C. She told me that she had found the “monkey” clip on YouTube. So I commenced a search on YouTube to find the original source. I eventually found it in a short, powerful video entitled, “Occupy Wall Street.” This was where our Wall Street tycoon makes his film debut. On YouTube, it was implausibly entitled, “Mike Meyers Visits Occupy Wall Street.”
The video itself is called “Occupy Wall Street,” which was produced by Mark Ledzian. I’ve got a call in to his office to see if he got any names. In the meantime, enjoy an extra dose of the 1%. Watch it here starting at about the 50 second mark:
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I’m also adding an amended transcript (originally added by middleagedmom in the comments below) to include the extended exchange with two (and a third, silent one—but he looks familiar) of the “job creator” types. It appears they are being interviewed by an Asian news reporter:
First Job Creator: “I look at this with interest. It’s kind of fun to see, but I don’t understand exactly what they want. It’s anarchy. What’s interesting to me is how little knowledge these people have about the way our system works here in America. I don’t know exactly what they want. Do they want jobs? And how are jobs created? That’s what we do. Wall Street is an interesting concept. Wall Street is Main Street in America. Wall Street is kind of the spear point for capitalism. We finance things. That’s all we do. We take a guy who has a good idea in a garage and wants to turn it into something---turn it into a business. Are you with me now? (Reporter assures him that she is) And that’s what we do! That’s all we do on Wall Street --we finance companies, and companies are people.”
Second Job Creator: Well, if you kill Wall Street, there will be no one to create jobs. If you don’t get jobs, then you’re really unemployed, so…"
Question from off to the side: “Where’s Wall Street been for the last 10 years”?
Second Job Creator: “Well, you can’t look at Wall Street for the last 10 years. You have to look at where Wall Street’s been for the last 200 years. There are 300 million people in this country and as of four years ago, that unemployment rate was 4.5 percent. . .”
Another question: “But, how can you judge . . .?”
And then the mask comes off:
Second Job Creator: “Hold on, hold on, hold on, it’s not your show, monkey! I’m talking to these people—hold on--I’m not talking to you! Monkey, I’m not talking to you.”