As Zuccotti Park Is Cleared, Congress Moves to Gut Financial Reform
Mary Bottari, PR Watch: "In the dead of night last night, the movement
to hold big banks accountable for their crimes took two major hits.
Occupy Wall Street activists were swept from Zuccotti Park as radical
members of Congress moved to gut funding for the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (CFTC) and advance a series of shocking proposals to
roll back financial reform ... Today, the House Financial Services
Capital Markets subcommittee will move to advance five more bills which
would roll back critical reforms."
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Time for Congress to listen to the millionaires. The organization “Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength” – a group made up of millionaires who want to see their taxes go up – descended on Capitol Hill today to meet with lawmakers and demand that any Gang of 12 deficit reduction deal includes tax hikes on millionaires and billionaires. It looks like the message of the 99% movement has now been picked up by the 1%.
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