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If We Are the 99 Percent, Who Is the 47?
On the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, a video showed Mitt Romney discussing the challenge of winning over an electorate where 47 percent of citizens don't pay taxes.
By Mike Pesca • • 50m ListenYesterday was the first anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It was also the day that a leaked video showed Mitt Romney expounding on the challenge of winning over an electorate where 47 percent of citizens don't pay taxes. Guest host Mike Pesca, sitting in for Warren Olney, discusses family Incomes and political outcomes. Also, troop reduction in Afghanistan signals a new strategy, and Warren Olney's conversation with Salmon Rushdie about his life under a fatwa.
Banner image: (L) Occupy Wall Street protestors on September 26, 2011. Photo by PaulSteinJC/flickr. (R) Screen grab from Mother Jones' secret video of Mitt Romney.
