"The foreclosure crisis is where the rubber hits the road with the financial sector and the real economy, the 1 percent and the 99 percent,” says Mike Konczal, a finance-reform expert at the Roosevelt Institute who attended the East New York occupation. “If you really want to challenge the banks’ power and the way they’re stripping wealth out of communities, leaving wreckage behind, foreclosures are a key point to go to."
— Occupy Goes Home. If we can bail out the banks, we should be able to bail out the people. Yes? That’s the point.
