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(108,903 posts) Fri Nov 30, 2012, 10:24 AM Nov 2012

'Fix the Debt': How 1%ers Build a Mass Movement for Millionaires

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/30-0

“You meet people, and you’re all trying to work on something together. It’s its own little think-tank."

“The beautiful thing about this is that, when you get a room full of incredibly bright people with compelling ideas together in a room, something good comes of that.”

“We would lose people if we got more specific about our goals. We’d rather try to influence the overall broad parameters of what happens.”

Quick: Which loosely organized, quasi-ideological faction came up with those lofty expressions of idealism?

If you guessed Occupy Wall Street, you were wrong. They came from recent interviews with top-level members of Fix the Debt, the high-minded confab of business elites that is pushing for bipartisan deficit reduction ahead of the so-called “fiscal cliff.”