survey, about 750 of the people who took part in that. and as it turns out, those people were not really the 99%. a lot of them were much closer to the top 1%. gretchen: interesting when you break down the facts. 92 apparently were college educated. that s way higher than the average or the norm in america. 13% only 13% were unkphroeud. so were unemployed. you have to wonder if they were college educated, did they have jobs? apparently they weren t going to them when they were down there. maybe they were coming to wall street when they weren t actually working. steve: two thirds of them were employed professionally and 28% made over $50,000 a year. one other thing, according to the study, occupy wall street was not a spontaneous eruption but rather an action carefully planned by committed activists. brian: most of them probably went to their apartments to sleep at night and went back to the
that? brian: kindergarten. gretchen: i never heard this story in seven years. it s a new one. as i said, when is the book coming out? brian: the unauthorized version. gretchen: on tpobgz on fox & friends, a shocking story about these new wall street protesters. it turns out they are actually closer to the 1% than they would like to than they would like to admit. one. two. three. my credit card rewards are easy to remember with the bankamericard cash rewards credit card.
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good morning. welcome. i m soledad o brien. welcome to starting point. we are coming to you from manchester, new hampshire. we are coming to you live from the airport diner. five day ways from primary day here. our starting point this morning is something that you are bogey to hear on the combine trail today which is the future of the american military. just about four hours president obama will reveal his plan for a slimmed-down force that will no longer be fighting two full-blown ground wars. digging into the details and talking a lot about it this morning. also, mitt romney, does he have a tea party problem? they didn t go away in iowa but could new hampshire be different? we are going to ask the tea party favorite and romney supporter christine o donnell this morning. and despite the sparring back in 2008 in this very state, senator john mccain is now backing mitt romney. he is going to join thus morning to tell us why. then oops, we deported your teenage daughter. a fa
the far right is my place because on the left side of the screen the credits block my face everywhere i look i see greed and incivility that s the christmas polka all right, wealthy 1 percenters only very good let s hear from the other 99% all you wall street protesters what s coming soon your way close your eyes, a big surprise i know, it s pepper spray you can keep your turtle doves angry birds is what we love that s the christmas polka may the spirit of the season last much longer than the most recent marriage of ms. kim kardashian i hope santa soon will start to occupy your home and heart with the christmas polka our thanks to the house of holidays in ozone park, new york. we ll see you monday.