people is on the occupy wall streeters' side. when asked if they support or oppose tougher government regulations of banks and wall street firms, the home of wall street, 73% of new yorkers in the home of wall street, 73% of new yorkers say they support that tougher regulation. even republicans say they support tougher wall street regulations. so this is it. there's this base question about whether there is any countervailing force protecting americans' individual human interests from really, really powerful, really, really, really rich sometime bad actors who are preying on us and have really hurt individual americans' fortunes badly and who are spending now hand over fist to keep doing that. is there any countervailing force against their interests or isn't there? is there any countervailing force on the part of individual americans? is it possible for politicians to act against the interests of the most powerful corporations when it is in individual americans' interest that they do