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Coverage from Forbes Magazine

There are two very different articles that came out from Forbes about a visit that Jeff Greene made to Zuccotti Park. In the first one, Greene comes off as very dismissive -- "But not one person has come up to me to discuss anything of note. If this were my demonstration, I'd be pulling people aside and trying to talk to them. To me it's much ado about nothing. I thought there would be at least one or two booths of highly educated people with information and ideas of what should be done."

In the follow up, some of his other comments are mentioned. He is not nearly as dismissive -- "I love that they are getting attention and bringing attention to the fact that the race to top and race to bottom for next generation leaves too many people behind…One guy talked about how we need a maximum wage, not a minimum wage; another guy said we should all just be allowed to own a few acres."

In the follow up article, where he comes across as more generous to OWS, Greene makes some confusing statements about Egypt and Tunisia. He says, "History has shown us that if you continue to empower the poor and desperate by not treating them well and not coming up with solutions to improve their lives, then it will end badly. That’s what happened in Egypt and Tunisia where the disenfranchised took the country." Not treating the poor well "empowers" them? Egypt and Tunisia "ended badly" when the disenfranchised took the country? I'm still trying to wrap my head around this enigmatic statement. My best guess is that he is saying that you need to throw the poor a few scraps every once in a while to keep them from revolting.