A coalition of community groups and labor unions fingered Mr. Paulson’s home for a march to the homes of “prominent New York billionaires.” The group is pushing to increase taxes on millionaires.
By midafternoon, some 250 protesters had gathered outside Mr. Paulson’s apartment building in New York’s Upper East Side, the fifth stop in a march that the organizers said also included the residences of James Dimon, chief executive of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM – News), and Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp. (NWS – News), parent company of The Wall Street Journal.
“He’s one of those billionaire hedge-fund guys who bet on the meltdown of the mortgage [market] and won big,” Vilma Nelson, a 60-year-old Bronx resident, said of Mr. Paulson. “He’s the type of person we’re against.”
I don’t think most people even know what the fvck their protesting against, let alone know who to target…
I’m trying to figure out why people like this 60 year person feels that “he’s (paulson) the type of person we’re against”… Just because he’s rich and has means to make money, their against him? Why? I guess people are just pissed at anyone that is “rich”…It’s people like this that behave in robin hood that just want a redistribution of wealth…. French revolution anyone?
