One banker, we'll call him Steve, was walking out of the corporate office in Orlando recently when a protester got in his face. There were three or four Occupy protesters who spotted Steve with a couple other people wearing suits. The protesters figured they had found one percenters.
"You're responsible for this!" the man yelled, inches from Steve's nose.
Steve, not backing down, replied: "You're completely misguided. I'm not what's wrong with the system."
Now first, a little background on Steve, who asked that his real name not be used due to his bank's media relations policy. He's charming, the kind of guy who could host a dinner party of random strangers picked up from a bus stop. He's generous: I saw him give a cabbie an excessive tip once without asking for extra from the other passengers. And he's incredibly reasonable: He's a die-hard Gator, but he and his FSU-grad wife go to separate bars when the two rivals play.
But Steve wasn't going to let this Occupy protester shout him down. The protester was yelling about how Steve worked for a big bank responsible for the financial collapse. Steve shouted back, explaining that he does commercial loans and had nothing to do with it, although his arguments did nothing to get the man out of his face.
But Steve's right. He had nothing to do with the financial collapse, and the Occupy protesters are doing their cause a disservice by targeting the workingman, even if he is
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