President Obama said Thursday that the widespread and growing protests against Wall Street are an expression of the frustration people feel about the way the country’s financial system works.

That’s part of it, but it is much, much bigger than that.

People are also fed up with a political system that is dominated by the money and influence of Wall Street investment firms and huge multinational corporations interested only in increasing their profits as average Americans scape and claw to pay their bills and hold on to their jobs, if they are lucky enough to have one.

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