

Former White House adviser Van Jones argues in a piece at CNN that the president’s base is angry because instead of asking for more from the rich to shore up Social Security, his budget proposal would take more from the middle class and poor.
America and the world owe a great debt to Occupy Wall Street for making the problem of economic inequality impossible to ignore, Van Jones writes in a blog entry at the Huffington Post.
Unlike executives, protesters are not seeking a bailout for themselves. They are trying to bail out democracy, blogs Van Jones at the Huffington Post.
The people have spoken, but that's not enough.