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Down the line from things like child raising practices in the new upper class versus the rest of the country, the age at which they marry, and the kinds of beer they drink. they would never drink a budweiser or a pabst or schlitz or something like that to the amount of television they watch. here is a good example. the average american watches 35 hours of television a week. in the new upper class a lot of times they'll brag they don't even have a television anymore or if they do they watch masterpiece theater. they are completely unexposed to a massive source of culture out there. it's not goo...

Two sets of rules, let alone two sets of rules sold off in secret at auction. at least that one respect we believe the tea party movement has things in common with america, but also things in common with people in the occupation. joining us now is david degraw. one of the founding members for the 99% movement, which was a predecessor effort before occupy became an occupation. you can find him as the editor online. and you can read his book, "the economic elite versus the people of the united states." mark meckler was just here and ba basically his characterization was exactly the title of your...

David degraw joins us from los angeles, where he's currently advocating the same language from the same resolution that was passed by a general assembly in new york last week. david has been with us on the show before. he's also editor of a website, which i recommend if you're looking for significant coverage of the occupy movement and the 99% movement. david, it's wonderful to have you back on the show. how are you holding up? >> good, man. thanks for having me back on. i appreciate it. >> i want to read everybody the amendment that was passed by the general assembly in zuccotti park on a res...

One focus. i'm not saying that. but i do think from my own personal perspective, i sent out an e-mail to 500 occupy wall street organizers asking them if they would support our efforts to organize along campaign financing. and the response was overwhelmingly, yes. people might not want to have one focus, and that's understandable, because it's a complex issue or complex set of issues that we are faced with and confronted with right now. but my focus and many people throughout the movement, i think the one issue that has the most consensus is clearly getting money out of politics, ending campai...

And i know that the occupation movement is certainly a remarkably fortunate to have the level of commitment that not only you have, but so many folks that are involved with what's going on with this who have really forfeited income, sleep, and all the rest of it to do this. so thank you for joining us this afternoon. and we'll talk to you soon, okay, david? >> all right. thank you. really fast. martin luther king day, we'll be honoring the day. i'll be calling for a constitutional amendment. >> that's all on monday? >> that's on this monday. mr tin luter king day. occupydream.org. people can g...