And he’s probably right that they’re doing as much intentionally. They’re openly protesting the capitalist system itself, and Francis Fox Piven — who advocated overloading the system to destroy it and build a socialist alternative — is now gleefully cheering them on.

These protesters aren’t angry that banks were bailed out. They’re angry banks weren’t taken over. They’re not calling for an end to crony capitalism and return to a pure free market. They want the destruction of the free market, destruction of capitalism, and establishment of a Marxist alternative.

Their manifesto reveals as much. Among their demands? A guaranteed $20 minimum wage, the establishment of a complete government-run health system, universal free college tuition, trillions of dollars in government spending on new projects, reforming the electoral system, outlawing of certain companies, and card check to help unions explode in membership.

These are far-leftists out to destroy the capitalist system. So the idea they’re intentionally harming the New York economy? Not so far-fetched, is it?

 ”What they’re trying to do is take the jobs away from people working in this city,” the mayor declared in his harshest criticism of the three-week-old protest that has caught the attention of the nation.

“They’re trying to take away the tax base we have because none of this is good for tourism.”

Although he expressed sympathy for “some of their complaints,” Bloomberg warned that addressing them has to be accomplished “without hurting people and making the problem worse.”

“If the jobs they are trying to get rid of in this city — the people that work in finance, which is a big part of our economy — we’re not going to have any money to pay our municipal employees or clean the blocks or anything else.”

They don’t care. If you’re trying to collapse a system and replace it with something else, why would you care if the current system is harmed? That’s your very intention — your very hope. They see this as their opportunity to start anew — to destroy the current system and build their own socialist utopia.

The protesters are destroying the park, forcing businesses to remain closed, denying the city revenue, and attempting to collapse the capitalist system. President Barack Obama’s response? He says he sympathizes with them and says they, “are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works”.

He sympathizes with the people trying to destroy the capitalist system. Kind of places his failed policies and seeming endless incompetence into perspective, doesn’t it? If the American capitalist system collapses, why, it’s been his dream since the days of ACORN and his Marxist college friends. A dream come true.