Cantor On Occupy Wall Street: People "Justifiably Frustrated"

By Mike Hothi

At a briefing today on Capitol Hill, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said the demonstrators in New York and across the country affiliated with Occupy Wall Street are “justifiably frustrated.”

Cantor went on to say that people are upset about crony capitalism.

“What people are seeing is that if you are close to the halls of power, you’ve got a leg up on somebody else. That’s not fair,” Cantor said.

The Majority Leader was more sympathetic towards the movement today as opposed to last week when he said he was concerned about “mobs” at Occupy Wall Street.

When asked what the distinction was between his support for Tea Party protests and his statement against the Occupy Wall Street protests last week, Cantor stated “the Tea Party were attempting to address their grievances from the government that they elected. The protestors on Wall Street and elsewhere are pitting themselves against others outside government, in America.”

Cantor’s comments come as New York demonstrators take their protests to the posh neighborhoods of Manhattan’s Upper East Side Tuesday.