Can’t blame them for what? Not wanting to be productive members of society?

(Mediaite) — Today the Occupy Wall Street movement gains the backing of labor unions from across the country and the sympathies of Ben Bernake, none other than the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. “I certainly, like everyone else, am dissatisfied with what the economy is doing right now,” he told Congress’s Joint Economic Committee yesterday, pointing out that the unemployment rate is above 9 percent and that Americans are “dissatisfied with the policy response here in Washington.” And when asked about those protesting on Wall Street he said, in certain solidarity, “At some level, I can’t blame them.”

“I would just say very generally, I think people are quite unhappy with the state of the economy and what’s happening. They blame, with some justification, the problems in the financial sector for getting us into this mess, and they’re dissatisfied with the policy response here in Washington,” Bernake said, adding that his proposed changes take into account not the protests specifically, but many of the movement’s grievances.