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In an interview with ABC News, President Barack Obama addressed the growing “Occupy Wall Street” movement and similar protests.

Obama said that he understands the frustration coming from the Occupy Wall Street movement and compared the protests to the Tea Party.

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ABC News reports:

“In some ways, they’re not that different from some of the protests that we saw coming from the Tea Party. Both on the left and the right, I think people feel separated from their government. They feel that their institutions aren’t looking out for them,” he said.

“The most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles and we are on their side, and that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you’re supposed to do, is rewarded,” Obama said. “And that people who are irresponsible, who are reckless, who don’t feel a sense of obligation to their communities and their companies and their workers that those folks aren’t rewarded.”

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