Bloomberg: OWS not a coherent movement

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested that the Occupy Wall Street protesters represent a broad-based irritation with the government and the state of the nation, but denied that the protesters have the coherence of a movement, beyond their common desire to have government “solve the problems.”

“If you take a look at the group [of people] in this one park that we have, it’s a whole bunch of people who are just disaffected,” Bloomberg said today on Morning Joe. They don’t know what’s wrong; they say, ‘we don’t know what we want, but we want it right now’ — which I think is as good a way of saying it as anything [and saying] that its not their job to solve the problems,” he added.