decades, and is a Tea Party supporter. Ciancio worked his way through college at a local lumber mill pulling greenchain -- grabbing and stacking freshly milled timber. Seeing young people protesting against Wall Street is grating to him. He attends local Tea Party meetings, and said that the crowd tends to be older. "I think they appreciate a little more working for a living, reaching the point where they can take care of themselves," he said. The new protesters represent a sense of entitlement in Ciancio's opinion. "Have any of them even worked, ever hauled in a bale of hay?" he wondered.

Both movements were born out of tumultuous times.

The Tea Party movement began in 2009 following the 2008 Democratic sweep of Congress and the White House. The conservative/libertarianmovement, which is pro-states' rights, pro-small government, and anti-tax quickly rose to national prominence, and solidified its political power in the 2010 elections, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives. Many of the new Republican representatives campaigned under the Tea Party flag, and three current Republican presidential candidates identify themselves as Tea Party members.

The movement, which lacks national leadership, has been lauded as an example of grassroots organization, although critics are quick to point out that the fledgling Tea Party received large amounts of funding from David and Charles Koch, frequent contributors to Republican causes, among others.

Occupy Wall Street began in mid-September, when hundreds of protestors marched through New York and slept on the streets, demanding financial and political reform, among other things. Within weeks, the