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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/02/AR2011020206367.html
Mubarak Still Has Support from Rich and Poor
(Washington Post) Griff Witte - There are many in Egypt who are deeply invested in the current system and will fight to preserve it - businessmen with rich government contracts, civil servants, security officers, ruling-party activists and poor Egyptians who fear instability. The country may be rich with revolutionary fervor, but Wednesday's events proved that the guardians of the existing order still wield tremendous clout. Many poor Egyptians, who constitute the majority, say they cannot afford the unrest, and they blame the protesters for sparking it.