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WASHINGTON -- The Occupy Wall Street crowd may "smell different" and be "a little scuffy" to Buddy Roemer, but the long-shot Republican presidential candidate was more than happy to debate the merits of the capitalist system with protesters at an Occupy DC encampment Wednesday. "I like young people. I like to listen to them," the former Louisiana governor and congressman told The Huffington Post before walking to DC's McPherson Square, where several dozen occupiers remain camped out. "I told the other Republican candidates, 'Listen, listen -- they're saying something we oughta hear. They're saying that the few at the top gets the best of America, and everybody [else] gets what's left over,'" Roemer said. The occupiers in McPherson Square seemed to agree with that assessment, but then they went all Marxist labor theory of value on Roemer, who is also a banker. "Where does profit come from?" asked occupier Mike Golash. "From our labor and our brains," answered Roemer, agreeing in part. "It comes from us, and someone else gets it, and that's unfair," said Golash, who doesn't just want to debate issues but seeks to upend the whole system. "You want to abolish it, I want to reform it," Roemer answered pleasantly, in a marked contrast to Republicans like Newt Gingrich, who complained recently that protesters should "get a job, right after you get a bath." Other Republicans have accused the movement of spawning rape, murder and assault. Roemer, who calls himself economically <b>...</b>