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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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 Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:14 am Post subject: Why aren't more people protesting the Wall Street Bailout? |
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http://www.truthout.org/092608M
A mere 500 protestors marched through Wall Street to protest the bailout. Some of their comments are pretty choice:
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| They said providing health care for 9 million children, perhaps costing $6 billion a year, was too expensive, but there's evidently no sum of money large enough that will sate the Wall Street pigs |
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| "It's out-fuckin-rageous. They expect the public to bail them out?" said Rich Haber, 61, a retired Brooklyn bus driver. "I worked for the Transit Authority for 27 years, and I can't afford a house. I knew these mortgages were bogus." |
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| "They've been allowed to totally screw up and then get bailed out. I want to strangle every single politician," said Kevin Condon, a 30-year-old farm-stand worker from Brooklyn carrying a "Jump Without Your Golden Parachute" sign. |
Meanwhile the brokers on Wall Street were less than impressed:
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| Many Wall Street types greeted the protesters with contempt. "Just look at these people," sneered one broker as the march neared the Stock Exchange. Another group held a "Get a Job" sign in an office window, and one man dropped a few dollar bills out of his. They fluttered down short of the marchers, landing in a construction site. |
I'd like to see more and larger scale protests like this. It'd be nice if a mob marched into the White House and threw the President out the window. A man can dream, I guess... |
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Join Me
Joined: 14 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:27 am Post subject: |
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Look at the numbers Bush has racked up with his war. People are so accustomed to 12 billion a month going out the door that 700 billion just doesn't seem like much to save America does it. Americans have already poured 500 billion into supporting Bush and his need to conquer the world. Is another 700 billion to save his pride (and the American economy) really that big of a deal? Is it? Seems like one of these days we Americans are going to have to sit down and tally up exactly what we had to pay for the privilege of having George W. Bush as our President for eight long years. It is not going to be pretty.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Price_of_Iraq_war_now_outpaces_0318.html |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| It'd be nice if a mob marched into the White House and threw the President out the window. |
Defenestration is sooooo 1618 and so Bohemian.  |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:18 am Post subject: |
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| What happened in 1618? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:24 am Post subject: |
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| The Defenestration of Prague. I thought everybody knew that. |
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Privateer
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:28 am Post subject: |
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| The Impreial Governors were thrown out the window and landed in a large pile of manure. I like that detail. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, that detail gives the start of a very important war that little bit extra pizzazz that helps make it memorable. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| PS: Thanks for giving me the opportunity to use the word 'defenestrate'. It's one of those words that lingers around in the brain but you're lucky if you can work it into a conversation more than a couple of times a decade. |
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postfundie
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| the logic of the protesturds is amazing. .. Hey pay off my 93000 cause if you dont the economy will collapse. idiots |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| You people oppose the proposed intervention, the bailout plan? I think people who post here, for the large part, remain simple and stubborn "anti" people, no matter the course of action or proposed course of action. If the W. Bush Administration found a cancer vaccination, I imagine you would even oppose that, too. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:27 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| PS: Thanks for giving me the opportunity to use the word 'defenestrate'. It's one of those words that lingers around in the brain but you're lucky if you can work it into a conversation more than a couple of times a decade. |
Huh. I'm a little peeved now.
I learned that word when I was 10. I then tried to casually drop it into conversation for the next 6 years or so and had to explain it almost every time and got called a geek or worse each time.
My conversations went along the lines of:
My illegal tuckshop (Candy store)
Me: That's 10p
Young Customer: Ok, well, I'll pay you tomorrow!
Me: If you don't I'll defenestrate you (pointing at the window)
Young Customer: Eh? What'll you do to my cat?
Anyway it seems that it's acceptable to drop that word in to conversation these days. I'll bring a little piece of my 'book vocabulary' back into my spoken vocabulary. Got any more good words I should speak instead of just read? |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:31 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| You people oppose the proposed intervention, the bailout plan? I think people who post here, for the large part, remain simple and stubborn "anti" people, no matter the course of action or proposed course of action. If the W. Bush Administration found a cancer vaccination, I imagine you would even oppose that, too. |
$700 billion can do a lot of things.
You can build an entirely new economy on that. Why would we want to throw good money at a bad system? |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:40 am Post subject: |
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| You people oppose the proposed intervention, the bailout plan? I think people who post here, for the large part, remain simple and stubborn "anti" people, no matter the course of action or proposed course of action. If the W. Bush Administration found a cancer vaccination, I imagine you would even oppose that, too. |
The reason I am not protesting the bailouts?
I am an economic illiterate. I don't even understand what a lot of the terminology means, let alone what to think about the issues. But from what I can glean in the papers, a lot of people who are more knowledgable than I am seem to think that the bailout is neccessary to prevent another Great Depression.
Now, maybe these people are all wrong. But since I don't even understand what the issues really are, how the hell can I be expected to pick up a protest sign expressing an alternative view?
And I think you'll find that a lot of people in the general public are in the same boat as I am. This probably accounts, at least in part, for the lack of protests. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| Why would we want to throw good money at a bad system? |
What do you want to do, then? What exactly do you want to do? You are talking systematically as well. So I assume you have sweeping, revolutionary-like change in mind. Something that exceeds a mere change in administration, for example. Something having to do with destroying Wall Street and the entire banking system, I imagine? In any case, how do you propose to convince everyone to follow you in whatever it is that you are about to spell out here? |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 11:11 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
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| Why would we want to throw good money at a bad system? |
What do you want to do, then? What exactly do you want to do? You are talking systematically as well. So I assume you have sweeping, revolutionary-like change in mind. Something that exceeds a mere change in administration, for example. Something having to do with destroying Wall Street and the entire banking system, I imagine? In any case, how do you propose to convince everyone to follow you in whatever it is that you are about to spell out here? |
Not really. If we don't spend the money on anything else I'd be perfectly happy, too. I'd like to actually attack the debt by raising taxes across the board. Such tax increases would only go towards paying off the debt. But I recognize this will never happen. |
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