Are you upset about the latest AIG scandal where millions of dollars of the American taxpayers' bailout money were misused to pay special bonuses to their corporate executives -- the very same executives who swindled thousands of their clients and ran the company -- and the world's economy -- into the ground?
Of course, at the same time that 73 AIG executives are receiving bonuses of one million dollars or more, tens of millions of American taxpayers are facing unemployment, crushing debt, and loss of their housing, health insurance, and even the ability to buy food!
If this makes you angry (and how can it not, unless you are a family member of one of the 73 corporate thieves who got one million dollars or more), now is the time to make your voice heard by these professional racketeers who are abusing the government to steal absolutely everything of value that they can from us.
I (along with my camera, mp3 recorder and very painful broken wrist) will be attending the "Take Back our Economy" protest in NYC at 4pm on 19 March 2009 in front of the Goldman Sachs Headquarters at 85 Broad St [map]. If you don't live in the den of iniquity (NYC), there are protests scheduled to occur all around the country on Thursday, 19 March -- protests that you can and SHOULD participate in! I hope to see you in NYC or to hear that you have attended a similar protest in your own city. Further, if you publish your images, podcasts or written reports, send me the links or better, post them in the comments thread and I'll share them with the Huffington Post, where I occasionally volunteer. The Huffington Post will give link love and may also ask to republish your images.
No one is protecting us from the real thieves: corporate CEOs, bankers and financial analysists -- NOW is the time to stand up for ourselves and to make it known that enough is enough!
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perhaps I shall see you there then. I just looked at the organization site though, and it said the protest was scheduled for 4pm.
Thanks for the time correction. and i hope to see you there, too!
SUBPRIME BAILOUT PROTEST SONG
(Melody:One, Two, Three What Are we Fighten For,
Country Joe McDonald)
Lyrics WlliamBanzai7
Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible financial jam
Way down yonder in Wall Street land
So pull out your check books and pick up a sponge,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.
Chorus:
And it's one, two, three,
What are we bailing for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is a subprime scam;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up them pearly TARP gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! your net worth's just got blown from the sky.
Well, come on regulators, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Gotta go out and get those AIG boneheads
The only good fraudster is the one locked
up by the Feds
And you know that prosperty can nerver be won
Since they've blown their balance sheets to kingdom come.
Chorus
Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow,
Why man, this is subprime bailout au-go-go.
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying those dumb Feds with the tools of the trade,
Just hope and pray that if they drop the FWMD bomb,
They drop it somewhere else like Hong Kong .
Chorus
Well, come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Wall Street land.
Come on fathers, don't hesitate,
Send 'em off before it's too late.
Be the first one on your block
To have your 401k lost in a hedge fund black box.
Chorus