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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-26-08 09:44 AM
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Time To Take Out The Trash
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/outrage-online.html

An e-mail that began as a rallying cry from a lone journalist to an influential circle of friends to protest the U.S. government bailout of Wall Street has ignited a national day of street protests. Some demonstrators plan to dump their rubbish in front of the bronze bull sculpture near Wall Street in downtown Manhattan Thursday.
"People are going to bring their own personal junk that they think is worth as much as the junk financial instruments that the government is proposing to buy from the Wall Street banks," says Andrew Boyd, an activist and freelance online-video artist for nonprofit groups in Manhattan. "We're hoping that people show up with their 8-track cassette collections, their old Spice Girl CDs, their surf boards that got bit by sharks and old Enron stock certificates."
Boyd is just one of thousands of Americans from all over the political spectrum who the Bush Administration has angered with its vague proposal to hand $700 billion over to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to restore U.S. financial markets' health. That anger has manifested itself online through e-mail, web sites and other online chatter, with one site, BuyMyShitPile.com, going rapidly viral this week. The site, a parody of the dire financial situation, is what is inspiring the self-organizing group of activists to show up in downtown Manhattan Thursday evening with all their junk. They hope to make their simmering fury palpable to Wall Streeters getting off work.
"Why should people who made financially imprudent decisions be rewarded?" asks Boyd, who is best known for founding the political protest theater group Billionaires For Bush. "It's our hard-earned tax dollars, and we're being asked to bail these guys out at the same time as this locks out all the things that we want for the future."
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bubba_brutus Donating Member (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-26-08 10:15 AM
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1. taking out the trash
I would love to see the pile of trash mounted in front of the White House. But if we bail them out, will it really be our tax money, or will they just have the federal reserve print more phony money.

Close to a trillion dollars will be injected into our economy to pay for trash and then our dollar will become as good as that trash!

Foreign investors will dump the dollar like they are taking out the trash and the price of bread will jump to 4-6 dollars a loaf and gas will be 10-15 dollars a gallon, because of the inflation our idiot dictator just created.

What then?
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