Comments on: Bank Protests Today — 2PM ET/11AM PT http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:11:48 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: newtonusr http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877719 newtonusr Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:24:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877719 <p>There’s a new post. <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/what-part-of-fnc-tax-day-tea-parties-dont-you-understand/" rel="nofollow">Come on up and join in.</a></p> There’s a new post. Come on up and join in.

]]> By: Brian77 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877718 Brian77 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:20:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877718 <p>It’s good of you guys to not yank my registration, and I don’t mean that sarcastically. Thanks.</p> <p>You won the election. That’s a fact. It was in all the papers.</p> <p>But the level of spending President Obama and his team is engaging in is truly amazing, and it would damage the country even if it were spent on priorities more congenial to the right, e.g., on the military. It will result in levels of inflation and taxation that will really hurt the poor and the middle class, and it will do so for decades, because it will cripple the private economic growth that the Obama team claims will get us out of our economic malaise. (And remember, inflation is the most regressive form of taxation. Who is hurt by the price of milk, Ruth Madoff, or the guy making 20K per year?)</p> <p>People are starting to figure this out. President Obama knows that his plans are becoming progressively unpopular, which is why he is presently taking the ”kitchen sink” approach, and attempting to rush through pretty much all his legislative priorities right away, before the 2010 election greatly reduces, or eliminates, his majorities in the House and Senate.</p> <p>Scroll through Instapundit, today and in the archive, and see the size of Tea Party crowds.</p> <p>Compare with your dozen perpetual protesters dressed in shocking pink. </p> <p>The ”people” are wise to you.</p> <p>They don’t like you any more.</p> It’s good of you guys to not yank my registration, and I don’t mean that sarcastically. Thanks.

You won the election. That’s a fact. It was in all the papers.

But the level of spending President Obama and his team is engaging in is truly amazing, and it would damage the country even if it were spent on priorities more congenial to the right, e.g., on the military. It will result in levels of inflation and taxation that will really hurt the poor and the middle class, and it will do so for decades, because it will cripple the private economic growth that the Obama team claims will get us out of our economic malaise. (And remember, inflation is the most regressive form of taxation. Who is hurt by the price of milk, Ruth Madoff, or the guy making 20K per year?)

People are starting to figure this out. President Obama knows that his plans are becoming progressively unpopular, which is why he is presently taking the ”kitchen sink” approach, and attempting to rush through pretty much all his legislative priorities right away, before the 2010 election greatly reduces, or eliminates, his majorities in the House and Senate.

Scroll through Instapundit, today and in the archive, and see the size of Tea Party crowds.

Compare with your dozen perpetual protesters dressed in shocking pink.

The ”people” are wise to you.

They don’t like you any more.

]]> By: newtonusr http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877693 newtonusr Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:48:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877693 <p>Nice of you to drop by.<br /> Now go do some math.</p> <p>President Obama 69,492,376<br /> Senator John McCain 59,946,378</p> <p>Welcome to Washington, D.C.</p> Nice of you to drop by.
Now go do some math.

President Obama 69,492,376
Senator John McCain 59,946,378

Welcome to Washington, D.C.

]]> By: Brian77 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877691 Brian77 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:34:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877691 <p>Your little protest was really, really, little, i.e., an epic fail. Because it’s hard to pretend you’re the voice of the people, when you’re really just another PR front of the White House:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR8l0YET668&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded</a></p> <p>Watch and enjoy!</p> <p>I know Rahm will be pleased!</p> Your little protest was really, really, little, i.e., an epic fail. Because it’s hard to pretend you’re the voice of the people, when you’re really just another PR front of the White House:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..r_embedded

Watch and enjoy!

I know Rahm will be pleased!

]]> By: Dameocrat http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877602 Dameocrat Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:58:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877602 <p>Well, unless the protests start including a civil disobedience companant, like they did in the 60s with the civl rights movement I am afraid I agree, but it is a start. We have to do protests that cost the bankers and their political chronies money.</p> Well, unless the protests start including a civil disobedience companant, like they did in the 60s with the civl rights movement I am afraid I agree, but it is a start. We have to do protests that cost the bankers and their political chronies money.

]]> By: DavidKaib http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877596 DavidKaib Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:47:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877596 <p>I find this (not unusal) sentiment strange. Because a tactic was used in other times and places and did not work then, it can never work? (Then again, I also find it strange that some people think that street protests are the only way to bring about change - both positions seem premised on the idea that context doesn’t matter.)</p> <p>The issue isn’t whether the banks will listen. This targets the public for persuasion and as much as anything else - there is plenty of anger out there that is looking for a legitimate outlet. That makes this effort quite different from most others.</p> <p>The point for politicians and bankers is not about persuasion but about raising the costs of continuing what they are doing. The fact that they got away with outrageous things when people were not yet mobilized doesn’t tell us what they can get away with when people are mobilized.</p> I find this (not unusal) sentiment strange. Because a tactic was used in other times and places and did not work then, it can never work? (Then again, I also find it strange that some people think that street protests are the only way to bring about change – both positions seem premised on the idea that context doesn’t matter.)

The issue isn’t whether the banks will listen. This targets the public for persuasion and as much as anything else – there is plenty of anger out there that is looking for a legitimate outlet. That makes this effort quite different from most others.

The point for politicians and bankers is not about persuasion but about raising the costs of continuing what they are doing. The fact that they got away with outrageous things when people were not yet mobilized doesn’t tell us what they can get away with when people are mobilized.

]]> By: timr http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877541 timr Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:12:02 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877541 <p>protest doomed to failure. Nothing but sound and fury, signifying, nothing. The multinationals will never listen to protests. They already own the congress and the agencies that regulate them. They can get billions from TARP and the Fed, so why pay attention to a few protesters? Nobody paid attention to the protesters at Davo did they? Or at the G8? Or at the G20?</p> protest doomed to failure. Nothing but sound and fury, signifying, nothing. The multinationals will never listen to protests. They already own the congress and the agencies that regulate them. They can get billions from TARP and the Fed, so why pay attention to a few protesters? Nobody paid attention to the protesters at Davo did they? Or at the G8? Or at the G20?

]]> By: bobschacht http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877517 bobschacht Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:32:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877517 <p>Alas, no one has planned a demo here in Hawaii. Our Progressive Democrats of Hawaii didn’t focus on this, and no one else stepped forward to organize it.</p> <p>I hope that nationally there’s a good showing!</p> <p>Bob in HI</p> Alas, no one has planned a demo here in Hawaii. Our Progressive Democrats of Hawaii didn’t focus on this, and no one else stepped forward to organize it.

I hope that nationally there’s a good showing!

Bob in HI

]]> By: BooRadley http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877511 BooRadley Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:58:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877511 <p>Seconded!</p> Seconded!

]]> By: emerson http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877509 emerson Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:47:36 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/11/bank-protests-today-2pm-et11am-pt/#comment-1877509 <p>leaving for SF right now. Great work by you and Greider!</p> leaving for SF right now. Great work by you and Greider!

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