The Rising Tide of Online Opposition to Paulson's

[BonnieJW]

Plunder

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/micah-sifry/rising-tide-of-online-opp_b_128767.html

Building on Monday's post about the scattered but telling signs of public opposition to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion Wall Street bailout proposal--and the complete lack of organic online support for it, anywhere, here's an update on what was bubbling yesterday.

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When poor and homeless people ask the government for help, they're told that low-income housing and living wage jobs are not a government priority because this country is built on "personal responsibility" and people need to "make better decisions."

When giant banking corporations are on the brink of total collapse because they have made a systematic series of bad business decisions - because they can - the government gives them a trillion dollars. The Administration even wants to include multi-million dollar "golden parachutes" for the corporate executives who MADE those bad decisions.

When a homeless mother and her children seek shelter from the City and are turned away because "they have other housing resources" but have to sleep in the emergency room at Lincoln Hospital because they really don't, the City and the media paint her as abusing the system and their tough stance is spun as encouraging self-sufficiency.


Please read the whole article, copy it and send it out everywhere.

[mzmolly]

1. I hope those people protesting are calling Dodd's office

I suggested McCain as a cosponsor or bust.