Seniors Stage Bank 'Knit-Ins' To Protest Threat Of Medicare, Social Security Cuts

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Seniors Stage Bank 'Knit-Ins' To Protest Threat Of Medicare, Social Security Cuts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/03/seniors-stage-bank-knit-ins_n_917476.html?ir=Politics&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008

Senior citizens organized by a union-backed coalition staged a series of "knit-in" protests at banks in New York City and on Long Island Wednesday. Among the locations targeted included a Wells Fargo outlet in Manhattan and a Bank of America branch in Brooklyn.

Organizers at the coalition, UnitedNY, said they wanted to "save Medicare" and cited the recent debt ceiling debate as another opportunity for banks to pay taxpayers back for the bailouts of 2008. They drew a connection between offshore tax loopholes and excessive executive compensation and the federal deficit, saying it "should be resolved through a balanced approach, including raising revenue by making hugely profitable financial institutions pay their fair share."

The debt deal signed by President Obama on Tuesday did not contain entitlement cuts, but did set up a "super Congress" that will be charged with slashing hundreds of billions of dollars from the federal government's budget by Thanksgiving.

Vickie Owens, a 69-year-old former EKG technician and 1199SEIU union member, told HuffPost before the demonstration that "our taxpayer money bailed them out, so it's their turn now to bail us out."

[eShirl]

1. that's brilliant!

:thumbsup:

[roguevalley]

2. the last group to knit at a protest were watching guillotines. I hope

that truth isn't lost on them.

[eridani]

13. I think I'm starting to channel my inner Madame de Farge

Where are the tumbrils when you really need them?

[roguevalley]

14. truly honey

[FloridaJudy]

3. Where do I sign up? eom

[MountainLaurel]

5. Indeed

And can non-seniors sign up?

Of course, here in anti-union Louisiana, they'd probably bring out the firehoses.

[proud patriot]

4. Awesome !

I love it

[green prol]

6. Go! GRANNY, GO!

Just wait for all of us Boomers who were forged in the sixties to break loose.

[KittyWampus]

7. Great idea, but I'd be most enthused if they did Knit-Ins on Wallstreet.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. Calling for Madame DeFarge....calling for Madame DeFarge.

The tricoteuses.

[Skittles]

9. don't fuck with old fucks

no INDEED

[shanti]

10. woohoo to the knitters!

:woohoo:

[surrealAmerican]

11. k & r

[grntuscarora]

12. Did you catch

the BOA response?

"In response, a Bank of America spokesman said the company had paid all of its required federal taxes. "We've already responded to these baseless claims. This is a misinformation campaign that's distracting from the work that we're doing to help get the economy back on track."

Get that? They paid all their "required" federal taxes, which equals, what, a grand total of zip? Great citizen, that BOA! :sarcasm:

Go, grannies, go!