WASHINGTON IS GIVING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO BANKS AND THE RICH.
THE PEOPLE’S BANK THINKS ALL THAT MONEY SHOULD BE GOING TO THINGS PEOPLE NEED LIKE EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, JOBS AND NOT TO WALL STREET GAMBLERS.
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THE PEOPLE’S BANK OPPOSES THE $700 BILLION GIVEAWAY TO WALL STREET.
The plan proposed by President Bush and backed by the Democratic Party-controlled Congress is a fraud! The plan does nothing to address the underlying causes for the economic crisis and is therefore simply a giveaway to the rich at the expense of the rest of us.
THE POOR GET POORER AND THE RICH GET BAILED OUT!
After a generation of free-market orthodoxy in business and government, the Neoliberal house of cards is on the verge of collapse. While profits for the rich soared in the past decades, workers lost rights and went into debt trying to make ends meet in the face of stagnating wages. Now that the weaknesses in the economy have led to a crisis, workers are being told that their tax money will be used to bail out the very people who pushed so hard for unfettered free markets. A real bail out plan for America would start by putting a hold on home foreclosures, reform bankruptcy laws to help struggling workers, and use the $700 billion to create jobs through public works projects (thereby offsetting job-losses due to slowdown in home construction and the auto industry). Trickle-down policies created wealth for the rich that never trickled down – a trickle-down recovery will be no better.
STOP FUNDING THE WARS IN IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN (AND PAKISTAN) AND START TAXING THE RICH!
A generation cutting taxes for business has only meant pushing the tax burden onto the poor who are now expected to bail out Wall Street. For years and years we have been told that there is no money for better public school, universal healthcare, or decent public housing, but as soon as Wall Street needs a trillion dollars, our elected officials trip over each other attempting to deliver the check themselves.
We are tired of seeing the government give away our airwaves, taxes, university research, and resources to corporations. If business paid its fair share and we stopped funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we would have enough money for social security, welfare, public education, and universal health care!
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at Street Salon October 3 by clicking above
