Economy

ROCHESTER, NY – Rochester-area taxpayers will participate in a call for a national day of protest scheduled for this Thursday, Sept. 25, in opposition to the no-strings-attached, $700 billion corporate bailout plan advanced by President Bush and Treasury Secretary Paulson.

The protest will take place from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, in front of the Federal Building at 100 State St.

“We are being asked to reward a bankrupt ideology that has viewed government regulation as evil despite the fact that both our history and current events demonstrate that these regulations are both necessary and critical ” said organizer Kathy Castania. It is difficult to trust an administration that in the past pushed through the Patriot Act and an illegal preemptive invasion and occupation of Iraq by manipulating fear as a result of a terrorist attack. Again they are hijacking a catastrophe and offering only one solution – for the taxpayers to fork over $700 billion – with no oversight, no accountability, no transparency, no nothing — to the very people and institutions who got us into this mess in the first place. Our children and grandchildren deserve better than this.”

The national day of protest features dozens of press conferences, demonstrations and other public events throughout the United States. Some are being organized by local and national organizations while others, such as the one in Rochester, will be a self-organized event involving individual taxpayers angered by the proposed corporate bailout.

... Fiscal paradises are prospering; people are suffering. Is this how humanity’s well-being can be guaranteed?

The new Paulsen-Bernanke package to “rescue” Wall Street will only puff the speculative bubble and trap the working people’s money in it. It hopes to keep the addiction, greed and gluttony for speculative profits going. It’s time to beat down Wall Street capitalism! Time to put working people’s welfare first! Time for real, socialist change.

Compare the method and similarity between Obama’s proposed spending of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help the poor and Socialist Hugo Chavez’s proposed programs in 1992 when running for President of Venezuela.

SolarFest Renewable Energy Fair ~

Meridian Park School ~
175th and Meridian Ave N
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July 19, 2008 ~ 10AM – 8PM

The platforms of the Socialist Party USA and Peace and Freedom Party outline fundamental approaches that will promote economic policy that will benefit working people. Both socialist parties are rejecting the economic strategies of the Democrats, Republicans, and their candidates; advancing U.S. imperialism and waging war is not the answer for our economy that is now in economic free fall.

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