Are you homeless? Are you about to be homeless? Bet you’re probably pretty upset about that. No? Not angry? Not bitter? Not in the mood to to kill a man? Well try this on for size. Ya see that absolutely gorgeous Tudor? 8 bedrooms, 6.5 baths, recently remodeled kitchen? You can’t have it. Know who can? AIG employees. Is your blood boiling yet? I bet it is. What? No, no unscheduled stops. I told you to use the rest stop on the highway. I don’t care if it’s backed up.
The Connecticut Working Families party, which has support from organized labor, is planning a bus tour of A.I.G. executives’ homes on Saturday, with a stop at the company’s Wilton office.
“We’re going to be peaceful and lawful in everything we do,” Jon Green, the director of Connecticut Working Families, told The Times. “I know there’s a lot of anger and a lot of rage about what’s happened. We’re not looking to foment that unnecessarily, but what we want to do is give folks in Bridgeport and Hartford and other parts of Connecticut who are struggling and losing their homes and their jobs and their health insurance an opportunity to see what kinds of lifestyle billions of dollars in credit-default swaps can buy.”
Full itinerary:
10AM: Pick-up in Hartford at Working Families offices (30 Arbor Street)
11AM: Pick up in Bridgeport at ACORN offices (2320 Main St)
11AM-1:30PM: “Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous” AIG Executives Tour
1:30-2PM: Rally outside the offices of AIG Financial Products (50 Danbury Rd, Wilton)
2:30PM: Drop off in Bridgeport
3:30PM: Drop off in Hartford
Get your seat today!
Pickup at ACORN offices LO-FUCKING-L!
We’re all fucked
I thought that ACORN part was made up until I looked at the actual link.
Wow…this is hilarious on multiple levels!
these people are jobless because some chinese or indian person can do what they do better, and cheaper. they should be spending time trying to figure out how to get new jobs instead of driving around on a short bus, looking at houses. the tour should be called the “this is what happens when you work hard and aren’t retarded” tour. all this populist bs is going to end very very badly for us. i
If people really gave a rat’s a** like they do in 3rd world countries, they be spraying bullets at those homes… and Bernie’s body parts would be found scattered all over the country… but I guess no one really minds being charitable to the rich huh?
The execs won’t home because they are actually working.
BUT, on Sunday they are taking their kids on a tour of the homes of organized labor to show them what kind of lifestyle sitting on your ass and collecting billions of Marlboro points can buy.
This is absolutely disgusting. If there is any blood spilled over this I hope Congress and Obama know that it is their hands that are stained. They are provoking mob rule, their words are only inciting Americans to terrorize other Americans.
“…opportunity to see what kinds of lifestyle billions of dollars in credit-default swaps can buy.”
These homes show you what hard work, intelligence, dedication and perseverance can buy you. Every single AIG employee was non involved in credit-swaps.. The people who are taking this tour should be more concerned with working hard to get themselves out of the ghetto, instead of wasting time being angry at people who are actually successful.
@ 5; hilarious… that’s the problem with all of this… I bet if I went to the bus pick-up point, all I’d see is a bunch of fat, lazy people who can’t face the truth about work-force competition and the necessity for self-improvement in this country… either we all stop feeling entitled and start busting ass to be better, or it’s gonna be “America, finito!”…
These ACORN people are nuts I tell ya!
Ya think they will all be wearing Brown Shirts?
rally is only 30 minutes? that’s it? what if the bus shows up late? do they just say screw it and leave?
You think they’ll let them do ring-and-run?
let em know how you feel:
http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/t/4020/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=552
Here’s a really funny one, lol:
“I can’t wait to hear what you tell your children when they ask you why everybody hates their Mommy and Daddy.”
This is absolutely disgusting. If there is any blood spilled over this I hope Congress and Obama know that it is their hands that are stained. They are provoking mob rule, their words are only inciting Americans to terrorize other Americans.
“…opportunity to see what kinds of lifestyle billions of dollars in credit-default swaps can buy.”
These homes show you what hard work, intelligence, dedication and perseverance can buy you. Every single AIG employee was non involved in credit-swaps.. The people who are taking this tour should be more concerned with working hard to get themselves out of the ghetto, instead of wasting time being angry at people who are actually successful.
This is what we warned you about.
“I will not be home. I will be bird watching on the land that I donated with Goldman’s shareholder’s monies. Did anyone even think that I was not going to get my ass out of D.C. as quick as I did. I can flee my prestiguos zip code just as fast. Maybe I will slum it at one of my other stately homes, hmm, now I just need to decide which state, or country…..”
-JP
@14…well said.
Isn’t this how the French Revolution started? that seemed to work out pretty well for everyone involved (esp. the organizers!)
I’ll be at the pick-up point. I’ll be the guy selling pitchforks.
Hey, we live in a democracy (or so I thought). Unless these homes are on a private street, these people can tour the outside of any home they want. It’s there right as Americans.
I worked in finance all my life and even I’m disgusted by the Heads-I-Win-Tails-You-Lose mentality in 2008. These people have every right to protest what’s being done with their tax money by the FED and their clan.
@18–
Obama = Robespierre
Cuomo = Saint-Just
Olbermann = Marat
Liddy = Louis XVI
Erin Callan = Princesse de Lamballe
If I were one of these AIG execs, I’d just setup in a second story window with a case of 5.56 and my new .223 and just wait for those slobs to try something.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Where does the linked article mention acorn? Trying to manufacture rage of your own, eh, s–t-eaters?
@23. Try Ctrl-F, ACORN. That should help. Have you been in the Special Olympics?
Or just go here:
http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/t/4020/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=551
I’m in favor of trying to do everything to collect the money paid in bonuses to companies getting bailed out by taxpayers, but this shit is wrong on so many levels. Going to people’s homes? Unacceptable.
@21 Good but one mistake
Timmy Geithner = Princesse de Lamballe
@ 20, then how about rage at the lunatic’s in congress that have taken OUR money to run a wreck of a bailout. fool
I like the protest outside the Wilton FP office on a Saturday. I hope they give the cleaning crew a real earful.
- Fixed Income
We all need to sign up and register… the’ll need a dozen buses – then about 20 people will actually show up!
http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/t/4020/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=551
@27, last I checked Bernanke, Gross, Paulson and Blankfein were the real people running the bailout. Little Timmy is way out of his league.
Next up. AIG employees tour the ACORN offices. Hard to say which rathole, Noblesse Oblige or Obliged Noblesse more treasure pours through into the hands of ill-gotten gains.
Two faces of interdependent embezzlement, WhiteWashing by the Ton, DC doing the intermediary dirty laundering.
Never mind the lumpy rug all swept under nor the skeletons in the closet spilling from every room, on every level,
both ends, and only ends, of the Maul.
Below are the people responsible for organizing this witch hunt. Their reckless actions place the safety of children and families of AIG employees at risk with complete disregard for their actual or direct involvement in activities resulting in the misappropriation of taxpayer bailout funds.
I’ll stop short of providing their individual home address’, but public records should provide that information if you seek it. Maybe these folks should have a visit at their homes:
Jon Green – Executive Director
JGreen@workingfamiliesparty.org
Kate Bresilin – Canvass Director
KBreslin@workingfamiliesparty.org
phone: (860) 938 0248
Carly Dickinson – 4th CD (Bridgeport-Norwalk-Stamford Area) Organizer
CDickinson@workingfamiliesparty.org
phone: (203) 278 2994
Joe Dinkin – Communications Director
JDinkin@workingfamiliesparty.org
phone: (978) 223 5868
Lindsay Farrell – Organizing Director
LFarrell@workingfamiliesparty.org
phone: (203) 278 2828
Marquita McElya – 1sh CD (Hartford Area) Organizer
MMcElya@workingfamiliesparty.org
phone: (860) 997 3505
Dianna Vazquez – Administrative Coordinator
DVazquez@workingfamiliesparty.org
phone: (860) 938 0807
Thank goodness for gated communities.
The main difference is, back during the French Revolution, only the poor(members of the third estate) paid direct taxes. The nobles and the clergy were largely exempt, so I guess Geithner and Reverend Al are at least keeping up that grand tradition.
Now we have the poor, who pay virtually no taxes, getting pissed at the people who pay most of the taxes, and who pay for all of their entitlements.
Somehow I am just not getting this here Revolution.
Go back home and watch Oprah you shitheads, ’cause I gotta find me a job to pay for your lazy asses.
22
I had the same thought, except using “porch” and “.30-06″. Why leave anything to chance?
@35, why stop there ?
Barrett .50 BMG
OK folks – let’s wipe out the entire upper class – nobody deserves to make more than $200,000 ever. Without the top 10% to contribute the vast majority of tax dollars to this country – you will now need to get a job and finally start paying some taxes. It will be hard Angry Man- you might have to put that WII remote down, get out of your parent’s basement, cancel your weekend bus tours, sell your ATV and actually get a job. Be careful what you wish for Angry Man.
I sent a logical, strong e-mail to all of the above working families party e-mail addresses… I know they don’t understand logic, and that they cannot be reasoned with, but I can’t resort to their level. I am a bit worried they will now find my address and include my home on their little bus tour…
Just posted this and will email something similar to the above addresses:
I’d imagine a good percentage of you aren’t actually “taxpayers,” at least not of any real consequence. Why not expend the effort towards bettering yourselves instead of rabble rousing and outright harassing individuals that may or may not have had any direct influence on this?
The irony is you’re all so outraged about $160mm paid to individuals for their work while you haven’t even a care in the world to the $2 TRILLION in spending your savior president plans to do yearly for the next four years. That $2 trillion will have a much larger negative impact on your lives than any bonuses paid to any individuals.
But please, by all means, continue your fat, slobbish, mis / under informed lives. Spend your time on a bus touring the home of the hard working & successful people, directing your anger towards them rather than working to get yourself ahead. You can’t tell me that you couldnt find a single thing to do on a Saturday to better yourselves besides continuing the cycle of societly acrimony?
faux-Tudor houses always look stupid in America, like a “ye olde coffee shop”. Unless of course it was actually brought over beam by beam from limey land.
@ 39 – I’m diggin’ your letter, but
too many syllables!
Dumb it down, and be sure and give Somebody’s house in Larchmont P.O. as the address of one Mr. Edward M. Liddy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/business/20aig.html?em
These people are not contributing to the tax base. When do we get to riot?
Nice, looks like my house.
@39—GREAT POST!
@39—GREAT POST!
@39—GREAT POST!
Perfect afternoon to rescue some pitbulls to have waiting for the fat, uneducated, union slobs that will be the core of this group. Buy 100 big macs scatter on the front lawn and watch the carnage.
Why so much anger, capitalist pigs? This shit is fucking hilarious.
If those nimwits were stopping by my house I’d make sure I was out front with about 400 beers for the masses and a belly full of scotch. If they promised not to steal the commode I’d even consider providing brauts. Fuck if I care—you can’t buy this sort of hilarity.
Use it or lose it, numbnuts.
Who here thinks that AIG is solvent. come on and raise your hand? Who thinks that after several quarters of increased losses and bailouts, that AIG is going to pay back taxpayer money? Because if you do, you are on drugs. AIG is the world’s largest fail, and Liddy was deluded in telling Congress otherwise. He like Paulson believes the mark-to-modellers. I wish I were able to be on that bus so I could deliver some toast to their front desk.
They should bring their kids along instead of pitchforks and guillotines. Let the kids see how getting an education works out for you vs. being a high school dropout and going to trade school. I grew up poor and was motivated by the success I saw around me living in NY to work hard and make it. Maybe not everyone wants to be a lazy turd and live off a government check. ABOLISH UNION
unfortunately, those kids will see what getting an education and working hard used to get you…