To show you how nonpartisan this is, the first protest will be aimed at one of the one guys most responsible for this atrocious decision - Tim Geithner. He is our Treasury Secretary and should be fighting for us and not for the bankers. He can fix his original mistake (he was at the New York Fed when they decided to give these backdoor bailouts at a hundred cents on the dollar when no one thought they were worth anywhere near that much) and get our money back from Goldman.
I have a question for the tea party participants, have you ever wondered why you've never protested the one guy in the Obama administration most responsible for the bailouts and the economy? That's the Treasury Secretary. And the reason you've never protested him is because the corporate front groups who organize your protests love Geithner and want to look out for him. Isn't it time you corrected your mistake, too?
Come join us. Let's do a real protest of the people who caused this mess in the first place. And let's get our damn money back.
Join us on Monday, June 7th at noon in front of the Treasury building to demand our $13 billion back from Goldman Sachs. First job is to get Geithner to recognize that he should have never given that particular money to that particular bank for that particular transaction. Or to come out and justify his actions. Let him step out, greet us and tell us why it was such a smart idea to pay off AIG's side bets with Goldman. I'll be looking forward to that.
And I'll be looking forward to seeing you at the protest, no matter what your politics are. You can RSVP by going to the Facebook page for this event. See you there.
UPDATE: Progressive Change Campaign Committee has joined our effort now and we are doing a joint petition to get our money back. Please sign the petition here so your voice can be heard on this even if you can't make it out to the DC protest.
Everyone in the country should be able to agree to this. I was just on the Dylan Ratigan program on MSNBC and even the conservative on the panel agreed. Sign the petition and help get our money back.
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