Posted on 01/19/2011 12:53:29 PM PST by blueyon
A group of about 200 union protesters overwhelmed security at a Washington, D.C. hotel and barged into a mortgage banking meeting on Wednesday, according to the Huffington Post.
HuffPo says protesters dressed in hardhats and overalls yelled Where are the jobs? and Where is the money? as they pushed through security in a scrum and burst into a conference room of stunned bankers. The protest was reportedly aimed at the Pulte Group which protesters say has received $900 million in tax breaks but has not created a sufficient number of jobs.
Those tax breaks were supposed to create jobs, Wayne Peworchik, one of the protesters, told HuffPo. That was President Obamas and Congresss intent.
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Better idea, put out claymores.
The stimulus money was used to make their pension plans whole.
This is the new civility. And in Minneapolis, this will be the new “Minnesota Nice”.
as with all leftists, intentions are everything, results mean nothing.
Necktie party trumps hard hat party. Just apply six inches below hat :)
Loud, very messy, annoys the neighbors also creates martyrs, also way to much paper work involved for getting them . (Hate writers crap from filling out endless forms)
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