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Class Warfare: ‘Working Families’ Offer Field Trip to AIG Executives’ Mansions
Cybercast News Service ^ | Friday, March 20, 2009 | Susan Jones

Posted on 03/20/2009 9:17:58 AM PDT by Sopater

"We're all mad at AIG," says the pro-union Connecticut Working Families Party. Tapping into some of that rage, the liberal group is sponsoring a "field trip" on Saturday to show working people from Hartford and Bridgeport how and where the AIG executives live. Some of the executives who received bonuses work in the company's Wilton, Conn., office.

Those executives "bear a large share of the responsibility for bringing the economy to its knees, and now the same folks are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses -- at our expense," Connecticut Working Families says on its Web site. "Join us for a field trip to bring them the message."

Jon Green, the director of Connecticut Working Families, told the New York Times on Friday that his group would be “peaceful and lawful” and would not “foment” lingering rage at AIG “unnecessarily.”

The field trip will “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,” Green told the newspaper.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: aig; bailouts; bonuses; classwarfare
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I would call it "stirring the pot".
1 posted on 03/20/2009 9:17:58 AM PDT by Sopater
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To: Sopater

Sounds like the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.


2 posted on 03/20/2009 9:19:46 AM PDT by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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To: Sopater

That sure ought to get the class envy gene moving around...


3 posted on 03/20/2009 9:19:58 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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I would call it “stalking” and “invasion of privacy”. I would also call it “wealth envy” and “stupidity”.


4 posted on 03/20/2009 9:20:29 AM PDT by albie
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Bolsheviks storming the Winter Palace...


5 posted on 03/20/2009 9:21:17 AM PDT by Califreak (111th Congress: Destroying America With Reckless Abandon)
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To: Sopater

I’d like to start my own tour company: Tours of the Hypocritical Class Envy Mongers’ Homes. “...and to the left of the bus is the Obama’s spacious 1.5M mansion, financed by slumlord Tony Rezco. The Obamas made 3 million dollars last year and gave only about 30 thousand to charity...”


6 posted on 03/20/2009 9:22:00 AM PDT by scottinoc
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To: Sopater

It’s another method by socialists to destroy capitalism and our Democratic Republic.


7 posted on 03/20/2009 9:22:03 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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his group would be “peaceful and lawful” and would not “foment” lingering rage at AIG “unnecessarily.”

...I think we all know that “unneceassarily” means that if an AIG exec asks them to please stay off the lawn, that would be enough for this “peaceful” mob to “foment” their “rage”.


8 posted on 03/20/2009 9:23:20 AM PDT by albie
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To: scottinoc

I would love to work for you!


9 posted on 03/20/2009 9:23:31 AM PDT by mickidawn1969
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To: Sopater
Congress demanded these names be made public. They should be made to provide armed security for the AIG families and be held responsible for any harm that comes to them.
10 posted on 03/20/2009 9:24:03 AM PDT by boxerblues (Party like its 1773)
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11 posted on 03/20/2009 9:25:09 AM PDT by maggief
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Commie rat Union Goons....
pro-union Connecticut Working Families Party.
A communist front......

Obama’s Red Brigades....


12 posted on 03/20/2009 9:25:24 AM PDT by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: albie

It’s one of the Big 10 - do not covet.


13 posted on 03/20/2009 9:25:33 AM PDT by MrB (irreconcilable: One of two or more conflicting ideas or beliefs that cannot be brought into harmony.)
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To: albie

Very appropriate terms as well.


14 posted on 03/20/2009 9:25:53 AM PDT by Sopater (I'm so sick of atheists shoving their religion in my face.)
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To: Sopater

I’d call it the Spirit of the French Revolution and we all know how bloody that turned out.


15 posted on 03/20/2009 9:27:08 AM PDT by OpusatFR (We can give up any pretense of having a government for and by the people after Coronation Day.)
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I would call it "stirring the pot".

No! It is much more than that. I call this domestic terrorism.

16 posted on 03/20/2009 9:30:35 AM PDT by mort56 (He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. - Ben Franklin)
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To: Sopater

They’re going to Chris Dodd’s house?


17 posted on 03/20/2009 9:32:15 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12784

The ‘bolshie mob’ should be focused on Goldman Sachs, Paulson, US Treasury et al...the above link regards where the AIG money in the hundreds of billions is going...$183 billion so far, and much more to come.


18 posted on 03/20/2009 9:32:22 AM PDT by givemELL (Does Taiwan Meet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
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To: Sopater

Looks like Krystalnacht II is closer than ever.


19 posted on 03/20/2009 9:33:23 AM PDT by DakotaRed (Don't you wish you had supported a conservative when you had the chance?)
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To: mort56
I call this domestic terrorism.

You're term is probably much closer to the truth. I depends on what this "working class" group decides to do when they get there.
20 posted on 03/20/2009 9:34:02 AM PDT by Sopater (I'm so sick of atheists shoving their religion in my face.)
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