Hundreds gather downtown to rally against cuts to government programs (Cleveland)

Newsnet 5 ^ | 12/10/11 | Scott Newell

[Libloather]

Hundreds gather downtown to rally against cuts to government programs
By: Scott Newell, newsnet5.com
Last Updated: 1 hour and 25 minutes ago

CLEVELAND - A couple hundred protesters, worried about looming cuts to social programs, loudly raised their voices in Cleveland today, shouting, "No cuts now, no cuts ever."

They are worried about cuts to some programs that have become staples for Americans: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

"This is a promise that our government has made to the American people, said protester Wynne Antonio. “They worked in good faith all their lives and paid in to these systems and they deserve to keep them in place."

On a clear but chilly day downtown, they gathered at 11:30am first in Public Square against a backdrop of holiday decorations. The protestors came from labor unions, church groups and health care organizations.

They say a lot of people depend on the programs that could face cuts.

[org.whodat]

Rust belt! Cleveland is fast becoming another Detroit, 10,000 +++ empty homes, just sitting there owners moved away.

[RightGeek]

A pigeon protest.

[chris_bdba]

Sorry but we are out of OPM.So that means the freebies have to stop.

[chris_bdba]

AMEN! I care for mine and sorry about all of yours.If one is too lazy to get up off of the couch to feed your own kids it is not my problem.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Buy ammo.

[chris_bdba]

I believe you are right and I feel the same way.It is like we in the western world have lived a fantasy most part of the 20th century about how everyone can be helped and cared for and now the piper has come for payment.It is going to be bad especially for those who know nothing about caring for themselves.It will be very mad max out there.

[blam]

"I remember when NO MAN would dare take government welfare. It meant they were not able to care for their own. "

I remember those people too.

[wac3rd]

My grandpa Evans and his brothers from West Virginny. Make lives out of nothing and worked themselves to middle class and still loved Jesus. We are a weak lot anymore. Something is afoot, and it isn’t good.

[cableguymn]

Also prepare to blend.. People are loosing everything right now. No one would notice if the BMW went away and was replaced with a older ford... Same with clothing, electronics, etc.

Hide the riches..

They will take everything if they can find it. Just look at OWS..

[Paul Kib]

The only encouragement I can give is that Dennis Kucinich is on his way out. His district has been redrawn and he’s been forced into a primary with popular Toledo liberal Marcy Kaptur. If he manages to win the primary, he will face...Joe the Plumber in the general election. What could be more fun than that?

[Paul Kib]

The only encouragement I can give is that Dennis Kucinich is on his way out. His district has been redrawn and he’s been forced into a primary with popular Toledo liberal Marcy Kaptur. If he manages to win the primary, he will face...Joe the Plumber in the general election. What could be more fun than that?

[Lancey Howard]

They are worried about cuts to some programs that have become staples for Americans: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

LMAO!!!
I wonder if Newell kept a straight face when he wrote this lying garbage?

[Lancey Howard]

Next is riots and Molotov Cocktails

That'll make for some good reality TV!

I will be relaxing in my family room, way out in the countryside in my house in the woods, watching concentrated Democrat parasite nests ("cities") from coast to coast burn to the ground on my TV. I'm already looking forward to it.

/gleeful hand-wringing and mischievous chuckling

[Godwin1]

WHAT CUTS? No handout program has been cut. And there are more people on food stamps than ever. And the Social Security Disability program is at all time highs, with Puerto Rico—surprise, surprise—a strong first place winner.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Two things: A couple hundred protesters - in Cleveland, that leftist shithole. I say lets take off from this planet and nuke them from space.

Jerry Gordon? How old? There is an old communist named Jerry Gordon who operated out of Cleveland in the 60’s-70’s connected to CAPAC, a trotskyite communist (SWP/YSA) front. He was a National Mobe and New Mobe then NPAC leader for the reds on Vietnam. Later became an organizer for the then communist controlled United Food & Commercial Workers Union.

The guy would be in his mid-late 70’s by now as he was a member of the Communist Party’s youth arm, the Labor Youth League, in the 1950’s.

If anyone can find out who this guy is, please email me at thru the FR “Reply” to post system.

Thanks.

[Las Vegas Dave]

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[Recon Dad]

This being Ohio I’m doubting the rally had anything to do with Social Security etal. I’d bet this would be in support of the government unions. Many of their members are starting to get their layoff notices from the county and city.

[Evergolightly]

Parasite Nation shows its greed. They need handouts rather then provide for themselves.

America is lost.

[sport]

Don't let anybody bull shit you. The welfare people live hogh on the hog. They get free money, free housing, free medical care when they need it. By "free" meaning that they do not have to earn it. All they have to do is lay around fornicate do dope and have one baby after the other.The only thing they have to pay for is their drugs. They get their drug money by selling or trading their food stamps, prostitution, or stealing.

And they ensure themselves a steady supply of these freebies by voting Democrat.

[sport]

Most of those who know nothing about taking care of themselves voted to inflict obama on me and I hope that they die a slow agonizing death. Because they murdered the United States of America.