Regarding Joe Wessels’ column “Cutting the Safety Net” (issue of April 8), I’d like to respond to his comment “handing out money over and over again to those who take and never think about changing themselves is flat-out criminal.”
by Danny Cross
10.04.2011
Posted In: News, Poverty, Bailout, Media Criticism, Government, Social Justice at 10:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Sawyer Point
Protest over corporate money in politics will take place in Cincinnati Saturday
The Occupy Wall Street movement plans to occupy Sawyer Point this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., one of several protests planned in other cities since the protest over corporate money in politics began more than three weeks ago in New York. (UPDATE: The protest has been moved to Lytle Park due to an already scheduled event at Sawyer Point.)The Cincinnati Enquirer did its usual muckraking on the subject, determining that the movement's “goals are vague” and then linking to a story quoting a member of the movement describing its goals quite succinctly:
U.S. Needs a Different Type of Bailout
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Even as reckless Wall Street investors ring the alarms and bellow about needing $700 billion in taxpayer money to avoid an economic meltdown, some of them are trying to pin the blame on lower- and middle-class homeowners.
