Rally blasts banks, politicians for selling out workers (Bachmann and Paulsen blow up masks)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4955

10 August 2011

MINNEAPOLIS - More than 100 protesters gathered outside Wells Fargo offices Wednesday demanding a “piece of the pie” for job seekers and hardworking Minnesotans.

Their demands were heard – and ignored – by actors wearing puppet masks of U.S. Representatives Erik Paulsen, John Kline, and Michele Bachmann and one of their corporate backers, Wells Fargo MN CEO and Minnesota Chamber of Commerce chair Jon Campbell.

The demonstrators marched past lunchtime crowds on Nicollet Mall chanting, “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!” and “Jobs now!”


from left Wells Fargo CEO Jon Campbell, Rep. Michele Bachmann and Rep. Erik Paulsen.

“Wells Fargo continues to make billions of dollars in profit off of a taxpayer-funded bailout,” said Donna Cassutt, a spokesperson for Minnesotans for a Fair Economy, the coalition that sponsored the action.

“Working families shared a piece of the pie with them, and now, rather than sharing a piece of the pie with working families, Wells Fargo has instead foreclosed on homes, laid off Twin Cities workers, and funded job-killing politicians. It’s time Jon Campbell and Wells Fargo used their vast wealth and gratuitous tax breaks to benefit Minnesotans struggling to make ends meet, rather than taking advantage of Minnesotans by funding their political allies.”

While the crowd called for job creation and help for job seekers, the “Members of Congress” and their “corporate funder” gobbled pies and refused to share a piece with hardworking Minnesotans. Participants passed out pie-themed flyers criticizing Wells Fargo donations by its PAC and executives in support of Paulsen, Kline, Bachmann and others who have pushed federal budgets that would kill jobs in education, health care and throughout the economy with draconian cuts.

FULL story at link.

[asjr]

1. Are none of the banks who have ill-gotten

gains going to have to pay up?