Community | November 17, 2009 | 15 comments

Hundreds Converge on Goldman Sachs DC Headquarters

source: http://www.progressivenewsdaily.com/?p=8807

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Today, hundreds of workers, clergy members, community leaders, and other taxpayers converged on the Washington, D.C. headquarters of Goldman Sachs to demand the bank put an end to multi-billion dollar bonuses, reject the Too Big To Fail Doctrine, and use their anticipated $23 billion bonus pool to help families facing foreclosure. Taxpayers also called on Congress to take immediate action on real financial reform.

“Lloyd Blankfein and Goldman Sachs have rightfully earned the leading role in the story of ‘all that is wrong with Wall Street,’” said George Goehl, Executive Director of the National People’s Action. “Now is the time for them to start making amends for past transgressions. A good first step would include showing a little holiday spirit by directing a significant portion of their estimated $23 billion-dollar bonus pool to a fund to prevent foreclosure. It’s the least they could do.”

Today’s demonstration was the latest in a series of national mobilizations launched last month as 5,000 taxpayers from 20 states converged on the American Bankers Association convention in Chicago to demand Wall Street and big banks stop fighting reforms that would protect our families from the next economic crisis.


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15 comments // Hundreds Converge on Goldman Sachs DC Headquarters

  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  

    • They will never give it back. Money is their God. It will only change when enough of the middle class realize that they can't have a piece of that pie. The belief that everyone can succeed is crazy when you see the damage left by the successful.

    • 2 years ago
  • sampierre
  • artemis6
  • freal
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      freal  

    • Read the Rolling Stone article on Goldman Sachs (a few months ago) and you will hope their building is the next terrorist target.

    • 2 years ago
  • Kay_Bee
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      Kay_Bee  

    • One protest every once in a while isn't going to be enough. We have to organize and protest round the clock while we write to Congress and express our grievances.

    • 2 years ago
  • teto007
  • sampierre
  • Ares
    • 0
      Ares  

    • People gather and complain about other people having money, working professionals glance at them briefly, then go back to work.

      This is news?

    • 2 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
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      WakeUpPeople  
    • Ares:

      "People gather and complain about other people having money, working professionals glance at them briefly, then go back to work."

      I would agree with you, if just a few words were changed.

      People gather and complain about CORRUPT COMPANIES THAT PROFIT FROM LEGAL LOOPHOLE SCAMS AT THE COST OF EVERYDAY AMERICANS, working professionals glance at them briefly, then go back to work.

    • 2 years ago
  • eden49
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  

    • You pansies. Can't take the dirt soup get outta the kitchen. Sell t-shirts through Zazzle like I do (newpath4com account), or sell Amway and be the next Rich de Vos family empire. You can do it! Pull yourself off the surface of the ground tug hard on those boot straps. Be a man about your situation in life. Study something online. Read a book, an electronics manual, make some of that great electricians pay, grab hold the American Dream => learn ta drive a big rig.

      Do the Dave Ramsey program too, feed your little children rice & beans, beans & rice, forget nutrition til after you pay off all your bills like Sean Hannity who we all know is a great American. Listen at night to Mark Levine, and especially above all else buy his book. Mark Levine's book will lead you to paths of righteousness and cool waters.

      Otherwise accept your fate, the fate of the lazy. Be Fred Sanford and own your little junk pile. Stop all this running around, a waste of time, polluting the atmosphere. Go to work, punch a clock, walk up to someone's door and ask them if they have any odd jobs need doing.

    • 2 years ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • jgritty
  • Mark701
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      Mark701  

    • Its heartening to hear news like this but I can tell you what Goldman Sachs is thinking: "Y'all can go fuck yourselves" Unless that money is removed from their paws by force they with NEVER give it up, NEVER. Its their way and defines who they are.

    • 2 years ago
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