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Medium or well-done?

Medium or well-done?

In San Francisco yesterday, about two hundred demonstrators, mostly mature and educated, flaunted witty, well-crafted signs of outrage about the bail-out.

Richard Tamm, 61, a former computer programmer for the Federal Reserve Bank, said “Some of these companies are bankrupt and they won’t admit it. We need to wake up to what actually is happening — to force Obama to do the right thing.” Tamm added that trying to support the existing “failed financial oligarchies” was a move in the wrong direction.

No arrests necessary. No spelling corrections needed, either.

No arrests necessary. No spelling corrections needed, either.


Passing motorists honked their horns in support of the effort, organized by A New Way Forward. Bruce Hartford of the same organization said, “What we have today is government of the powerful, by the lobbyists, for the wealthy, and it’s our fault to a certain degree because we have let them get away with it.”

About 20 law enforcement officers present made no arrests.

“We are here to say loudly, as a nation, that we want to bail out the people, not the banks and the CEOs,” said Nancy Mancias, of CodePink Women for Peace.

All photos by Luke Thomas. A version of this article is available at FogCityJournal.com.

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