FIGHT THE POWER!

I was highly disappointed today. Yesterday a mass e-mail was sent out at work informing everyone that there would be a large protest held at our bank location today.. Now the protest was against the bank accepting TARP money or bailout money. why they chose the Cincinnati US Bank location, I have no idea. I know we took about 6.6 million dollars in bailout money but that amount pales in comparison to other banks and we're paying it back much faster than other banks. Also the corporate headquarters are not in Cincinnati. This protest was nationwide they could have picked a better bank to protest in this area. Anyway, needless to say I was highly excited about it.


My co-workers and I had a great plan for our protesting idiots First we would acquire these items:
Monopoly Money
A Sharpie
Moet
Towel
Signs
Boom box
Aluminum Foil

We had several scenarios using these items
1.) We write TARP with the sharpie on the monopoly money, play Lil' Wayne Make it Rain on our boom box and throw our TARP monopoly money into the crowd. Add the aluminum foil to our front teeth for a grill effect and spray the crowd with Moet!

2.) Next play Busta Rhymes Arab Money on the boom box, wrap our heads with towels, throw more TARP money, and spray more Moet

3.)Pretend to be a protester too, but protest ridiculous things so it looks as if the protesters are there for the same thing. For instance I chant "no more immigrants" with a sign to emphasize my point and a Hispanic guy in my office will chant "Hell no we won't go!"

We had all of this planned and were bursting with excitement on for absolutely NO protesters to show their cowardly faces. We were SO disappointed. I bet they heard of our plan and were scared so they chickened out!

Don't get me wrong I don't see anything wrong with someone believing in something and making it known. However, what is protesting at US Bank really going to do about our current economic climate? US bank probably would have been fine without the money. We're one of the only banks that sustained their place in the banking industry pretty well. Especially when they're at our place of work like we're supposed to feel bad for working for a company that took TARP money. Um no, we all took pay cuts, most of us didn't get raises this year and some of us got our hours cut. So F you jerks, we're sacrificing. You want to be mad at someone go find Richard Davis' residence and sit outside his house. Or how about you go to work? Luckily maybe they didn't protest because they were, you know, at work. I was thinkin' about that the most. Protest people takin TARP money when more than likely you should be at work. OR what do you want the people working at US Bank to do? Quit? Then you'll be complaining because you'll have to pay their foreclosed homes. Like I said I get that people are passionate about things and what they believe in. Life is too short to always be worried about what the next man is doing. Do you really think that protesting at a bank is going to change the world? Take your day that you were going to protest and help build a homeless shelter, read to an old woman that has no family, help an underprivileged child. You know, something useful.