Protests planed for * SS PR (BS) trip and speech in Atlanta Friday 11:00am

[Up2Late]

They finally spilled the beans about where * is going to give his "Invitation Only" "Sell the Social Security BS to the Pre-selected 'Older Americans'" in Atlanta tomorrow.

They have been reporting about it for the last few days here, during the local Public Radio News updates but, until today, they hadn't been told where he would be speaking.

Yesterday, they started reporting yesterday that, the local "Air Space" would be closed to small, non-commercial Airplanes and Jets too.

Anyway, the radio reported that 4 different groups were planning to protest outside the Atlanta Civic Center tomorrow.

Protests are gathering at 11:00am outside the Atlanta Civic Center, including a Seniors group, a Labor group and 2 Anti-Iraq War groups.

He is scheduled (according to the radio) to speak at 12:00 Noon to about 2:00pm. The civic center is right above a MARTA Train station, on the North line (N2 I think). Kind of a dumb move, IMHO considering the 2nd London Bombing today, but maybe that's why they are gathering there, they might think most would be too scared to take the train there to protest.

Or they might stop the MARTA Train service to the Norther part of the city during the time he is here. Why not, they shut down 3 (THREE!) Interstate Highways whenever he drives through Atlanta (I-75, I-85, and I-20). Most likely, he will land at Dobbins ARB in Marietta, then Motorcade down to the Atlanta Civic Center for his stupid PR Photo Opp Downtown.

Either way, their will be a LOT of Highway overpasses to post protest signs for him to see, unless they shut all those down too.

[CottonBear]

1. Damn. I'd go but I have to work (the bane of the middle class.)

Hoo boy! DimSon is going to totally fuck up the already awful Atlanta traffic. :scared: Friday afternoon rush hour starts about 3:00pm. :( :evilfrown: Even Republicans are gonna be pissed off. (Hee hee!) :evilgrin:

[Up2Late]

5. Yup, I bet some of them are really going to be pissed when...

...he shuts down the Charlie Brown and Peachtree/Dekalb Airports.

I wonder why they don't just have this stupid PR BS at the Lockheed/Martin Plant or at a Hanger at Dobbins, but then, that wouldn't cost the American Tax Payers Millions of Dollars.

[RebelOne]

12. I am very relieved that he will not be at Lockheed

or Dobbins. I work directly across the street from Dobbins on Cobb Parkway. No way do I want the traffic screwed up in this area.

[MsTryska]

7. Cottonbear - we're in the same area right?

edgewood - courtlandish?


i gotta work too - but i was seriously thinking of taking a sorta longish lunch if at all possible......

[CottonBear]

9. Nope. I'm in Athens. I've got to plan in advance to take time off.

I would love to protest that rat bastard though! :evilgrin:
Take pictures if you go anbd be safe! :hi:

[MsTryska]

14. I'll try my best......

it was funny i was telling my roommate last night how i was thinkign about swinging by on my lunch hour....

She said - "to listen to him speak?" (she knows i like to go listen to all sorts of peeople)

I said "no - to hang out with the protestors"

she cracked up...

[noamnety]

2. How much have these trips cost us so far?

I can't believe he's spending our own taxes trying to market BS to us.

[alphafemale]

3. Oh man... Anyone going from Savannah?

I'm not sure if I could go or not, but a Savannah DU delegation would be nice.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Uh-oh, don't say Protest -- The other day I read that the FBI

monitored websites who talked about protests in NY during the GOP convention.

Of course, I just used the word.

Thanks for the info!

[leesa]

16. They already monitor this website.

[Smitty1946]

6. Social Security must be fixed

When my grandfather retired, he had 8 children and 43 grandchildren paying into Social Security. When my parents retired they had 4 children and 14 grandchildren paying into Social Security. I will retire in 5 years. I have 1 child and no grandchildren. This is a system that cannot continue to work. Fortunately, I was a good investor and will have other incomes.
Instead of protesting for the sake of protesting, try to come up with a system that will not require lots of grandchildren paying your benefits.

[CottonBear]

8. Your argument doesn't hold water. We have many legal immigrants

with high birth rates. We do not lack for a large younger generation. As progressive Democrats, we here at DU support Social Security and wish only to strengthen it not "fix" (i.e. destroy it) like Bu$h wants to do. FDR gave us a great program that has lifted millions out of poverty, provided for the disabled and supported surviving spouses and children.

[Smitty1946]

10. fix it BEFORE it breaks

You are wrong about the lack of a younger generation. In 1938 Social Security was paying out a small fraction of what was taken in and the excess was used to pay for his other social programs. The excess has been decreasing and in one more generation it will be in the red. We need about 15 workers per retiree. To cover that through immigration would leave this country standing room only in 3 more generations. There would be imposed birth control before then.

[leesa]

17. Well, Smitty, there's an easy fix. Just raise or remove the ceiling.

Why does it stop at $90,000. Why do I pay on 100% of my income and rich people only pay on a small portion?

Maybe good investors like yourself need to be paying their fair share.

[Up2Late]

11. I have an Idea, Why don't we just Tax the Hell out of "Good Investors..."

...like you! And let's tax your "other Income" too! :mad:

If you're so worried about it, why don't you go have sex with your current or future wife? COME ON! We all have to make some sacrifices, go knock her up!

Or are you too impotent from all the time you're spending on the Golf Course?

COME ON! We don't protest * "...for the sake of protesting...!" We protest him and his evil minions because, unlike you and the Stepford Families you hang with, we DO see how he is destroying OUR America and our future security and happiness. :spank:

Man! Doesn't the Wall Street Journal have a Discussion board where you can repeat that WH spin crap? You are making it all too obvious that you are not here to make a lot of friends spewing that RW Crap around here.

[alphafemale]

13. kick for * in HOT-Lanta.

And I do mean HOT!

This is the price we pay for mild winters.

Worth it?

Ask me again in February.

[Up2Late]

15. UPDATE: Air Force One lands at Hartsfield/Jackson to a crowd of dozens!

Looks like the let less than 20 Pod People greet him, according to the ONE Local News channel covering this.

So it's official, Grid Lock begins today at about 2:00pm, when he finnisheds up and heads SOUTH, on and past the 3 Shut down Interstates Highways (I-75, I-85, and I-20). :banghead: :mad:

Hey BUSH!

[Supersedeas]

18. Invitation Only Invitation Only Invitation Only Invitation Only

When will the Media make this clear to the public?

[MsTryska]

19. For whoever was out on Piedmont

across from the Civic Center around 12:15-ish - i honked for ya....



i wasn't able to sneak out long enough to come hang out - jsut able to get some drive-thru food and get back to work....but i made it a point to drive past.