Philadelphia - Unemployed protest outside (Congressman Mike) Fitzpatrick's office

Posted: Friday, August 19, 2011 6:00 am | Updated: 6:06 am, Fri Aug 19, 2011.

Unemployed protest outside Fitzpatrick's office By Gary Weckselblatt Staff Writer Calkins Media, Inc.

Several organizations brought the economic doom and gloom their members are feeling to the Middletown office of Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick on Thursday, mobilizing a funeral procession to symbolize the death of the middle class.

Close to 100 people, some carrying paper headstones and crosses and trailing a coffin, protested the lack of jobs being created with the nation’s unemployment above 9 percent and more than 14 million people out of work.

The protesters included members of several unions, including the Service Employees International Union, former Philadelphia teachers, Express Scripts workers, and progressive groups such as the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, moveon.org and Penn Action.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/courier_times_news/unemployed-protest-outside-fitzpatrick-s-office/article_69c59c2c-4f72-5cb0-8d6d-1aa864b2734c.html



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Way to go Philly! Keep it up! Solidarity!!!

When a large group of us concurred that we would not mind paying more taxes. I thought his head was going to explode.

Ben Franklin believed that the community needed to come together for the good of EVERYONE! I recently read that Ben Franklin was the founder of the Volunteer Fire Departments. Here is a really neat article on that issue:

Ernest Partridge, Ph.D

http://gadfly.igc.org/libertarian/4-private.htm

In colonial Philadelphia, firefighters were employed by private insurance companies which, of course, had financial incentives to minimize damage to their clients’ properties. Plaques with the insurance company’s insignia were placed on buildings, so that the fire fighters would know whether or not it was their “business” to put out the fires on the premises. (These plaques are often found today in antique shops). If the “wrong” plaque was on the building, well, that was just tough luck. Of course, with their attention confined to a single building, fire fighters were ill-disposed to prevent a spreading of the fire to adjacent “non-client” structures.

Occasionally, when the building’s insurance affiliation was in some doubt, competing fire companies would fight each other for the privilege of putting out the fire, resulting in more water aimed at fire fighters than at burning buildings.

Eventually, the absurdity and outright danger of this system led one prominent Philadelphia citizen to come up with the idea of a publicly funded and administered fire department.

His name was Benjamin Franklin: America’s first anti-free-enterprise commie pinko nut-case.

Franklin’s subversive left-wing ideas were extended to include libraries, post offices, and public schools, and, if we are to believe some of today’s regressives, it’s been downhill ever since.1:sarcasm:

(more at link - take a look)
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Now if most of the people in this country don't get it then they have to be informed about what they would have without those public Policemen, Teachers, Fireman, and even the Post Office employees. All of us are in this together! When we call 911 we know that someone will show up - But there are those places in this country that are already dealing with payments that if not made can lead to no one showing up! AND look at the NO RULES private security service like Blackwater Xe that does their thing by their book - not the rules set for by we the people. Is this what they really want - if they say yes they bring us all down!

He was taken aback by our comments. He could have easily ignored our comments or moved the discussion forward. Instead he prodded us with questions and we had a very civil discussion. If that will change anything in his opinion, I cannot say. But I will give him that one thing.

I miss Murphy.

Patrick Murphy beat him in 2008 but then lost it back to Fitzpatrick in 2010. Thing is, the area is mostly moderates and independents so I think Murphy could win it again or any other democrat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Fitzpatrick

Swearing-in: On January 5, 2011, Fitzpatrick failed to attend the swearing-in ceremony for members because he was attending an alleged fundraiser<9> in the Capitol Building, which is against the law As a result, two votes that he cast prior to taking the oath were nullified.<10> The oath was administered the following day.<11> A spokesperson for Fitzpatrick denied the event was a fundraiser and asserted that donations made went to cover the cost of campaign-provided buses to Washington.<12> Some Congressional ethics experts contend that the reception was in fact a fundraiser and have called for an investigation by the House Ethics Committee.<13><14>

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Typical Repub - What law? Not for Republicans just everyone else!:hide:

and parts of the district has a high per capita of meth labs and tea party idiots per square mile.

Murphy is running for Attorney General.

forth now - see my post above. Makes one ill!

Fitzpatrick makes the rock I kicked in the parking lot look smart

/nt

http://signon.org/sign/hold-rep-fitzpatrick?source=mo&id=29941-127608-LCBFjox

I can't think it'll do any good as far as modifying his behavior, but as a demonstration of local sentiment it could be useful PR.

offices every day?

"Excuse me Senator, 26,000 people are here to see you about jobs...what should I tell them?"