Meanwhile, in other idiocy.
Check out this sweet slice of karma as reported by the Chicago Sun-Times:
Gov. Rod Blagojevich has ordered all [Illinois] state agencies to stop doing business with Bank of America to pressure the company to help workers who are staging a sit-in at a shuttered North Side plant.
The governor said he hopes the move will pressure the bank to use some of its federal bailout money to resolve the situation at Republic Windows and Doors. The company closed last week with just a few days’ notice.
The fired workers have attracted national attention — and turned Republic and Bank of America into poster children for corporate greed — by conducting a sit-in at the plant until they are paid the severence and earned vacation pay required by law.
Blagojevich says banks got bailout money and should provide lines of credit to businesses that need it so workers can keep working. The state also will seek a federal court injunction this week to make sure federal law is followed so workers get benefits like severance and vacation pay.
Meanwhile, 15 Chicago aldermen also jumped into the controversy and, like the governor, their target was the bank — not the company.
At a City Hall news conference flanked by union leaders, the aldermen plan to demand that City Hall cut off business to Bank of America and stop approving zoning changes sought by the bank and its subsidiaries — in retaliation for the bank’s decision to cut off funds to Republic.
City funds deposited at Bank of America would have to be withdrawn and shifted to another bank, under an ordinance drafted by the aldermen.
Bwa-ha-ha! You can only expect more of this crap with the combo of a “community organizer” in the White House and trillions in public bailout money floating around around the country. Kinda blurs the line between public and private, market and politics, does it not?
The corporate socialists have been trading in this gray area for years. Good luck with the new nationalized paradigm, Ken.
