because our rats scare the cockroaches away. you are saying a rent strike. how was the rent? was it a reasonable rate? well, john said it was reasonable. but myself, senator durbin said this is outrageous. $850 for a slump. it was bad. you know, the public thinks that we are indulging in eating at fine restaurants or at embassy receptions. and the stories that came out about the house, i think, really gave the american people a reality check to what it s like. but it was a lot of fun. in fact, i m really pleased to hear that sam s son is taking the house, the tradition will continue and, sam, tell him i intend to stay there occasionally. congressman russo, let me ask you this.
after families went on rent strike over prices they could no longer afford. they rioted in cleveland after a bank foreclosed on john and sophie sperenga and the county sheriff kicked them out with their four children. in cleveland, the local small home and landowners federation spread the alarm up and down the neighborhood streets. thousands of people showed up to defend the sperega family. quote, as bliss arrived, they were greeted by taunts and jeers and rocks, bricks, sticks. this account was filed in the nation. in 1933. quote, this is a crowd that won t scatter, a crowd that s determined. they were determined to defend the family in 1933. the depth of the great depression. they re defending families again many 2011. not by throwing bricks and sticks and soup ladles but doing this. they re pitching tents in the yards of a single mother with
recession but the great depression of our great grandparents day and tend to talk about hobos and hoofrs, people kicked out of their ordinary lives, roaming the countryside and looking for work lines up at soup kitchens or setting up camp in shacks made of spare wood or cast off continue they would find in towns they called hooverville. after president herbert hoover and it was not a compliment. they did not move out of houses or apartments quietly because the landlord showed up and said they had to go. a lot stood their grounds with help from their neighbors. the americans of the great depression organized eviction defense. like the people putting the furniture back in. i quoted a moment ago from brooklyn. sometimes eviction resistance turned into eviction riots. they rioted in chicago in august 1931. three protesters were killed there after 60,000 people marched against evictions. they rioted in the bronx in 1932 after families went on rent strike over prices they could no longer aff
paying unfair debts. citizens can demand that our governments stop doing business with bandit banks. steven learner is calling for a rent strike of sorts. this time involving mortgages in the hopes of causing problems at the banks that hold those mortgages and in a best-case scenario forcing the incompetent executives who run those banks to pay themselves smaller bonuses for their incompetence. there s nothing criminal about what steven learner is proposing. beck doesn t know that, but the fbi does. there s also nothing homicidal in what learner is proposing. and beck doesn t seem to realize that for something to be worse than 9/11, it has to kill 3,000 people, it has to involve the horrible murders of 3,000 people, or presumably more than 3,000 people to really be worse than 9/11. and so glenn beck sits comfortably in his radio studio
entire plan in an article in the nation. in it he repeats what he said at the seminar. homeowners and students can stop paying unfair debts. citizens can demand that our governments stop doing business with bandit banks. steven learner is calling for a rent strike of sorts. this time involving mortgages in the hopes of causing problems at the banks that hold those mortgages and in a best-case scenario forcing the incompetent executives who run those banks to pay themselves smaller bonuses for their incompetence. there s nothing criminal about what steven learner is proposing. beck and leadoesn t know that, fbi does. there s also nothing homicidal in what learner is proposing. and beck doesn t seem to realize that for something to be worse than 9/11, it has to kill 3,000 people, it has to involve the