"Piggy" Homebuilders Targeted in Foreclosure Bailout Protest

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Big pink chanting pigs rallied outside the Washington Hilton Hotel early Wednesday morning to protest billions in handouts to corporate homebuilders. Serenaded with chants of “corporate welfare on the rise, a bunch of pigs in disguise” and “off to the trough,” representatives of the homebuilders industry boarded shuttle buses outside the Hilton to lobby Congress for passage of the Foreclosure Prevention Act. The Act - currently before the House - would provide billions in bailout to the homebuilder industry while giving little relief to homeowners, according to the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA), which coordinated the demonstration. “This bailout failed to pass the worker smell test,” said Laborers President Terrence O’Sullivan. “We are stepping up our efforts to make sure Congress knows this bailout is unacceptable.” LIUNA also ran ads in DC newspapers Wednesday demanding the House pass real foreclosure prevention that restores jobs and stabilizes the housing market.
-  report/photo by Andy Richards