Ironwood's Take on "Occupy Wall Street"

The Boys at Bill's Café have been talking a lot about the Wall Street demonstrations and now the Occupy Minnesota demonstrations. Most of them wonder what's taken the unemployed so long to do this.

"It was only a matter of time," Bill commented (and Bill rarely comments). "Taxpayers bail out the banks and Wall Street, the Money Guys then post record earnings, don't add American jobs, pay their CEO's high bonuses--what do you expect? That the unemployed will sit back and vote for tax breaks for the rich?"

Jack Kiln, teacher at Hillcrest, making a rare appearance at the Café, joined in. "It's classic history," he said. "If you don't actively build up the middle class, the poor will rise up. France, Russia, Iran, pick your country, pick your century."

In other news, on the artistic side, "Heartstone Under the Shadow" as well as most of local author John Schreiber's books are now available internationally--not only through Amazon.uk, but now Amazon Germany and Amazon France. The local paper says he has a book signing in Rochester on October 15 from 1 to 3 at the Christian Book and Gift Shop. Few of the Boys will go. Most have never been in a book store in their lives, but, then again, most Americans haven't either.