No More!

2008

 * September: The economic crisis takes a turn for the worse when Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs asks for billions from the US government to be bailed out of their economic situation. After a mere week of being under government funding, the major CEOs are reported to be giving themselves millions in bonuses, and vacationing in the Bahamas. The younger half of the American public responds with demands that they be fired, the Baby Boomers simply continue their complacentcy.


 * October: The 700 billion dollar bailout is put before Congress, live testimonies by the Major CEOs of faliing Wall Street Financial markets are witnessed ot have no grasp of what they did wrong when it is so abundantly clear to the majority of the country, and also appear to have no desire to do anything about it. The bailout holds no accountability to the CEOs or the Fed. Before the bill passes in Congress (Unlike OTL it is likely to go through the first time with minimal resistance) a massive march is held in Washington DC, with protesters around every major city blocking off major companies from conducting buisness. Most of the demonstrators are 18 to 30 years old, and the chant being led is simply, "NO MORE!" Police are sent to push the protestors back into "Free Speach Zones," but the crowd refuses to move, continuing to shout "NO MORE!" Eventually the police begin using riot sticks to beat the crowd into submission in New York. The crowd revolts into a mob, and begins to fight the police forces. Within twelve hours one protestor jumpus up next to the stature of George Washington and shouts, "He would tell us to take back our freedom!" the mob floods into the stock exchange overwellming the gaurds and destroys the trading floor, continuing to chant, "NO MORE!" In DC when word of the riot in New York reaches them they break past the police, and flood into Congress, chanting "NO MORE!" and attack Congressmen and Senators. Gunfire ensues outside, and the protestors fight back, most with rocks and clubs, others with their own weapons. The Second American Revolution Begins.


 * November: DC falls to the rioters, the Speaker of the House, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Paulson, and President Bush are all captured by the rioters. The police are simply unable to subdue the mob, and the National Gaurd is without any leadership from Washington to know how to procede. Many members of the Gaurd join the rioters. By Christmas, New York, Seattle, Washington DC, San Francisco, Chicago, and Detroit have all fallen to the Protesters. Their is no apparent leader of the rioters, they simply communicate their plans via social networking sights in popular concensus. Just before election night Senator Obama, who was recently returning from Hawaii, made a public statement declaring that the rioters were absolutely in the right for what they did, and should not be punished, but commended for finally stepping up to truely voice what they believe. Obama wins in a landslidel, with McCain calling him a Socialist on national television. The blogosphere responds in kind with, "Good, we need one!"


 * December: President-elect Obama meets with the Protestors in DC and promises to change his policies to immediately begin wealth re-distribution to the middle class, and pass the Single Payer Universal Health Care Act. He also promises that the bailout will be retooled to not give major corporations of the financial sector one cent, but wrather seize the companies for far less than their worth, and redirect their profits to the public.