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Occupy Organizer to MSNBC Panel: ‘There is Plenty Of Money In This Country…It’s Just In The Wrong Hands’

Sep. 17, 2012 3:59pm Benny Johnson

Consistently controversial MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris Perry featured a panel on her show this weekend to mark the one year anniversary of the Occupy movement. After a diatribe glorifying Occupy and subtly critiquing the Tea Party, Perry asked panelist Harrison Schultz, an Occupy Wall Street organizer, “one year later, where’s Occupy?”

Schultz responded in a cumbersome way, noting that Occupy does not have one organized speaking voice but they can all agree on one thing: wealth redistribution.

“What I’ve been working on specifically is presenting an actual plan…to actually rapidly end the economic crisis and permanently alter capitalism, and this is known as the big idea fund,” he said.

Schultz then directly attacked the wealthy by stating “there is plenty of money in this country, there is no shortage of money, it’s just in the wrong hands.” The statement echos the same sentiment of class warfare from the Occupy movement, which has become a cornerstone of the group’s platform during its volatile and turbulent one year history.

Schultz also appeared on Fox News with Sean Hannity back in May, where he had some difficulty translating his “ideas” for bringing about revolution into words. Eventually, Hannity could take no more and launched into this memorable rant:

You are 29 years old. Stop wasting your time at Occupy Wall Street. And here’s a novel concept, get up at 6:00 a.m., shovel some coffee down your throat. Hit the pavement, find a job, get to work, stop whining, stop complaining, stop blaming and get your ass out of bed, like everybody else in America, and get to work. How does that sound?

Additionally, Rev. Al Sharpton also hosted Schultz in 2011, where the Occupy organizer said “a lot of the people that are here are in fact anarchists, are in fact revolutionaries. . . We don’t really want to fix [the problems]. It’s revolution, not reform.”

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teddrunk
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:42pm
Jesse James & his gang thought there was plenty of money in this country, just the wrong people have it.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:48pm
  LOL, robbery is robbery. The Dem-wits just keeping trying to make more of it legal.
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:52pm
  Obamaunist Occupiers will stop protesting if you wipe out all of there student loans and pay them 100K per year to work for the gov’t and do nothing, or simpy have the gov’t pay them 100K per year to sit at home and do nothing.
  
  They will shut up if Obozo does that for them.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:54pm
  Did Jay Carney’s son get paid by that net work to be on that show??????? Just wondering…
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 5:05pm
  My kids have a stronger work ethic than those occupy whiners.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 5:08pm
  See…here’s the problem for JZS and his stinky buddy Schultz…the money may be in the wrong hands…who knows…but by putting it in JZS and his ofactory assaulting friend’s hands there won’t be any money at all for anyone..wrong hands or otherwise.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 5:23pm
  And that money belongs to someone else. It would be better to transfer our money to a charity or foreign nation than to let the Federal Government have it.
  
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 1:23am
  They want to take the money from those who earned it and give it to themselves so they can maintain their lifestyle of having a good time. No one with a job can take the time these people do to protest. Except union thugs of course.
  
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watersRpeople
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:37pm
The thing is if you are going to work six months of the year for the government, then why not eight months? Why not ten months, it’s only a few more months. They’re gonna make you do it anyways with new Health care Taxes, and climbing local taxes mixed in combination of inflation.

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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:37pm
So in M3 which is all financial assets plus currency, this excludes institutional stuff like CDO’s and CDS’s since the actual value on these is predicated on the change in value of real or existing assets, this value is in the $11Tr. category. Now, if you look at household wealth which includes this plus the net value of physical assets you get a number around $60Tr.

So let’s go with the $60Tr number in total wealth. Is that “enough” as he would have us believe? Well we have 16Tr. in debt. So assuming we pay that off we are now at 44Tr. Our unfunded obligations to make our commitments whole to SS, Medicare, Medicaid, etc is roughly 180Tr to 200Tr.

Ok, so now we’ve eaten the rich and we have reduced everyone to serfs…where does the other 140Tr. come from?

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- cristo52
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:45pm
  In comes from The Ben Bernake.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:53pm
  CRISTO52, The opening picture tells it all.
  http://economese.wordpress.com/page/2/
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 5:05pm
  “Our unfunded obligations to make our commitments whole to SS, Medicare, Medicaid, etc is roughly 180Tr to 200Tr.”
  
  Yeah dude, I like to pull numbers out of thin air too.
  
  PS: You know that, like, the debt doesn’t need to paid down tomorrow, right? (Realistically, it probably shouldn’t ever be 100% paid down, just reduced to a more easily manageable size. Post-recession, I mean.) Or that the “unfunded liabilities” aren’t really “liabilities” in the legal sense, considering they’re all alterable? Or that – presumably – more money will be made as time goes on?
  
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- wisehiney
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 5:19pm
  @VOX Very soon, the interest payment alone eats up all tax receipts. Christina Romer, oBUMMER’s Chair of Economic Advisers was fired because of a book that she wrote explaining how raising taxes would cause the economy to shrink. No easy way for suckers.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 5:31pm
  So Vox, you know what they say…74% of all statistics are made up. Unfortunately this one isn’t. But I can say with 100% statistical certainty that you’re an idiot troll.
  
  http://www.usdebtclock.org/
  
  This shows roughly 120 Tr. in unfunded obligations…federally. However you have to include the roughly 40Tr in state level obligations. This gets us to 160TR. Unfortunately, the Fed has decided to print money indefinitely. Most of these programs are inflation hedged. This meas as the Fed prints we are on the hook to increase benefits accordingly. Ergo, 160Tr now looks more like 180 to 200. Thank Helicopter Ben for the last part.
  
  Now regarding your “manageable size” of debt. Debt is leverage. Why would we leverage the future for today? First, you have to consider the inherent theft of the matter. You are taxing people who haven’t been born yet to provide benefit to people living today. Not only is that immoral it isn’t leverage. You are simply reallocating and no capital investment of any kind is made so no future benefit is to be realized by those paying the difference. Debt is a drag on growth not a multiple when it comes to government. It creates a crowding out in the capital investment arena and limits private growth. The only economic justification for debt is to manage exchange rates in order to create the fantasy of competitiveness and play games in the FX space. This helps us not, as our debt is inflationary to the rest of the world.
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 5:36pm
  @WISEHINEY
  
  You mean this Christina Romer?
  
  “…immediate, extreme austerity would plunge us back into recession.”
  
  “A crude rule of thumb is that every $100 billion of deficit reduction will cost close to a million jobs in the near term.”
  
  ” Our budget problems are so large that solving them entirely through spending cuts would devastate the social safety net and slash investments essential for long-run growth and economic opportunity. So revenue increases must be part of the package.”
  
  “President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. Increasing rates on top earners is an obvious way to raise revenue from those who can afford it most.”
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/business/cutting-the-deficit-compassionately-economic-view.html
  
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Firebrand
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:34pm
they should watch this, it would make them happy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQu2SVFF-cU&feature=player_embedded

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watersRpeople
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:33pm
Like here’s a little truth Americans despise. There are people in America who come from dysfunctional families, and young men who don’t know yet what they want to do in life, therefore they are enticed into the military to fight for good pay and benefits, and some medals on their uniform. But not freedom, no, because even the nation they supposedly fight for has people working as slaves half of the year for the government.

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- Spaceman_Spiff
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 9:27am
  Hey Waterspout… Here’s some truth for you. Most of the people I come into contact with in the military are definitely not in it for the pay (enlisted pay is not that great), but we actually believe what we do makes a difference. Nor do they come from dysfunctional families, actually the opposite (they come from strong families with the support for what they do). I have dedicated my life to and been around them all my life – 47 years – my father was career military, I was career military and still work with them. It breaks my heart to watch this country move towards a system my family, and others have fought against. I will continue the fight so you and your buddies can manipulate the system and denigrate the same freedoms that protect you. If the system fails, who is going to protect you? Not me. I’ll know what side to take, and you’re not on it. You want fairness, then fine, pay your fair share (you’re probably on of the 47% I am forced to support). Fair or flat tax EVERYBODY, get rid of the IRS, Ed Dept, DoE, EPA…all except for Treasury and DoD (to provide for a “common defense), get rid of collective bargaining for unions, enact legislation that will bring the outsourced jobs back to the US, get rid of barriers to small business, then get out of the way and let the economy heal itself.
  
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Seagal45
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:32pm
Well said Hannity!! OWS are a bunch losers with mommy issues.

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term limits for congress
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:31pm
I saw a movie this weekend (released in 2007, I think), ‘Idiocracy.’ Want to see what the US looks like when OWS takes over? See this movie. Funny, but lots of foul language. The House of Representatives was called the House of Representin’. I LOL’d several times.

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- rookorami
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:50pm
  LOL I saw that movie a while back and have felt that is the way we are heading, unfortunately. It definitely has some interesting scenes. Like what happened to Starbucks, or the “Rehabilitation”. “Brawndo It has electrolytes!”
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:59pm
  Re-Elect President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho!!!!!
  
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- ReallySeriouslyNoWay
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 5:08pm
  Great movie, but also sad in that this is the way we’re headed. The first scene where they talk to the “responsible parents” and then show the family tree of the “OWS” people, so true and so sad.
  
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- rookorami
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 5:44pm
  Roth Remember its President Not Sure :P
  
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seeker9
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:30pm
Bank robbers think the money is in the wrong hands too. What ever happened to the novel idea that if you want money, you earn it.

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watersRpeople
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:30pm
Agreed, just take it from them – they’ll give it. Even I as an American can see I’m surrounded by delusional liars who despise truth.

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:26pm
Obama and his minion’s politics of petty jealousy, again. Ignorant rabble-rousers.

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Carlinpa
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:23pm
in the wrong hands? It’s in the hands of the people who made it.. The rich spend what they have already earned, most people spend what they have NOT yet earned. (i.e. Big screen TV’s, exotic vacations, New Cars, larger than what they can afford homes, fancy clothes, etc) all on CREDIT.

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wisehiney
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:23pm
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/21/the-hope-and-the-change-new-citizens-united-movie-blasts-obama.html

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Carlinpa
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:21pm
Ahh this dummy was on Hannity.. just a bunch of entitlement minded cry babies

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- JohnQTaxpayer
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 5:57pm
  I have often speculated on the outcome of generational in-breeding of the chronic liberal. Would the outcome of decades of gene pool stagnation, result in the offspring returning to the roots of primal man? Man reverting to the time, of being incapable of higher functioning cognitive reasoning. Man incapable of expressing grievances in any form of civilized manner becoming the missing link reverting to Neanderthal existence.
  
  Sadly I have my answer.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:18pm
ALL the money is in government hands being given to the FREE BAGERS who don’t work and do their fair share!!!

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- smokeysmoke
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:26pm
  right, we just need to TAKE THE MONEY FROM ALL THOSE PRODUCTIVE WORKERS, and give it to people who are jealous and cannot produce for themselves… ya that sounds like solid economic plans
  
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- CobraBill
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 12:54am
  Well, don’t forget the billions we send over seas to the people who hate us, and want to kill us.
  How else would they be able to buy the rocket launchers and bullets they need.
  
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SPIN_MD
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:15pm
I wonder if that useful idiot is going to be on the first or second boxcar going to the canyon for “revision”.

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- taxpro4u03
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:44pm
  The ‘appearance’ of the alternate reality which these folks (left AND right paradigms) want for the majority of us to accept as the new norm should be your first clue… They ‘walk.’ “Normal” behavior is ‘punished.’ — It is up to us — the REAL ‘normal’ people to flip it back — which means ——– we don’t NEED ‘permission’ to be FREE. Simply ACT like it. No politician, bureaucrat, special interest group, their minions nor the corporations they are beholden to will do it FOR you… That’s the beauty of freedom! It’s like a ‘benefit.’ It’s only a benefit if you USE it — PROPERLY. If you feel you NEED ‘privileges granted by government,’ then its high time you engage in some self-actualization reality checks on your publik skool good citizenship indoctrination. See Hale v Henkle 201 U.S. 43 @ 89 [1906] — Walk in the park.
  
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RightUnite
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:14pm
Ah… The little panzy azz moron is back for his five minutes of fame I see… And where else but MSNBC is this little turd going to get that??

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:14pm
I wish they would have asked him what he will do when the Plan is fulfilled and Everyone is Broke!

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- encinom
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:24pm
  Romney with his money hide in foreign lands away from paying his fair share of taxes is doing good. Also US corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars, instead of using that money to invest it in America it is being hoarded or given to CEO and other executives to fatten the bank accounts on the 1%.
  
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- seeker9
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:35pm
  @encinom
  What do you know about investing? Why don’t you invest YOUR capital, take advantage of cap gains tax rates, and pay your fair share. Let me guess… it’s too risky for you. Get out and make something of yourself!
  
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- Donald
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:45pm
  You can’t invest an unemployment check
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:46pm
  ENCINOM, Let’s not forget John Kerry who established his own off shore accounts, and not in blind trusts as Romney’s. How about Debbie Wassaman-Schultz’s accounts? Pelosi? I’ve named only two of the Congressional Dems who have money beyond the wildest dreams of Romney. How out of touch are they? How about all of those American Samoans have the Pelosi family screwed over by keeping their income at next to nothing? They can and do join our military so they can actually make enough money to send home to help support their other family members who work for the Pelosi’s fish canneries. Keep it up, the Dems have more who are far wealthier than the Romney’s in government. We can just keep digging up their dirt, because it is there by the yard buckets.
  
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wolverine
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:14pm
I don’t understand how losers like this get so arrogant that they can determine who should succeed and who should not.

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:29pm
  This is what happens when a man whose only claim to fame was that he was a “community organizer” gets elected President. Never again.
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:44pm
  “I don’t understand why the Tea Bagers desire to become serfs for the rich, like Romney.”
  
  The Right tends to believe pretty strongly in hierarchy and social structure. If you’re at the top it must be because you deserve to be there, same if you’re at the bottom. Kings deserve to rule, slaves deserve to be ruled. No analysis of whether the system itself is producing just or unjust outcomes, or whether the Kings have created a system that keeps them ruling perpetually.
  
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- seeker9
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 5:33pm
  @vox
  
  Yeah, I can see that you don’t understand much at all. I suppose in your world, “just outcomes” means everybody is the same. That means the best and brightest and hardest working get penalized while the shirkers reap benefits. You just might ought to check your leftist ideas and just decide again what serfdom is.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 6:21pm
  its not about who succeeds and who doesn’t its about after succeeding using goverment to steal from people and keep our competition which justifies the existence of OWS which they don’t do a good job of explaning and to end OWS you gotta end the fed which is the heart of big goverment and corporate takeover of our goverment.
  
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Larry E
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:09pm
How DARE those people who’ve worked hard and actually earned something think that they should be able to retain it! Those who believe that actual work of some kind is beneath them need to be supported in the manner they deem fitting, so should be able to take whatever those who work have earned. It’s only fair, ask a community organizer.

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- justangry
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:19pm
  Well I do agree with you for the most part. Though I’m not sure all of some folks’ wealth is from hard work. Some have benefited from lobbyist buying off politicians to stifle competition, some have received bailouts, while others are benefiting from the printing of money. I don’t have any problem with folks keeping all the money they make honestly. I’d love to see all the family farmers in my home town doing better, but many are being squelched by the big farming co-ops, their lobbies, and Washington whores.
  
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Gary_K
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:09pm
Delusional sums it up for me…whack job does it too.

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Wildblue3
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:08pm
I hope he comes back to Hannity’s show as well. That would be fun to watch.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:39pm
  WILDBLUE3, That was funny, remember it well. What a jerk, “the money is just not in the right hands.”
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hdBCWlPlGE
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:06pm
Yes, it should be in the hands of the crackheads and FOODSTAMPERS , they will show us the road to success !!!!!!!!!!! They will employ our children, file mountains of paperwork……and keep the wheels of the economy rolling !!!!!!! Yes, it grows from the bottom up , they will manage the nations business wonderfully !!!!!!!!! The poor are the answer to our success as a nation……….yay !!!!!…….

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TexasCommonSense
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:06pm
I found a way to regularly take money from the 1%. I call it a paycheck.

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- RightUnite
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:16pm
  Amen… The intelligent of this country do the same. Unfortunately, there will always be these turds who want something for nothing.
  
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prhdr
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:03pm
Say WHAAAATTTTTT!!!!!!

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SREGN
Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:03pm
They are incapable of planning their own life, so their solution is to plan yours. Obama built that.

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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 4:22pm
  DEFINITION OF A LIBERAL: Immature, spoiled brat. Usually an Atheist. Normally has no job experience or limited work experience (real work: have to get up in the morning, make it to job at certain time, be responsible for accomplishing something concrete). Probably totally fed a lot of garbage from their schools (not knowing that last year the COMMUNISTS admitted that from 1950′s on Communists were sent to the USA to infiltrate as many of our schools as possible, especially our colleges and Ivy League schools) . A Liberal is totally self-centered. It has never occurred to any of them that for generations people have tried to help the poor and down trodden. That there was a time when Welfare seemed to be declining (when they were required to work at something, not just collect ‘welfare’). They are so childish they actually think they have a (any) solution to the problems of the world. THEY HAVE FOUND that it’s far easier to talk about saving the world than being responsible for their own lives. SO they make up all of these lists of “UNFAIRNESS” and expect to COLLECT MONEY (and a commission for them) to solve them. I have yet to meet a Charity person on the job more than 1 year who still gives damn…it’s a money making scam for them now. LIBERALS grow up but if one is still LIBERAL after age 25 then they become a DANGER TO DEMOCRACY. They become Marxists. THINKABOUTIT.
  
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