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Calif. Teachers Union Releases Cartoon Video Featuring ‘The Rich’ Urinating on the Poor

Dec. 4, 2012 3:40pm Jason Howerton

A new animated video released by the California Federation of Teachers shows the rich “1 percent” urinating on and stealing money from the less fortunate and middle class. The purpose of the video is to explain “economic inequality” and the need for wealthy people to pay their “fair share of taxes.”

The video argues that the rich got richer by evading taxes and using loopholes to hold onto their money. The union claims this is why Congress needs to repeal Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

Narrated by actor Ed Asner, the full video is currently featured on the official California Federal Teachers website.

Calif. Teachers Union Releases Cartoon Video Featuring The Rich Urinating on the Poor

(cft.org)

Here is how CFT summarizes its new cartoon video:

Tax the rich: An animated fairy tale, is narrated by Ed Asner, with animation by award-winning artist Mike Konopacki, and written and directed by Fred Glass for the California Federation of Teachers. The 8 minute video shows how we arrived at this moment of poorly funded public services and widening economic inequality. Things go downhill in a happy and prosperous land after the rich decide they don’t want to pay taxes anymore. They tell the people that there is no alternative, but the people aren’t so sure. This land bears a startling resemblance to our land. After you watch this video, click here to share with friends, and send an email to your elected officials to let them know they need to restore higher federal tax rates on the wealthy so that we may once more enjoy properly funded public services.

CFT Communications Director Fred Glass, who wrote and directed the video, told TheBlaze the cartoon is not intended for children.

“I love animation and I believe it is an effective way of communicating ideas that is a little different,” he said, adding that there are no plans to show the video in California classrooms.

“The CFT is working on helping citizens understand growing economic inequality and the need to restore tax higher rates for the wealthy in order to fund necessary public services,” Glass added.

(H/T: Weasel Zippers)

This story has been updated with additional information.

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Comments (319)

hauschild
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:31pm
The term “poor” has lost its meaning over the past 20 years.

Friggin’ idiots in this country have no clue what it means to be poor; or what it means to put in an actual full day’s worth of work.

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- NHwinter
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:51pm
  Perhaps they should have Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the other Democrats that are rich peeing on the poor. Also all the Hollywood stars that are rich. When is our country going to stop all this ugly divisive speech. Public unions live off of the taxpayers. I am a taxpayer and I am sick of unions and sick of rich politicians. I want common sense and civility to return to America. One sixth of my income goes to property tax which funds the teacher’s union, that doesn’t include Fed. tax. How long can they rob us to fill their pockets?
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:08pm
  You’re absolutely right about that. I remember as a child we had nothing. People on welfare and other public assistance today have all the perks. My poor mom didn’t have a washing machine until I was a teenager and that was some old wringer washer. Until then, she put the laundry in the bath tub and scrubbed them on a wash board and hung them on a line. Life was a chore.
  
  Funny tho, we didn’t know we were poor. Today if they can’t have cell phones, TV’s, microwaves, 2 bathrooms, 2 cars in garage, and all the other goodies, they think they’re being abused. Knowing how I lived as a child, makes me more critical of those who want their cake and eat it too while getting all the goodies given to them for free.
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:16pm
  Too bad these dumber than dumb fools don’t have a clue that taxing the rich isn’t the answer when Obama is spending money faster than people can make it:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OwzPMAMaQc
  
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- cloudsofwar
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:22pm
  this is the same old crap. i’m sure you would have seen this cartoon or one like it in the 1930′s. more to follow. the repubs should amend their tax plan and raise the taxes on the rich. afterall most of the rich probably voted for obama. all this crap about pay your fair share is nothing new. but iam sick of hearing it. and i’m sick of obama and his groupies.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:32pm
  These are the idiots in charge of teaching our next generation? We are screwed with this kind of low lifes in charge of the classroom. What a waste of taxpayers money. If you own a business do not look at California.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:43pm
  Anyone who tries to use urine to make a point is just a childish loser….
  
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- Lotus503
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:43pm
  Commie propaganda. It should be our #1 priority to purge these socialists/Marxists from our education systems.
  
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- stage9
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:57pm
  This is classic marxism.
  
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- ltb
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 6:05pm
  Ha Ha. The rich peeing on the poor. That is so funny, because it’s so true. Why, just this afternoon I was driving through River Oaks in Houston and all of the rich people were out in their front yards peeing on the Mexican peasants who were trimming their bushes. But seriously folks, it’s amazing that parents in California hand over their children to those morons at California’s State run schools every day. All I have to say is that if you entrust your children to the care of morons, don’t be surprised when they grow up to be morons.
  
  Also, something that should disturb everyone in America is that these Leftist Nazi pigs, who demonize the rich, are the same kind of Leftist Nazi pigs who demonized Jewish bankers in Germany back in the 1930s. We all know how that turned out. Well, if you went to a State run school, maybe you don’t… those Leftist Nazi pigs started throwing the rich bankers and their friends into gas chambers. I am not rich, but I do have a lot of rich people in my family – I don’t envy them and I certainly don’t think they owe me anything.
  
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- socialism.rocks
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 6:23pm
  who made you god to decide who gets what when..how
  
  sucker get ready for a socialist revolution …. 6 billion plus of us.. less then a couple hundred million crapitalists
  
  in the end we have the numbers… nothing can stop socialism
- turkey13
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 6:28pm
  I hope they play this cartoon to the 18,000 Hostess employees that are out of a job. In this case it is the rich union pi_ssing on the poor sucker that just lost their jobs because of Union Greed. If they hold out their hands to the union and say can I have my uinion dues back they will laugh and P_iss harder.
  
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- ltb
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 6:35pm
  socialism.rocks, you’re nothing but a common thief. The Bible asks, “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” (Mark 8:36). You would do yourself a favor by pondering that question now, instead of on your deathbed.
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 7:58pm
  @socialism.rocks aka encinom.
  Give me you address, lets see how much you feel like revolting after i get there….Punkass pos idiot…..
  
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- DIR
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:09pm
  How do you tax the rich. They’ve already made it. The mantra “Tax the rich” is a way to get the less fortunate to go along with raising taxes. It’s a very poor bate and switch routine. How do you determine who’s rich, then how do you tax them. Besides taxing the rich doesn’t do what it’s suppose to. It doesn’t stop government excessive spending which is the real problem. It’s just another crappy way to soak people out of their hard earned cash, be it a lot or be it little. It’s just another government con game.
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:14pm
  Unions are greedy if the money goes to them it is fair and just for they are the most important people on the earth and little Johnny who lives in the cardboard box will get their crumbs.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:20pm
  @SOCIALISM ROCKS
  
  Wow are you full of crap and an idiot on top of it! What’s new! Hey bring on the revolution. A whole lot socialist will be dead, maybe even you when the smoke clears. If socialism wins, if you’re still around, you’ll be made to do something constructive for once in you life, like work hard for your food and to survive like everyone else. The government will take it all from you for themselves first, and dole out the rest a as they see fit.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 9:26pm
  Socialism
  I personally don’t do this, but for you on this occasion I will make an exception.
  
  Name the time and place for your socialist revolution.
  
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- horsefeathers99
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 12:45am
  If they are so determined to over tax the rich, why not start with ones who create the least amount of jobs per $250,000. they make, like maybe Ed Asner and his radical Hollywood friends, atheletes, etc.
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:34am
  Gov. should take all the money
  pay the bills
  I’m looking FORWARD with HOPE they send back some CHANGE…
  
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- Beck_Art-Obama_In_Pee_Pee
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:13am
  “video released by the California Federation of Teachers shows the rich “1 percent” urinating on … the less fortunate and middle class. The purpose of the video is to explain “economic inequality” ”
  
  So, pee-pee is the new instruction? Beck’s Art HEARTILY AGREES!
  
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- December5
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:02am
  There is no poor in nthis country, only those who refuse to work and still receive the benefits as if they did. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- jorge_washington
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 9:13am
  “The term “poor” has lost its meaning over the past 20 years.
  
  Friggin’ idiots in this country have no clue what it means to be poor; or what it means to put in an actual full day’s worth of work.”
  
  That’s right, wing. The Christians have certainly redefined what it means to be poor to justify their rewriting of the scriptures which they now believe Jesus condemned the poor and meek for being slackers while praising the wealthy. Just look at all these republican politicians who call themselves Christians or religious while calling for cuts in funding for the poor and elderly just so that the wealthy may have more tax breaks and their constituents that vote them into power.
  
  No longer will the Christians allow 21 century definitions of the poor to include people that actually have a TV, enjoy a $2.00 half gallon of ice cream or a $0.89 liter of off brand soda every once in a while, have a diet that includes more than just rice and beans, actually get to have 3 meals a day, own any car, own a home, have a land line phone, see a doctor when only when you reach 65 years of age or get to purchase clothing once a year.
  
  The Christians want 19th century definition of being poor, no running water, no electricity, eat when you can, wood burning stove, no education and dying young. These Christians will some explaining to do when their time comes.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 12:58pm
  This crap sounds just like Marxist propaganda from the old USSR.
  
  Now Russia has a 13% FLAT tax.
  
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- TEIN
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:40pm
  Isn’t funny that this video is produced and made by the people in the top 1%!!!
  Higher taxes on people making $250k or more a year is not about getting more revenue, but making it not worth the effort to achieve that standard of living and then in effect forcing a standard of “poor” on every one….excepted of course for the 1% elite who want to set the tax and who made this video……Welcome to the beginning of the a new Roman Socialist Empire…..
  
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- cosmo101
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:12pm
  Amen to you all!
  
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- Conservative_Thunder
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 5:22pm
  What you progressive’s fail to realize is that by taking more money from “the rich” you take away money “the rich” give to charity to help those in need. So, in your world of government controls everything, there won’t be any money left to give to charity or to help those that the government can’t help . Sorry, I forgot that socialism is a guarantee that everyone will be rich. Wait, if every one is rich then all their money will go to taxes making them poor which means that everyone will be poor except those in the government who will be rich and taxing themselves more just so they can have more money and be rich. Socialism sure sounds like a plan guaranteed to make everyone rich except those that are paying their fair share who would then be poor. What a great plan.
  
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- Johnny 7 OMA
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 10:34pm
  We need to do everything possible to stop Ed Assner and the teachers union from ******* on the poor. What has the poor done to deserve getting pissed on by the teachers and that rich guy Assner? The poor should burn down the union hall and hang Assner in effigy. The war on the poor must stop!
  
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- lovenfl3
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 11:08pm
  Am I the only one that’s sick and tired of having the 1% lecture us about how the 1% are evil? Like a typical liberal, Mr. Asner feels that his inclusion into the 1% is justified. Somehow he has a different set of rules. This new video nails this right on the head. We’ve seen this before in history!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXRZa_qKQWw
  
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- grannynurse
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 11:21pm
  When a country rewards (subsidizes) bad choices they are going to get more people making bad choices. You are right Hauschild, being poor has lost it’s true meaning. Being poor used to mean that tradgedy had happened in one’s life that was beyond their control. It usually occured when the father died to leave his wife and children without support. Or when the father became ill and was unable to support his family. These were tradgedies not choices. These people did everything they could not to ask for help. It was humiliating to them.
  
  Not so today. I see women with several children that have different last names and live in subsidized housing. Her children are on food stamps, medicaid, free school breakfasts, lunches, and books. She signs them up every year at Christmas time for gifts from cash-strapped agencies because there are so many of them. And she now has another boyfriend living with her who has no job. I kid you not.
  
  I also see illegal and legal immigrants who have come to our country with their families. They have children here and the children are all considered American citizens who are eligible for a Social Security card and can receive taxpayer subsidizes. We pay for their healthcare which is better than what my working son and his working wife receive for my grandchildren.
  
  Something is terribly wrong with this picture.
  
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- cosmo101
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 2:21am
  @SOCIALISM.ROCKS >Socialism 101: Please enlighten us where is has been successful in the past before we buy into it?
  
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- lillymckim
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:44am
  Oh my look Cali voted for Proposition 30 …. Hollowwood will be paying a tax rate of just under 52%.
  Voting for Obama has consequences.
  Hollywood owns it.
  
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- stage9
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:16am
  How they responded to political marxism back in the 40′s with CAPITALIST videos:
  
  Make Mine Freedom ~ 1948
  http://youtu.be/u6H63CD7uQA
  
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- stage9
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 11:22am
  SOCIALISM.ROCKS, someone ALWAYS ends socialism’s reign of terror:
  
  Romanian Dictator Nicolae and Elena ceausescu execution
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ6q1a6aDbA
  
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sizzler2220
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:31pm
Socialist Pig Regime members beget Socialist Pig Regime members. California deserves all it is about to receive. The forty-seven percent are not paying their fair share. The rich have been paying their share and the share of the 47 percent. People in California should leave if they can’t overtake the socialist pigs.

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- noagendainca
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:11pm
  Believe me. There are plenty of us here in California who are making our plans to exit. I’m not what they consider “wealthy”, but I also don’t believe in, nor want hand-OUTS; and I’m tired of the 47% not paying their “fair share”. Everyone needs some skin in the game.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:44am
  @noagendainca I agree about the skin in the game. I say if you don’t pay taxes, you don’t vote. Exclude retirees who have paid taxes their whole life, and are just retired. But if you’re retired, and never worked, you don’t vote. I guess it would be better stated that if you are on a government handout (and social security or a military pension is not a handout), you don’t vote. Why should we let the takers vote for the ones who promise to take from working people to give to people who don’t want to work?
  
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WCJ
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:30pm
If you don’t have children in school you should’t have to pay school taxes to begin with.

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:52pm
  Especially when all the apartment owners don’t have to.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:53pm
  I meant renters.
  
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- SovereignSoul
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:04pm
  Are you implying that apartment owners do not factor the cost of property taxes into the amount of rent they charge?
  
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- noagendainca
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:18pm
  @SOVEREIGNSOUL: My thoughts exactly. Plus, there are plenty of other taxes that renters pay, thet end up going to the schools. (amongst other things.)
  @WCJ: I don’t have children either, but as horrible as the school system is out here in CA, the generations before me – some of whom didn’t have children – paid for my public school education. The part that irks me is when they use the money for something else. That’s where the nonsense has GOT to stop!
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:20pm
  And non drivers shouldn’t have to pay for high ways
  
  And pacifists shouldn’t have to pay for the military
  
  And vegans shouldn’t have to pay for FDA meat inspectors
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:28pm
  That makes perfect sense! Also since I am not involved directly with the war my taxes should stop going towards the military! and since I don’t use most highways in this nation I think my taxes should stop going there as well.. right?
  
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- brother_ed
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:37pm
  @KEATON
  
  You’re catching on!!
  
  A civilian militia, like the Minutemen of old, to protect our homeland.
  Toll roads. You drive on it, you pay for it.
  Private schools.
  Pay for your own birth control/abortion.
  
  And on, and on…
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:42pm
  DORA: How about if you have sex, you pay for your own rubbers or pills? When you get an STD, you pay for your own crab removal procedures? You want to murder your unborn child, you pay for it yourself?
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 10:59pm
  Dumb Dora – You Marxists forgot to mention that the military and roads are permissible by the federal government under the Constitution. The FDA also inspects your vegan food, moron. But you Marxists are unwilling to take care of yourselves, so those of us who actually can are forced to provide for you losers.
  
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lefty5005
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:26pm
“We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.” Cut spending then tax increases can be discussed to quell the deficit.

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- hauschild
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:34pm
  Yeah, good luck with spending cuts.
  
  We’ve got a Marxist POTUS with the majority of America’s support hell-bent on destroying this nation – and even if those idiots that support him understood this or realized this, they still wouldn’t give a rat’s ass because they’re getting their cut.
  
  I ask you then how a reasonable mind can then be expected to work within parameters such as these?
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:21pm
  First cut the military budget by 25%
  But the GOP won’t touch the MIC and their contractor friends.
  
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- brother_ed
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:33pm
  @CHARLES116
  
  A very short video explaining the budget in terms that everyone can understand:
  
  http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EW5IdwltaAc?rel=0
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 6:34pm
  Thanks BRO-ED…
  
  Last time i ask you to tell me a bed-time story!
  
  Excuse me while i wrap my arms around my knees, rock back and forth, and try to find my “happy place” ;p
  
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- DontTreadOnMe7
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 3:27pm
  Good video link Brother Ed! Simple to understand and unbiased… I posted it to Facebook!
  
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- cosmo101
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 4:49pm
  @Brother_Ed – Not to worry, Obama has itv all worked out. Our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren will pick up the tab. Of course they will resent this inflated tax burden so will retaliate through legislation toward the senior citizens.they hold responsible.
  
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pushinginto
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:23pm
Isn’t the “rich” just a more politically correct way of saying, the “Jews”?

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- busterpuddles
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:42pm
  I have to say, PUSHINTO, that is one of the more stupid comments I’ve experienced in some time.
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:54pm
  @push aka encinom.
  Some day, hopefully soon, im going to come on the blaze and not see you, or your many pseudonyms,and read how a 25 year old gay man was beaten to death by his mother, for not picking up his cheetos bags up off the basement floor……
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:22pm
  When did the Koch brothers convert?
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:54pm
  I actually agree with PUSH on this one (maybe not that way he means). In today’s American culture, the “1%” are used by the left much like “the Jews” were used by Hitler. Demonize them, make them the root of your problems, get people comfortable talking about them and treating them as “subhuman”…then when it comes time to drag them into the streets and put them on the train, no one cares.
  
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- The Jewish Avenger
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 7:20pm
  Used
  
  Thats how I pictured it…
  *Shudder*
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:18pm
  Rich can be seen many ways rich with mind and soul or the frugal shopper who has no bad habits.
  
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- Ken2
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:54pm
  Dog whistle? Ask Chris Matthews. He’d know.
  
  Obama and his fascists are doing to the “the rich” what Hitler did to the Jews…ginning up hate to distract the proles. There is a target on the back of every wealthy Conservative in the country and, if push comes to shove, they will suffer the same ultimate fate as Germany’s Jewish population, but through Mob Justice.
  
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- cosmo101
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:56pm
  OR Employers . .
  
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- cosmo101
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:04pm
  Don’t judge PUSHINTO too harshly. As a non-Jew i hear plenty of thinly disguised anti-semite remarks which seem to be PC today.
  
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taintso
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:23pm
Isn’t great what a good job teachers have done educating our children? When they have to rely on cartoons to get a message across to our children. It is a shame they are too lazy to work at a car wash, as that is what their education will prepare them for.

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- truthnstuff
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:35pm
  This is the low life trash class unions who hve been emboldened by their leader. They only know two words “I want”. When producers leave Ca. leaving only the socialists from Hollywood to support the bureaucracy, the state will finally collapse because they those socialists only want to use other peoples money.
  
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- Horatius_at_the_Bridge
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:57pm
  Actually, the union made it quite clear that the cartoon is intended for the union membership. Apparently it takes a cartoon to indoctrinate our ‘educators.’
  
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deerjerkydave
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:18pm
California tax rates have never been higher. Californians recently even passed a “millionaires tax” on the rich. These greedy unions tell their covetous voters year after year that we’re only one more tax hike away from prosperity.

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- pavepaws
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:22pm
  Ed Ass-ner. Sums it up well.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:24pm
  The drones believe the BS the unions put out because they’re uneducated OBAMAZOMBIES,they’ve been indoctrinated thoroughly,they’re a lost cause.
  
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- noagendainca
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:01pm
  Not only did the idiots out here in ca (which is the majority, but not everybody), vote to raise taxes on the “millionaires”, but that very same proposition raises sales tax another 1/4 percent – for everyone. – So now we all have to pay more for their stupidity. That’s okay, they’ll wonder what hit them next time they but something at the store. Guess they should have read the fine print instead of solely listening/watching the ads on tv.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:08pm
  Ed Asner supported the Sandinistas during the 1980s. I remember attending a screening of an Ed Asner propaganda film. In the discussion afterward the leftist discussion lead ignored or asked a person to see him after the discussion. Questions which debunked the leftist view were not to be discussed in a large group. Some people asking questions were shouted down.
  
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- Pantloadian
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:11pm
  The funniest part of this whole thing as that you Blazers don’t even realize you’re the ones being pissed on.
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:24pm
  I thought marijuana legalization and it’s taxation was supposed to help. I guess it does if you smoke enough of it where you become mind numbed and nothing else matters.
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 10:49pm
  Pants – And you’re the one who’s retarded enough to believe that the 1% are urinating on morons like you.
  
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- Pantloadian
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 8:35am
  GIT-N-DUM . . . Hate to break it to ya but I’m in the 1%. How’s that make ya feel? How’s it feel to work moderately hard at meaningless jobs only to find yourself well into middle age, saddled with debt, and no means of supporting yourself as you age? Tell us all about it.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 10:38am
  Wangless, you’re not the 1%. You’re a 25 yr old in your mother’s basement. Get over yourself.
  
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Metallicat
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:18pm
There should be a cartoon of the Teachers union urinating on children and their parents. that is essentially what they are doing with the education they provide for what it costs taxpayers.

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- taintso
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:25pm
  How about a honest cartoon of the teachers union rump riding the teachers and the taxpayer?
  
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- CatB
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:27pm
  Exactly .. since when did demanding MORE from someone — anyone … make those demanding it the abused.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:24pm
  How about a cartoon of Mitt Romney – the job creator! Wasting 12 years of his life and countless tens of millions RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT when he could have been creating jobs!
  Oh, sorry, that’s real life!
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:40pm
  A little dose of reality DORA: He did create jobs during that time period. And even if, arguendo, he didn’t, what’s it to you?
  
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Uechi
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:18pm
These are the kinds of people you allowing to educate your children?. Wake up to what’s going on and get rid of these pieces of garbage before they turn you kids in Marxists and help destroy what’s left of the Republic. Do I hear home schooling anyone?

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- silverstacker
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:24pm
  Until they make the globally illegal as well. The UN is currently working to those ends.
  
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The Third Archon
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:16pm
Hey, look–trickle down economics!

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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:25pm
  Okay I’ll admit that was kind of funny.
  
  “Ooh look, the government is coming to… why is he unzipping his pants?”
  
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- Small World
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:50pm
  Love it too funny !
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 10:50pm
  TTA – Hey look, trickle up poverty.
  
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caleejr
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:10pm
This is what the Teacher’s union is doing to our children!

DEMAND better – demand they TEACH

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- The Third Archon
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:23pm
  “DEMAND better – demand they TEACH”
  Except every time they TRY to teach, conservatives get up in arms over THAT too–pesky things like the FACTS of history and science.
  
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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:29pm
  Funny, I don’t remember evolution and all the studies about natives and gender issues having anything to do with math and science (aside from a minor role in biology).
  
  I’ve had the displeasure of watching Liberal school boards and other groups defund and get rid of tech programs because “they didn’t want their students to be a bunch of burger flippers,” and then give raises to a bunch of useless bureaucrats and administrators. And that kids is what the Union can do for you!
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:35pm
  LOL…yes of course ARCHIE..because the standard of education is so high right? I mean..it’s really important that California children make sure they learn what prominent homosexuals have given society throughout history. HIV comes to mind…
  Here’s to Harvey Milk day..right ARCHIE?
  
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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:39pm
  @Lord_frostwind. Adminstrators and bureaucrats aren’t union members. Teachers unions are there to protect teachers and students from bad administrations and school boards.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:09pm
  DESERTROSE1960, Okay, the union says that they cannot attribute this statement to the late Albert Shanker, and former union leader. But, somebody said it, or it would not exist. These union bosses are more concerned with their own bottom line than any child. Teachers are a different story. I long remember many who made an impact on me, and that was quite some time ago.
  “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.”
  
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- 70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:15pm
  @3rd commie
  No they get mad at the
  1. Indoctrination of liberal Communist lies.
  2. Keeping teachers that are child abusers.
  3. Holding students and teachers hostage while there on strike. Many times when they already agreed to a contract. When you say you are going to do something and have a contract do it. Make your yes be yes and no be no. That is why Unions are unbiblical.
  http://www.prca.org/pamphlets/pamphlet_86.html
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 10:51pm
  TTA – Your Marxist agenda doesn’t count as facts in history and science.
  
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huey6367
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:08pm
So the teachers are telling the kids by way of this video “Don’t be the best you can be and make a lot of money because people will not like you. Aspire to become mediocre”?

How unethical is that?

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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:05pm
OBAMAZOMBIES Why aren’t you paying your fair share? You’re not paying any federal income tax at all and the sales tax you pay you aren’t really paying either because the extortion you’re receiving isn’t your money to begin with.YOU are the people who aren’t patriotic! YOU people are parasites with no self respect living off people who work for a living,have you no shame? Of course you don’t because sugar daddy government say’s you’re entitled to my labor free of charge,we’re slaves to you pigs and the worthless pigs in DC. When’s it going to end taxpayers? When are we going to just stop paying the extortion and tell the pigs in DC we’re done.

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- subic
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:31pm
  i would like to see the union bosses home and learn what assets they own. I’ll bet they have plenty.
  
  This union BS in Commifornia is nothing more than continuation of class warfare. Pitting the illegal mexicans & blacks against the whites. Hate on Whitey, he work hard & make lotsa money, it not fair. You should be able to be a gangbanger, sit on the porch drinking a 40, sell dope & still get some of whiteys money!
  
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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:36pm
  Obama voters were more likel than Romney voters to have advanced degrees and a lot of us had Middle Class incomes, and therefore paid income taxes. You will probably find that more Romney voters avoided taxes than Obama voters. (The wealthy get most of their income from dividends and are taxed at much lower rate. Also, many of the wealthiest, folks like the Koch brothers, are registered as corportations and pay no income tax because they “earn” nothing.
  
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- Pork_Anvil
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:51pm
  @subic, thanks for the fine display of common conservative cognitive dissonance. “home from school for milk and cookies” and then “off to a gay bar?” Something doesn’t add up! But I guess math was lost on you, eh?
  
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- Strasser
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:37pm
  The ignorance of trolls like Desertrose are laughable. No need to let facts get in the way of your commie hatemongering. Whatever hateful nonsense satisfies your rage is by default the truth. Back up your idiotic claims with names, facts, and references or stop wasting everyone’s time.
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 10:55pm
  Desert – In other words, you Obama regime supporters are big government parasites since the only upper income jobs out there are useless government jobs. Not to mention my taxpayer money is being wasted on universities that don’t teach anything.
  
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Pork_Anvil
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:03pm
Tellin’ it like it is!

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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:23pm
  Yeah, except that fat guy on top giving the union workers a golden shower is the union boss. Just ask the Pennsylvania Steel Workers, went extinct but the union is still there.
  
  You could do the same video with teachers unions giving all the kids who never learn basic science and math a face full of pee, but that would be in poor taste.
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:31pm
  PORKY POLE PUFFER, a fine example of the product of public education.
  
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- countryfirst
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:40pm
  Pork you are a fool, I for one work for a rich man who pays be very well, to do the work he doesn’t want to. There is mutual respect and appreciation.
  
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- subic
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:42pm
  The DORK_ANVIL jut got from home from school & and is having his milk and cookies while playing on the internet. He’ll be gone soon. Off to his favorite gay bar for happy hour to try to score some tail.
  
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Seagal45
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:02pm
I do not recognize my country anymore. Maybe if EVERYONE paid taxes…but no, that would make too much sense.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:33pm
  Oh, one way, or another, they’ll pay for it. There is no such thing as a free lunch. But lets test that theory. Raise taxes on the rich in California to 80% of net income.. or maybe we should just go ahead and say Gross Income, no deductions!
  
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- noagendainca
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:33pm
  Too much sense indeed. For common sense is so uncommon nowadays.
  I too, no longer recognize my country.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:59pm
Looks like it could have been from Rocky and Bullwinkle, but that cartoon makes far more sense. Can’t wait to come back and read the usual trolls who will be slobbering all over this video.

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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:04pm
  Will this video be provoking riots in Cairo and Benghazi?
  
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- Pork_Anvil
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:04pm
  This video hit the nail on the head. The only detractors will be tea bag ones, and it’s already well known that they are on the way out, insignificant, and marginalized!
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:05pm
  More to the point…will Hillary and Barry be taking out an ad in Karachi denouncing the ad? Tax payer pays of course..natch.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:06pm
  Troll sighting in 3… 2… 1….
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:07pm
  It is entertaining and sad to see how uneducated they are,to see how thoroughly indoctrinated into collectivism they are.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:10pm
  PORK POLE PUFFER Leave this site we don’t want top get trichinosis from your rotting worthless carcass.
  
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- rawmilker
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:20pm
  PORKY, you ain’t seen nothing yet. I advise you you your likeminded ilk to not get too complacent….. troll
  
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- Joe_The_Patriot
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:22pm
  @DORK_anvil
  If your so confident conservatives and T-party patriots are done then why do you keep mentioning them and saying how finished they are??? Seems to me your worried about us and you should be…
  Wait till your boy Barry is done with the next four years, People are going to be begging for a conservative leader…. You mindless dopes are not going to be able to blame bush for much longer…
  
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- Pork_Anvil
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:39pm
  @Joe_The_Patriot, first of all, it’s YOU’RE and not YOUR. Come on now. I spend half my day correcting grammar on this site. Second, just because I mention them doesn’t mean I’m “worried.” That’s something moms tell their kids who are getting picked on. “Oh, they’re just jealous, son.” And finally, do you really expect me to believe that people will be “begging for a conservative leader” next election? That’s rich considering you and your buddies just spent 4 years saying that and guess what? Yeah, you guessed it.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:44pm
  Tick tock, tick tock…. EtchySketchy
  
  Time to punch out and take the short bus back to the half-way house….. LOL
  
  http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+fred+flintstone+5+oclock++work+whistle&mid=9E4697A57DDA87600BA99E4697A57DDA87600BA9&view=detail&FORM=VIRE1
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:46pm
  Hey PORKER, or should I say PORKED by 0bama, you are just worried because you know the Tea Party will scrub the RINOs and then the Dems will be done. When there are no more socialist programs to clean your diaper you will drown in your own crap.
  
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- Joe_The_Patriot
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:51pm
  @douche_anvil
  
  When gas goes up another 100% under this administration and people can’t afford to get to work, when electric prices “necessarily skyrocket”, When the dollar collapses, When unemployment goes to double digits because of obamacare and a lousy slow struggling economy, YES people will be begging for a conservative… The General public is stupid and they obviously need things to get worse before they open their eyes, and Obama is going to accomodate them 100 fold..
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:55pm
  PORKY, Please, I’ve been on this earth for a while and have seen both parties rise then fall back several times. Granted, you lefties do hope that the Republican party will just fold up and go away. It would just make life so much easier for you, now wouldn’t it?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:57pm
  Hi MONK, yeah, he should sign off in a moment now. Then there is tomorrow.
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:29pm
  MONK: Did you notice as soon as PORKY POLE PUFFER leaves DORA a.k.a. VOICE OF TREASON a.k.a. CHARLES116 shows up? When one shift ends another begins.
  
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- Joe_The_Patriot
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:51pm
  @FishBone
  I was thinking the same thing…
  
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Firesaber
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:58pm
Marxist propaganda. Have you noticed that ALL the jobs mentioned come from the government? Also, there is no talk about the legitimate functions of government? Finally, all the jobs mentioned are products of the STATE government. Federal taxation has little to do with that. This is also in California. Their main problem isn’t that they aren’t taxing the rich enough…it’s that the rich high-tailed it to TX and other places WITHOUT income taxes. Read 2084 the Search for Love Hope and Faith. Just more indoctrination like he says.

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term limits for congress
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:58pm
Yes, if the 1% paid more, the children would be smarter. Is that the point?

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- Firesaber
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:24pm
  We spend more per student than most any other country. You are wrong. Only when parents focus on making their kids excel will they do so. Until then, you are just throwing money at the problem.
  
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:57pm
It’s funny because the video blames the Government – Who is in control of the “Government”? The Commie-Crats and Communist obama – Yet these idiots voted for him ! They will get what they deserve – they should stop their whining !

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:05pm
  SOCIALISTSLAYER, Shhhhhhhhhh, you weren’t supposed to notice that part. I was laughing out loud at that, and in California the greatest majority of anything to do with government is run by the Dems. Idiots that will argue into a mirror.
  
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- Pork_Anvil
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:10pm
  I voted on your behalf, SocialistLayer!
  
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Gary_K
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:55pm
Who cares with crap like this going on…this bs is just to keep us occupied while the world burns.

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/7215

“Now, because no one has stepped in to expose the big lie behind Benghazi, it is nearly certain that the U.S. and NATO will become involved. By not exposing the big lie, American soldiers likely will be on ground in Syria, facing not just Assad’s army, but the Iranians and the Russian armies. The Russians already have about 100,000 soldiers in Syria. There have already been 40,000 deaths in Syria. Are you ready for four million?

As I wrote before, the fuse for WW III has been lit. You are witnessing history playing out right before your very eyes. I mapped out their plan. Has anyone been paying attention?”

Indeed, is no one paying attention?

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- brother_ed
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:09pm
  @GARY_K
  
  The problem, as I see it, has been termed the ‘Perfect Storm’.
  
  There is not a SINGLE thing that needs to be paid attention to, rather SEVERAL things occurring simultaneously that need to be paid attention to.
  
  There are so many important (and potentially world changing) events that are happening right now, or about to happen, that it is impossible to keep track of them all and more importantly, to act on them all.
  
  The economy, the Arab Spring, the rise of immorality, the rise of Marxism/Socialism…the list goes on and on.
  
  Personally, my head is spinning; things are changing so rapidly.
  
  I hope everyone has prepared, because this could get messy.
  
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Cavallo
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:53pm
California needs to tax its wealthy 80% of net income. Think of all the extra revenue they would raise. Why they could solve their budget crisis. I think we should use the Peoples Republic of California as a test example. See how well their economy and public coffers fair with a massive tax on the wealthy and businesses in that State.

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Secret Squirrel
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:50pm
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The left has no shame.
Only stupid people believe them.
Sadly, there’s plenty of stupid people voting.

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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:21pm
  See Pork’s comment above.
  
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- SovereignSoul
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:00pm
  Do stupid people use singular verbs with plural nouns?
  Just curious.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:47pm
The purpose of the video is to explain “economic inequality, need for wealthy people to pay fair share of taxes.” No the purpose of the video is to create more collectivists to create communism here in Amerika. This is another example of why public sector unions shouldn’t exist,they’re indoctrinating kids into communism and we continue to allow their existence. The NEA is only interested in increasing it’s power through membership and nothing else,their brainwashing activities are child abuse and I suggest to parents if you can home school your kids to do so,you’ll be saving their life,literally.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:03pm
  Indoctrination and mind-manipulation of the upcoming generation to ensure the fanatic socialists and communists under Obama snare all the people they can.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:12pm
  That’s the plan and he’s doing it but the populace is so dumbed down they don’t even realize it.
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:48pm
  “the populace is so dumbed down they don’t even realize it.”
  
  May I introducte EXHIBIT A: PORKY POLE PUFFER
  
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- socialism.rocks
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 6:25pm
  and government money.. the tax write off status for charity and religion gots to go… government has no right- to fund religion or personal morals and values….
  
  we want this war with you nut-jobs we will win
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 6:45pm
  Socialism sux We’ve been ready for years candyass,the prepping was difficult but dealing with communists,socialists and anarchists will be easy and we’ll crush your worthless @sses.
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 10:57pm
  Socialism sucks – And here you Marxists claim to be anti-war when you want to kill everybody who opposes your messed up ideology. Who’s going to pay for all of your freebies when there are no more “evil” rich people for you to steal from?
  
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biohazard23
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:46pm
So THIS is what the unions want to spend their money on?? Yep, what a way to get people to take you even less seriously than they did before. What a complete bunch of buffoons.

BTW, I guess the union forgot to remind the middle class peons that the union bosses are the 1%. But hey, it’s Kalifornia. At this point, who really gives a toss? Let them fall into the ocean and just be done with it.

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ResistSocialism
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:45pm
Where is the cartoon of the unions dumping on everyone

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- kapnkd
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:52pm
  Amen!!!!!
  
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