Could Europe’s Left-Wing Terrorism and Anarchism be Headed to America?
- Posted on September 14, 2010 at 9:00am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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The stories of Greek unrest that came to a head this past summer shocked the world. There, people had become so dependent upon government programs that when parliament tried to dismantle the welfare state, left-wing terrorist and anarchist groups lashed out.
Rioters clashing with police last year on the anniversary of the death of teenager, who was shot by police. (Photo: AP)
One “radical leftist group” called Revolutionary Struggle is accused of shooting an Athens police officer during riots in 2009, toward the beginning of the Greek financial crisis. This past May, three were killed during protests outside the Greek Parliament when those “whom the police … identified broadly as anarchists,” hurled gas bombs that engulfed a bank.
Such attacks are on the rise throughout Europe. According to Europol, the Hague-based European Police Office, in 2009 left-wing and anarchist terrorist attacks in the European Union increased by 43 percent compared to 2008, and more than doubled since 2007. The report sites Greece as an example of such violence.
As welfare programs increase in the United States and government spending saturates the economy, could such unrest make its way across the pond? The idea isn’t that far fetched, says one European policy analyst. Especially if America continues down its current path.
“I can’t help but think there has to be some connection,” says Sally McNamara, a Brit and a senior policy analyst for 
European affairs at the Heritage Foundation. Regarding the environment that seems to be contributing to the rise of such groups in Europe, one that could be on its way to the U.S., McNamara adds that it creates “a good excuse for [such groups] to go and do the horrible things that they go and do.”
But environments, she says, are the result of how governments decide to spend their money. It‘s Europe’s spending habits, then, that hold valuable lessons — and possible warnings — for America and the Obama administration.
“For the past 60 years Europe’s been .. told that ‘you can go off and spend tons of money on welfare and someone’s going to pick up the check,’” she says. But when that money runs out, and it will, the cuts that ensue are a shock to a country’s system. That creates unrest because many times people don’t understand why the cuts are necessary, or feel taken advantage of.
So why rise up? Anthony Randazzo, director of economic research at Reason, believes we see violent reactions because such actions are a natural extension of these groups’ philosophy. “The Euro-leftists who have been violent are expressing the ultimate end of progressivism,” he explains, “which is take resources from those who have to distribute to all. When those in power are not doing this, then you must take up with violence to overthrow the government to then have the power to take what you want.”
As recent as September 11, 2010, thousands of Greeks have taken to the streets in union-led protests against the debt-plagued country's austerity program. (Photo: AP)
McNamara adds that such people may also be upset because they’ve been lied to. Especially in Greece, government was not honest with its people about spending or the real economic climate. That honesty is key to sustainability and civil peace: “You’ve got to be honest about what you’re spending, what you’re taking in, and what kind of lifestyle you want to live. You can probably spend a ton of money on health care, or retire at 50, or whatever lunatic scheme that you want, but there has to be a trade off. There is a certain amount of money. You can’t bill the rich to feed the poor all the time.”
According to Randazzo, the pattern is simple: “The state eventually will run out of cash, and then people will riot demanding welfare.”
Unless America learns, or relearns, that lesson, the results could be disastrous. Because when the truth comes out later, rather than sooner, “it’s a lot more painful,” says McNamara.
For now, McNamara feels that Americans can see through spending shams, largely in part because of its people’s desire for information and transparency. She also cites Britain in the 70’s and 80’s to prove there’s nothing inevitable about decline — back then Margaret Thatcher changed the thinking in Britain, and that too can happen in the U.S.
Randazzo agrees that the risk to America now is low. “Societies where there is a stronger sense of ownership, where you have ability to use capital to advance yourself, you are less likely to take to the streets to try and claim what others have from violence,” he says.
Sally McNamara, senior policy analyst for European affairs at the Heritage Foundation
Still, even a strong muscle can atrophy after relying on a crutch for too long, says McNamara: “When you look at Europe and if you look at the large welfare spending over a sustained period of time, you can change that [desire for transparency and fiscal restraint]; and it is not for the better.”
That such a thing could happen here is not a radical idea. Dependence and unrest already seem to be taking root in America.
In a New York Times article reporting on the the fire-bomb deaths of those three Greek citizens, anger against “austerity measures” was cited as the reason for unrest. And while such anger is not the only reason for violence, “a growing number of extremists … are seen as using the austerity measures as a pretext to attack the state.”
As one Greek sympathizer put it, “We have a saying here: ‘If you’ve got money, you’re innocent.‘ There’s a feeling that it’s the rich versus the rest, and there‘s unity between those who aren’t rich.”
That same sentiment is present within organizations tied to U.S. labor. On June 21, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka spoke to the International Trade Union Confederation’s second world congress and railed against the “destructive agenda led by the rich.” An article summing up the speech and the event recalls that, “Delegates also strongly rejected corporate and government voices calling for austerity programs that cut jobs, wages, and social programs for workers in the name of ‘balanced budgets.”" [Emphasis added]
An e-mail requesting comment from Trumka and the AFL-CIO was not returned.
Certainly, those against austerity cuts are not all extremists, and the AFL-CIO is not a terrorist organization. But the point remains that the rhetoric, and the seeds of frustration, are similar. As McNamara points out, “It is very, very hard to roll these programs back once you’ve started them because people either become dependent on them, or they become expectant on them, and also it just changes your national culture.” That dependence, and seepage into the national culture, was apparent in Greece, when the attempted roll back caused violent reactions.
Banners, in both Greek and English, in front of Greece's Acropolis during this summer's unrest encouraging "Peoples of Europe - Rise Up." (Photo: AP)
But austerity cuts may be just what’s needed. As Anne Applebaum explains in today’s Washington Post, and as McNamara eluded to earlier, “Austerity is what made Britain great. Austerity is what won the war.” Applebaum devotes a whole column to explaining how the austerity concept saved Britain before, and how a resurgent movement for similar cuts could save it again. Such a movement in the U.S. is lacking, she adds.
Considering America’s spending habits, however, and that a record one in six is enrolled in a government anti-poverty program, austerity cuts may eventually be needed here. Otherwise, the economic crisis that is taking place in European countries such as Greece could manifest itself here. “You can only borrow money for so long,” McNamara points out. And if a culture of anti-austerity takes hold, would a left-wing extremist or anarchist uprising be surprising, then?
“No, not at all. An economic crisis I should imagine is just the favorite of left-wing groups.”
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carol m
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:14pmUnfortunately, I live in NY, where it will probably all settle. You know I really have to ask who is exploiting the worker now? I believe the Unions are.
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:24pmOf course they are Carol……don’t forget, big unions have big money and can lobby for what they want….power for there leaders……..not for the working man. There was a time when unions transformed the nation and actually helped hard working americans that were not compensately fairly…Now ? Now it‘s a power game and that’s all it is….. Can you imagine the audacity of these “global union” leaders and there obvious allegiance from Obama and his merry band of misfits ?
Report Post »Donald E.
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:12pmThis past summer my wife began feeding a stray cat. He had been living in a nearby barn making do with mice, birds and whatever else he could work to provide. In a very short time he had taken to laying around on our back deck and did not dare to attempt to provide for his self lest he miss his free hand out. Well we went out of town for 4 days and guess who ran to meet us from across the pasture? As I brushed by him on the way to take our travel bags to the door he attacked my bare legs. It seems he was hungry and bitter and unwilling to wait for my return. Yes I also feel for children who wear a pair of sneakers too long and sit down to a pork chop for the first time and ask what is this? I once put my family through this and landed in low income housing. Let me tell all of you this.. there is NO gratitude there for the handouts, and most will lay around on the back deck catching sun rays waiting for the next meal. Gee- My legs are still smarting. (Get it?)
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:21pmWe get it Donald…….certainly all that are part of this movement get it…… Question is, will enough americans get together and really get it when it counts ? On election day ? Careful to KNOW who you are voting for and what they believe in ? Tea Party Movement says it all….. When, when will we get our country back and put americans back to real gainful employment and on the road to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…..NOT UNTIL WE GET CONTROL BACK TO THE PEOPLE …
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:00pmThis moron mentions “Global Union” so many times I lost count……..where do these mongrels come from and when and how did they get this on ? I, like many other hard working americans have been asleep for too long……while these subverts to AMERICA continue with their power hungry tactics….First thing to do is disband and destroy global unions……..period…… I want to see AMERICANS be able to work, sustain and provide for themselves (THEMSELVES, NOT GOVERNMENT PROVIDING FOR US) and their families….these people HATE america….
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:53amDangling bags daddy must have him cleaning the toilets again
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:39pmShush! Don’t wake the troll.
Report Post »carrera
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:53amI would state that given SEIU members beat a gentleman that required him to be hospitalized (the Gladney case) and AFL-CIO members who stormed NYC banks intimidating and threatening employees along with SEIU members surrounding a bank executives home terrorizing his child, combined with ACORN and WFP members surrounding AIG employees homes terrorizing the family members over bank bonuses that our President had legislated via the stimulus bill and the recent union worker who executed fellow employees at the beer distribution center along with the muslim woman who executed two employees at Kraft Foods last week and the Harvard Professor who executed two fellow employees because she was not going to get her tenure “entitlement” let us not forget the lunatic armed with his communist manifesto that flew a plane into a Federal building and the ongoing murders by Islamist radicals that have executed our fine Military members at Fort Hood and the other heinous murder of Private Long, it is safe to say that it has indeed arrived.
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:53amDoes anyone else here this guy talking and referring to “World’s workers”…….??? Where is the allegiance to us, here at home………What a moronic power-mongering obstructionist…. I personally feel that NO american should be a member of any union unless that union represents ONLY americans here in this country……..How’s that Richard ???? This guy should be sent to live in a third world country somewhere…….and he can take SEIU president Andy Stern with him…..bye bye !!!
Report Post »JJMinor
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:52amYo, sci-fi (spec-fic) fans. You want another reminder of what progressive utopia looks like? Check out Logan’s Run (the movie). It’s a great world, where all your needs are met. The only catch is you don’t get to live past 30!
Report Post »cubanbob
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:57pmrun runnner…….
Report Post »Greeny
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:48amHere is the reason why the Second Amendment is so important. When our welfare state is dismantled, I beg for you progressive libwits to pull crap like this.
Report Post »Uber
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:45amThe government will be forced to end the nanny state, we are a broke country. If they don’t end it soon and cut spending in huge ways the dollar will collapse and the government will be insolvent. In either case the people that feel entitled will riot and worse. They will not get jobs they will resort to looting and stealing. Prepare my friend, its coming!
Report Post »moriarty70
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:41amThis narative is a little off when considering the chart they provide. Since the overwhelming majority of the violence has been commited by separatists, not “left-wing” groups, I’d be more concerned about people wanting out of the Union and becoming idepenant state-countries.
Report Post »Mwshipwreck
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:39amwhen states like Illinois are trying to get the national guard to curb the violence in chicago, when oakland cops stop responding to crimes, when enforcing an existing law that every other civilized nation on the planet enforces (and some not so civilized nations… like mexico) causes riots, is there even a question as to whether or not the violence is already here?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/26/national/main6432280.shtml
Report Post »http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Suffer-These-Crimes-in-Oakland-Dont-Call-the-Cops-98266509.html
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/immigration/immigration_protest_small_riot_042310
BoilitDown
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:38amSeidl’s article is one of only a few that highlight the problems we may encounter. Our media is a few steps behind in informing the American people about what is happening in Greece and what underliying causes are frighteningly similar here.
Report Post »The lessons of Europe’s down fall caused by entitlements, unions and class warfare provocateurs need to be presented thoroughly in our media until it becomes a topic widely discussed in our own society.
The large special intrests of Unions is of great concern as demonstrated by Trumpka’s video. Touting class warfare as he does damages us as a nation.
Mikee T
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:05pmHe’s not interested is US as a nation……he’s interested in POWER, global unions ? What planet are these people from ?????????
Report Post »cubanbob
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:35amlet them try, the big difference between greece and the u.s. is our gun ownership. you break into my business or my home and i’f i am “afraid for my life”…wink wink……you will be shot dead….i was told by cops in the past that if i ever have to discharge my gun for self defense never shoot one or two rounds but instead unload the entire clip proving that i was scared. the was the best advice a donut could ever buy :)
Report Post »Have-Gun-Will-Travel
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:35amFood
Report Post »water
ammo
firearms
Bug out plan
always have you GOOD BAG (get out of dodge bag)with you at all times.
But remember when SHTF hunker down for a few days so the stupid can kill each other off
klevalt
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:08pmSHF day is my daughter’s and my code for get the heck outta dodge… but I hadn’t thought about hunkering down… I have heirloom seeds, backpacking and camping gear all ready as well as my weapon(s) and I am not afraid to use it all…. I am afraid that those who don’t heed the warnings now will be a hinderance on that day! God Bless us all in the day that it comes.
Report Post »Freelancer
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:31amI think we are all missing the point here…. The progressives have been working hard to divide America on a number of fronts…
Race
Religion
Class Warfare
Left vs. Right
Illegal Immigration vs. Border Security
They are dividing us up intentionally so that we are fighting each other on a number of issues and take attention away from what they are doing behind the scene. We are being manipulated on many levels in order to cause confusion at the exact time they pull the trigger. We will all be caught off guard if we don;t see what they are trying to do.
Report Post »Level 34 Libertarian
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:39am“All governmental institutions always will lead to world control”
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carrera
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:51pmFreelancer- History has proven that when a “leader” elects to use the tactic of dividing it’s citizens into groups they ultimately benefit in the short term. It has been a viable tactic to target certain groups as the “oppressors” to gain support of the alleged “victims.” We have witnessed this over the past 20 months, it is daunting to maintain whom the enemy of the State is on any given day. I do not know of any individual who is not fully aware of this administrations ploy. While they are able to gin up their dwindling base into anarchy the balance of us will simply watch in amazement. We will not be caught off guard.
Report Post »unionrockstar
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 1:18pmBingo!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are absolutely being manipulated
Those who recognize it will be fine
Those who are blinded and think they are being helped by a group of very compassionate individuals will wake up one morning and wonder what happened.
Look to God; He is our hope in the time of need.
Report Post »LoisLane1951
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:24amWhen the mother’s milk dries up for the non-producers or when the producers decide to stop feeding the non-producers’ never ending hunger for hand-outs, yes, there will be rioting…and more. The non-producers believe there is food out in the country. They will head out to the suburbs first, then out into the farmland and woodland. They won’t know how to hunt or gather food. So, they will attempt to take it. Anyone who isn’t prepared for this is not facing reality.
Report Post »Level 34 Libertarian
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:33amThis is why we need a pure free market system, it forces the impoverished to be weeded out naturally as the laws of land pertain to. Those who cannot survive on their own do not deserve anything, including life.
Report Post »faktchekr
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 3:36pmLevel 34…I’m with you, but progressives are for survival of the fittest only when it comes to the theory of evolution.
Report Post »G man
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:23amIt’s already here, no? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOH1NZFoWhc
Report Post »Joseph
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:29amNo Doubt! Time to stock up on food and gas!
Report Post »GraceSullivan
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:21amThe long timer takers of free services should be required to work for them. At courthouses, social services buildings or somewhere within the county or city where they are taking the services from. This would save the taxpayers a lot of money.
Report Post »auntnoree
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:44amSorry, that is communism, people work for the state so they can have foodstamps, housing, healthcare. Check out Cuba.
Report Post »CoFX
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:56amGrace – GREAT point. This may be the one rare Gov’t program I would support. If you are physically and/or mentally able to work, there are plenty of charitable organizations out there who need labor daily. Also there is always cleanup and upkeep needed on public lands, parks, in cities, etc. If you are unable to find employment after a certain period of time (not the curent 99 weeks bs), and living off the Federal Government, I think it is only fair to have to earn THAT paycheck. Maybe some of the folks who want to leech the system when they simply don’t want to work, will change thier tune if required to earn thier benefits. If you able and don’t earn it, you don’t get it. We are stuck with Welfare for the foreseeable future, so let’s get some return on our wasted tax dollars.
Report Post »van
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 3:07pmI believe that was tried a few years back and the courts ruled that it was unconstitutional to make able-bodied welfare recipients to work for their checks. Don’t remember the state or the year though.
Report Post »Kinnison
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 7:23pmFind a better example of Socialism than Cuba… It has worked so well there that Raul has had to lay of 500,000 government workers, and his big brother Fidel said last week—before he was prompted by his minders to retract it—that the Cuban Model of Socialism just didn’t work.
Report Post »dteam270
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:20amComing soon to a city near you.
Report Post »JJMinor
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:20amFor Americans to actually learn from Greece, most Americans would first have to learn that we’re talking about a country and not a musical. Greece is the word is the word is the word….
Report Post »Anonimouse
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:35amI thought the bird is the word………
Report Post »BeadGirl
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 1:39pmGreece is the time, its the place, its the motion, Greece is the way we are living…
…and it will be if people don‘t wake up and realize that life isn’t handed to them. People aren’t put on this planet just to have somebody else take care of them.
Love your message JJMINOR!
Report Post »Ed Kidon
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 3:21pmPelosi said the word was “The Word” lol
Report Post »Anonimouse
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:17amWe‘re either going to stop the out of control spending in time to save what’s left
or we’re going to keep doing it until we have no more money and the end to
the spending is just fact.
Either way, the social justice crowd will be out in the streets.
Report Post »What else do they know except that all their shortcomings are someone
elses’ fault and someone else should fix it all for them?
Level 34 Libertarian
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:22amThis only shows that the poor are a undeserving rabble of fools.
Report Post »Anonimouse
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:54am34, if you have a point, please make it.
Report Post »Level 34 Libertarian
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:08pmIts impossible to sustain those who cannot sustain themselves thus their only outlet is mindless aggression when they do not get their way. They are fools because they cannot accept these simple truths.
Report Post »Anonimouse
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 12:35pmWe can easily sustain those who truely cannot provide for themselves. Especially
when we apply charity directly, cutting out the federal middleman.
The fools are those who refuse to provide for themselves and believe what the politicians
Report Post »tell them, that the “rich” have too much and we’re going to get it for you.
Buck Ofama
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 1:12pmThe downside of socialism/progressivism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. Remember to take the trash out Nov. 2. It‘s just too bad it’s not Nov. 2012 as I’d like to get the big sack-o-garbage out of the White House.
Report Post »tepartyblog.info
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 2:55pmAnonimouse is right in his response to 34. We need to cut the middle man out. The only way to fight communism is to create real communities.
Report Post »Talk to your neighbors.
Help your neighbors.
and communism doesn’t have a chance.
Communism thrives in the anti-social vacuums we create. Communism attacks by dividing us. Communism will plant itself wherever we fail to provide the free market solution.
Social security took your parents to rot in Florida instead babysitting their grandchildren and reinforcing the values they passed to you.
Welfare made Dads obsolete.
Unemployment payments made family obsolete.
Dividing the family broke the church.
donbcg
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 3:34pmYour kind of all wrong. Cutting out the middleman, the congress, the president. That ain’t gonna help. In fact if there is a sudden loss of this redistribution, they will riot. We need to be in the community talking face to face with those people, directly contacting them. Giving to a church isn’t gonna do it. It certainly helps, but they do not connect the charity with the actual donor.
Wherever there is middleman, the disconnect from the needy is too great. Just like the disconnect from washington to the people because the governance is to far away.
If you can teach them to fish, you can stop this crud. But, each one of us must be willing to step out of our suburban homes and get into the city just like the other guys do. That is why we have been loosing. That is why these freaks have all the power. Your gonna have to get your damn hands dirty. If we don’t the left certainly will. You cannot win if you are fighting from your couch.
Report Post »CitizenJob
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 3:57pm@TEAPARTYBLOG.INFO …. Great points! Hope you don’t mind but I am going to pass them along!
Report Post »egosumverum
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 8:09pmBuck Ofama? That is one Gucking Freat nick!! Love it; can we get t-shirts anywhere?
Report Post »v.o.t.e.
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:11amthere is nothing to worry about— we will dish them up in short order– bring it on — its a great arguement for gun rights
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:48amGeez….They came to Pittsburgh for the G-20 in smaller numbers and caused millions of dollars in damage. I have guns and I’m not afraid to use them, but a gun doesn’t do any good against your insurance rates going up because of the mayhem these horses patoots cause, not to mention the economic shut-down while people get their businesses back up and running. Besides, I don‘t have a fully automatic and that would be what you’d need against this kind of mindless mob. Their very lives become secondary to what they are physically doing right now. (at any given “right now.”)
Report Post »douglove
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 12:30amIt is a great argument for gun rights — if the November election does not turn Congress around, don’t count on ever having another free election again in this country. This is that important! We simply must defeat the evil and take back leadership in this country. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Which means: Gov’t – leave me alone!
Report Post »dwh320
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:09amIt is on it’s way and as the Progressive Democrats push us into this mess now overflowing Europe we need to ask a few question that are relevent to us here today.
1. Did Mr. Boehner write the Healthcare law forced on us? NO That was Progressive Democrats Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Progressive Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid.
2. Did Mr Boehner write the Bail Out and eventionatioal goverment takeover of the Auto Industry? NO That was Progressive Democrats Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Progressive Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid.
3. Did Mr Boehner lie about open hearings for the public in the healthcare debate. NO That was Progressive Democrat President Obama, Progressive Democrats Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Progressive Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid.
4. Did Mr Boehner lock out the other party and not allow them to have true input on drafting legislation the last two years? NO That was Progressive Democrats Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Progressive Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid.
5. Has Mr. Boehner paid Billions in paybacks to labor Unions? NO That was Progressive Democrats Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Progressive Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid.
I could go on and on but it is clear to see the real danger to our nation is the uncontrolled spending and government grab for power by the Progressive Democrat President Obama, Progressive Democrats Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Progressive Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid.
Report Post »PeterBreitholtz
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:09amResistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
~Noam Chomsky
I’ve never been more sick of people saying “I’m a progressive…blah blah blah.”
Report Post »Level 34 Libertarian
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:20amDo not quote Noam Chomsky here, he is a lying communist appeaser.
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:56amWhy do you live here ? Why don’t you move to Venezuela ? Oh, I forgot, probably got a real nice government bureucrat position or work at a non-profit busy wasing tax payers money with grants funds, or are you a union delegate ? Take a walk pal……go sit in front of your Pelosi / Reid shrine at home and burn some candles…….
Report Post »faktchekr
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 3:28pmlazy, teat sucking socialists……just about every other country is more socialist than we are…move to one of them. You don’t need to destroy our country along with the other countries that are languishing in poverty, decline and moral terpitude which will soon be lying on the socialist scrap heap of history.
Report Post »Loyal1
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 12:52amAbove all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and woman. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.
Ronal Reagan
Report Post »PeterBreitholtz
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:08amHopefully!
Report Post »timeisnow
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:39amProgressive is code for Socialism!
Why do you think the Tea Party is so energized? They are Against Big Government, fiscal responsibility/believes in the Constitution…All things that Progressives are for, this is the conservatives way of fighting back at the Progressives… Two years ago no one even know that Progressive/Socialists existed…Well we are wide awake and not going to stop until the Progressives who voted for all the spending, takeovers, bailouts…Obama’s desire to collapse the system is unacceptable and won’t be tolerated.
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 11:42amYou really hope they come here?
Report Post »redneck
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 4:24pmHow comforting to know that the AFL-CIO is not a terrorist organization. But the point remains, with all union groups, that the rhetoric, and the seeds of frustration, are similar.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on September 14, 2010 at 7:18pmExactly why GOVERNMENT doesn’t belong in our business.. nor do they belong taxing people to death to create social programs.. I am not the IDEA of having SS.. I am however against them using ANY of that money for anything other than the man/women or their spouses who paid into it.. or even unemployment insurance..you get back what you paid into it plus a reasonable interest rate.. But the government keeps EXPANDING these programs to cover even those that have NEVER had a job or paid into it.. Right now my son in law lost his job and we want to help them out IF I wasn‘t forced to pay for illegals and their kids we would be able to but as things we help but not as much as we’d like.. To be honest I know many in UNIONS and they aren’t happy with what the unions are doing.. there are only 2 or 3 unions who are out of control.. unfortunately one is in control of STATE, CITY and FEDERAL workers.. and THOSE are the people draining the system..
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