UAW, SEIU, MoveOn Building ‘99 Percent Spring’ Astroturf Movement
- Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:13pm by
Mytheos Holt
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The self-proclaimed “99-percent” movement behind Occupy Wall Street claims to be a leaderless movement a la the so-called Arab Spring. So it’s inevitable that a website that advertises something called the “99 percent spring” would emerge to complete their analogy. Unfortunately for the Occupiers, the analogy doesn’t stop there — rather like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the forces leading the “99 percent spring” seem to be using the “leaderless” mantle to hide their motives.
The website advertises the movement as one inspired by “the tradition of our forefathers and foremothers and inspired by today’s brave heroes in Occupy Wall Street and Madison, Wisconsin,“ which is prepared for ”sustained non-violent direct action.” Specifically, from April 9-15 of this year, the movement will organize “across America, 100,000 strong, in homes, places of worship, campuses and the streets to join together in the work of reclaiming our country.” This extended seminar on Occupier-inspired economics and sociology will “tell the story of our economy: how we got here, who’s responsible, what a different future could look like, and what we can do about it,“ as well as instruct participants on ”the history of non-violent direct action,” and get them organizing themselves.
Leaderless, self-educated, direct action, right? Wrong. According to the Daily Caller:
While the 43 organizations co-signing a letter on the ragtag-looking site indicate the sort of leaderless resistance characterized by the Occupy Wall Street movement, a series of files The Daily Caller downloaded from the United Auto Workers website indicate that the organized labor powerhouse is behind the effort.
The files, downloaded Sunday, include campaign talking points, a fill-in-the-blank press release template for participating organizations and an advance look at the social media campaign the organizers plan for Facebook and Twitter.
Also included is a “FYI” letter designed for endorsers to distribute, complete with a blank space at the top of the list of participating groups. Filling in a given organization’s name lends the impression that it, not the UAW, is the campaign’s driving force.
And what does the UAW plan to teach this “leaderless” movement? This speech by UAW President Robert King at a protest last May might be instructive:
King’s remarks may strike critics as being in deep denial. He flat out refuses to accept that spending on education or entitlements might be too high — instead, he blames the budget crisis on the Bush tax cuts and Wall Street. He also makes puzzling remarks about the cost of the “wars in Iran and Afghanistan,” even though have been at war not in Iran, but in Iraq. Presumably, that little detail will be worked out before the workshops this April.
Ironically, King’s status as a 99 percenter is itself questionable. His income — nearly $170,000 per year — places him well above the national average, though strictly speaking, he falls short of the 99th percentile.
However, the UAW is not acting alone. The Caller explains:
The “99% Spring” campaign’s social media plan document included a note from its creators. “If you’re having trouble grabbing the images, feel free to email us directly,” it said, before listing the email address of community organizer Josh Bolotsky.
Bolotsky is a self-described “online organizer, blogger, comedic performer/writer and occasional voice over artist“ who ”tries valiantly to fight evil.” He does this by working as a New Media Coordinator for Agit-Pop (get it?) Communications. He apparently also once served as President of the College Democrats of New York, and occasionally does voice work for “non-evil campaign ads.” What he defines as evil is not explained.
The man himself:
Bolotsky also has ties to the SEIU and Moveon, and when questioned by the Caller, fingered none other than the New Organizing Institute (previously covered by the Blaze here) as one of the key groups behind the “99 percent spring.”
Whether the UAW ought to be teaching nonviolence is also an ambiguous question. A cached press release from the National Right to Work Foundation dated July 12, 2001 reads as follows:
National Right to Work Foundation attorneys have forced the payment of an undisclosed monetary settlement, in a case against the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, for involvement in a violence campaign against non-striking workers at Abex Friction Products (now Federal-Mogul Friction Products, a General Motors supplier) in 1996.
Five employees and the spouse of an employee, who were terrorized during a four-week strike at the Winchester brake manufacturing plant, settled multiple civil conspiracy lawsuits pending in the Circuit Court of the City of Winchester against UAW Local 149 and the UAW international union. (As part of the settlement, the employees and their attorneys are barred from revealing specific details of the agreement.)
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Comments (90)
RideTheWildSurf
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:46pm99% ? Face it, you are the Marxist 1% fringe. We surround you. And oh, by the way… start paying your “fair share.” No bailouts for the occu-squatters.
Report Post »JohnofOregon
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:59pmDas furor says you will follow…schnell !!!
Days Obama says you will follow ….schnell !!!
The congress has been absorbed
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:07amLol. These people are actually a great representative of the left. Dishonest, lazy people who will let rich people tell them how bad rich people are. You can’t make this stuff up.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbxtBIQX-I
Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:10amI had an employee who paid in 2 thousand in witholding, and got back over 6 thousand…is he paying his fair share ? Nope…
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:27am@Detroit
Report Post »I have been saying the same thing, get rid of the child tax credit and all tax credits. If you don’t owe anything, fine, but to get back money you didn’t pay in, that is welfare. Years ago I worked with an E-5, 4 kids, and wife didn’t work, my wife and I payed about $1,200 in taxes that year (Same rank), he did not have a dime withheld, and got back about $3,000. So the moral there was, “If you work, they take it away, if you know how to breed, you’re in the money”
Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:59amConservatives create and earn and work and are responsible… Marxists steal in the name of justice, skim 60% off the top and hand the loot to their useful idiots… Wake up people… They are moving the money from right to left… Dont you get it ??? they burned thru all our money and our kids money… Now they are spending our grandkids money… Wake up people!!!
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:27amThese commies are actually having riot training for the May g8 meetings in Chicago.Not how to survive a riot, but how to participate in a riot.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:33amHey Detroit, let me guess. He got the $6K, missed a few days of work and was broke again in two weeks?
Report Post »Mr.ManZ
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:46pmAnd this is the very means inwhich they will use to create riots by racial devide. Big Media networks like CNN and MSNBC along with their George Soros lap dogs such as the huffington post, Media Matters and Politico have been setting this up for over a year. Alot of people is going to get hurt and I garantee that I or my family will not be one of them, WE THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TAKE MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS THIS ELECTION YEAR !
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:41pmI think fire bombs might be found there .
Report Post »What a tragic accident .
Thevoice
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:35pmOk ..I have my own thoughts on how this is going to end. I would like to hear others. The question. Were do you see America in 5 years ?
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:51pm5 years from now (assuming we do get a change in leadership) I expect that our currency will be shot and replaced with a “new” one. We will not have anywhere near the quality of life we have now, closer to what you see in Poland and Ukraine, than America. I think the uber wealthy and powerful will be more so and the middle class will be non-existent. I think government intervention will be beyond the pale in an effort to control the decline.
If we do not get a change in leadership, say goodnight Gracy! Get in your bunker and stay there because we are going down in flames.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:17amWell sort of my contention. I put a post it’s on page two. In the 60′s we had civil rights movement . Which many believed to have been controlled or hijacked by the communist. Many who like myself personally lived it would be able to explain seeing the beginning of HUD and how blockbusting was used as a tool. And government authorities actually did pricing of others property. So at that point was this “Fair housing” ? . Well the communist believe they have the Right. Food stamps..The right to food. Employment..and on and on. Then all the goodies..heat electric subsidies..and on and on. Welfare free government housing to the point today it has bankrupted us. But there is a problem there is still just enough of us in there way and our basic constitution is this there. Interesting how easy it is trampled today by Obama . Enforce health care …no problem…EPA shut down electric producer no problem refinery ..no problem. . So when or if the money actually runs out to fund this nonsense. Then will come the final push for the “New age progressive communist” ideology. They will say, see you are all hungry and need work and housing we will fix that. You need education and retirement we will fix that. When you look at it…The importance to this election becomes bigger by the day. I believe we have some good gatekeepers in place now. But they are going to need the top leadership to stop this communism from growing.
Report Post »JohnofOregon
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:28amI think people still do not understand how quickly this administration and morons in congress have permanently damaged this country already. Some of this stuff is not reversable. That means that I honestly would not be suprized if the United States will be actually smaller and that four or five state will for the most part be independent.
Our country failed when we started electing US senators by popular vote instead of through legislatures. they used to have to represent the interest of thier state. Now they represent themselves and those that puchase them.
Some people who understand history are going to start discussing repeal of that amendment but , since you need two thirds of a currupt body to vote to repeal, it won’t happen. This has created a damage to our republic because senators no longer represent the states they are from and now consider themselves protectors of the federal government when in fact they were meant to be protectors of state government.
As some states realize what worthles idiots thier senators are, they will no longer see value in those two votes. For many states, including my own, the US senators from that state are the greatest threat to an individuals freedom and earning potential.
Report Post »JohnofOregon
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:41am@thevoice, the two most currupt agencies in the US government is HUD and the EPA. All the nations crime problems and offshoring of jobs begin there.
Read this. just skip to page 41 and start. Tell me that ANY member of congress that voted to fund this HUD BS is not a crook. This is not a partisan issue, the fact that any member of congress that approves these budgets or continueing resulutions has the moral clarity of Charles Manson. Approval makes them an accessory, period.
http://www.hud.gov/offices/oig/sar62.pdf
Every member of congress is handed this stuff, so they can‘t say they don’t know.
heres some more
Report Post »http://www.hud.gov/offices/oig/reports/congress.cfm
GeorgieJo
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:15amObamaCare will ruin this country. I already see signs of it. Soon many drugs will be so expensive OR unavailable. There will be a huge loss of QUALIFIED doctors.This has already started also. The middle class is disappearing and this was their plan all along. They want the 99%ers against the wealthy….makes for perfect class warfare BUT certainly doesn’t stop Obummer from taking the 1%ers MONEY.
America is slowly dying and the Liberals rejoice. I simply don’t understand it.
Four more years of this and I won’t recognize this once great country.
My father taught me a valuable lesson…..HAND UP or HAND OUT….I always chose HAND UP.
We now live with TOO MANY people wanting a hand OUT and Obummer prefers it.
OMG 2012
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 8:07am@GeorgieJo: SARCASM: Yes, and all our homes will be burned to the ground, our wives ravished and our children murdered before our very eyes–all because of OBAMACARE!
SERIOUSLY: I have yet to hear one logical, rational justification for any of the sensational claims people make about this legislation. It is expensive, unnecessary, and probably unconstitutional, but it is NOT the source of all our nation’s evils. All the “chicken littles” need to just settle down and watch it get overturned…it is NOT the end of the world…
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 10:03amWe cannot answer that until after the November election.
The obama’s have had a taste of the best of America and are still working tirelessly to destroy it. If he get’s re-elected, it’s over, not for them but for us. They’ll continue to party, golf, vacation endlessly…. will you.
Wake up…..
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 1:07pmBetter yet….5 years ago. If he gets in another 4 yrs, there will never-ever be another Republican in the whitehouse. If, by some miracle there is a Republican for 4 yrs., bet the Liberals get the next term. Sure glad I am as old as I am…..this is one-crazy-world!
Report Post »ShyMan
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:35pmIs 99% code word for how much the price if gas is up?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:15amNope , that would be 260% up on the gas price…. @ 99% it would be 244 per gallon..
Report Post »JohnofOregon
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:45am99% would be the acuracy demanded of aids test admistered to male prostitutes used by members of congress at Bawny Fwanks office.
Report Post »shogun459
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:19pmWrong is right,
Report Post »up is down,
evil is good,
fools are called wise and the wise are called fools.
AProudConservative
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:19pmAt the risk of being repetitious, UNIONISM = COMMUNISM. This is the America that Barak Obama has brought us. Actually, this is the America that the stupid people who voted for Barak Obama brought us. How many of those idiots have learned the error of their ways? Not enough I fear.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:28pmCIO was originally a communist organization, they were almost outlawed by Roosevelt.
Report Post »JohnofOregon
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:50amquick history lesson ( a teaching moment). President Wilson stripped some 10 or 15 thousand people of US citizenship for inciting unionist riots and kicked some 30,000 green card holders out of the country.
The dems used to hold him up as the most intelectual president.
He also for his time in office was the president that commited us troops to the most military actions.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:15pmBig deal…………..we 200 million strong…………..fool, thinks we are in the 1930′s………….
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:21pmYou have about 10 million in unions, when you tell them they will have to Occupy, stand in the cold, rain, or march in the streets…..most of them will have “Back Injuries”, or will call in sick with the Flu. The only unions that will be out in force during these protests, will be the Police.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:32pmUnion people won’t actually protest . the UNION will use their dues to pay lowlife bums (many also living off of college “loans”) to do the protesting for them.
OMG 2012 … Just keep calling these lowlifes Obama’s people .. because that is what they are!
Report Post »rwandrw
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:11pmhttp://www.occupyed.org/nyc
Report Post »Daveed
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:58pmIs it my imagination but do all these guys look like Stephen King?
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:04pmLol, no, it’s not your imagination. It is amazing how these jokers claim to be leaderless, when the unions are behind it from the very beginning. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbxtBIQX-I
Leopold
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:38amThese people are deep thinkers. Are they not? Cripple corporations. Do not let them make a profit. At least not more than what we (Unions and other such smart people) want them to make. Sure they need places to invest for the pension fund of teachers. But that is something the politicians can take care of. The government will have to make up the difference by increasing our taxes. It is all very simple to them.
The left is so arrogant and ignorant. Selfish, greedy, envious and such liars. It is in their nature to be totalitarian. They allow only one point of view. Theirs. By the way these are all character traits of Satan. Different religions are not the only tools he uses. Secularism and leftism he uses for the atheists. Fair is fair, right? Why should they be left out of his schemes.
Why do teachers have such a high view of themselves? Do they want us to believe that they are altruistic? They are no better than anyone else. Most parents are better teachers. I know this goes against conventional wisdom.
Teachers get payed from the taxpayer. Therefore they need to be held accountable to the taxpayer. The unions have no right to tell us what is good for our children. By the way, the word children was used only once. After that it was all about the teachers. They are such hypocrites.
Ecclesiastes 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.
Jesus Christ will lead you to truth – if you let Him.
Report Post »JohnofOregon
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 12:53amI think they look more like the guys in the notices the cops have to post at schools to warn parents about
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:58pmSee your $42 an hour auto workers drive over to the nearest 7/11 and drink a 40 during their lunch hour and then (come EVERY SPRING) experience a back injury! Injury lasts as long as workman’s comp says it does +++ Union rep says so.
I’m not a former employee.
Report Post »I’m not jealous.
I’m not related to anything regarding this, other than the rest of the State has to deal with these ******** who do NOT work and just whine and cry
Daveed
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:57pmIs it my imagination, but do these guys all look like Stephen King?
Report Post »wyshoe
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:44pmPer unionfacts.com here are the salaries for SEIU 99%
David Regan Exec Vice President $298,647.00
Report Post »Mitchell Ackerman Exec Vice President $297,133.00
Mary Kay Henry International President $253,660.00
Eliseo Medina International Sec-Treas $250,373.00
Gerald Hudson Exec Vice President $224,372.00
James Johnston Director/Geography $218,416.00
Thomas Woodruff Exec Vice President $216,168.00
Kirk Adams Executive Board Member $199,847.00
Scott Courtney Organizing Director $190,644.00
lovenfl3
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:51pmThanks for providing the facts on this. The hypocrisy of all these people involved in this movement is beyond the pale. Look at Michael Moore and all the other multi-millionaires telling the followers how they too hate rich people. You can’t make this stuff up.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbxtBIQX-I
Slayer
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:01pmThanks, WyShoe! Great job! Nice to see someone on this board taking some action instead of complaining all day.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:03pmYou forgot the Granddaddy of them all “Barrack Obama – $5 Million dollars a year”
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:10pmAFL/CIO and UAW are all tied together. Those of us in the skilled trade unions are having our union dues skimmed by our leaders and given to the big three for organizing and political purposes. ****** me off! I told my union President that they better never try to suggest to me who or how to vote. Infact if the politician/liar/thief is liberal or is talking about spending money we don’t have, I will always vote for the conservative candidate. Ruffled some feathers with that one. These clowns in the union leadership are as disconnected from the membership as Obama (liar, thief, traitor) is disconnected from the average American. Obviously I’m not happy about what the unions are doing.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:50pmSo why don’t you and other members find out if your views are in the majority in your workplace and kick the damned union out ? Why keep the bastards if they do not represent your wishes and spend your dues on issues and events you have grave reservations about ? Cut the money off to the head of the snake and the snake dies.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:00am@Puddle Duck
Me and others are in the minority. Many union members are scared to speak their mind. Either they are willfully ignorant, throughly brainwashed, or intimidated by peer pressure. Also it’s easy to find yourself not being called for work. Construction trades, which I’m in, are different than unions which operate in plants. We travel and work for many different contractors. Average job in my skill lasts 2-4 weeks. Majority of the membership is content to ride the horse without trying to change it’s direction.
Report Post »I don‘t have to work union but I’d be taking about a 60% wage cut and loose my medical coverage. The day they try to pressure me into activity I don’t agree with is the day I quit.
Thevoice
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:42pmPlease .Bolotsky…You are labled..idiot…A “New age progressive communist”…The definition of which is ..You embrace 100% the communist manifesto of free housing, schooling, health care,job,retirement, diaper changes, electricity, heat, food,someone to cook it for you, clean up after you. Then you want everyone equal, you believe you deserve the work of others, o and yes you want to be protected of course under the Constitution of the United States of America ..free speech and all. You have this sickness that government is some sort of god you can control and the weather is something that you think you can control. In fact there is nothing you don’t want to control. But being a “New age progressive commie” you want to do this and not have the ugly messy blood of a Stlian or Mao on your hands You wnat to do it with a real uppity “new” clean look.. See this is what your idology is. No Bolotsky and idiots like you . Guess what . It’s gettin high time…We just about had enough. You want to play your little game, guess what .Let us know when and where you want to meet up. There still plenty of places, you bring your whole on crack idology all your Obama encamptment dewellers and let see who comes out alive..
Report Post »CoMa
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:40pmI’ll make SURE not to buy a new car that any UAW worker touched.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:48pmYugo? Fiat?
Report Post »eagle2715
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:06pmSeveral manufactures build cars in the states without the UAW, not one of the big 3 though…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:22pmWon’t be buying any car .. anytime in the near future .. and will NOT support the big 3.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:38pmobama’s anti-American communist party is now coming out of the woodwork, exactly as we all knew it would.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:49pmThe mask is off. “If we can’t use the power of persuasion, we will use the persuasion of Power” Andy Stern. SEIU president.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:37pmFigure out who all the top figures are and start to occupy their neighborhoods. Maybe the stupid sheeple of the actual occupy stuff could be redirected since these guys don’t want their names on the movement.
Report Post »wyshoe
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:37pmPer unionfacts.com UAW Union Leadership Salaries that they force hard working people making 30-60 k a year pay union dues so Leadership can be part of the 99%
JULIE KUSHNER REGIONAL DIR $169,916.00
Report Post »ROBERT KING PRESIDENT $168,073.00
L SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL DIR $166,778.00
DENNIS WILLIAMS SEC/TREAS $164,850.00
JOSEPH ASHTON VICE PRES. $152,582.00
GENERAL HOLIEFIELD VICE PRES. $151,310.00
RONALD GETTELFINGER PRESIDENT $149,887.00
JAMES SETTLES VICE PRES. $149,736.00
MAURICE DAVISON REGIONAL DIR $145,298.00
HorseCrazy
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 11:01pmdisgusts me. thanks for the info. these thugs are ruining these companies and need to go. they are cowards
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on February 22, 2012 at 7:40amWhats sad in this is that the people are being forced pay these dues and most of them don’t mind. If they want to put real money their pockets every week don’t pay the dues. The unions lets them earn it then takes it from them for the right to work..
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:31pmUAW paid for with our tax dollars
Report Post »mickd
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:29pmAs the video shows, a bunch of over weight, lazy, union “workers”? Rallying for someone that promises them more for doing less.
Report Post »NODEMS 2012!
mickd
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:25pmThe picture says it all; A bunch of Fat, Lazy Union non workers cheering for someone who can promise them more for doing less!
Report Post »NOLIBS 2012!
SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:24pmThis is Obama’s Democrats once and for all. Democrats hope that unions will make the people rich like the unions have made the Democrats rich. There is a lot wrong with their reasoning, but good Democratic reasoning is not something that is a national treasure is it?
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:39pmdemocrats are no longer ”Americans”.. they are obama’s communists.
Report Post »spfoam1
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:24pmWhen these commies go too far and start hurting people, the ones behind the microphones will make a really good targets.
Report Post »InfiniteSolutions
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:23pmIt’s an all out who owns the 99 percent and who can dominate the sheep. I’ll take a Tea Party movement with clear purpose and values (well, almost clear but at least peaceful and clean) over any of this stuff being commissioned by organized groups of many factions, at least it appears there are many factions and this makes their purpose more confusing. I think someo of the 99ers have some ideas of their own and know through osmosis what they want. They just need to get organized and shed themselves of the destructive behavior. Everybody is mad and has reason to protest but we should start in Washington First, they deserve it the most. It starts where are leaders are suppose to be representing us all in the country, are we really that stupid?
Report Post »keaton
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:19pmQuestion. Is “the top 1%” code word for Jew. Demonizing the “rich” was common during the early years of the Third Reich. That quickly turned into demonizing Jews, many of whom were rich. Is it irrational, to think that a President, who attended a church ,where the pastor referred to Jews as “that dirty word”, may harbor ill will towards “rich” Jews?
Report Post »InfiniteSolutions
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:30pmI don’t think so, although I can see how you feel this way. I’m more like the 50.5 percent who pays for the other 49.5 percent, I don’t envy the 1%. With that said, there is such a thing as being responsible in country and morally responsible. Much of that has run rampant with corporate corruption and government. We need to separate our representatives from these corruptions and bring back America to the days where people could thrive. It’s only going to get worse until we all realize its not us against them, it’s all of us in it together with the exception of the irresponsible greedy bastards.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:30pmTell me about it. I remember being at a party with my Jewish friends a few months ago and one of the decorations read “We are the 0.2%”. At first as was amused. Then I thought about it for bit.
Report Post »keaton
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:43pmMy reason for pointing this out, is ,I believe the left blames the right, for doing, what the left is actually doing. I hear a lot of leftists, calling the right racist for using “code” words. It got me to pondering about their code words. Obama demonizes the rich. History repeats itself. I read a lot of anti-Semitic posts on the Internet from Obama supporters. Coincidence?
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Posted on February 21, 2012 at 10:55pmI understand your point! I think the mainstream media liars who pit one group against the other, Government in general is complicit and so are the polls too. We are all Americans and separating us into different groups, pitting us against each other, this is one of the goals to divide and conquer. There will always be people talking code and full of prejudice. Good argument that we need to start teaching kids and drop all the us against them bull. I’m not Jewish and my code is you are my friend until you show me otherwise. We are all human beings that need to learn how to respect each other and, be responsible in our affairs as well. Guess I was brought up on a different planet. Take care and know there are people out there like me.
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