Posted on 04/15/2010 8:02:30 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Because nobody would ever hire THEM to be one.
That just gets us back to corrupt, greedy government. If the government let those corporations go down into bankruptcy, they would have been purchased by other wealthy corporations and then just continued to march after the shakeup. If nobody bought up their shares then all their assets would have been auctioned off and most of their creditors would have been payed. Then another corporation in the same business would simply move in and take over their customer base and then grow bigger yet. Obama wanted to buy up these failing corporations for one reason only, that he could in effect OWN them.
Obama the Pitchfork Operator: Remake of the Soviet Classic
April 7, 2009 - by Oleg Atbashian
...recent actions from Obama reminded me of a ploy Stalin used on Western entrepreneurs, which in itself is an illustrative morality play contrasting the differences between socialism and capitalism.
"My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks," Barack Obama told the CEOs of the world's most powerful financial institutions on March 27, when they cited competition for talent in an international market as justification for paying higher salaries to their employees.
Arrayed around a long mahogany table in the White House state dining room, the bankers struggled to make themselves clear to the president, but he wasn't in a mood to hear them out. He interrupted them by saying, "Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isn't buying that."
To get the full flavor of the president's implication we must remember that in Obama's code language, the word "pitchforks" means "a vigorous campaign of threats and intimidation perpetrated by Obama-sponsored ACORN and union activists in conjunction with theatrical outrage from government officials, amplified by the complicit media, and coordinated from one political center, which has now moved to the White House."
Accordingly, the words "public" and "the people" denote "an appearance of broad popular movement created by a small but highly organized band of professional pitchfork operators (ACORN) who rely on the government funding and the media's eagerness to present their deliberately planned actions and pre-fabricated messages as heartfelt and spontaneous."
In compliance with Orwellian logic, Obama's "Newspeak" not only redefines existing meanings, it also abolishes ranges of "Oldspeak"meanings such as property, markets, competition, capitalism, political opposition, and the rule of law. The latter is perhaps the most important ingredient missing in his new "pitchfork" formula, signaling that law is now being replaced with mob rule.
In a balanced society, an angry mob is never a part of the equation. But if the goal is to throw a capitalist society off balance in order to change it, an angry mob is the ticket. Anger is known to be the easiest and the most effective tool of crowd manipulation. Angry mobs cancel out the rule of law. Infusing anger into a community and turning it into an angry mob, canceling out the rule of law, and changing the balance in a society - this is what community organizers do for a living.
It was often pointed out during the election that Obama lacked management experience. While having a president with no experience is bad, it's not nearly as bad as having a president with experience as a community organizer.
Community organizers were instrumental in forcing banks to give subprime loans to unqualified minority borrowers by using the "pitchforks" tactics - protesting in front of the banks, camping on the lawns of the bankers' family houses, intimidating families, and suing in courts. After the bankers were sufficiently roughed up, a community organizer would show up at their office to "negotiate" the bank's surrender in the form of bad loans and money for community organizations that pay community organizers for their "services."
Squeezed between the "pitchforks" and the government (see Community Reinvestment Act), the banks survived by releasing the accumulated toxic assets to the rest of the financial system, which over the years poisoned the entire world economy. Now that the crisis has propelled a former "pitchfork operator" into power, it shouldn't surprise anyone that the new organizer in chief would try to "heal" the economy how he knows best: by continuing to squeeze businesses between the "pitchforks" and the government - a tactic that had caused the disease in the first place. Only now he is doing it on a global scale.
Once a community organizer gains control of the media and the government, the next logical step is to turn the entire nation into a mob and set them against businesses, while offering the latter government "protection." The subsequent takeover of the economy leaves the future society reduced to the two basic elements: an authoritarian government and a compliant mob. This may be an ideal arrangement for a community organizer, but it's a direct opposite of what the Founding Fathers had intended.
Most Americans will probably associate this trend with the protection racket that was rampant in Chicago in the 1930s. It follows the same pattern: the mob, in conjunction with the unions, would organize strikes and protests, do physical damage, and intimidate business owners. Then a mob representative would meet with the owner and offer "protection" by saying "I'm the only thing between you and the pitchforks."
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But American “progressives” seem to be unable to learn from other people’s mistakes, even if the former KGB officer Vladimir Putin himself is asking Obama to take a lesson from the pages of Russian history and not exercise “excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence.”
I don’t often agree with Putin, but when he’s right, he’s right. “In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute,” he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”
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http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-the-pitchfork-operator-a-remake-of-the-soviet-classic/
Excellent article! Thanks for posting it.
In a balanced society, an angry mob is never a part of the equation. But if the goal is to throw a capitalist society off balance in order to change it, an angry mob is the ticket. Anger is known to be the easiest and the most effective tool of crowd manipulation. Angry mobs cancel out the rule of law. Infusing anger into a community and turning it into an angry mob, canceling out the rule of law, and changing the balance in a society - this is what community organizers do for a living.
You're right - it's what they're doing. They also accuse us of being "angry" when it's them ginning up anger - as a control technique. Orwellian is an understatement.
http://www.businessinsider.com/protesters-plan-bus-tour-of-aig-executives-homes-this-saturday-2009-3
Note the pre-printed, mass produced signs distributed to the crowd. Compare this to a Tea Party event where no two signs are the same (i.e., made by the attendee, not handed to them by a “community organizer”).
This is from 2009.
was that a threat?
Unfortunately, the Secret Service and the USMC. Don’t even think it...
“They also accuse us of being “angry” when it’s them ginning up anger - as a control technique. Orwellian is an understatement.”
yes and yes; furthermore... “accusing us of being “angry” when it’s them ginning up anger”
In ways too numerous to count they falsely accuse us of what they themselves are doing.
They are an amoral and perverse gang of high-income thugs who believe corrupt means are justified by their self-deluded “you owe me and my thieving peeps,” “UTOPIAN” ends (after all, “we’re doing it for the poor minorities” -— whom, by the way, never seem to actually benefit from the shakedown).
To them the “poor minorities” are just pawns in the progressive/marxist quest for raw power and naked self-interest.
(NOTE: Thanks to Rush Limbaugh for the "Brooks Brothers Mob" inspiration...:)
Ahhh...you escaped! I went to Worcester State College, and went to Navy jet school (”A” school) in Millington, TN...:)
The Secret Service,” the freeper added, “is the only thing between you and a bullet.
He’s a thug.>>>>>>>>>
Thug him right back.
Nancy Pelosi is the only THING standing between Obama and the pitchforks.
No pitchforks for his hedge fund buddies who’s gang shorting wiped out the banks and made the hedge fund billionaires even richer.
Arrogance.
Boy is that ass gonna suffer a BIG fall
And oh isn’t that a sweet thought!
To them the “poor minorities” are just pawns in the progressive/marxist quest for raw power and naked self-interest.
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