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Van Jones: “We Will Not Live on an Economic Plantation Run by the Koch Brothers”
Hot Air ^ | 3 Feb 2011 | John Sexton

Posted on 02/05/2011 9:47:35 AM PST by mandaladon

The opponents of democracy, the opponents of justice and really the opponents of liberty, which I’m going to get to. The opponents of those three values–justice, democracy and liberty–when you hit them…they get mad. When they hit us, we get sad. Cause we’re decent people. We’re kind people. We’re compassionate people. And we sometimes can find ourselves shocked again and again by how hard the other side fights…

We are in the middle of the biggest economic catastrophe in the history of our country since the great depression and the American people deserve to have a partner in America’s government during a crisis like this. America’s government should not be missing in action. We shouldn’t be struggling to figure out if we’re going to re-up the unemployment benefits for people who’ve been out of work. It’s time for us to go from talking about an unemployment program to an employment program in America. People need jobs. People need to be able to work. People need to be able to put food on the table.

Why is the government missing in action? Why are they having food fight politics in Washington DC as opposed to helping the American people put food on the table? Because our political process has been hijacked. Our political process has been hijacked by people who are only interested in their own game. Who are only interested in their own profit. And who are willing to tell any lie and spend any amount of money to prevent America’s government from coming to the rescue of the American people. And we are here to put a stop to that kind of treachery against our country.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: koch; kochbrothers; liberals; vanjones
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To: darkwing104

“He prefers to be on the plantation of George Soros...”

And he is living the dream


21 posted on 02/05/2011 10:21:54 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: mandaladon

I see Mr. Jones is African right down to his.....core.

Suuuure....

22 posted on 02/05/2011 10:27:13 AM PST by gaijin
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To: mandaladon
Amazing; it's not about the food, of course.

These people do not feel alive w/o 'hate', foment and without their best dream of revolution and power.

Jomes, could of course, go back to Africa or Egypt or wherever the hell he comes from and stir and take solace in their misery; or stir the pot and make life even more miserable for the long-suffering locals.

(If only. . .If only, they all would go and leave 'Freedom' for those who appreciate it.) There are soooo many places that offer a life in a Marxist paradise or something equal to what the reason capable and morally sane reognize as a Hell on earth.)

23 posted on 02/05/2011 10:27:48 AM PST by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .Obama, not made in the USA either.. .)
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To: cricket

When is he going to realize that the “government” is not some independent entity out there. It derives its operating capital from the few of us who still work and pay taxes. If he wants more programs and goodies from uncle Sam, it means that the cost of that has to come out of the rest of our pockets. Many of us are barely making it as it is. You have to say no and draw the line in order to start building up and increasing the numbers of those of us who are still surviving on our own. More and more programs or jobs created by government just makes the whole thing collapse faster.


24 posted on 02/05/2011 10:37:46 AM PST by marsh2
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To: mandaladon

We Will Not Live in an Economic Crackhouse Run by Soros!


25 posted on 02/05/2011 10:43:11 AM PST by TauntedTiger (Keep away from the fence!)
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To: Iron Munro

Exactly. Jones, 0baSoros & gang want to run everything.


26 posted on 02/05/2011 10:46:30 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: mandaladon

Someone needs to find him a cell.


27 posted on 02/05/2011 11:01:07 AM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: mandaladon

This was the same protest where the hate-filled, vicious liberals were calling for the lynching of Clarence Thomas.


28 posted on 02/05/2011 11:08:30 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: thefactor

“Koch brothers” is code word for Jews. Yet another anti-semetic liberal POS.


29 posted on 02/05/2011 11:15:38 AM PST by rbg81
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To: thethirddegree

Absolutely!

Couldn’t have said it better myself!


30 posted on 02/05/2011 11:16:20 AM PST by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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To: darkwing104
He prefers to be on the plantation of George Soros...

Who will be laughing as he has them rounded up......when they are no longer the useful idiots he needs to fulfill his mission.

31 posted on 02/05/2011 11:16:48 AM PST by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: Mad Dawgg
"Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen."

Leon Trotsky

32 posted on 02/05/2011 11:25:47 AM PST by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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To: kcvl

There’s a confluence of the left and the global warmists like Hansen who want to confiscate the property of people like the Koch brothers. Hansen’s proposed carbon tax and dividend is nothing more than taking from the rich and giving to the middle class (to buy those votes). Van Jones is on board because of the taking part of the equation. But he is more likely to give the money to some other rich (e.g. Soros, cap and trade scam artists, etc) who will pay him and his rabble for his efforts.


33 posted on 02/05/2011 11:37:31 AM PST by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: mandaladon

The Koch’s donated around two million dollars to the tea parties last cycle. SEIU spent $28 MILLION pimping Obamacare, ALONE....

Jones is trying to intimidate the Koch’s in to backing down, while saying NOTHING about the hypocrisy of Democrat Orgs filtering literally BILLIONS of dollars, much of it tax money, in to Democrat elections.


34 posted on 02/05/2011 11:40:45 AM PST by tcrlaf (Democrats Outforced America's Jobs for 40 Years. Now The Bill Is Due)
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To: Mad Dawgg
Exactly. Franklin said, "A REPUBLIC, if you can keep it".

The Commie'RATS have tried to change our REPUBLIC into a "democracy" with their damn "ballot propositions" among other things. Ballot propositions are a pet peeve of mine. We elect and then pay good money for the buffoons to make those decisions for us. It's not our job to "vote" on them or have a couple buffoons on some goofy "blue ribbon commissions" to make those decisions. Ballot propositions and "blue ribbon commissions" are unAmerican and a sign of cowardice. JMHO.

35 posted on 02/05/2011 11:42:45 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare funds 16,000 new tax collectors but no new doctors. Now that's what I call "green" jobs.)
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To: mandaladon
Van Jones: “We Will Not Live on an Economic Plantation Run by the Koch Brothers”

Then leave and don't let the door hit your butt on the way out.

36 posted on 02/05/2011 11:49:36 AM PST by AmericaOne (Sneaking In is NOT Immigration!!!)
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To: palmer

These individuals aren’t exactly flying under the radar as the Kochs hold leadership positions and are featured on the websites for the Cato Institute, Reason Foundation and the Mercatus Center among others. Soros also runs the Open Society Institute — website Soros.org — as well as the recently created Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Still these individuals have provided major funding to groups that aren’t particularly transparent, such as Soros-backed Democracy Alliance, which doesn’t provide information on the projects it funds.

A Washington Post article from January of this year connects the Kochs with the Tea Party movement, citing records of their foundation giving $3.1 million to Americans for Prosperity, but according to the Kochs, this is false, as the money only went to the Americans for Prosperity Foundation.


37 posted on 02/05/2011 11:55:03 AM PST by kcvl
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To: gaijin
I see Mr. Jones is African right down to his.....core.

See, Bra? I got me a white woman. I be doin' good!!

38 posted on 02/05/2011 11:55:35 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: mandaladon

David Koch’s Favorite congressional members:
$17,100 – Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.)
$7,600 – Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.)
$7,200 – Mark Foley (R-Fla.)
$6,600 – James Inhofe (R-Okla.)
$5,000 – Sam Brownback (R-Kan.)

George Soros’ favorite congressional members:
$6,500 – Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.)
$6,200 – Jon Cranley (D-Ohio)
$6,000 – Ken Salazar (D-Colo.)
$6,000 – Dan Maffei (D-N.Y.)
$5,500 – Tom Perriello (D-Va.)

Individual donations to 527 organizations (2001 to 2010)
George Soros: $32.5 million
Koch Brothers: $1.5 million

David Koch: $1,472,000

$1,352,000 – Republican Governors Association
$100,000 – Americans for Better Government

George Soros: $32,506,500
$12.05 million – Joint Victory Campaign 2004
$7.5 million – America Coming Together
$2.5 million – MoveOn.org
$3.65 million – America Votes
$3.5 million – The Fund for America
$150,000 – Win Back Respect
$120,000 – Majority Action
$100,000 – Campaign Money Watch

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/09/opensecrets-battle-—koch-brothers.html


39 posted on 02/05/2011 12:01:16 PM PST by kcvl
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To: mandaladon

Take today’s conference call on the subject, conducted by Common Cause, featuring such liberal luminaries as former Clinton Labor secretary Robert Reich, disgraced former Obama official and Center for American Progress scholar Van Jones and his colleague Lee Fang, and DeAnn McKewan, co-president of California Nurses Association (yeah, I hadn’t heard of her either).

Reich sounded the Koch alarm: “their ongoing biannual meetings epitomize the problems that our democracy are facing right now,” he told the participants on the conference call. These meetings, he said, are a “perfect storm for democracy,” because the Koch brothers are rich and can participate in politics, “and we have secrecy – it’s all in secret.”

So, the Koch brothers hold private assemblies, participate in politics, and are, therefore, a threat to our democracy. Got it?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/leftists-push-back-against-koch-brothers-right-free-assembly_537485.html


40 posted on 02/05/2011 12:05:46 PM PST by kcvl
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