Posted on 10/08/2011 6:27:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
This was a fantastic piece in the Wall Street Journal by Randy Noonan. Personally, I have a lot in common with the fictitious Moe. Even went to junior college.
Obama and the Democrats want to tax the crap out of Moe. But, they say they only want to get the rich fat cats. It’s total class warfare. Don’t fall for it.
Moe is what’s right about America. He worked, lived his life, took some risk and made some decent money. He could be any color and anyone under the sun that was fortunate to be born here.
That’s what Obama never gets. He is so out of touch with normal America. He doesn’t even know what it’s like to swim in the mainstream.
Yesterday I was walking down the street in Chicago. By chance, I saw a big 6’5? black guy that looked familiar. “Rodney”, I yelled. He stopped, looked at me and smiled. We haven’t seen each other since 1982. We played basketball together for a couple of years.
He was walking home from work. We embraced, and chatted for 10-15 minutes. Rodney still looks like he could play, but we laughed since both of our 49 year old bodies are so beat up we can only watch now!
It was fantastic catching up with him. Rodney’s married and has two kids. Both finished college. He has the American dream. House, yard, cars and a decent paying job.
Rodney and me are both Moe. So are you.
Contrast that with Occupy Wall Street.
In the beginning, there were a bunch of so called radicals protesting Wall Street bailouts.
I was cynical. Then I saw their demands. Then I called them out. Many on the left side of the business blogging community gave OWS the benefit of the doubt.
Once I saw Van Jones and the Unions involved, I knew it was straight Obama Astroturf designed to try and siphon off members from the Tea Party.
Now, the real evidence leaks form the Daily Caller. They are paying many of the protestors to protest.
A liberal organizer told the Daily Caller on Thursday afternoon that he paid some Hispanics to attend “Occupy DC” protests happening in the nation’s capital.
TheDC attended the protest event, an expansion of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that began in New York City. Some aspects of the protest, it turned out, are more Astroturf than grassroots.
One group of about ten Hispanic protesters marched behind a Caucasian individual from the , a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting rent control in Washington, D.C.
Asked why they were there, some Hispanic protesters holding up English protest signs could not articulate what their signs said.
Interviewed in Spanish, the protesters told conflicting stories about how their group was organized. Some said it was organized at their church, and that they were there as volunteers. Others, however, referred to the man from the DC Tenants Advocacy Coalition — the only Caucasian in the group — as their “boss.”
“Some of them are volunteers. Some of them aren’t,” he explained. “I can’t identify them. I’m not going to get into an identification game.”
No one ever paid Tea Party people. It actually cost a lot of them more than a day’s pay to go and march.
It’s a true grassroots movement.
The left can only manufacture outrage. And to manufacture it, they have to outsource.
No one listens to them on radio, and no one watches them on television. As a viral Facebook photo quotes, “If I had a dollar for every time that capitalism was blamed for the problems caused by government, I’d be a fat filmaker with a baseball cap.”
*
is there any talk of counter protests??
at DNC headquarters
at the Dodd, Frank offices
at the White House
at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Hq
you name it
Wisdom of the Ages: Tenth Commandment.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
(Especially not the donkey;)
Occupy Wall Street a Fraud.
In other news, Bear Craps in Woods; Dog Bites Man.
The manufactured outrage of Sociaty’s Idiot Class predates even Marx and Lenin.
The story is no doubt to be found somewhere in Aesop.
“Wisdom of the Ages: Tenth Commandment.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
THIS is the truth of it all. The ‘GREED’ is not on the part of ‘Wall Street’ so much, it’s the POLITICIANS and union thugs who are inciting all this.
This point is constantly getting people I know mad at me. When people bring up the ‘greed’, I have to ask why THEY think THEY deserve other people’s money and isn’t THAT greedy?
I’m the worst kind of poor. I don’t care that my neighbor has more than me. He’s earned it and I’ve earned his trust.
Just like all the “revolutions’, from The French one onward - it was a stage production of the one-worlders.
Nice. Yeah they’re just normal average Americans.
Of course the trashbaggers are a fraud. Most of them have no idea why there are even protests. They can’t define what corporate greed means, and they are protesting for government greed.
Thanks Kaslin.
*
I AM THE .009% AND I WANT A PONY!!!!!
Thanks for posting, Kaslin. HOORAY Jeff Carter!
Oh, I see now, you can only have NEGATIVE comments about Romney on FR now, NO positive comments about any other candidates for any other offices. OK I see now. I am not pro or con Romney, but he sure gets negative comments here. But don’t dare post any positive comments about great candidates.
Uh, whatever...I guess.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.