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California Teachers Union Cartoon Video Has Rich Urinating On Poor
Real Clear Politics ^ | 12/5/12 | RCP

Posted on 12/05/2012 5:09:13 PM PST by tpmintx

"Tax the Rich: An Animated Fairy Tale" by the California Federation of Teachers: An animated fairy tale, is narrated by Ed Asner, with animation by Mike Konopacki. Written and directed by Fred Glass for the California Federation of Teachers. An 8 minute video about how we arrived at this moment of poorly funded public services and widening economic inequality. Things go downhill in a happy and prosperous land after the rich decide they don't want to pay taxes anymore. They tell the people that there is no alternative, but the people aren't so sure. This land bears a startling resemblance to our land. For more info, www.cft.org.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: asner; california; communists; marxists; teacher; union
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To: IMR 4350

It wouldn’t take much for the Jew part. The rich fat cat short guy wouldn’t take much tweaking and there you go, the Jew you can use as a scapegoat!

Those leftists always do this. The project everything.


21 posted on 12/05/2012 6:56:44 PM PST by Monty22002
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To: R_Kangel
Each of us will have the opportunity to walk the walk soon enough.

In the meantime, I'll continue to express my opinion of this valip dreck any way I like.

22 posted on 12/05/2012 6:57:00 PM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Vapid... dammit


23 posted on 12/05/2012 6:57:34 PM PST by skeeter
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To: tpmintx

An anti-rich guy video .... narrated by a rich guy.


24 posted on 12/05/2012 7:19:17 PM PST by Lizavetta (You get what you tolerate)
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To: tpmintx

the proper response would be a animated video of the teacher’s union and the teachers urinating on the students and the taxpayers.

blessings, bobo


25 posted on 12/05/2012 7:24:20 PM PST by bobo1
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To: tpmintx

Not only would Josef love it but the image of the “rich” looks very much like the Nazi portayals of Jews. I’m sure der Fuehrer approves. Ein Volk,ein Reich, ein Fuehrer.

FUBO & FAD


26 posted on 12/05/2012 7:29:25 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: tpmintx

2 things I noticed, in the “animation.”

1) The “big nose” on the rich guy, much like the anti-Jew cartoons seen over the years.

2) The “City Park” arch looks remarkably like the “Arbeit Macht Frei” arches.

Mark


27 posted on 12/05/2012 7:59:32 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: tpmintx

Heard part of it on the radio. It sounded like Ed Asner was trying to channel George Carlin but came off more like George of the Jungle.


28 posted on 12/05/2012 8:14:36 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Top 10 Public Education Quotes of 2005
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/lists.php

The Education Intelligence Agency is proud to present the 2005 Public Education Quotes of the Year, in countdown order. Enjoy!

10. “After all these years, I’m sorry to say my recommendation is this: Forget about self-esteem and concentrate more on self-control and self-discipline.”

— Roy F. Baumeister, professor in the department of psychology at Florida State University. (January 25 Los Angeles Times)

9. “When the students don’t learn, the school must change.”

— Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, addressing the National Governors Association. (February 27 Los Angeles Times)

8. “If the United States is to preserve our system of free public schools, teacher unions are going to have to stop accepting the status quo and making excuses for the poor performance of our students.”

— Morty Rosenfeld, member of the NEA New York board of directors. (October 17 Teacher Talk)

7. “Kids do not do better learning math themselves. There’s a reason we go to school, which is that there’s someone smarter than us with something to teach us.”

— High school student Jim Munch, relating his battle against his school’s constructivist math program. (November 9 New York Times)

6. “It was negotiated by the MEA [Maine Education Association] and governor’s office over the last four months. We’re all just learning about it.”

— Maine State Senator Libby Mitchell (D-Kennebec), chairwoman of the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, reacting to Gov. John Baldacci’s plan to reduce graduation standards and pay $17 million to teachers working on the state’s assessment program. (April 7 Lincoln County News)

5. “We might rank in the top half in some areas, but we’re not in the top of the top half.”

— Nancy Henderson, president of the Jefferson County Education Association (Colorado), expressing distress over teacher salaries in her district. (March 31 Canyon Courier)

4. “Please sign your letters as an individual or representative of a community group, not as a member of GAE.”

— Jonathan Goldman, director of communications and marketing for the Georgia Association of Educators, advising GAE members on how to respond to a column by Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jim Wooten on a bill to provide state-funded liability insurance to teachers. GAE was opposed to the bill.

3. “There are better ways for me to spend my hours than to deal with an employee who files constant grievances and objects to basic rules.”

— American Federation of Teachers Local 212 Executive Vice President Charlie Dee, on a lawsuit filed against his union by employee Mary Tews. Local 212 fired Tews in 2003, was ordered by an arbitrator to rehire her with back pay, then, Tews alleges, cut her pay and hours and tried to force her out. (May 25 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

2. “While building efficiencies of scale might fit a sound business model, it is the antithesis of sound educational practice.”

— Hawaii State Teachers Association Vice President Joan Lewis. (November 1 Honolulu Advertiser)

1. “All we want to do is learn. We can’t learn if we don’t got teachers.”

— Raquel Brito, one of an estimated 900 students who walked out of class in the East Side Union High School District in San Jose, California, to protest layoff notices sent to district teachers. (March 23 San Jose Mercury News)

And a special honorable mention to...

“I’m allergic to onions and I wouldn’t walk under an onion bridge.”

— An NEA delegate debating New Business Item 91 at the union’s Representative Assembly on July 6.


29 posted on 12/05/2012 8:22:30 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: tpmintx

Are the CTA and CFT linked in any way?


30 posted on 12/05/2012 8:58:09 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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It takes a community of Leftwing haters to promote the idea that citizens would urinate on each other.

These haters, a few of which abuse children, need to rethink their depraved attitude about US citizens. The vitriol and resentment they foster is not deserving of the money made available by the hardworking taxpayers. The defiling imagery that represents their hateful mindset should be a reminder of the disdain these individuals have for those funding their salaries, benefits, and retirement.


31 posted on 12/05/2012 9:06:00 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

One of our grandchildren is is government schools, and he is the only one having difficulty. Wish it were otherwise.


32 posted on 12/05/2012 10:29:50 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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