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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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I watched the video. It is disgusting claptrap. However it is also very dangerous with its incorrect portrayal of how things work (or once did).
1 posted on 12/05/2012 5:09:21 PM PST by tpmintx
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To: tpmintx

IMHO, anyone who sends their children to a public school these days is committing child abuse.


2 posted on 12/05/2012 5:12:38 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't tax me bro! Tax that guy over there!)
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Its very Goebbelesque.

Nicely done, fat commie from the Mary Tyler Moore show. Your brown shirt is in the mail.

3 posted on 12/05/2012 5:12:38 PM PST by skeeter
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To: tpmintx

I loaaaaath the teachers union.


4 posted on 12/05/2012 5:14:32 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: skeeter
Its very Goebbelesque.

Absolutely. Joseph would be so proud.

5 posted on 12/05/2012 5:17:09 PM PST by tpmintx (Problem: People who work for a living ARE outnumbered by those who VOTE for a living (47%).)
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To: skeeter

“Your brown shirt is in the mail.”
Ed’s already got one of those,now if we could find him some totenkopf cufflinks for Christmas.......


6 posted on 12/05/2012 5:17:57 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: tpmintx

That’s OK...I take a dump on the union office steps whenever I can.


7 posted on 12/05/2012 5:20:19 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: tpmintx
Public school is child abuse.

Teachers unions are evil.

Public school teachers are enablers of evil.

8 posted on 12/05/2012 5:27:48 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: tpmintx
How far we have come. As a kid, I remember Walt Disney showing us how the orchestra worked with “Perfesser Von Drake”. Now the kids learn this CRAP!
9 posted on 12/05/2012 5:29:46 PM PST by jaz.357 (Welcome to hell. Here's your accordion.)
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To: tpmintx
It IS dangerous, because it is going to be effective on naifs of all ages. In some ways it is very like stuff coming out of the Soviet bloc during the Cold War... listen to Asner's voice and delivery, and it'll take you back to the days when "it's animation from Czechoslovakia so it must be good" was the credo of the art/intelligentsia axis.

Mr. niteowl77

10 posted on 12/05/2012 5:30:25 PM PST by niteowl77 (Getting stuck with other peoples' just desserts good and hard for over 50 years.)
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To: tpmintx

Someone should make a video of Ed Asner peeing on the Constitution.


11 posted on 12/05/2012 5:43:53 PM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles ("Nonsense in the intellect draws evil after it." C.S. Lewiscrate)
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..... I actually think that this video is quite well done.

.... By that .... I mean it is simple, clever, hard hitting and well narrated in an easy to understand way. Yes.... even simple enough that a child can understand it's ponderings. It also gets the point across quite vividly to all. It also serves to sear into the mind of the viewers the ideas and philosophy being put forth. I suspect that it will be quite successful in it's objective.

.... I do have a simple question to the detractors of this video ...... Where are the hard hitting and easily understood videos that teach and portray conservative principles and philosophies in a similar hard hitting way? ........ Perhaps we should take note of how the successful tactics of the left are deployed and implemented. Evidently what we have been doing up until Nov 6th of this year were woefully inadequate and failed miserably.

.... So instead of making fun of and complaining of the lefts ploys ..... Start working together as a team instead of proving to be a miserable dysfunctional family of misfits .... take some notes .... Never let a Crisis go to waste.

12 posted on 12/05/2012 5:52:13 PM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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Government schools are no places for children. They exist for indoctrination. I love it when people tell me that they have moved to a certain area because the schools are good. That just means that the government schools in that area have nice facilities and less violence. The real, lasting damage goes on in the classrooms.


13 posted on 12/05/2012 5:56:19 PM PST by Buddy Sorrell ("I'm dead sober, Andy, but I expect I'll get over it." - Otis Campbell)
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I agree. I’m lucky. I’ve got 7 grandchildren. Four are being home schooled and 3 are attending religious schools.


14 posted on 12/05/2012 5:59:53 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't tax me bro! Tax that guy over there!)
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To: tpmintx

This is straight out of 30’s and 40’s Soviet style cartoons. I wonder if they’ve ever even heard of that stuff. All the fat cats ruining everyone until the communists come and save the world.


15 posted on 12/05/2012 6:04:05 PM PST by Monty22002
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To: tpmintx

Communists are good for one thing only, and that thing is slow release fertilizer.


16 posted on 12/05/2012 6:05:34 PM PST by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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Our governor Christie shut this nonsense down by pointing out how wealthy teachers were; he was aided by the Asbury Park Press, which listed the salaries of every public school teacher in NJ.

You would be amazed at how much money somebody without a particular set of job skills can “earn” in 180 days...


17 posted on 12/05/2012 6:33:42 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: tpmintx

Like Dennis Miller was saying tonight on O’Reilly: “They always say rich. How about saying successful for once?” So daamn true.


18 posted on 12/05/2012 6:36:56 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: skeeter

Someone should redo the audio and take the word “Rich” out and put the word “Jew” in.

Then redo it again and put the word “Blacks” in.

Then Mexican.

Then Japanese

And on and on and on.


19 posted on 12/05/2012 6:46:43 PM PST by IMR 4350
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I was talking to one guy involved in education the other day who says eventually this kind of public education will be phased out for the simple fact that it will become unnecessary, and he used Khanacademy.org as an example. Kids will learn at home and learn more through technology. I told him that will only happen if the people stop voting for the statists which after our last election seems to be far from ever happening, and he laughed it off.


20 posted on 12/05/2012 6:51:05 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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