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Van Jones: Stop worrying about the deficit. Government can just take more money from rich companies
The Daily Caller ^ | 07/24/2010 | Chris Moody

Posted on 07/24/2010 2:03:09 AM PDT by Brugmansian

LAS VEGAS, NV — While the federal government sinks deeper into debt than any time since World War II, former White House “green jobs” adviser Anthony Van Jones said it was time to stop worrying about budget deficits and pressure Washington to take more money from American businesses to fund larger social and infrastructure projects.

“This is a rich country. We have plenty of money, and if you don’t believe me, ask Haliburton,” Jones told a group of progressive bloggers and activists at the Netroots Nation convention Friday. “There’s plenty of money out there; don’t fall into the trap of this whole deficit argument.”

“The only question is how to spend it,” he added.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communsim; democrats; economy; liberalfascism; liberalprogressivism; pcracism; progressives; racism; redistribution; reparations; vanjones
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1 posted on 07/24/2010 2:03:10 AM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Brugmansian

If only the government would employ everyone there would be no want, there would be no poor and there would be no homeless.

Yeah, Obama voters are dumb enough to believe anything.


2 posted on 07/24/2010 2:07:49 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Unemployment has DOUBLED since the Democrats took control of congress)
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To: Brugmansian

He might know a little about “green” but nothing about economics. This guy, who’s eventually going to pack his attic from ceiling joists to rafters with insulation (then his roof will rot) is El Stupido. I’d sooner have Jimmuh Cahtuh, at least he was an engineer.


3 posted on 07/24/2010 2:08:22 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Brugmansian

“The problem with socialism is,, sooner or later, you run out of other peoples money”.....Margaret Thatcher.


4 posted on 07/24/2010 2:08:55 AM PDT by MrPiper
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To: VeniVidiVici

Oh, he’s gonna grow this big green pie in the sky


5 posted on 07/24/2010 2:09:30 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Brugmansian

This from people who aren’t qualified to run a lemonade stand.


6 posted on 07/24/2010 2:13:07 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Paine)
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To: Brugmansian
Just your basic leftest genius...

Where everything they dream up works just great in their university confined la-la land.

Not so much in the real world. Economic ruin, pain and suffering on a grand scale follow wherever they have control.

7 posted on 07/24/2010 2:13:42 AM PDT by DB
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To: Brugmansian
“This is a rich country. We have plenty of money, and if you don’t believe me, ask Haliburton Greece”.
8 posted on 07/24/2010 2:15:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Brugmansian

Ye old time communists wanted to run everything. We can see what a a failure that was. Being communists, they were awful at building and running a business

Today’s communists stick with to they know best. They merely want to tax and steal from businesses to fund their racial agendas, their loony wealth distribution theories and green theories. These lazy maggots just want to plunder the productive sector and overtax productive citizens. They are smart enough to not try and run a pharmaceutical company for instance. Just milk it. Make it into their cash cow by taxing it heavily and punitive taxes for the top executives


9 posted on 07/24/2010 2:19:33 AM PDT by dennisw (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
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To: Brugmansian
Van Jones: Stop worrying about the deficit. Government can just take more money from rich companies

Just like 0bama, this parasite has never done a useful days work. No "rich company" would every employ him unless forced to by racial mandates because he brings no skills to the table. His only skills are agitation and community organizing like his twin 0bama
10 posted on 07/24/2010 2:26:00 AM PDT by dennisw (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
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To: dennisw

You just described the difference between facist and communisist economics.


11 posted on 07/24/2010 2:27:58 AM PDT by Mere Survival (The time to fight was yesterday but now will have to do.)
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To: dennisw

If this country fails to take congress away from the rats this Nov or gives Osama a second term. Then this country deserves everything it gets.


12 posted on 07/24/2010 2:30:37 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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To: dennisw

Even Communist China taxes its business more lightly than the USSA does.


13 posted on 07/24/2010 2:33:14 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: dennisw

Oh, he might be a useful attic insulation installer.


14 posted on 07/24/2010 2:33:54 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: MrPiper
Socialism will work this time, because WE'LL be the ones in charge. /sarc
15 posted on 07/24/2010 2:34:37 AM PDT by wolfpat (Moderate=Clueless)
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To: Brugmansian

And this is the Marxist clown that Meg Whitman admires so much.


16 posted on 07/24/2010 2:35:05 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: Mere Survival

Exactly. And there’s not a nickel’s worth of difference between them, philosophically. See the 3rd quote on my profile page on that, the 2-paragraph one by Hayek.


17 posted on 07/24/2010 2:35:23 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: Mere Survival
You just described the difference between facist and communisist economics.

You have a point there but I am sure Van Jones heroes are communists like Che Guevara, not fascists. Socialists are content with having some state owned enterprises but otherwise taxing to death the private sector to fund their communist schemes. The communists schemes of today are green jobs, they are racial agendas and reparations, they are wealth redistribution, they are dominating education k-12 and in universities so all their commie friends have jobs and can indoctrinate young skulls full of mush

18 posted on 07/24/2010 2:41:08 AM PDT by dennisw (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
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To: Brugmansian

“How I stopped worrying and began to love the bomb” movie comes to mind when I read this, what, me worry about going broke= Alfred E. VanJones


19 posted on 07/24/2010 2:41:51 AM PDT by Citizen Soldier ("You care far too much what is written and said about you." Axelrod to Obama 2006)
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To: Brugmansian

Unfortunately there is no shortage of idiots like Jones in Jackson, Tennessee. Jackson is becoming another Memphis rapidly with all of its diversity. The only good thing about it is that there are two small cities between there and here to buffer the criminals activities.


20 posted on 07/24/2010 2:43:49 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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