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.
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Resettle that man and his ilk in Paradise Cuba
The psycho left doesn’t get it. They see a big house and they conjure up all this wealth and the evil that it brings, and that it is limitless and with all of it all these great social changes can be paid for - so QED, just take it. They don’t understand what creates wealth, and government spending and taxes do not create wealth, they only take it. When they start taking peoples’ wealth in addition to their income, and when the percentage of the nation not paying taxes continues to grow, it will not only lead to a horribly entrenched, unsolvable poverty, it could even lead to civil war. They don’t get it, they believe propaganda rather than economics, and they refuse to understand. They are very dangerous people.
Hitler had it in for the Jews but he never attacked churches the way the Russian communists of the same era did. His Hitler youth were an attack on the family but Stalin and Fidel Castro were much more into having children inform on parents and other family destroyers.
Latin America has had plenty of fascist regimes and they never attacked religion or the family. Was Pinochet a fascist? That’s what the left called him and he never attacked family and faith. The default for communists is they will make a “new man” and church and family get in the way of that.
In California and other places schools are offering free lunches in the summer. More leftist degradation of family responsibility
Words fail me.
“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.”
Dumb or not, there are millions upon millions who believe just that.
Further — as a factor of demographics — their numbers are GROWING, not shrinking.
They are streaming towards this country as bees stream towards honey.
We’re fast approaching a “tipping point” after which — once tipped — it may become impossible to swing the entire nation back towards “where it once was”.
I saw a very interesting phrase recently. I wish I had coined it, but I can’t claim that. The writer suggested that there is a “secession of the heart” going on for many Americans right now. I fully understand what he was talking about, and I fully understand the implications of where that might lead.
To expand on what I said a couple of paragraphs up...
It may indeed soon become impossible to save the entire ship of state. But what if the bow of the sinking ship was cut free to founder, and the stern saved to float independently?
Van Jones takes life for granted and continued breathing as a luxury.....
You have it nailed.
We are dealing here with a level of ideologue-driven idiocy that rejects reasonable discourse and rational thinking.
You are missing the forrest for the trees. Yes , our taxes are insufferable - but the real problem is REGULATION. Control. And that defines Fascism.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - CS Lewis
In today’s US, the robber barons, the moral busybodies, and the government all collude to control everything.
Do you know a lady in MI served time - as a convicted felon - for picking up a feather off the sidewalk at the zoo?
Houston, we have a problem.
Braiwashed stooges...Obama and the rest of them. And the communists behind them...the foreign ones are stooges of satan...all of them are really...thinking those socialist thoughts are their own...not at all. Satan has always been in direct competition with God’s perfection, the only problem is that his solutions can never deliver what they promise because he is the fallen one.
well of course it’s flimflam and lies. and “his people drink his waters in abundance, and come back for more” (somewhat paraphrased, but seems the bible knew something about kool-aid).
I looked it up; she took that cruise in July 2008. So before all the stuff about him came out. Course she only registered Republican in 2007 so she’s a RINO for sure. Hopefully not a personally offensive one (I’ll never vote for Romney after the socialized medicine roadmap he gave the Dems) . . .
The agitation against business was just as constant during the reign of FDR. It only lasted 8 years (until World War) . . . lucky USA.
And FDR is still a hero for the Dems.
If it wasn’t for the intercession of World War II, The Soviet system would have collapsed by 1960.
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Could be true. They were in trouble pre-WWII like the USA was?
I’m basing my idea of a more resilient fascist economic system on Pinochet’s Chile, S. Korea’s economy during the military governments reign, etc. But these have not been tested in modern times long term to my knowledge, so the system may be just as unstable as the communist system.
I will say, I’m with the left on executive pay. It’s gone way out of control. The systems of corporate governance are broken it seems to me. Everyone has figured out how to game the system, whether in national politics or corporate politics.
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