Tea Party leaders ... openly lobbying business owners “not hire a single person”

[boutons_deux]

Congressional Republicans have acted shocked and offended at Democrats’ suggestions that they are intentionally sabotaging the economy to try to win back the White House in 2012.

In a rambling letter titled “Call For A Strike of American Small Businesses Against The Movement for Global Socialism,” Brookstone urges businesses “not hire a single person” to protest “this new dictator”:

Resolved that: The current administration and Democrat majority in the Senate, in conjunction with Progressive socialists from all around the country, especially those from Hollywood and the left leaning news media (Indeed, most of the news media.) have worked in unison to advance an anti-business, an anti-free market, and an anti-capitalist (anti-individual rights and property ownership) agenda. [...]

I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.

Brookstone cites Democrats’ support of the Occupy Wall Street movement as proof that Obama, media elites, and the like are “against business, private property ownership and capitalism.”


http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/20/348168/tea-party-group-businesses-hurt-obama/

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They are piling on more proof that they are lying, slanderous, bullshit-stuffed assholes.

[CosmicCowboy]

great

Boutons find a quote from the yang to balance his yin.

I ignore both.

[Borat Sagyidev]

great

Boutons find a quote from the yang to balance his yin.

I ignore both.

Good rebuttal. Noble win. good show.

[101A]

Whose Brookstone?

I created 4 jobs out of thin air this week.

[boutons_deux]

More right-wing strategy to screw up the economy to the max in time for 2012 election:

The Austerity Death-Trap

Ron Paul’s newly-unveiled economic plan – promising to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget in year one (presumably that means 2013) – is only slightly more ambitious than what we’re hearing from other Republican candidates. They’re all calling for major spending cuts starting as soon as possible.

What are they smoking?

Can we just put ideology aside for a moment and be clear about the facts? Consumer spending (70 percent of the economy) is flat or dropping because consumers are losing their jobs and wages, and don’t have the dough. And businesses aren’t hiring because they don’t have enough customers.

The only way out of this vicious cycle is for the government – the spender of last resort – to boost the economy. The regressives are all calling for the opposite.

But even without these hare-brained Republican plans, we’re heading in their direction anyway. Unless Republicans agree to a budget deal before the end of the year (don’t hold your breath), the temporary payroll tax cuts and extended unemployment benefits we have now will end.

The result will be the most stringent fiscal tightening of any large economy in the world.

Together with ongoing cuts at the state and local government level, the scale of this fiscal contraction would be almost unprecedented.

http://robertreich.org/post/11660232763

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feigning shock and horror to be accused of deepening and widening the pain for the 99%, the Repugs and VRWC know exactly that's what they've intended all along.

[boutons_deux]

Whose Brookstone?

I created 4 jobs out of thin air this week.

Wonderful, just another case of "I'm OK, why are all y'all not OK?"

Just 15M more jobs to go, get to work.

[DMX7]

I expected better of them. For shame... For shame... :depressed

[Drachen]

Whose Brookstone?

I created 4 jobs out of thin air this week.

Can I have one? LOL

[4>0rings]

Can I have one? LOLHe only hires illegals.

[Drachen]

He only hires illegals.

DAMN! I can't get qualified for ANY jobs!

[Wild Cobra]

What a failed OP.

I followed the link, and it leads to one person saying she will not hire more help in protest of Obama.

One person, and I didn't see anywhere where she didn't advocate that others do the same.

One person hardly speaks for all, and isn't even asking other to do the same.

[Drachen]

What a failed OP.

I followed the link, and it leads to one person saying she will not hire more help in protest of Obama.

One person, and I didn't see anywhere where she didn't advocate that others do the same.

One person hardly speaks for all, and isn't even asking other to do the same.

I will agree with most of your post, but......


In a rambling letter titled “Call For A Strike of American Small Businesses Against The Movement for Global Socialism,” Brookstone urges businesses “not hire a single person” to protest “this new dictator”:

[boutons_deux]

"One person hardly speaks for all"

In the context of the Repugs blocking all of Dems job creation schemes, while offering their own job destruction schemes, this spokesperson puts words to the Repug strategy which is blatantly clear:

priority is to defeat Barry HUSSEIN by any means,

deny him ANY successes,

lie that his successes have all failed,

while bogusly attacking the deficit with pro-cyclical cutting (rather than job stimulus/maintenance) which does and will cost 100Ks of jobs, further increasing/prolonging the stalled/cratering economy, then blame all the Repug destruction on Barry. MOTHERFUCKING REPUG/TEA BAGGING BASTARDS, every last one of them.

[boutons_deux]

Senate Republicans Block Targeted Jobs Relief For Teachers And First Responders

“Republicans Block Popular Piece of Obama Jobs Bill” are the kind of thing the White House communications shop is hoping for. That said, nothing would boost the president’s re-election hopes more than the actual enactment of bills that actually help the employment situation. Does this fit the bill? My guess is that it does. The measure at issue was a relatively modest bill that would appropriate some funds to preserve jobs for teachers and first responders. The total amount of money isn’t very big, but it is well-targeted. Here’s a look at overall private sector employment during the Obama years:

http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/10/21/349939/senate-republicans-block-targeted-jobs-relief-for-teachers-and-first-responders/

[Wild Cobra]

I will agree with most of your post, but......
That was the title of her blog, but in the text, did not call for other businesses to do as she said she did. If I missed it in the body of her blog, please show me.

[ChumpDumper]

That was the title of her blog, but in the text, did not call for other businesses to do as she said she did. If I missed it in the body of her blog, please show me.You think she wants everyone else to hire as many people as possible after issuing a call to not hire anyone at all.

You're stupid.

[Th'Pusher]

That was the title of her blog, but in the text, did not call for other businesses to do as she said she did. If I missed it in the body of her blog, please show me.

This is borderline retardation.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Wonderful, just another case of "I'm OK, why are all y'all not OK?"

Just 15M more jobs to go, get to work.

You going to tell us who this Brookstone person or should we just chalk it up to more of your VRWC nonsense.

BTW the PAC offices that comprise the reality of your 'VRWC' are in clearly delineated section of DC. They are not hard to find, identify or determine what their objectives are.

That the rags that you tout never bring them specifically up should tell you something.

[cheguevara]

This is borderline retardation.

"borderline"?

[boutons_deux]

"the PAC offices that comprise the reality of your 'VRWC'"

The "reality" of the VRWC comprises much more than only your PAC offices. Does it suck tea bagger "teabags" to be so uninformed?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

"the PAC offices that comprise the reality of your 'VRWC'"

The "reality" of the VRWC comprises much more than only your PAC offices. Does it suck tea bagger "teabags" to be so uninformed?

So lets flesh this out then. What else is the VRWC manifest as?

[z0sa]

Boutons should move back to europe

[TeyshaBlue]

So lets flesh this out then. What else is the VRWC manifest as?

:corn:

[Drachen]

So lets flesh this out then. What else is the VRWC manifest as?

there is a very popular "very long thread" somewhere on page 17 of this forum which will answer your question.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

there is a very popular "very long thread" somewhere on page 17 of this forum which will answer your question.

Is it worth the read?

[Wild Cobra]

Is it worth the read?
It is if it takes you so long to read it, you leave us alone for a while.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

It is if it takes you so long to read it, you leave us alone for a while.

Do I pick on you too much, WC?

[Wild Cobra]

Do I pick on you too much, WC?
I get picked on now and then, and sometimes deserve it. You however seem to make it a mission in your life, so the answer is yes.

[Drachen]

Is it worth the read?

this was a joke. BD posted a thread entitled " this is going to be a long one" about 6months ago. It is about the Vrwc and is only about 4 pages long. It is 95% BD posting articles and people making fun of him for the lack of length of the thread.

[boutons_deux]

If Drachen had read all that I posted in the VRWC thread, he'd be a lot smarter. but fuck him all y'all. VRWC thread is pearls cast before swine.

[Drachen]

well I guess you, WC, Darrins,and yoni,should just give up on the unwashed masses of this board

[Wild Cobra]

This is borderline retardation.
I see...

So the title "Tea Party Group Urges Small Businesses ‘Not To Hire A Single Person’ To Hurt Obama" is any less retarded?

Since when is an individual a group?

How about the OP title "Tea Party leaders ... openly lobbying business owners “not hire a single person”"

Since when is a single blog writer more than one leader?

Now I missed the title itself, but read the text. If you want to go that far, then why aren't you chastising the Think Progress writer or Boutons also?

Hypocritical much?

[Wild Cobra's Surgeon]

I get picked on now and then, and sometimes deserve it.

Nahhhhhhhhh

[boutons_deux]

After all that and so much more besides, my capacity for shock has been severely diminished...or so I thought.

As right-wing attacks on our basic rights and services are growing louder than ever, it's essential to keep independent journalism strong. Support Truthout by clicking here.

Because there is this, written by Tea Party activist Melissa Brookstone and published last week on the Tea Party Nation website:

Call For A Strike of American Small Businesses Against The Movement for Global Socialism

"I'm on strike!" - Ellis Wyatt, from the end of the movie "Atlas Shrugged, Part 1", based on the novel by Ayn Rand

Resolved that: The Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Senate, in alliance with a global Progressive socialist movement, have participated in what appears to be a globalist socialist agenda of redistribution of wealth, and the waging of class warfare against our constitutional republic's heritage of individual rights, free market capitalism, and indeed our Constitution itself, with the ultimate goal of collapsing the U.S. economy and globalizing us into socialism.

Resolved that: President Obama has seized what amount to dictatorial powers to bypass our Congress, and that because the Congress is controlled by a Progressive socialist Senate that will not impeach one of their kind, they have allowed this and yielded what are rightfully congressional powers to this new dictator.

Resolved that: By their agenda and actions, those in our government who swore oaths to protect and defend our Constitution have committed treason against the United States.

Resolved that: The current administration and Democrat majority in the Senate, in conjunction with Progressive socialists from all around the country, especially those from Hollywood and the left leaning news media (Indeed, most of the news media.) have worked in unison to advance an anti-business, an anti-free market, and an anti-capitalist (anti-individual rights and property ownership) agenda.

Resolved that: These same factions expect that, by carrying out a radical anti-business agenda, which includes the passage and inflicting of Obama"Care" on our nation, class warfare and redistribution of wealth, and expanding the government, while killing businesses in this country with an environment hostile to business, including excessive regulations (the average business must now spend about $11,700 per year per employee to comply with government regulations!), and by borrowing and wasting more money than has been spent in the entire previous existence of our republic, that they will "create jobs", when in fact all they have "created" have been government jobs that consume wealth, and don't "create" it.

Resolved that: Our President, the Democrats-Socialists, most of the media, and most of those from Hollywood, have now encouraged and supported "Occupy" demonstrations in our streets, which are now being perpetrated across the globe, and which are being populated by various marxists, socialists and even communists, and are protesting against business, private property ownership and capitalism, something I thought I'd never see in my country, in my lifetime.

I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.

I hereby declare that my job creation potential is now ceased.

"I'm on strike!"

what we have here is a far-right activist group demanding that millions of unemployed people be denied gainful employment for no other reason than the Tea Party does not like the president.

No jobs for anyone until Obama is gone. Got it? The suffering being endured by so many Americans in the aftermath of the very economic policies championed in this declaration have no bearing on the present. Screw you, screw me, screw everyone, until these people have their way. If even one person in America heeds this call and refuses to hire anyone in need of a job, that will be a disaster of enormous proportions, for it will stand as the clearest indication yet that we are not our brother's keeper, that we are a cruel and selfish people, that we are hopeless possibly beyond all redemption.


http://www.truth-out.org/moment-pure-astonishment-again/1319390406

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As I and many other have been saying, and Barry needs to beat the Repugs with it, the Repugs and tea baggers will do anything to win, and will NOT do anything to help the country, want the Banksters' Great Jobs Depression to be deeper, longer so they can blame it all on the Dems for Nov 2012.

Melissa is not an isolated voice, she's spewing the basic anti-Human-American hate that motivates tea baggers' and Repugs' 2012 strategy.

[RandomGuy]

Whose Brookstone?

I created 4 jobs out of thin air this week.

Melissa Brookstone of Tea Party Nation. (.com)

http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873%3ABlogPost%3A1566647

A minor blogger, and Ayn Rand devotee.

[RandomGuy]

More right-wing strategy to screw up the economy to the max in time for 2012 election:

The Austerity Death-Trap

Ron Paul’s newly-unveiled economic plan – promising to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget in year one (presumably that means 2013) – is only slightly more ambitious than what we’re hearing from other Republican candidates. They’re all calling for major spending cuts starting as soon as possible.

What are they smoking?

Can we just put ideology aside for a moment and be clear about the facts? Consumer spending (70 percent of the economy) is flat or dropping because consumers are losing their jobs and wages, and don’t have the dough. And businesses aren’t hiring because they don’t have enough customers.

The only way out of this vicious cycle is for the government – the spender of last resort – to boost the economy. The regressives are all calling for the opposite.

But even without these hare-brained Republican plans, we’re heading in their direction anyway. Unless Republicans agree to a budget deal before the end of the year (don’t hold your breath), the temporary payroll tax cuts and extended unemployment benefits we have now will end.

The result will be the most stringent fiscal tightening of any large economy in the world.

Together with ongoing cuts at the state and local government level, the scale of this fiscal contraction would be almost unprecedented.

http://robertreich.org/post/11660232763

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feigning shock and horror to be accused of deepening and widening the pain for the 99%, the Repugs and VRWC know exactly that's what they've intended all along.


It will come at a time when 25 million are Americans looking for full-time work, median incomes are dropping, home foreclosures rising, and a record 37 percent of American families with young children are in poverty.

To call this economic lunacy is to understate the point.

And if you think 2011 is bad, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Even if you’re a deficit hawk this is nuts. Instead of reducing the ratio of debt to the size of the overall economy, this strategy increases the ratio because it causes the economy to shrink. [ That's right, cut government spending and the economy shrinks. Suck on that.--RG ]

Call it the austerity death trap.

Under these circumstances, the harder a country works to cut its debt, the worse the ratio becomes — because the economy shrinks even faster.

Greece is already in the trap. Spain and Italy are perilously close. Even Britain, France, and Germany are tip-toeing up to it. And now us.

Deficit hawks have to understand: The first step must be to revive growth and jobs. That way, revenues increase and the debt/GDP ratio drops. Only then – when the economy is back on track – do you start cutting.

At the start of the Clinton administration the annual budget deficit was almost $300 billion. But rather than take a meat-axe to spending, we pushed for growth, as did the Fed. The expansion of the 1990s made it easy to get the budget under control. By 2000 we had a $226 billion surplus.

The austerity trap will even hurt Mitch-McConnell Republicans whose top priority is to “make sure Obama is a one-term president.”

While it increases the likelihood of this Republican goal, it doesn’t stop there. Because the austerity trap will last for many years, any Republican successor will also be a one-termer.