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

[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 en led " 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 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 re ation.

I see...

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

Since when is an individual a group?

How about the OP le "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 le 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.

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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 cons utional republic's heritage of individual rights, free market capitalism, and indeed our Cons ution 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 Cons ution 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...ain/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/profil...Post%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 cir stances, 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.