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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (101238)	3/9/2011 8:31:57 AM
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You won't believe who concocted latest 'stimulus' plan Radical group founded by Obama calls for further $382 billion in spending March 08, 2011 © 2011 WorldNetDaily wnd.com A far-left think tank partnered with the community activist group ACORN and, founded with input from President Obama, has concocted a $382 billion so-called stimulus plan the group claims will lower unemployment. The plan was formulated by Demos, whose officials are calling on Congress to incorporate the "stimulus" as lawmakers currently debate how to tackle budget cuts for the year. Demos reportedly told reporters in a conference call this week that their new stimulus plan would create 8.2 million government jobs over two years while lowering unemployment from 8.9 percent to 4.5 percent. "Subversion Inc" unearths ACORN's gnarled roots of leftist radicalism and its intricate entanglements with President Obama "Poll after poll indicates the American people want job creation over other national goals, including deficit reduction," Demos Vice President Tamara Draut told reporters. Demos released its proposal online in a new study entitled "A Public Jobs Proposal For Economic Recovery." The report claims $46.4 billion would be needed to create 1 million state, local and federal jobs. "The recovery strategy described in this report is conceptually simple: Create jobs for the unemployed directly and immediately in public employment programs that produce useful goods and services for the public's benefit," states the study. While the proposal received some news media attention, the media coverage did not mention Demos' radical ties nor the group's connection to Obama. Demos has partnered with ACORN and its ally, Project Vote, on several projects. Demos personalities were among ACORN's top defenders when the organization was accused of rampant voter fraud in 2008. According to Demos' own website, while Obama was a state senator in 1999, he served on the working group that founded Demos. WND previously reported Demos may have been instrumental in the Obama administration's hiring of Van Jones, the former White House "green jobs" adviser who resigned after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and called for "resistance" against the U.S. government. Months before Obama took office, Jones was recommended for the environmental position in a report by business scholar Chuck Collins, director of the Tax Program for Shared Prosperity at Demos. Collins is an associate of philanthropist George Soros and a longtime leftist activist linked to socialist causes. Collins penned a piece that listed his top picks for the Obama administration, including Jones, at the radical Institute for Policy Studies. Through a socialist party, Obama may be more closely linked to Collins. In a controversy never fully addressed by Obama, WND previously reported evidence showing Obama was a member of the New Party, which sought to elect members to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist agenda. The party's spring 1996 newspaper boasted: "New Party members won three other primaries this Spring in Chicago: Barack Obama (State Senate), Michael Chandler (Democratic Party Committee) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary). The paper quoted Obama saying "these victories prove that small 'd' democracy can work." The newspaper lists other politicians it endorsed who were not members but specifies Obama as a New Party member. New Ground, the newsletter of Chicago's Democratic Socialists of America, reported in its July/August 1996 edition that Obama attended a New Party membership meeting April 11, 1996, in which he expressed his gratitude for the group's support and "encouraged NPers (New Party members) to join in his task forces on Voter Education and Voter Registration." The New Party, established in 1992, took advantage of what was known as electoral "fusion," which enabled candidates to run on two tickets simultaneously, attracting voters from both parties. But the New Party went defunct in 1998, one year after fusion was halted by the Supreme Court While running for the Illinois state Senate in 1996 as a Democrat, Obama actively sought and received the endorsement of the New Party, according to confirmed reports during the 2008 presidential campaign. John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, recalled speaking with Obama at New Party events in the 1990s. "When we spoke together at New Party events in those days, he was blunt about his desire to move the Democratic Party off the cautious center where Bill Clinton had wedged it," wrote Nichols in a January 2009 piece published at Progressive.org. In August 2009, a former top member of the New Party recounted in a WND e-mail interview Obama's participation with his organization. "A subcommittee met with (Obama) to interview him to see if his stand on the living wage and similar reforms was the same as ours," recalled Marxist activist Carl Davidson. "We determined that our views on these overlapped, and we could endorse his campaign in the Democratic Party," Davidson said. Davidson was a Chicago member and activist within the New Party. He told WND he handled some of the New Party member databases and attending most of the party's meetings. Davidson is also a notorious far-left activist and former radical national leader in the anti-Vietnam War movement. He served as national secretary for the infamous Students of a Democratic Society anti-war group, from which the Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization later splintered. Davidson remembers Obama attending a New Party meeting to thank attendees for voting for him. Davidson said that to his knowledge Obama was not a member of the New Party "in any practical way" – using qualifying language. Becoming a New Party member requires some effort on behalf of the politician. Candidates must be approved by the party's political committee and, once approved, must sign a contract mandating they will have a "visible and active relationship" with the party. Asked whether Obama signed the New Party contract, Davidson replied there was "no need for him to do so." "At the end of our session with him, we simply affirmed there was no need to do so, because on all the key points, the stand of his campaign and the New Party reform planks were practically the same," Davidson told WND.