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

To: JBTFD who wrote (116925)	11/4/2011 4:00:59 PM
From: locogringo	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224720

Try to sell you false statements elsewhere. I'm not buying. I'm not selling anything but I do note with great glee and satisfaction that I provide links for verification, and you provide opinion, totally unverified, and bogus. How many times do you remove me from ignore during the day to read by masterpieces? I don't send you private mail so why play that game? It's kinda stupid, doncha agree?

To: JBTFD who wrote (116925)	11/4/2011 4:56:08 PM
From: joefromspringfield	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224720

Those “Evil, Rich People” that Democrats are always wailing about are actually – Democrats. In fact, the Top 4 on the list: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, Christy Walton are all Democrats. Together, they are worth $150 Billion Dollars. An analysis of the Top 20 Richest People in America (from Forbes Top 100) reveals that a full 60% are actually Democrats. Furthermore, if you eliminate the duplication caused by people from the same family being included in that Top 20 list (Wal-Mart & Koch) that ratio widens even further to: 25% Republican / 75% Democrat. (The purpose of this analysis is not who makes the most money, but where they contribute / by party affiliation. Obviously, people from the same family would tend to contribute to the same party.) Analyzing the data takes us even further. Not only are there more Democrats in the Top 20 list, but those Democrats are a lot more stingy with their money. Republicans coughed up $5.2 million while Democrats squirted out only $2.1 Million. Of course, there is no reason not to assume that the money they contribute to Special Interest groups wouldn’t match (or closely match) those of their chosen candidates. So when you add in the money from these groups you end up with Republican Contributions at $10 million while Democrats contributed only $6 million. Lest we not forget, Democrats outweigh Republicans. Not only in terms of the number of uber-millionaires, but also with their net worth. In this Top 20 group, Democrats have a combined net worth of $263.1 billion dollars while the Republicans have a combined net worth of only $143.9 billion dollars – almost half that of Democrats. So the next time you hear some Liberal Freak try the “Evil Rich People” rhetoric, remind them and everyone around you that it is the Democrats who are those “Evil Rich People”, not the Republicans. Then stand back and watch their head spin. newamericangazette.com

To: JBTFD who wrote (116925)	11/5/2011 9:34:10 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224720

Nancy Pelosi's '60 Minutes' Of Fame Posted 11/04/2011 06:41 PM ET Hypocrisy: The former speaker of the House, a charter member of the 1% club, is grilled on her investments for a report on congressional conflicts of interest. Can we say "culture of corruption"? Other than the angel of death, it used to be said, the last thing you wanted on your doorstep or in your office was a reporter from the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes." So when, in an unusual move, Steve Kroft showed up at the Thursday briefings of House Speaker John Boehner and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, tongues began wagging. Kroft showed up because neither Boehner nor Pelosi agreed to sit-down interviews for a report on congressional conflicts of interest based on a new book by conservative writer and Hoover Institution fellow Peter Schweizer. His prior works include "Do as I Say (not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy." While Boehner was asked generic questions, Kroft's questioning of Pelosi, a woman with a reported net worth of $40 million, was more specific. Why, he asked, had she and her husband participated in "a very large" initial public offering "from Visa at a time when there was major legislation affecting credit-card companies making its way through the House?" The legislation in question, a bill introduced by then-Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers in March 2008, would have let merchants negotiate lower swipe fees with credit card companies. The bill made it out of committee on Oct. 3, 2008, but never to the floor for a vote. A version of the swipe-fee bill made it into an amendment by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., to the Dodd-Frank bill in 2010. As the bill was proceeding, Pelosi's husband, Paul, a wealthy San Francisco investor of the type the Occupy Wall Street mobs have targeted, bought $1 million to $5million of Visa stock in three separate transactions in a part of the IPO that "60 Minutes" said was offered to a select group of investors. Interestingly, the wealthy Pelosi has voiced support for the OWS mobs, calling them a genuine and spontaneous movement protesting the very financial wheeling and dealing that the great unwashed feel has victimized them. She gained the speaker's gavel in 2006 while railing against an alleged GOP "culture of corruption." Pelosi is also a big fan of green energy. So is her brother-in-law, Ronald Pelosi, a senior executive with a company called Pacific Corporate Group. Among PCG's investments is SolarReserve, based in Santa Monica, Calif., which received a $737 million loan guarantee to build a 110-megawatt solar-thermal plant in Tonopah, Nev. The loan was granted on the last day of the stimulus loan program, which also gave over half a billion to a failing but politically connected Solyndra. While speaker, Pelosi was famous for her use of government aircraft to ferry back and forth from her San Francisco district. According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, Air Pelosi, as critics called the fleet, cost the taxpayers $28,210.51 per flight. Her fondness for Boeing aircraft does not extend to supporting Boeing's plan to create badly needed jobs in the right-to-work state of South Carolina. As we have noted, she says if the plant is nonunion, the National Labor Relations Board should shut the project down. As Schweizer notes in "Do as I Say," assets of this defender of the working man and 2003 winner of the Cesar Chavez award from the United Farm Workers include a Napa Valley vineyard that hires only nonunion workers and sells grapes to nonunion wineries. "60 Minutes" has no shortage of material concerning the poster child for liberal hypocrisy. Tick, tick, tick, tick ...

To: JBTFD who wrote (116925)	11/5/2011 9:36:18 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224720

MF Global's Corzine Can't Be Bought — Just Rented Posted 11/04/2011 06:41 PM ET Scandal: Wrecking New Jersey's finances didn't satisfy Jon Corzine. The self-described ethically pure Democratic ex-governor and former U.S. senator gambled his brokerage clients' money away too. Former Goldman Sachs high-flyer and self-financed far-left politician Corzine campaigned on the slogan "I can't be bought." It turns out that grabbing as much wealth for himself as possible — and destroying that of many who trusted him — is what this public sector/private sector failure is all about. What else can you conclude about a money manager — or, rather, money mangler — whose clients' futures accounts at MF Global Holdings are short hundreds of millions, and who apparently set himself up with a $12 million golden parachute in case he and the firm unexpectedly parted ways? The FBI will reportedly investigate the wreckage of Corzine's unfathomable purchases of $6.3 billion in Euro debt, bought under the apparent assumption that the EU would be as fiscally irresponsible as Corzine was as New Jersey's chief executive, and would bailout spendthrift basket cases such as Italy and Spain. The result is the eighth biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history. Funny how this advocate of increased federal regulation as a senator couldn't be trusted to be financially responsible in his post-government career, with MF Global's equity of only $1.4 billion pinned by some $44-plus billion in debt. Corzine spent more than $100 million buying political office, first in Washington, then Trenton. He boasted of his own ethical purity and claimed to be wholly unbeholden to any special interests. But his political career was a circus of personal judgment. After a divorce, a state employee labor union bigwig became Corzine's gal pal, raising questions about undue big labor influence on state, ahem, affairs. When his state limo crashed while he wasn't wearing a seat belt, he was incapacitated as governor for an extended period. Chris Christie unseated Corzine and continues to clean up Corzine's fiscal mess, a task so difficult that Christie's success led to calls for him to run for president. Meanwhile, the current president employs Corzine as his campaign funding rainmaker and Wall Street liaison. And until the MF Global disaster, Obama was reportedly even considering Corzine as Treasury secretary. That makes perfect sense for a president who can't see the disaster of his own economic policies.

To: JBTFD who wrote (116925)	11/5/2011 9:37:29 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224720

To: JBTFD who wrote (116925)	11/5/2011 9:40:36 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224720

Occupy Wall Street Militancy Just Getting Started Posted 11/04/2011 06:55 PM ET Politics: What is the real point of "Occupy Wall Street"? The violence in Oakland offers the first clue. Now with politically connected union bosses and Acorn involved, it might just be worth looking at its links to Democrats. Now that Oakland's streets have been "redecorated" with shattered glass, cement chunks and burning garbage from the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's critical to see that these acts are no aberration, but came after calls for force and violence. What makes it disturbing is how close the White House is to them as election time approaches. United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard, speaking on radio host Ed Schultz's show last Monday, declared, "What we need is more militancy." Asked to clarify, Gerard said: "I think we've got to start a resistance movement. If Wall Street Occupation doesn't get the message, I think we've got to start blocking bridges and doing that kind of stuff." The Canadian union leader then denounced Americans' 2008 election of Tea Party representatives to the House as "nut jobs," and called for more force and illegality: "We ought to be doing more than occupying parks. We ought to start occupying bridges. We ought to start occupying the banks' places themselves." Despite his proletarian persona, Gerard is close to Occupy Wall Street's criteria for the 1%, pulling in a $188,000 salary and benefits. He's won an honorary college degree and attended galas in his honor. He's served on the board of the Apollo Alliance, tied to one-time Obama "green jobs" czar Van Jones, and served on the board of the Economic Policy Institute, a George Soros front. And he heads the tony-sounding Blue-Green alliance, which links labor to wealthy environmentalists. That's elite all by itself. But more to the point, he's political. He's got the White House ear as a frequent visitor, and has been appointed to the White House Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations. On that board, he evidently had enough clout to delay the U.S.-Colombia free-trade treaty for nearly two years. Now Gerard's calling for taking U.S. bridges and banks by force, depriving citizens of their property, access to money and right of passage. This isn't democracy — it's violence, as the Oakland protests showed. Two months ago another White House ally, Teamsters chief Jimmy Hoffa, openly called for his members to "take these sons of bitches out" in Congress, as Obama stood silently at his side. "They got a war with us and there's only going to be one winner," he growled. Hoffa's Teamsters, it should be noted, have the most violent record of all labor unions, clocking in 454 incidents of violence since 1991, according to the National Institute for Labor Relations Research in Washington. Then there's the SEIU-linked Acorn, which has made OWS its latest cause. The Obama-tied group had supposedly disbanded, but now operates as New York Communities for Change (NYCC), using the strong-arm political tactics of community organizer Saul Alinsky. Since it was discovered that NYCC was a prime funder and director of the Occupy movement, Fox News reports that the group has been shredding documents, firing staff, offering up alibis and surveilling Fox News personnel. One starts to wonder: Is Occupy Wall Street a grass-roots movement, or a corrupt, violent organization whose real center is the Obama administration itself? One thing's for sure: It isn't interested in democracy.