Democrats and their Government Unions Lie about Where Big Business Money Goes

Check out the chart below for the facts.   Keep the facts fresh in your mind every time you hear these Marxist propaganda lies that conservatives are bought off by Big Business.  

Pay particular attention to the amounts amassed by the Democrats from the teachers and government service  unions whose dues are required whether one wants to support Marxism or not.

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?type=A

Note:  Pay careful attention to the charges, shoutings and chants of the Teachers Union and their friends screaming in the Wisconsin capitol.   Check out the number of slurs and smears they use in these  ’songs’ and speeches.

Barack Obama and the “Lie” Clock

“The Lie Clock
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> A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the
> Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him.
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> He asked, ‘What are all those clocks?’
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> St. Peter answered, ‘Those are Lie-Clocks.
> Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock.
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> Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move.’
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> ‘Oh,’ said the man, ‘whose clock is that?’
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> ‘That’s Mother Teresa’s. The hands have never moved, indicating that she
> never told a lie.’
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> ‘Incredible,’ said the man. ‘And whose clock is that one?’
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> St. Peter responded, ‘That’s Abraham Lincoln’s clock. The hands have moved
> twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life.’
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> ‘Where’s President Obama’s clock?’ asked the man.
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> Obama’s clock is in Jesus’ office.
> He’s using it as a ceiling fan.”

Sent in from good friend Brian Ross.
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Wisconsin Union Protester Shouts, “You’re a bad Jew!” ……..that Jew closeted for being conservative.

  Another union-activist assault, and protester tells dissenter “You are a bad Jew!” 

What more proof does the American citizen need to understand the inability of Marxists and their fellow traveler Leftists to avoid name-calling…..racist, sexist, homophobe, and so on, damning and also physically threatening  conservatives.   Ask yourself and others why they cannot state rationally what the future of Progressivism is and why its Marxism  is sound for America?  

Prager fans, listen carefully to the Democrats and their Leftwing allies in television the media,  politicians, comedians, t ads.  What are their assumptions and claims?    Who are their heroes and goats.  

Their Marxist core is based on the religious belief that  God does not exist and therefore they, Marxists, the ones  ’gifted’ enough to govern,  need an ever  larger government to  ’help’ government bureaucrats manage peoples’ lives to maintain ‘equality’.   People Must Be Made Equal!

Please click on below to view the video of one of the many  confrontations in Madison, Wisconsin, where the Unions have amassed protesters from all parts of the country to attack Governor Scott Walker and those who ally with his efforts to put restraints on Public Sector Union dictatorships.

(The following article including the video  was published at HotAir.

“Note that this exchange started with a union activist implying that the counterprotesters were racists because of a supposed lack of diversity.  Given this incident yesterday, the expropriation of the Holocaust by union protesters in Madison, and the response above, this appears to be a case of projection at best.

Speaking of which, will the Left rise as one to denounce the inherent bigotry and violence of union protests as demonstrated in this video from the Boss Emeritus?  Please note the de rigeur Official Content Warning as a protester calls a public-access reporter a “faggot” and then curiously offers to “f**k you in the ass,” which also appears to be a case of projection.  The fun assault starts at 7:32 in the clip:

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/24/video-protestor-tells-dissenter-you-are-a-bad-jew/

This clip was found at hotair…..article by Ed Morrissey.

Public Sector Unions Use Tax Money to Support Marxism, Why Should NPR and PBS?

Why should the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment fo the Humanities be propaganda arms of the American Marxist movement at tax payers expense?

The following is a standard lefty article reciting the words programmed  to assault the conservative complaints  that America is  becoming a tax payer supported, mass media and mass education One Party Marxist State:

“ON SOME level, it seems unjust to bring federal cultural programs into the broader discussion of the nation’s budget deficit. For when Republicans thunder about government spending, and then pick on a puny target like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, they undercut their own rhetoric: The Defense Department and future Medicare and Social Security growth account for the vast majority of projected spending, and any honest deficit hunter has to aim for the big game.

And yet supporters of smaller programs can’t simply insist that anything more modest than the Pentagon budget remain off-limits for discussion. In a year when even President Obama is calling for deep cuts in antipoverty efforts, Democrats need to make hard decisions about which programs to fight for and which to give up. In the cultural realm, this means distinguishing critical arts initiatives that require public funding from equally valuable ones, such as National Public Radio, that can survive — and may even thrive — on their own.

To be sure, frugality was a minor motive when the House Appropriations Committee rushed to zero out the $531 million line item for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The comparatively tiny item was a fat GOP target, especially after NPR’s ill-advised decision to fire commentator Juan Williams for saying he feared Muslims on airplanes. Never mind that the $2.5 million NPR receives in direct federal grants is a sliver of its own budget and barely a speck in the federal one.

Yet the small size of the allocation cuts both ways. The national NPR organization, with its millions of loyal listeners, could do quite well on its own. Meanwhile, public broadcasting money does go to member stations, amounting to an average of 10 percent of their budgets — a vital lifeline, insists NPR, to stations in underserved markets. But NPR could help ease the burden on smaller markets by adjusting its dues charges.

For a news service, there’s a major upside to being free from government support. The best guarantee of a fearless media is its own income stream. Despite the well-documented woes of the news industry over the last decade, the means of private support — through subscriptions, advertising, and sponsorship — can still sustain a vibrant Fourth Estate. NPR may have mishandled Williams, but it should be accountable to its listeners, not mischievous members of Congress. The radio network is among the jewels of the American media, and its fans should, and surely will, step up to make certain it survives a weaning of government support.

That’s not a realistic option, though, for other perennial GOP targets, such as the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Democrats should be willing to draw a line separating those initiatives, which require public support, from more discretionary ones, such as NPR. PBS, the main beneficiary of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, falls in the middle. While its “NewsHour’’ should rely on private contributions, PBS’s cultural and documentary offerings require support, even in a bare-bones budget.

Unlike news, arts and humanities lack an adequate private lifeline. For all of civilization, governments have supported the arts as an expression of national culture and identity. Many long-extinct monarchies are remembered today only for the symphonies, operas, paintings, and theater pieces that they fostered.

The United States has been laggard in its funding of the arts, with some conservatives casting a critical eye on the occasional offensive project. But taxpayers would be well-served by letting artists decide which projects are worthy. A thriving arts community will be the best reward — for the country and its culture.

Republicans should stop pretending that federal cultural funding is any significant cause of the nation’s budget woes, and they should stop letting their ideology persuade them that enhancing America’s cultural heritage is a frivolous amenity. Still, the fiscal pressures on the federal government will only increase. Democrats can avoid a bad alternative — watching as all cultural efforts are slashed or abolished indiscriminately — by identifying which of the programs that they cherish will always require public support, and which can count on their own fans to step up.”

“Schumer Should Mind His Own Business”….New York Observor

The New York Observor is a rather shallow  leftwing political and social sheet arranged to serve the Left and Marxist romantics living on  Manhattan in New York City.  The following is an unexpected opinion piece from the New York Observor:

“What does Chuck Schumer know about Wisconsin?

A lot, apparently. Or so he says. New York’s senior senator, who rarely misses a chance to play the populist card, has seized on the fiscal crisis in Madison to raise his profile and a few campaign dollars as well. Mr. Schumer recently sent a mass email to supporters condemning Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s attempts to limit collective bargaining rights for public employees. He urged recipients to send checks to the Democratic Party to prevent Mr. Walker from taking “America back to the 1920s.”

Presumably the senator’s staff historian is aware that the 1920s were known in these parts as the Roaring ’20s, a time of heady (albeit illusory) prosperity on Wall Street and Main Street alike. Taking America back to times of plenty may not be such a bad idea, but that’s clearly not what Mr. Schumer had in mind. He is suggesting that Governor Walker and others like him are determined to turn public employees into serfs simply because they share Franklin Roosevelt’s belief that collective bargaining rights shouldn’t apply to public employees.

Mr. Schumer should stay out of Wisconsin’s business. What’s more, he and like-minded people ought to bear in mind that 21st-century voters are less concerned about the 1920s than they are about the 2020s. They are wondering if states and the nation itself will be bankrupt by the end of this decade because public-employee unions have demanded and received benefits that are simply unaffordable and increasingly unfair.

Governor Walker has his sights set not on the next election, which generally is the extent of Senator Schumer’s vision, but on the next generation of Wisconsin taxpayers. He knows what nearly every other governor knows—that state governments (and local governments, and the federal government) must reform their pension and benefits systems now. Not next year. Not in 2016. Now.

Governor Walker argues that the only way to achieve radical change is to eliminate collective bargaining for most state workers. It is an extreme idea, but these are extreme times. The main flaw in the governor’s proposal is that it doesn’t go far enough—he wants to exempt firefighters, state troopers and police officers, who, generally speaking, tend to have the most generous benefits. In Wisconsin, the police and firefighter unions also tend to support Republican candidates.

Still, Mr. Walker has shown the courage to challenge the status quo and recognize reality. Unlike Mr. Schumer, he isn’t worried about 1920. He is looking ahead to 2020—just nine years away. And he doesn’t like what he sees.

Public-employee unions have far too much power—often their political clout allows them to choose who will sit across from them at the bargaining table. It’s time for a reality check. Governor Walker is doing just that in Wisconsin. Senator Schumer would be wise to watch and learn.”

editorial@observer.com

Comment:   What more needs to be said?   I do view Charles Schumer as one of the most repulsive, sleazy, dishonest and disingenuous politicians in todays’  American scene, a true caricature of happy evil.   Al Franken is his equal but has infinitely less ability to do as much damage since  his own talents are in short supply. 

How Politicians and Union Leaders Have Scammed Taxpayers and Public Employees

This outstanding article was written by Steve Chapman at the Chicago Tribune:

“Public employees have been cramming the Wisconsin state Capitol to protest the governor’s plan to cut their take-home pay and gut their collective bargaining rights. You can’t blame them for objecting when the state reneges on a deal. But they should have been protesting years ago, when politicians and union leaders struck a bargain that was too good to be true.

Government workers have long accepted a tradeoff. They get lower pay than they might get in the private sector, but better retirement benefits. They give up some current luxuries for more security later on. The great majority of them have pension plans with guaranteed payouts — an option that has largely disappeared from the private sector.

Most businesses long ago abandoned defined-benefit plans because they were unaffordable. The public sector has stayed with them, though — apparently to prove those private companies right. State and local governments, according to pension expert Joshua Rauh of Northwestern University, have promised $3 trillion more in benefits than they have set aside to pay for them.

Why? Because there are powerful incentives for both legislators and union leaders to do that. Politicians (particularly, though not exclusively, Democratic ones) want to ingratiate themselves with unions, whose members can be a huge help on Election Day. Union leaders want to keep their members happy and return their favored elected officials to office.

The problem, of course, is that such generosity costs a lot of money, which taxpayers may resist paying. That’s where the back-loading of compensation comes in.

Promising government workers excellent retirement plans, off in the future, gratifies union members without outraging the taxpayers. The burden is postponed until some future date, which makes the process painless — until the future arrives.

Wisconsin is a typical state, with more than $45 billion in unfunded obligations by Rauh’s calculation. Taken as a percentage of gross state product and state revenue, he informed me, that makes it about average or “maybe slightly worse.”

But the phenomenon is a national one. Though Republican Gov. Scott Walker has targeted union negotiations, the same problem exists in states where public employees lack the collective bargaining rights at issue in Madison. South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi are among those, and their unfunded obligations loom even larger than Wisconsin’s.

If collective bargaining gave too much power to public employee unions, you might expect states that mandate collective bargaining to have lower unfunded obligations — because the unions would be able to demand full funding. But that’s not the case.

Union-friendly Illinois is one of the worst states in the country in shortchanging the public employee pension system. Over the years, elected officials have cut the state’s contributions, diverted funds to pay other expenses and borrowed money to cover current pension obligations. But no mobs of teachers and police officers descended on the state Capitol to protest, because they didn’t grasp the implications.

Now we can all see the damage done. Though public employees have paid their share, the state has failed to keep up its end of the bargain. So in Illinois, as in Wisconsin and many other places, there is a conflict between what they were promised and what the citizenry is prepared to pay.

Government workers and taxpayers are both victims of this scam, which allowed extravagant pledges that don’t have to be redeemed until later — by which time the governors and union officials who devised them are gone, leaving someone else to cash the check.

In the private sector, these shenanigans would never be tolerated. Public pension systems get to assume implausibly high returns on their investments, which gives the impression they can meet their future needs.

The looser rules “allow governments to base their budgets on economic fictions,” writes Orin Kramer, who oversees investments for the New Jersey system, in The New York Times. You could even call it fraud.

Republicans in Congress are trying to prevent deception by requiring public pension systems to follow the same basic rules as corporations. Politicians hate the idea for the same reason the rest of us — government workers included — should welcome it. As Moody’s Investors Service said in endorsing the plan, it would “provide new incentives to state and local governments to take action to ensure public-employee pension plans’ long-term viability.”

Creating incentives for governments to behave honestly and responsibly? It’s a new concept, but it might be worth a try.”

Comment:   Think further of the corruption created by these self-interested politicians  allowing  these labor unions which force  by law, all workers in the union’s domain to pay dues to these satraps of labor  management who amass millions of dollars to  bribe and pressure further generations ad infinitum…..at tax payer cost.    

What is democratic about workers required by force of law, pay money to bribe politicians who support ideas a values totally contrary to the the workers’  social, religious and political beliefs?

Why are some Americans taxed to support Marxism?

The Left and Its Public Sector Unions Have No Honor……Hoax Call to Wisconsin Governor Walker Backfires

Do read this article, by John Hinderaker at PowerLine, and below,  listen to the hoax call.   I am ashamed of the left for the hoax.  The Governor never caught on, but was eloquent throughout the  conversation……Governor  Scott Walker is a man one is proud to have on ones side.  

“One of today’s fronts in the Left’s war on Charles and David Koch, not to mention Governor Scott Walker and the conservative movement generally, was a hoax call that a liberal blogger made to Governor Walker. The hoaxer introduced himself as David Koch, and, after holding for a considerable time, was put through to the governor. This was not great staff work, obviously. Liberals are crowing about this successful hoax–fine. But is there any point? Did Walker say anything embarrassing?

No. The recording is actually rather endearing. Walker comes across as a consummate wonk. The hoaxer makes only a couple of off-the-wall comments, and Walker makes none. On the contrary, Walker’s reasonableness generally causes the hoaxer to be far more rational than, one suspects, is his norm. Beyond that, as Ann Althouse and others have pointed out, it is apparent from the recording that Governor Walker is not personally acquainted with David Koch, although he obviously is aware of him as a political supporter.

Here is the recorded conversation, in two ten minute segments. There is nothing in it that reflects badly on Governor Walker. It is remarkable, really, that the Left was able to eavesdrop on Walker for 20 minutes, and they only caught him being the same principled, ethical leader that we see in public.”

http://www.examiner.com/green-living-in-milwaukee/koch-brother-to-governor-walker-prank-call-video

Democrat on Wisconsin Battle…. “You need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary.”

Democrats Wish for Blood in the Streets

A few weeks ago, in the aftermath of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, Democrats and the media blamed Republicans and “tea partiers” as indirect contributors to the tragedy. The “overheated political rhetoric” created by right-wing talk radio and Tea Party events was said to create a “divisive climate” that helped cause the violence

For the last week or so there has been a standoff in Madison, Wisconsin over the state legislature’s proposed withdrawal of collective-bargaining privileges for public sector unions. The issue has inspired a lot of nasty rhetoric from the leftish side of the political spectrum, and union goons have descended on the state’s capitol building, egged on by President Obama and other prominent Democrats. There have been violent incidents, and some thinly-veiled threats on the part of various union leaders and Democrat politicians.

Today the threats have suddenly become less thinly-veiled.

Congressman Michael Capuano (D, Massachusetts) was among the prominent decriers of right-wing hatred and incitement. Now we come to find out that incitement to violence is perfectly OK, as long as a Democrat is doing the inciting. Who would have guessed?

From today’s FOX 25 Boston:

BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) – Throngs of union supporters shut down Beacon Street in front of the Massachusetts Statehouse on Tuesday to show solidarity with public employees in Wisconsin.

The protest grew tense at times as both sides shouted at each other.

U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano rallied the crowd, calling the battle to save collective bargaining rights “a fight for the middle class.”

“They’re not going to back down and we’re not going to back down,” said Capuano, a Democrat.

During the event, Capuano also said “Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary.”       Click below for a closer more personal  understanding for  Democrat Capuano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=90PpqCNF7p8

Whoops! Good thing a Republican didn’t say that. For a Massachusetts Democrat, however, it’s no big deal — when you watch the video, you’ll see how much the crowd loved it.

Many thanks to Kitman for Youtubing this news clip from FOX 25 TV:

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Posted by Baron Bodissey at 2/23/2011 03:46:00 PM 2 comments

Wuss Obama Reaches for Courage and Leadership on Libya…Alas, his Vial is Empty

But his monotonous  voice resonates  he is considering a “full range of options”.

The headlines tonight are that he never mentioned Qaddafi specifically, but I think that’s a simple matter of not wanting to provoke a rabid dog any more than he has to with de facto death squads roaming the streets of Tripoli. The goal here was to express solidarity with Libyan rebels; mission accomplished. What this achieved in practical terms, I have no idea, but if you believe that the president of the United States is obliged in moments of international brutality to check the box with a statement of official moral condemnation, consider this box checked.

The one meaningful thing he said here was that we’re considering a “full range of options” on how to deal with Qaddafi, which in diplo-speak is a notch below “all options are on the table” as a wink-wink about military action. The more I read on the wires, though, the more unlikely it seems that external force will be needed. The news arc today has been all about more cities falling to protesters, with Qaddafi relegated to shrinking territory in and around the new terrordome of Tripoli. The Journal:

Forces loyal to strongman Col. Moammar Gadhafi imposed rough order in Libya’s increasingly fearful capital Wednesday, witnesses said, that stood in sharp contrast to rebel gains in much of the rest of the oil-rich country.

Gunshots echoed through the night in Tripoli as Col. Gadhafi clung to power even as the international community discussed ways to isolate him with sanctions. More territory slipped from his control, and rebels began to set up rudimentary governments in outlying areas under their sway…

In the eastern coastal city of Baida, where opposition forces overcame pro-Gadhafi fighters on Tuesday, sheiks, academics and businessmen met in a domed meeting hall to discuss how to oversee security, distribute food and fuel and recollect weapons spread widely amid the uprising…

“Everything is in chaos now,” said Hamdy Yaqoub, a professor of environmental science at Omar Mukhtar University, an elder at the meeting.”

Here the austere by lofty Barack Hussein Obama pronounces, “Libya’s violence must stop”, in Washington D C, about ten time zones away from Muommar Khadafi in Tripoli, but with air craft carriers in the Tripoli region.  

Obama is a U.N. man, you know.  Libya is a member of the Human Rights Chapter at the United Nations….the place where up is down and down is up now for about 60 years.  Check in on the president by clicking below:

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/23/obama-on-libya-we-will-explore-the-full-range-of-options/

The above article was written by Allahpundit at HotAir.

Except for Sex, Why Would an American Guy Want to Raise a Family with an American Broad?

“Men are Rapidly Becoming Obsolete”, the head for a letter to the editor in today’s Wall Street Journal declares:  the contributor writes in response to a previous writer, Lionel Tiger: 

 ”He argues that ‘our system increasingly favors females’  and that ‘men are becoming alienated from the means of reproduction.’  This would not be news to George Gilder, who warned of these calamitous outcomes in the 1970s and was pilloried for his trouble.

Mr. Gilder predicted that as occupations and professions became dominated by women, men would abandon these fields rather than compete with women.  Today men have virtually abandoned the liberal arts and veterinary studies to women, and college itself may not be far behind.

Whether it’s college or marriage, men are increasingly “opting out,”  as the few with resources practice “serial monogamy,” while the excluded many retreat to their parents basements to play video games.  Research shows that young boys are struggling in school, but no one wants to admit that fatherless homes are the most predictive factor.

Quoting Margaret Mead, Mr. Gilder argued persuasively that civilization itself depends on men buying into marriage and the long-term responsibilities of child rearing.  When they do not, men tend to “regress” to the kind of hunting  and gathering “live hard, die young” behavior that has produced the violence and rampant ilegitimacy so destructive to our inner cities.  

Mr. Tiger is right.  If the current trends continue, ever more women will be competing for a smaller pool of eligible “good men.”   This will leave behind a larger and larger pool of angry and bitter men “alienated from the means of reproductions” and unable to find a mate.”

Comment:  Oh, these males  will mate, all right, in their subculture of rape, pillage and burn.   Yet this male thing has another side,  one in which I am more observant:

Why would any today’s American guy  want to raise a family with all of these high school and college graduate retreads by the time they are 22 years old?    What sincere charms, allures, attractions  besides the physical does this ”Liberal Educated”  American female have to offer her American mate?   Why should he invest his time, affection and treasure for a five year hitch if he is interested in raising a family?   Which slut would he choose?

What American female retread can be trusted?   What American female retread can be respected and admired?

What kind of female has the American leftwing created for our 2011 era males?   An old teenager  of no particular intelligence, but bloated with institution programmed  pride and arrogance totally unearned.?    The ones our society manufactures in college and school?   Where is this feminine creature who bears the beauty and character of the American male’s mother,  someone worthy, someone resembling  her ideals, love, loyalty  and sacrifice?

Outside of a few conservative communities, where would he meet such a female in today’s Liberal American world?     Soon, where will there be found an  American guy who had   a mother of character ?     Such a creature  becomes  more rare  every decade.

These are the children of Liberal America, 2011.   I strongly advise and have strongly advised young  single men I have come to know or work with  since the 1980s…..if you want the wife of your dreams, the mother of your children, she most likely will not be a Modern ‘liberated’ American.  

Many might already  know this by the  time they are twenty.

The American leftwing has taken great care to sculpt  its females into a fairly repulsive model, half female, half male, unlearned and confined  to her emotional ditsyness, yet filled with self esteem.

No culture or subculture is perfect in its creations, however.   Despite Marxist dogma, no one is converted equally either to the good or to the bad.    However unhealthy 2011 American culture might be, there will always be the waywards, the unititiated, the innocents, the undrugged, both male and female……however small the odds truly may be that they are found in the Obama political community.