[Cincinatus' Wife]

Linguist and social activist Noam Chomsky (a self-described libertarian socialist) said that the Wisconsin protests and the 2011 Egyptian revolution "are closely intertwined", and that both consist of "struggles for labor rights and democracy". Source

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Da Coyote]

Noam is not too right in the head.

Been that way for a spell.

So, who gives a smelly Obama about emanations from his pie hole?

[GraceG]

Did chomsky not get the memo that the Egyptian spring was a disaster for the minorities in Egypt. And it was basically a millitary coup that helped end most of the persecution of those minorities?

[kingu]

Let's see.. Let's start with ‘popular anger diverted from the agents of this crisis’ - such as liberal agenda which required the formation of sub-prime loans based upon racial demographics rather than on, you know, sound financial principles. Let's further go down this rabbit hole to the same liberals that demanded that these loans be backed not with their money, nor even the people's money, since of course this was directed from federal regulation, but instead private money.

And lo and behold, look what happened. Those loans started failing. A lot. And companies lost a whole lot of money.

So, yes, popular anger was expressed at the group who caused (and intended to most profit from it) - liberals. They swept them out of Congress, state houses, and even local ballots. Oh, but no, we must focus on ‘wall street bankers’ who are the evil here.

I don't think so. I think we must focus on failed plans by liberals. I think we must make more of those plans utterly fail - such as an everlasting bureaucracy that rules through regulation and answers to no one. I think we need to take on the embezzlement of public funds by public employees who reward themselves for making new and more difficult regulations.

Much was made in another story about how Google’s employees contribute a lot to liberal campaigns - but that is but a drop in the bucket compared to how much public employees fund directly, and indirectly through union dues, the liberal agenda. ‘We must do something about Google’s undue influence’ cry the people, while ignoring how much influences public employees have.

But alas, the real popular uprising happened, and the people said no, we won't take this. We won't let public employee unions remove a sitting governor simply because he's taking their toys away.

We need more popular uprisings, and we need that popular anger directed at what has harmed them the most - the liberal agenda and the bureaucracy that thrives on it. We need to end all ‘pay another day’ compensation for public employees - if you don't have the budget right now to pay for that lavish retirement, you don't get to offer that lavish retirement benefit.

And I personally think that Scott Walker is our best chance at leading that popular uprising. And so do liberals, which is why they are so eager to say how awful Walker is.

[driftless2]

Chomsky is one of those fading red diaper babies who are not quite as common as they used to be. Against all the evidence, they proclaim capitalism to be a failure.

And you have to ask, compared to what? Average Americans live immeasurably better lives than when Chomsky first start squawking about "evil capitalists" many decades ago. Did socialism accomplish that? Hardly.

How about unions? Again, with only about ten percent of the total workforce unionized, average Americans live far better than they did during the heyday of unionism which lasted about twenty-twenty-five years or so after WWII.

This will not impede the efforts of Chomsky and his ilk to denounce capitalism as evil. Facts mean nothing to Chomskyites...only the narrative matters, to wit: evil capitalists, the one percent, oppress the vast majority of Americans who are helpless pawns in the grasp of the greedheads. They'll believe this to their deaths.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Cairo-Madison Connection?

Easy. Take I-57 to Chicago, then I-90 to Madison. But it may be faster to take I-57 to Champaign, then I-74 to Bloomington-Normal, then I-39 to Rockford, then I-90 up to Madison.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Cairo-Madison Connection?

Easy. Take I-57 to Chicago, then I-90 to Madison. But it may be faster to take I-57 to Champaign, then I-74 to Bloomington-Normal, then I-39 to Rockford, then I-90 up to Madison.