Posted on 09/21/2009 6:53:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
Policymaking: If the stimulus isn't working, perhaps it's because it was largely written by a collection of leftist interest groups called the Apollo Alliance that counts among its directors a co-founder of the Weather Underground.
Michigan's rate rose to 15.2%, highest in the nation. Nevada, represented by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is second with 13.2%. California, home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is tied for fourth with Oregon at 12.2%.
Clearly, the stimulus bill that no congressman read is not working. As it turns out, no congressman may have written it either. It's largely the creation of a coalition of leftist organizations called the Apollo Alliance, whose primary interests are saving the Earth, environmental justice and redistributing wealth. They are not friends of job-creating capitalism.
On Apollo's Web site, Sen. Reid, whose state also leads in foreclosures, is quoted praising the group of which former green czar Van Jones was a board member.
"We've talked about moving forward on these ideas for decades," Reid is quoted as saying. "The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them."
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We are more than a century down the line and none of those ideas have been successful anywhere they've been tried.
Seriously, I'm pretty sure all the Leftwingtards are mentally ill.
I’m writing my leftist Senators about this right now....
How is it that radical COMMIES wrote this bill and you POS never read?
They all should be recalled from office. This is BEYOND DISGUSTING!!
It’s not without saying that Liberalism is a mental disease
I could not believe my ears when harry reid bragged that apallo wrote stimulus ....he must be brain dead
In addition to Van Jones, I believe that Jeff Jones - formerly of Weather Underground fame (and convicted criminal) - is also on the board of directors. Jeff Jones and Bill Ayers co-founded the Weather Underground.
Glen Beck has been talking about this for weeks. There may be a chart (Beck’s blackboard) on his site.. but I haven’t looked lately.
1960s Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble and their ideological issue (children) wrote the "stimulus" package?!
Arguably, the Marxist revolutionary left is now "the Establishment."
JOBS are CAUSE NUMERO UNO in 2010.
This information will be very helpful in dumping the destroyers out of office.
It will take EVERYTHING we have to retake Congress - but we must. It’s the battle of the century - again.
With a little further digging, I'd wager we could find the authors of the House health care bill in the same circle.
It was designed to fail in the first place.
There's something missing in our understanding of the forces at work in American society. Perhaps it was the dumbing down of students for the sake of diversity. Perhaps it was the emasculization of men. Perhaps it was takeover of the media and the power of electronic media. Histrionics has taken hold. Guilt has been raised to a necessary virtue.
I think we are at a nexis in history here where Leftist plans and designs have come together from decades past to erode and replace the foundations of America itself.
We're so far from the ownership society and so far from real hope, hope that the individual can shape one's future through one's own work and imagination, that self-sufficiency has become almost a curiosity.
FIRE EVERY ONE OF EM THAT VOTED FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY ARE BLOODY THIEVES!!!
Ping.
How is it that radical COMMIES wrote this bill and you POS never read?
They all should be recalled from office. This is BEYOND DISGUSTING!!
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I’m so appalled and disgusted, I have no words!
(Thanks Jet Jaguar)
This guy definitely needs to be brought down NEXT!!!
“Jones was a fugitive from justice for 11 years. His own account at his Web site says: “As a leader of the Weather Underground, Jeff evaded an intense FBI manhunt for more than a decade. In 1981, they finally got him. Twenty special agents battered down the door of the Bronx apartment where he was living with his wife and four-year-old son.”
With Mark Rudd and Bill Ayers, Jones in 1969 co-founded the radical Weatherman, which orchestrated the violent “Days of Rage” riots in Chicago, and later undertook an anti-government bombing campaign. Three of its members died when a bomb they were constructing to attack Fort Dix accidentally detonated in Greenwich Village.
And Jones is still proud of his terrorist activities — saying as recently as 2004: “To this day, we still, lots of us, including me, still think it was the right thing to try to do.”
Now, Jones is back to revolutionary organizing — but with taxpayers footing the bill. He’s the director of the Apollo Alliance’s New York affiliate and a consultant to the national group.”
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