Posted on 06/09/2010 1:22:50 AM PDT by Cindy
"Andy Stern, A Member of Obama’s Fiscal Responsibility Commission, Says ‘Worshipping the Market’ Has Failed America"
PHOTO CAPTION: "Andy Stern, former head of Services Employees International Union (SEIU) and a President Barack Obama appointee to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, said on Monday that the free market has failed the country and American workers. He made his remarks at a conference of the Campaign for America's Future in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)"
SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) – Andy Stern, the former head of the Service Employees International Union who now sits on President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, said the United States needs an economic plan that does not include “worshipping” the free market.
“America needs a 21st century economic plan because we now know the market-worshipping, privatizing, de-regulating, dehumanizing American financial plan has failed and should never be revived, worshipping the market again,” Stern said in remarks at the annual conference of the liberal activist group Campaign for America’s Future in Washington on Monday.
“It has failed America and everyone that works here,” Stern said.
Stern said the changes that Obama and Democrats in Congress have made are nothing short of a “revolution” that will move the American economy from national to international."
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Yep. Obama will be able to destroy us with the power of the executive all by himself. Anyone who thinks health scam and cap and trade can be repealed is looney. Bunker up and be ready.
It is a weird old world. Apparently (no: make that obviously) mr Stern is attacking the very cornerstones of the West (the U.S.A.).
You can’t have a 75% free market. Trying to constrain fundamental liberties is just not possible, and that is an apriori philosophical given. What about 75% free speech? Nope, that is idiotic. There are good a posteriori rules, according to which slander can be punished. But that is just it.
You have a free market, or you don’t. Accusing the free market of having failed society, that is truly insane. The free market is not a criminal subject. It is the healthy backbone of a society that offers opportunities for all, and optimal self-realization for everyone willing to make an effort, through education, work, and fair trade.
My God; I never thought I’d see the day on which I’d think that I, as a modest Dutchman, could learn the U.S. administration a few good lessons. It seems that that day has arrived...
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Amen.
At least it's nice to see one of them come out and plainly admit that they are a Marxist...
Ditto. They, and their system, are evil. Period.
A member of the White House was at this meeting of marxists. It is no longer, "at least one of them." I know it is difficult to take Andy Stern out of the SEIU picture, but we must come to grips with Stern is a member of the White House Regime now! He was at this meeting, this is no longer some fringe arm of the democratic party. These people are large and in charge...for now.
Our country is in deeper trouble than I think we even realize.
Scum. Scum. Scum. This is what Andy Stern said to The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center during the campaign to unionize them, which they buckled to. These SEIU are scum, Stern is the scummiest of them all, and he is in Obama's pocket (or more accurately, Obama is in his pocket)
It is DELIBERATE. I know people don't want to believe it. Who can blame them? But here we are.
I had been aware of The Cloward-Piven strategy for years, but had pretty much always thought of it as borderline paranoia.
Until I saw this:
It was seeing these two (Cloward and Piven) at the signing of the “Motor Voter Act” which cemented it for me. I was explaining this to someone, and they didn’t understand what was so bad about the legislation. I reminded them that it decouples voting rights from residence and ties it to a drivers license. On the surface that doesn’t seem so bad, until you consider that illegal aliens can and do obtain drivers licenses through fraud and deception.
Stern is now in the Oval office as the appointee to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
I wrote this a while back, and I wonder...do people still not care, and if not, how long will that continue?
Obama is a disciple of an astoundingly and incredibly amoral and immoral author like Saul Alinsky who dedicated the pinnacle of his life’s work (Rules for Radicals) to, amongst other things, Lucifer: "... “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer...
People don't care.
Obama is a close associate of a terrorist like Bill Ayers and his like in the Weathermen, a group who killed AMERICANS with bombs, a POS who wished he had done more violence, whose most public moments in print are accompanied by a picture of him proudly and triumphantly standing on top of an American flag, the same flag I and my father served under, and my father was buried under. This man is one of Obama’s principal patrons, who by his own admission is “guilty as sin-free as a bird”, and quite proud of that.who thought a reasonable price to pay would be to kill millions of Americans who wouldn’t buy into their radical plans once they took power, not to mention Bernadine Dohrn who thought the sticking of a fork by murderers into the slain body of a pregnant woman was a fabulous thing. Do any of YOU out there have friends like this? Do you even KNOW anyone like this? THESE people are close friends and associates of the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Think about that for a minute.
People don't care.
Obama is a close personal friend with a Black Theologian racist “Reverend” Wright who thinks the white people in this country invented AIDS to kill black people, donated thousands of dollars to this man’s “church” as he sat in the pews for twenty years nodding with agreement all those years before the light of the public shined for a fleeting instant on that rathole.
People don’t care.
Obama has vowed on recorded film to gut our military
People don’t care.
Obama is corrupt to the core, steered money towards his family (wife) and friends.
People don’t care.
Obama is an avowed socialist who believes in redistribution of wealth. In his own words: "One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that." And also, this: "But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf." And this: "...but I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts..."
People don’t care.
Obama thinks higher taxes are the way to fix our problems.
People don’t care.
Obama thinks higher gasoline prices are good for us.
People don’t care.
Obama thinks guns should be banned.
People don’t care.
Obama has dishonorably bowed at the waist as a supplicant a la POW Dick Stratton (who did it bravely and honorably to his captors) to a Saudi King, something NEVER before done by a US President. As such, he has clearly telegraphed one of two things to the leaders and intelligence agencies both friend and foe: He is either incredibly stupid and naive, or he is deliberately sending a signal to those who are paying attention of his view of America’s new place in the world and his desire to set that place at the table for us.
People don’t care.
They better start caring pretty damn soon.
Lets see the comedians Colbert and Stewart discuss this one? They wont and thait brain dead cult followers will stay ignorant.
In his attempt not to waste a crisis, the crafty Andy Stern omitted that the free enterprise capitalism economic system in our republican form of government served America well.
Constitution Article IV. Section IV.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government. A Republic means the rule of law governs America, not the rule of a majority of men, as it would be in a Democracy.
Socialist like Andy Stern should answer what he suggests replaces America’s Constitution. Have you ever seen a study, report, or analysis indicating America's greatness was attributed to government program?
What made America great and set it apart from other lands?
Was it natural resources, no other lands are equally blessed.
Was it the people, no, the people who built America came from elsewhere.
Was it government planning and wisdom that spurred America to great heights, no again?
It wasn’t what government did that made America great, it was what government was preventing from doing that made the difference. What set America apart from other lands was freedom for the individual, freedom to work, to produce, to succeed, and especially to keep the fruits of one’s labors. American became great precisely because America prevented the stifling effect of too much government. The government cannot legitimately redistribute the wealth, assume power over the people’s lives, and dominate man’s existence with oppressive taxation, regulations, and controls.
According to America’s founders, government was to leave people alone. Government’s sole function is to protect citizens from one another and from foreign governments, and especially from their own government.
The founders did not create a government to take from some to give to others. They understood that when a government starts doing something for one citizen it has to take from another to do so and in the process, it gains control over both.
Gaining control is the socialist agenda. Obama and his advisors are attempting to replace America's Republic with a Democracy because they know Socialism cannot prevail without first achieving a Democracy. In a Democracy, the majority can ignore the rule of law.
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