Posted on 02/18/2011 7:48:05 AM PST by Biggirl
Maybe the best video you will watch coming out of the Wisconsin Teachers job action. But then again, there’s so much. The teachers have made up the bulk of the protestors pushing back against Tea Party Governor Scott Walker’s austerity plan. But it’s the students … ahhh … the students, who have provided able backup with people power and … ways to solve the crisis. Teach … your children well … their parents hell … and so yada, yada.
As teachers disrupted class at the state capitol to protest Scott’s plan to change the mostly teachers compensation plans, students took the opportunity to put the lessons they have learned in school to join the fray. One of those students was interviewed by Gretta VanSusteren, Jacob Fiksel. The interview is priceless especially when Gretta asks ole Jake to offer a solution to Wisconsin’s $3.6 billion dollar shortfall.
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I saw that last night on “greta” and almost woke up my sleeping 7 year old with roaring laughter. I have to agree with Rush, when he compares a child’s brain to a bowl of mush.
Now you see the problem with public schools. brainwashing at our expense.
It would be funny if Republicans started going on TV calling these liberal WI public employee unions ‘tea baggers’. What could Democrats say in response? Do I have to think of everything?? LOL
Tax the rich, ha! The rich are standing all around you, idiot.
Great points.
The kid is an idiot or has had his skull full of mush filled union propaganda. So the WI legislature, like in Illinois, raises taxes on those filthy rich. The rich will simply move to states with lower taxes and take their businesses with them. The kid might change his tune when his folks become unemployed or the state college he wants to attend is closed or forces him to take classes in an auditorium with hundreds of other students and be taught by a graduate assistant who hardly speaks English...all because his unionized teachers want their free Viagra and pay nothing for their pension.
in fairness, ole jake prolly coulnt wrap his brain around that many zeros...most people cant...
It's not they but their parents who are a problem. Look at the ignorance. This student speaks of lowering corporate taxes as help to the rich; he does not even know that, unlike in 19th century, most of our public corporations are owned by retirees, widows, orphans and those that save for retirement. Do you think his parents know that? Probably not. I found that even great many FReppers, the supposed conservatives, still think of corporations as owned by the rich and their "fatcat" CEOs.
Great many Republicans are nothing but Social Democrats, and Dems are now comprised of neo-Communists and neo-fascists. What can you expect from their children?
Agreed. You wouldn’t find my kids out there supporting this. The parents are obviously supporting this and are raising their kids as good. little socialists.
“One old method being talked here: “Tax the Rich!”
Every comment I’ve read or heard from the Obama-zombies on this subject has repeated this same mantra.
Time to stop destroying our country to feed a bunch of piggish, greedy public-sector union members.
I thought Greta was extraordinarily kind in interviewing this mush-head. It was apparent that he'd been coached.
If Greta's questions had been just a little bit more probing, I think he would have lost it.
Maybe she stopped where she did because she didn't want to come off as cruel.
FWIW, when I was in high school, I could have put up a better defense of my political viewpoint when I was drunk than this kid could do when he was sober.
Anyone catch the sign in the background at the very end?
It said “I blame Favre.”
Counterprotester or clueless?
I saw that interview last night. It was an absolute perfect demonstration of just how completely our liberal government school system can brainwash our young people. The kid droned his way through the talking points flawlessly. He’s an exemplary mind-numbed robot.
I also was disappointed to see Jacob Fiksel, a protest organizer, say students originally intended to march to district offices but called it off because they felt they didn’t have enough information to make their case.
Ignorance (willful or otherwise) should never be a barrier to having a strong and loudly aired opinion. (See Sarah Palin, re: “death panels,” and Barack Obama, re: “tax cuts for the rich.”) In truth, it can be beneficial in that it gives the political activist the freedom to make a much stronger case, unencumbered as he is by facts.From here.....!!!!!!
Dear God, save us from this kind of stupidity....
Taxing the rich is not the right answer, but unless the GOP takes clear stands against corporate bailouts and crony capitalism, there is a chance that they will convince some voters that their theme (blame the GOP for bailing out Wall Street but not the little people) will catch on to some degree.
Yes, I know that Obama was one of the main cheerleaders for TARP, but that little detail may get lost in the confusion.
The more power and control Republicans get the more their temptation to 'rescue' the economy (short term) using any measures at hand, bailouts, stimulus, as under Bush. Democrats being in total power for two years made them, Obama, own the bailouts in public eyes. Believe it or not, most people on the street (not on my Schiff ping list obviously LOL) think the stimulus and bailouts were the same, Ignorance helped Republicans for a change.
Bank contributions to political campaigns help convince them too.
Your original point above is the same one I made Fall 2008 and many times since: TARP vote pushed by Bush (a Republican) will create support for taxing the rich. When a democrat does it it is not as clear.
Well, maybe not pure ignorance. Yes, TARP and bailouts required separate sales jobs, but I don't trust Big Gov with TARP funds any more than I do with "stimulus." And my mistrust is not limited to Dems.
I agree there is a Gray dividing line between what the TARP bailouts did and what the stimulus did in some cases. But I mean many people seemed not to remember how TARP was passed Bush/Paulson because Obama took it over and bailed out GM, and they now think the Obama stimulus was the bailout bill.
Example : A democrat 'Obama defender' I debate with recently defended ‘the stimulus’ by saying that the experts say bailing the banks out worked. When I told him they were separate bills, he acted surprised.
I also have seen MSNBC hosts complaining about polls showing the public thinks Obama passed the TARP. I find this priceless because at the time 2008 Republicans got the blame for everything because voters thought (polls again) they (Republicans) ran the congress in 2008 helped by Bush and democrats strategy. The WH appears to be the political blame focal point unless the president (or his party) can successfully offload it as with 1995 and Newt.
I agree. It’s easy to communicate with you, unlike crony-capitalism-defenders and GWB defenders, who find no fault with how the TARP “evolved.”
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