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Van Jones’ Toxic Dump on Obama and Environmentalism
Townhall.com ^ | 9/7/2009 | Carol Platt Liebau

Posted on 09/07/2009 3:09:20 AM PDT by JohnHuang2

Van Jones, the President’s designated “Green Jobs Czar,” resigned his post after his ties to a 9/11 “truther” group and use of a vulgarity to describe Republicans began attracting unwelcome scrutiny. Fair enough. Barack Obama cannot condemn any lack of civility among his political opponents while he harbors a rhetorical bomb-thrower like Jones.

But far more disturbing than the revelations about word choices or conspiracy theories that resulted in his ouster are Jones radical views – views that could not have been unknown to The White House. Simply put, Jones is a Marxist who, by his own admission, intended to use his government job to further his ideological agenda. By installing him in a “czar” position of enormous power – but requiring no formal appointment process or legislative oversight – President Obama has damaged not only himself, but the environmental movement as a whole.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
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Here's your pink slip. Have a nice Labor Day!

B. Hussein Obama famously told "Joe the Plumber" that his whole scam to 'revive' the economy rested on doing what liberals enjoy doing more than anything else in life (even more than having sex with interns): Spreading the wealth around.

With almost 15 million people looking for a job in Obama's miraculously 'recovering' economy that's shrinking, "Joe the Biden" last Thursday marked the 200-day milestone of Obama's failed stimulus package by claiming it's working better than expected.

Why, just look at all those new high-paying "green-collar" jobs Van Jones had saved or created! Such as __________. And don't forget all these __________. And it only cost taxpayers $30 billion. (Jones resigned over the weekend to devote time to organizing a mainstream, middle-of-the-road group called, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement to Stop Whitey from Pumping Poison into Minority Communities.

Playing the role of trumpeting happy news about a trillion-dollar stimulus package that has yet to create a new job, Biden tried to assure liberals at the Brookings Institution that all is well. No -- better than expected! The stimulating 787 billion "dollars are going farther and working harder than we anticipated," said Biden. In fact, thanks to Obama's stimulus package (designed by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid), the economy is sinking more slowly and jobs are tanking better than expected! This should explain why Pelosi and Reid are the two most despised politicians in America today.

Biden insisted hysterically that the "recovery act is doing more, faster, more efficiently and more effectively than we had hoped." He says that "When we took office back in January, the job losses were staggering," but now "the recovery act is working." So, let's tick off the list of achievements:

-- The jobless rate soared to a non-staggering 9.7% in August, highest in 26 years, while 216,000 nonfarm payroll jobs were destroyed. (Or, as Karl Marx and Van Jones would say, 216,000 proletarians joined the vast army of the unemployed.) That's according to the payroll survey. The BLS's household survey -- from which the jobless rate is derived -- showed an even brighter picture, with 392,000 jobs destroyed in August, on top of an equally non-staggering 529,000 jobs lost in June and July. The underemployment rate -- which includes workers forced to work part-time in Obama's booming economy, plus people who want a job but have given up their fruitless search -- soared to 16.8% in August, from 16.3 in July. Five million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. The recession is over.

In August, 65,000 construction jobs were lost, 63,000 manufacturing jobs disappeared, 23,000 financial activities jobs vanished and 6,500 temporary service jobs were gone. In response, Robert Gibbs said, "We are losing more (jobs) than we're creating, but we're heading in the right direction."

-- Heading in the right direction, 570,000 people filed new claims for unemployment in the week ending August 29. The nation's top expecters were expecting 6,000 fewer claims. In more upbeat news, continuing claims rose 92,000 to 6.23 million. The expecters expected a rosier 6.12 million.

-- Five more banks got shut down by regulators on Friday, "bringing the total number of (bank) failures this year to 89, as losses on bad mortgages and construction loans continue to plague the financial industry," with up to 300 more banks possibly getting shut down in the next two years, (DailyFinance, 9/5). When he heard the news, Obama swiftly responded with another round of golf.

-- On Thursday, retailers posted widespread sales declines for August as consumers, apparently unaware that Robert Gibbs said things are headed in the right direction, spent only on necessities. It was the 12th consecutive monthly drop. And, during the crucial back-to-school sales week, "chain-store sales ended up being a disappointment, according to ICSC-Goldman's same-store tally which fell 0.5 percent in the Aug. 29 week for a minus 0.7 percent year-on-year rate, (Econoday, 9/1 -- H/T, The Market Ticker, 9/1. The AP said the dismal numbers were "better than expected."

-- Also headed in the right direction was the entire service sector of the economy (which makes up 90% of the economy) which shrank again in August. The service-sector ISM index came in under 50 -- indicating contraction -- and its employment index was even worse. Liberals point to last week's manufacturing ISM data, thinking that cash-for-clunkers is a sound basis for economic growth. Just like spending your way out of debt. Or spending another $1.5 trillion to save on health-care. Or borrowing $787 billion in order to lose 3 million jobs. Or hiring a lunatic like Van Jones to showcase your keen hiring skills.

And if manufacturing is going so great, why appoint a manufacturing czar to spur manufacturing? According to news reports tonight, Obama decided he now needs the Car Czar chap from the already understaffed and dysfunctional Treasury Department to become a Manufacturing Czar in order to "rebuild manufacturing", a special talent this Ron Bloom fella must've acquired during his union honcho gigs. Relax. Czar Nicholas Bloom proposes to "rebuild manufacturing" through new and innovative ways, like suffocating it to death with union rules which have done wonders for Detroit. Surprisingly, Bloom's resume claims he worked as special assistant to the United Steelworkers Union president. When has a union official ever done any actual work? So, if you're a blooming idiot appointing a union man to figure out manufacturing, Labor Day becomes the perfect venue to make the announcement! But if the goal is to spur manufacturing, what you do is appoint an industry CEO as *Union Czar* to finish off the unions -- manufacturing would take off.

In rearranging the deck czars on the Titanic in this way, just a day after Van Jones resigned to spend more time with his Truther lunatics under the bus, Obama keeps trying to pile on the evidence that he was elected in order to make Jimmy Carter look competent.

Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"


1 posted on 09/07/2009 3:09:20 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2

Obama knew exactly what he was getting with Van Jones, because they both think alike.

We have a Van Jones named Obama in the White houe.


2 posted on 09/07/2009 3:20:16 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: JohnHuang2

What EVERYBODY (including Glenn Beck) is afraid to say is that Obama is as extreme as Van Jones. Obama is at least a radical white hating racist, someone with views so extreme that even the Clintons are frightened of this lying Marxist clown.

The Press is starting to finally get it. If we have free elections in 2010 the Democrat Party is toast.


3 posted on 09/07/2009 3:24:49 AM PDT by BILL_C (Those who don't understand the lessons of history will repeat, repeat and repeat.)
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To: BILL_C

I hope the “toast” part is true.


4 posted on 09/07/2009 4:02:57 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: BILL_C

Glenn Beck haas already called Obama a racist.


5 posted on 09/07/2009 4:10:12 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Venturer
"think alike"

Obama thought he could sneak Jones by the public as he has sneaked in a cartload of lefties into his admin...not to mention himself. He figured wrong.

6 posted on 09/07/2009 4:18:13 AM PDT by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: JohnHuang2
"And in doing so, he’s forcing the many well-intentioned activists in the environmental movement to dispel the suspicion that, perhaps, their motives are not always as pure – or as wholesome – as the public has been led to believe."

The author of this piece is childishly naive. Conservatives have always doubted the motives of the modern environmental movement (in fact there's no doubt at all about what they really are). We know, and now I hope a lot of others know, that the environmental movement, however it may have started, is now a front group for world socialism. Is it a coincidence that when Mikhail Gorbachev lost his job as premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics he joined the environmental movement? I didn't think so.

Socialism is government control of the means of production, and guess what? So is environmentalism. It's a one to one match.

7 posted on 09/07/2009 5:10:18 AM PDT by Batrachian
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To: BILL_C

I think people said he was a racist early on. Libs ignored it because everyone knows only white people are racist. The case against 0 is being slowly built up.


8 posted on 09/07/2009 5:17:57 AM PDT by ReagansShinyHair
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To: JohnHuang2

“Fair enough. Barack Obama cannot condemn any lack of civility among his political opponents...”

That was his game during the campaign. Zero had his minions act as his mouthpieces disseminating the most vicious attacks I can ever remember during a presidential race and my memory goes back pretty far, while he claimed purity.


9 posted on 09/07/2009 5:21:07 AM PDT by OpusatFR (Those embryos are little humans in progress. Using them for profit is slavery.)
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To: ReagansShinyHair

Van Jones said that only white kids do the Columbine thing, if that isn’t racist what is?


10 posted on 09/07/2009 6:58:27 AM PDT by azkathy (Branded by the Rodeo Chediski Fire)
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To: Batrachian

Indeed.
They want to be gods... or as Obama put it, partners in life and death.

Same beast, different name. The Eugenics tree has many branches. It’s no secret Lenin, Stalin, Mao and other communists went after agriculture (see Cuba, South America, Africa as well); How did that work out?

No one tells the truth re: fires in CA and the enforced drought imposed on farmers for almost a year now either.

I wonder if the union speech included slams of environmentalists and lawyers (ACLU, others) who impose obstacles for companies? Of course not... they’re socialists and communists too. Then they complain about outsourcing.

I attempted to share with a dial-a-thug (not SEIU or DC37 even), sent to a healthcare townhall that unions were exempt... so why did he think he was there. Blah, we need universal healthcare, blah.

I informed him of the Blue Cross/other cuts with more to come and the irony that the union will be affected sooner or later. I asked how he would feel then.

He just cursed me out.

Green is red.

There will be recycling in 2010 and 2012... in Washington.

Oh, i’m still waiting for the MSM to post how many in certain trades are actually union and how they plan to up membership.

The commie rally for Labor Day is ridiculous... it obviously wasn’t for Labor, or he would have been torn apart for showing up. Are Stern, Gettelfinger and Trumka, etc. working for the little guy... the working man?

I’m still trying to get over a union guy for the NY Fed. (shakes head)


11 posted on 09/07/2009 1:18:17 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Ez 38 Pray.)
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To: Venturer

When the background of each and every tsar is looked into and the organizations they belonged to, we will find obama belonged to or was in some way affiliated with it. A community organizer plays with a lot of organizations, and we will see obama has known each and every one of these tsars for a long, long time.


12 posted on 09/07/2009 3:01:10 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: tillacum

Bingo


13 posted on 09/07/2009 5:15:36 PM PDT by Venturer
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