Posted on 10/10/2011 5:23:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We, the Ben & Jerry’s Board of Directors, compelled by our personal convictions and our Company’s mission and values, wish to express our deepest admiration to all of you who have initiated the non-violent Occupy Wall Street Movement and to those around the country who have joined in solidarity. The issues raised are of fundamental importance to all of us. These include:
The inequity that exists between classes in our country is simply immoral. We are in an unemployment crisis. Almost 14 million people are unemployed. Nearly 20% of African American men are unemployed. Over 25% of our nation’s youth are unemployed. Many workers who have jobs have to work 2 or 3 of them just to scrape by. Higher education is almost impossible to obtain without going deeply in debt. Corporations are permitted to spend unlimited resources to influence elections while stockpiling a trillion dollars rather than hiring people.
We know the media will either ignore you or frame the issue as to who may be getting pepper sprayed rather than addressing the despair and hardships borne by so many, or accurately conveying what this movement is about. All this goes on while corporate profits continue to soar and millionaires whine about paying a bit more in taxes. And we have not even mentioned the environment.
We know that words are relatively easy but we wanted to act quickly to demonstrate our support. As a board and as a company we have actively been involved with these issues for years but your efforts have put them out front in a way we have not been able to do. We have provided support to citizens’ efforts to rein in corporate money in politics, we pay a livable wage to our employees, we directly support family farms and we are working to source fairly traded ingredients for all our products. But we realize that Occupy Wall Street is calling for systemic change. We support this call to action and are honored to join you in this call to take back our nation and democracy.
— Ben & Jerry’s Board of Directors
This is the reason I never have, and never will, purchase a “Ben and Jerry” product.
Glad I began boycotting these commies years ago.
I just had an idea! I’ll NEVER buy another Ben & Jerry’s product as long as I live!
http://media.photobucket.com/image/schweddy%20balls/junkindatrunk1/SchweddyBalls_0.jpg?o=5
This is real, a takeoff of a SNL skit.
I wouldn’ eat it. Maybe a butt pirate would...oh, never mind.
soooooo ... Why doesn’t B&J hire a few thousand of them and pay them $20/hour whether they work or not?
Too bad. They made good ice cream. Looks like I’ll have to find another brand.
Their hardcopy job applications actually included a full-page rant against the 2nd Amendment back in the late 90's...gun-grabbing sons of bitches won't be selling me any of their ice cream...ever.
Following the infamous Shweddy Balls product, the company plans to launch another winner, Poop on Patrol.
I’ve never bought their communist ice cream and never will. There’s too many wholesome alternatives.
F’em.
Buy Haagen Daz!the Matus’s supported Jewish causes.
See my new post on B&J.
Haagen Daz and Tillamook is all we ever buy.
I can truthfully say I have NEVER had even one bite or taste of any Ben & Jerry’s ice cream nor have I allowed any in my home.
I know my children have eaten some but not in my house.
Ben and Jerry we are millionaires and we stand with you, Pelosi, Soros, Bloomberg, Sarandon, Al sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Obama, Reid, Kerry we are millionaires and we stand with you. Get those other evil millionaires.
Alec Baldwin gets paid $1 million dollars to do Capital One commercials
Micheal Moore keeps his film production company independent to avoid paying union wages
Ariana Huffington sells her blog for 300 million to AOL and paid her writers nothing
Yet, these are the heroes to the Wall Street Protesters, proving once again that Liberalism is a mental disease and Liberals are freaking idiots
Yeah, I knew that what I posted was a parody of the real thing...
Have never bought the ice cream from this pair of marxist...never will......only in american can 2 nit wits make a fortune and then spit on the country....I spit on them and their ice cream...
Free ice cream for all the protesters!!
RE: Free ice cream for all the protesters!!
Don’t give them any more ideas, the entire Zuccoti Park in NYC has already been turned into a trash heap.
RE: Michael Moore
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=4677
EXCERPT:
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Michael Moore likes to talk about affirmative action.
Michael Moore likes to badger the rest of us about it. Let’s take a look at Michael Moore’s hiring practices. This was a very easy thing to do because, as a lot of you who are familiar with the entertainment industry probably know, the industry is decided by credits. You can find out who worked on a film, who worked on a book, who worked on a television show by simply looking at the people who were credited in those positions. So I did that in the case of Michael Moore. Let’s see what we found.
Starting with his first film, Roger and Me, the crew and all of that was all white. But let’s cut him a little bit of slack, since he was starting out in the business. He was in Flint, Michigan and these were his buddies so it must just be an aberration. There’s his second film, Pets are Meat, Return to Flint, his second documentary. That was all white as well. Canadian Bacon was his feature film. Hopefully nobody had the misfortune of seeing that film. All the senior people he hired in this case were white as well.
Then you get to TV Nation, his television series. Almost all of the senior people in this case were white. Then you had Fahrenheit 911. Again all the senior people are white, with particularly ironic about this is, two years before Fahrenheit 911 came out, Michael Moore, in Stupid White Men, said, “All minorities who are interested in working in the television and film industry should send me their résumés because I want to hire you.” Well, I guess this was the first film he did after that. I assume those résumés probably got lost in the mail. Then there’s The Big One, another one of his documentaries. Again, all the senior people that worked on that film were white. Bowling for Columbine, similar situation.
What is the grand total? How is Michael Moore doing? I found that he had hired 134 people since 1990 to work on his film projects, his documentaries and his books. Of those 134, a grand total of 2 were actually African-American. I should say that I found one white individual who was an African-American studies major, so maybe he counts that as well.
But the point I’m making is that Michael Moore, who likes to go on in extreme pomposity to complain how racist and bigoted we are, has an absolutely horrible record when it comes to actually hiring minorities.
Let me move onto another interesting target, or another question as relates to Michael Moore. That is his view on racism in America. You see, it’s not just a question of who we hire and the fact that we don’t hire in the numbers that he feels are sufficient. It’s also a question of where we live. Did you know that if you pick to live in a certain neighborhood and it happens to be predominantly white, that means you’re a racist and a bigot? That is again the theme and the view that Michael Moore espouses. He talks about the fact that, when minorities move into a neighborhood, all the white people flee. The racism is so rampant in American, this is the reality.
Well, Michael Moore lives somewhere. Michael Moore seven years ago moved to Central Lake Michigan. Now Central Lake Michigan, for those of you who don’t understand the geography, is on Torch Lake, which is one of the most beautiful lakes in North America. Central Lake Michigan takes the U.S. Census likes the rest of us. Now given Michael Moore’s views about the fact that where we live defines whether we’re racist or not, one would think that this would be a pretty diverse community. But, according to the U.S. Census, Central Lake Michigan has 25,051 residents and there’s not a single black resident in the entire town. That’s quite a stunning record for Michael Moore, wouldn’t you say?
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