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Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barnes Wants to ‘Stymie Capitalism’
Townhall.com ^ | January 25, 2020 | M.D. Kittle

Posted on 01/25/2020 6:37:56 AM PST by Kaslin

MADISON — Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes believes we must “stymie capitalism” if we want to save the world from the threats of climate change.

That’s what the Democrat told a gathering of fellow doom-and-gloomers last month during a panel discussion at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid. 

Barnes was joined on stage by a bevy of North American bureaucrats, including Canada’s “Climate Ambassador” and Mexico’s “Climate Change Director.”

The “side event,” as it was described on the conference agenda, was on “subnational strategies in North America for meeting Paris Commitments.”  It was oozing with liberal politics. The session’s smug host, blasting President Trump for pulling the United States out of the Paris Agreement, wondered aloud how the administration could fail to recognize the climate crisis facing the world. “How stupid can humanity be?”

“Why do we fail to act in the face of such obvious danger when the stakes are so high?” he asked.

It’s not a question of stupidity, Barnes answered. It’s a matter of greed. American capitalistic greed.

“The reason why we’re in this mess is the pursuit of greed, it’s capitalism run amok,” the lieutenant governor said. “That’s the same reason gun violence is so rampant in America, the same reason why we deal with all these other issues that have common-sense solutions but don’t have a common-sense approach.”

What’s the solution? First, get money out of politics, said the liberal who became the youngest lieutenant governor in Wisconsin history thanks to money in politics.

“The second answer is stymie capitalism, the way it is in America,” Barnes told the audience.

To do that, communities have to organize, he declared. But only left-wing communities that buy into radical, redistributionist ideas, like climate change hysteria. Barnes boasted about his time as a community organizer, and blamed “larger corporations” for many of the world’s ills.

“Until money is less of an issue, we’re going to continue on this path of destruction,” he warned.

But money really is the issue. The U.N. Climate Change Conference called for more drastic measures in the left’s war on fossil fuels. Democrats in congress and on the campaign trail are calling for trillions for a Green New Deal, on top of the trillions taxpayers and businesses have already spent on the climate change cash cow. Barnes heads up Gov. Tony Evers’s task force on climate change with a very expensive  — and unrealistic — goal of making the Badger State carbon-free by 2050.

Craig Rucker, co-founder of the Washington,D.C.-based Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) was at the Madrid conference and reported on the panel discussion.

“We’ve truly entered a new era in American governance when a top state elected official finds it worthwhile to travel to an international diplomatic event to proclaim what this world needs is to ‘stymie capitalism,’” wrote Rucker, whose organization has spent the better part of the past 35 years trying to bring some balance and common sense to an issue long ago hijacked by radical environmentalists.

He confronted Barnes after the session. He found the lieutenant governor pleasant but his rhetoric shocking.

“Just making that comment is absolutely preposterous,” Rucker told Empower Wisconsin. “He’s enjoying the free market, and all of the attendees were enjoying their Christmas shopping in Madrid, which is a lovely town to shop in. And they’re all flying on jet planes, thanks to capitalism.”

Watch the video of the panel discussion here. 



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: capitalism; wisconsin
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To: Kaslin

With a name like Mandela, I’m not surprised.


21 posted on 01/25/2020 8:48:06 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: MrEdd
"She does truly represent the people of her state."

Here "she" is...


22 posted on 01/25/2020 8:54:31 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: MrEdd

“She does truly represent the people of her state.”

She represents the idiots in Madison.

L


23 posted on 01/25/2020 8:56:49 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Kaslin
Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes believes we must “stymie capitalism”

Now you know why for years, environmentalists were called "watermelons", green on the outside, red on the inside.

24 posted on 01/25/2020 8:58:01 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: JPJones

The irony is that the former Communist countries were some of the most polluted countries on the planet.

Buildings in Poland are still black from all the pollution from coal during the Communist years.


25 posted on 01/25/2020 8:59:04 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin

During the campaign there was little focus on the he/she Lt Governors race


26 posted on 01/25/2020 9:07:12 AM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: JPJones

Yes socialism is the way to go. Once 1/2 the people starve to death or are shot there will less global warming. Proven to work in several countries.


27 posted on 01/25/2020 9:12:00 AM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: Kaslin

this is why Wisconsin’s nation leading numbers have dwindled since Evers and his Commie buddy took over the governorship. They will lead us back to the Doyal years, if they are allowed to keep this up for the next 3 years.


28 posted on 01/25/2020 10:10:55 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MrEdd

She’s a guy


29 posted on 01/25/2020 10:11:21 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Kaslin
Bastard obviously doesn't mean "stymie". They plan to eliminate capitalism, free market economy, and religion. (Except for *slam).
30 posted on 01/25/2020 10:36:53 AM PST by I want the USA back (We have sunk to a depth where restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men:Orwell)
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To: Kaslin
“The second answer is stymie capitalism, the way it is in America,” Barnes told the audience.

To do that, communities have to organize, he declared.

So...communities organize, then American capitalism is stymied.

I feel like this genius is missing some steps and definitions here.

31 posted on 01/25/2020 10:40:33 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
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To: Kaslin
I wonder how it feeels to be named after a terrorist masquerading as a 'freedom fighter'?

As for the white Gub.. welll..

Apparently, it gets ya more votes in states that struggle to retain their identitites in this new age of PCism... and climate change.

32 posted on 01/25/2020 10:53:19 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! The UN is so olf and dated.)
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To: Kaslin
I wonder how it feeels to be named after a terrorist masquerading as a 'freedom fighter'?

As for the white Gub.. welll..

Apparently, it gets ya more votes in states that struggle to retain their identitites in this new age of PCism... and climate change.

33 posted on 01/25/2020 10:53:19 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! The UN is so olf and dated.)
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To: Da Coyote

I wonder how many of these people believe what they say. Even if they know this is all BS, this isn’t about saving the world. It’s about money and control. There are the true believers, the useful idiots, and those seeking to take over society. This person could be both at once.


34 posted on 01/25/2020 11:04:36 AM PST by Pining_4_TX ("Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken)
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To: IrishBrigade

Heh, sounded like a female name (as a first name)


35 posted on 01/25/2020 3:18:06 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: Kaslin

I was born & raised in Wisconsin.

I left at age 24.

I remember the following:

American Motors
Oscar Mayer
Ray O Vac
Gisholt Machine
Pabst
Schlitz
Harley Davidson
Chevrolet plant in Janesville
Coopers—(Jockey Underwear)
Wolf cooking ranges (Wolff ?)
Sub Zero

Dairy farms everywhere you looked
Lots of paper mills
Farms of trees used for paper
Foundry’s in Green Bay
Meat packing plants
Cheese factories on back roads
Lands End clothing

HOW many of these companies I named are still in Wisconsin????? How many jobs did they provide? How much in payroll/income taxes were produced???

Does this woman have ANY knowledge of all the kinds of things that made Wisconsin great???

Wisconsin voters better wise up.


36 posted on 01/25/2020 4:38:04 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Kaslin; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

Wisconsin has a recall process. Use it.


37 posted on 01/25/2020 10:41:34 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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