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It Ain’t America No More
Well, at least now we know that we are not America anymore, you are not allowed to be against the Obamassiah, or else you go to jail.
The Post Partisan President
Yes, all that Hope and Change is coming out. Agree with me or shut up. Nice to know that all that partisanship is in the past and we hav a post partisan president that will get us all together.
Catholics Investigating What Happened to ACORN Donations
The Washington Times reports this morning that the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the "peace and justice" national committee of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops is investigating how the millions of dollars it has contributed to ACORN over the past few years was used. It looks like the CCHD has a new director who is questioning the organizations contributions since an embezzlement was made public in June at the organization and the bad press erupted over fraudulent voter registrations during the current election season.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Catholics probe aid directed to ACORN
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has hired forensic accounting specialists to investigate more than $1 million in church funding to voter-registration group ACORN, fearing the money may have been spent in partisan or fraudulent ways that could jeopardize the church’s tax-exempt status.
The investigation is "thorough, serious and ongoing," according to a July 11 letter to more than 200 bishops from New Orleans Bishop Robert Morin, chairman of the committee that oversees the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
The CCHD sent $1,037,000 to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in 2007, including a $40,000 grant to an ACORN affiliate in Las Vegas that was raided last month by the Nevada attorney general’s office in a voter-fraud probe.
The Catholic aid agency has given more than $7.3 million to ACORN over the past decade for about 320 projects, according to the Catholic News Service.
In June, the Catholic Church froze a $1.2 million grant for 38 ACORN chapters after the community-organizing group was accused of voter fraud in 15 states.
State elections officials and the FBI are questioning ACORN workers who submitted voter registration forms signed by Mickey Mouse and members of the Dallas Cowboys football team in their efforts to register voters in low-income neighborhoods, many of whom tend to favor Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama.
Mr. Obama once worked with ACORN as a community organizer and lawyer in Chicago.
"While there is value in registering low-income voters, I am concerned that the whole ban on partisanship has been violated," Ralph McCloud, the new executive director for the CCHD, said Monday.
Mr. McCloud said he could not reassure Catholics that the funds donated before 2008 were not used in voter fraud.
"There is no way we can tell," he said. "All our applications go through a rigorous screening, and we ask each organization to commit to being nonpartisan. The overwhelming reality is most of the groups we fund do tremendous work."
The CCHD draws $9,439,000 a year in "second collections" from Catholic churches, the next one slated for Nov. 23. CCHD funds go to groups that fight poverty, interfaith associations, peace and justice groups, immigrant aid groups, environmental coalitions, cooperatives, housing coalitions and labor rights groups.
Read the whole thing at http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/04/catholics-probe-aid-directed-to-acorn/print/
Check out what wikipedia has on the founder of ACORN.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke
Rathke is the publisher and editor of Social Policy magazine which covers the community organizing waterfront and is currently discussing regime change in the US. Their writers are glorying in helping put Obama in the Senate and they are sure – the White House.
Here’s some of an article by an old friend of the ACORN founder, reminiscing about their early days as community organizers and reporting that Rathke is stepping down as head of ACORN.
NOTES FROM THE LEFT COAST – Drummon Pike’s Blog
Wade Rathke has done something some would never have predicted. Resigned as ACORN’s Chief Organizer. Who ever would have imagined?
I met Wade in 1972, as best I can recall. Marge Tabankin and I were running the Youth Project (she was my boss) and had developed a bit of a competition to find the most impressive new organizers “out there.” The YP, begun in the Center for Community Change’s basement, was an operation to leverage foundation $$ into community organizing that involved young people – an attempt to bring the national movements of the day down into the everyday lives of disenfranchised communities. I came up with Mike Miller from Organize, Inc. in SF – a skilled, talented follower of Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation approach: parish based, working class organizing. Alinsky had defined the field in many ways and his Rules for Radicals was found on the shelves of an entire college generation at the time. Margie’s choice was this kid named Wade Rathke.
Rathke was this ornery, young red head in Little Rock, Arkansas that was a couple of years into what would become ACORN as we know it today. He’d dropped out of Williams College to work with the anti-draft movement, but ended up working with George Wiley on the National Welfare Rights Organization. He built an edgy, confrontational group in Springfield, MA and learned on the job how to push for a better break for welfare mothers. His yearning to return to the south led him to convince Wiley to back his hair-brained scheme to build a new kind of organization that expanded the range – low AND moderate income folks, but stretched organizationally beyond one city into a statewide, and ultimately national, approach where there were more levers of power.
So, when I showed up in Little Rock on that hot, humid day in 1972, I found something I hadn’t expected. New thinking, new ambition, new methods. Later, on a whim, I invited Wade up to train some organizers in Montana at the Northern Plains Resource Council. What I saw then truly convinced me that this was a special person – able to find common ground between welfare moms in Springfield, aggrieved neighbors displaced by a freeway being built through their Little Rock neighborhood, and land-rich ranchers in eastern Montana fighting coal strip-mining. What they all faced was an imbalance of power, and they were swimming upstream. He imparted wisdom, practical advice on strategy and tactics, and an invitation to think of themselves in a larger context.
[snip]
I am convinced that the light of history will shine on Rathke quite brilliantly. In his 38 years at the helm of ACORN, he achieved what few have ever done working with poor people. He showed them that, through their own devices, and when collected in significant numbers and willing, on occasion, to be “impolite,” they can win real, tangible victories. If you have ever attended a national convention of ACORN, you will know what I mean. And if you ever need testimony, just talk to one of the leaders of ACORN like Maude Hurd and before her, Steve McDonald, or any of the others. 400,000 families are members, and it is hardly surprising to see progressive national candidates for public office come and address the throng. America will never be the same for the ACORN he helped build from scratch.
Source: http://drummondpike.tides.org/index.php/2008/06/25/saultime-to-step-aside/
And here’s some of a very informative piece on Townhall.com by Carl Horowitz about ACORN and the Rathke brothers:
ACORN Cracks Wide Open
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is a network of nonprofit community groups formed nearly 40 years ago on the premise that banks, corporations and insurance companies, immersed in greed, have kept poor and predominantly minority neighborhoods desperate. Within the past couple months, however, its leaders have been engaged in the more mundane task of spinning a scandal that already has claimed its most visible leader. To longtime ACORN critics, it’s a case of belated just deserts.
At the center of this storm are ACORN co-founder and chief organizer Wade Rathke and his brother, Dale. Wade Rathke is an almost legendary figure in progressive Left circles. Beginning in the Sixties as an SDS activist, he would go on to apply his talents to the National Welfare Rights Organization, whose principle legacy during its years of existence was a large expansion of welfare eligibility and dependency. Out of this experience came ACORN in 1970. Initially based in Little Rock and eventually in New Orleans, ACORN has become a giant oak tree. The group’s early agitprop rhetoric, as expressed in its People’s Platform, made clear its intent for the years ahead:
We are the majority, forged from all minorities. We are the masses of many, not the forces of few. Enough is enough. We will wait no longer for the crumbs at America’s door. We will not be meek, but mighty. We will not starve on past promises, but feast on future dreams.
From the start, ACORN has been unapologetically radical in both worldview and tactics. Taking its inspiration from Saul Alinsky-style neighborhood confrontation politics, the organization, now claiming about 1,200 chapters with some 400,000 households in the U.S. and abroad, prides itself in its ability to mobilize local residents into demanding and getting their fair share – regardless of whether the donations are voluntary. Right now, ACORN hopes to mobilize someone into replacing Wade Rathke.
[snip]
While not defending the behavior of the Rathkes, they [the ACORN group] maintain that in the larger picture, the theft (or unauthorized transfer of funds) doesn’t hold a candle to what businessmen and “right-wingers” routinely steal. Besides, look at the all the good ACORN has done!
Read the whole thing – I was amazed that all of this was flying under the radar for many years. A friend asked me yesterday: why has none of this made the news? It has, but you had to dig for it. http://townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2008/08/09/acorn_cracks_wide_open
Julia
Community Organizing Explained
If you’ve wondered what Community Organizers do.
Three books explain ACORN and the Gameliel organization of leftist clergy that first hired Obama, and the Saul Alinsky guide on organizing. I gleaned these from an important article by Stanley Kurtz at National Review On-Line. Read the whole thing here http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjdjY2Y2YWU5YjQ1Y2Y5Mzg0MGRlNDQ4YTkwYmI2ZDE=
What follows is cut and pasted from the books’ Amazon websites, along with some commentary. You can look inside all of these books yourself at Amazon at the links provided.
Organizing Urban
America
: Secular and Faith-based Progressive Movements (Social Movements, Protest and Contention) by Heidi Swarts
Product Description
Collective action through organized social movements has long expanded American citizens’ rights and liberties. Recently, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has helped win living wage initiatives in more than 130 cities across the country. Likewise, congregation-based groups have established countless health, education, and other social programs at city and state levels. Despite modest budgets, these organizations—different in their approach, but at the same time working for social change—have won billions of dollars in redistributive programs.
Looking closely at this phenomenon, Heidi J. Swarts explores activist groups’ cultural, organizational, and political strategies. Focusing on ACORN chapters and church federations in St. Louis, Missouri, and San Jose, California, Swarts demonstrates that congregation-based organizing has developed an innovative cultural strategy, combining democratic deliberation and leadership development to produce a “culture of commitment” among its cross-class, multiracial membership. By contrast, ACORN’s more homogeneous low-income class base has a national structure that allows it to coordinate campaigns quickly, and its seasoned staff excels in tactical innovations. By making these often-invisible grassroots organizers evident, Swarts sheds light on factors that constrain or enable other social movements in the
United States
.
The Organizing book by Heidi Swarts, published by the U of Minnesota Press, is searchable at Amazon.
Reading
the “Excerpt” I found out that the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is a big financial supporter of ACORN. Swarts says CCHD follows a North American version of liberation theology which is heavily influenced by Alinsky. [However, I recently read in the paper that CCHD decided to no longer support ACORN because a brother of the founder stole a few million bucks and ACORN won’t fire him. Their decision has nothing to do with ideology or fraudulent voting registrations]
The religious groups Swarts covers (she says) like to use the language of religion to promote justice and redistribution. One of the favorites is to describe Jesus and his apostles as community organizers. That sounds familiar. Check it out.
Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing (Paperback) by Dennis A. Jacobsen
Product Description
Doing Justice is an introductory theology of congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to-day struggles and hopes of urban ministry and in the author’s 14 years of personal experience in community organizing ministries.Drawing from the organizing principles of Saul Alinsky, Jacobsen weaves the theological and biblical warrants for community organizing into concrete strategies for achieving justice in the public arena. Designed to be used by congregations and church leaders, as well as by ministerial students, Doing Justice opens new vistas for community action in support of the poor, the disadvantaged, and the disenfranchised of our society.
About the Author
Dennis A. Jacobsen is pastor of an ELCA congregation and the director of the Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus, a network of over 1,000 clergy that develops national and regional training events to ground the work of congregation-based community organizing in theology and scripture.
It was 3 Catholic parishes on S Side of Chicago whose pastors were affiliated with Gameliel who first hired Obama to work in
Chicago
.
You can also search this book at Amazon: “The world as it is, is the enemy of God.” – That’s the first sentence of Doing Justice
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radicals-Saul-Alinsky/dp/0679721134/ref=reg_hu-wl_mrai-recs
From the Inside Flap
This primer tells the "have-nots" how they can organize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy.
You can also look inside the Alinsky book where you will find this in the first paragraph on page 1.
“The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away. . . . We are talking about a mass power organization that will change the world… “
It also says something like: ask for 100%, fall back to 80% and then settle for 50%. Try again later for what you really want. Name of the game is compromise and stick with it.
On page 61:
“The ego of the organizer is stronger and more monumental than the ego of the leader. The leader is driven by the desire for power, while the organizer is driven by the desire to create. The organizer is in a real sense is reaching for the highest level for which man can reach – to create, to be a “great creator”, to play God.” [sounds like a messiah]
Yikes.
Lawrence
Eagleburger, Secretary of State under the first President Bush, was just on TV saying that he is very, very concerned that Obama is not who people think he is. He looked upset and said he’s afraid we are going to be very sorry a few years from now when we realize who we elected president.
If Obama had had a real contest when he ran for Senator all of this would have come out then. In case you don’t know, his democrat primary opponent was forced out because of leaked divorce papers & same thing happened to his Republican opponent who had a pretty good chance. A last-minute fill in – Alan Keyes- ran a joke campaign. So the presidency is the first time Obama has really had to run hard for something & along comes the economic melt-down to hand the election to him. I hope it doesn’t happen, but I’m afraid it will
Get out and vote – drag along your friends and family.
Julia
The index shows quite a few references to Saul Alinsky, the Berrigan brothers & at least one reference to Che Guevera. In fact, Daniel Berrigan wrote a blurb on the back jacket. The Berrigans were Catholic priests involved in anti-Viet Nam activities, including pouring blood on Selective Service office records.
Makes me wonder about the “peace and justice” movement in the Catholic Church.
Community Organizing Explained
If you’ve wondered what Community Organizers do.
Three books explain ACORN and the Gameliel organization of leftist clergy that first hired Obama, and the Saul Alinsky guide on organizing. I gleaned these from an important article by Stanley Kurtz at National Review On-Line. Read the whole thing here http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjdjY2Y2YWU5YjQ1Y2Y5Mzg0MGRlNDQ4YTkwYmI2ZDE=
What follows is cut and pasted from the books’ Amazon websites, along with some commentary. You can look inside all of these books yourself at Amazon at the links provided.
Organizing Urban
America
: Secular and Faith-based Progressive Movements (Social Movements, Protest and Contention) by Heidi Swarts
Product Description
Collective action through organized social movements has long expanded American citizens’ rights and liberties. Recently, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has helped win living wage initiatives in more than 130 cities across the country. Likewise, congregation-based groups have established countless health, education, and other social programs at city and state levels. Despite modest budgets, these organizations—different in their approach, but at the same time working for social change—have won billions of dollars in redistributive programs.
Looking closely at this phenomenon, Heidi J. Swarts explores activist groups’ cultural, organizational, and political strategies. Focusing on ACORN chapters and church federations in St. Louis, Missouri, and San Jose, California, Swarts demonstrates that congregation-based organizing has developed an innovative cultural strategy, combining democratic deliberation and leadership development to produce a “culture of commitment” among its cross-class, multiracial membership. By contrast, ACORN’s more homogeneous low-income class base has a national structure that allows it to coordinate campaigns quickly, and its seasoned staff excels in tactical innovations. By making these often-invisible grassroots organizers evident, Swarts sheds light on factors that constrain or enable other social movements in the
United States
.
The Organizing book by Heidi Swarts, published by the U of Minnesota Press, is searchable at Amazon.
Reading
the “Excerpt” I found out that the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is a big financial supporter of ACORN. Swarts says CCHD follows a North American version of liberation theology which is heavily influenced by Alinsky. [However, I recently read in the paper that CCHD decided to no longer support ACORN because a brother of the founder stole a few million bucks and ACORN won’t fire him. Their decision has nothing to do with ideology or fraudulent voting registrations]
The religious groups Swarts covers (she says) like to use the language of religion to promote justice and redistribution. One of the favorites is to describe Jesus and his apostles as community organizers. That sounds familiar. Check it out.
Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing (Paperback) by Dennis A. Jacobsen
Product Description
Doing Justice is an introductory theology of congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to-day struggles and hopes of urban ministry and in the author’s 14 years of personal experience in community organizing ministries.Drawing from the organizing principles of Saul Alinsky, Jacobsen weaves the theological and biblical warrants for community organizing into concrete strategies for achieving justice in the public arena. Designed to be used by congregations and church leaders, as well as by ministerial students, Doing Justice opens new vistas for community action in support of the poor, the disadvantaged, and the disenfranchised of our society.
About the Author
Dennis A. Jacobsen is pastor of an ELCA congregation and the director of the Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus, a network of over 1,000 clergy that develops national and regional training events to ground the work of congregation-based community organizing in theology and scripture.
It was 3 Catholic parishes on S Side of Chicago whose pastors were affiliated with Gameliel who first hired Obama to work in
Chicago
.
You can also search this book at Amazon: “The world as it is, is the enemy of God.” – That’s the first sentence of Doing Justice
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radicals-Saul-Alinsky/dp/0679721134/ref=reg_hu-wl_mrai-recs
From the Inside Flap
This primer tells the "have-nots" how they can organize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy.
You can also look inside the Alinsky book where you will find this in the first paragraph on page 1.
“The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away. . . . We are talking about a mass power organization that will change the world… “
It also says something like: ask for 100%, fall back to 80% and then settle for 50%. Try again later for what you really want. Name of the game is compromise and stick with it.
On page 61:
“The ego of the organizer is stronger and more monumental than the ego of the leader. The leader is driven by the desire for power, while the organizer is driven by the desire to create. The organizer is in a real sense is reaching for the highest level for which man can reach – to create, to be a “great creator”, to play God.” [sounds like a messiah]
Yikes.
Lawrence
Eagleburger, Secretary of State under the first President Bush, was just on TV saying that he is very, very concerned that Obama is not who people think he is. He looked upset and said he’s afraid we are going to be very sorry a few years from now when we realize who we elected president.
If Obama had had a real contest when he ran for Senator all of this would have come out then. In case you don’t know, his democrat primary opponent was forced out because of leaked divorce papers & same thing happened to his Republican opponent who had a pretty good chance. A last-minute fill in – Alan Keyes- ran a joke campaign. So the presidency is the first time Obama has really had to run hard for something & along comes the economic melt-down to hand the election to him. I hope it doesn’t happen, but I’m afraid it will
Get out and vote – drag along your friends and family.
Julia
The index shows quite a few references to Saul Alinsky, the Berrigan brothers & at least one reference to Che Guevera. In fact, Daniel Berrigan wrote a blurb on the back jacket. The Berrigans were Catholic priests involved in anti-Viet Nam activities, including pouring blood on Selective Service office records.
Makes me wonder about the “peace and justice” movement in the Catholic Church.
Community Organizing Explained
If you’ve wondered what Community Organizers do.
Three books explain ACORN and the Gameliel organization of leftist clergy that first hired Obama, and the Saul Alinsky guide on organizing. I gleaned these from an important article by Stanley Kurtz at National Review On-Line. Read the whole thing here http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjdjY2Y2YWU5YjQ1Y2Y5Mzg0MGRlNDQ4YTkwYmI2ZDE=
What follows is cut and pasted from the books’ Amazon websites, along with some commentary. You can look inside all of these books yourself at Amazon at the links provided.
Organizing Urban
America
: Secular and Faith-based Progressive Movements (Social Movements, Protest and Contention) by Heidi Swarts
Product Description
Collective action through organized social movements has long expanded American citizens’ rights and liberties. Recently, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has helped win living wage initiatives in more than 130 cities across the country. Likewise, congregation-based groups have established countless health, education, and other social programs at city and state levels. Despite modest budgets, these organizations—different in their approach, but at the same time working for social change—have won billions of dollars in redistributive programs.
Looking closely at this phenomenon, Heidi J. Swarts explores activist groups’ cultural, organizational, and political strategies. Focusing on ACORN chapters and church federations in St. Louis, Missouri, and San Jose, California, Swarts demonstrates that congregation-based organizing has developed an innovative cultural strategy, combining democratic deliberation and leadership development to produce a “culture of commitment” among its cross-class, multiracial membership. By contrast, ACORN’s more homogeneous low-income class base has a national structure that allows it to coordinate campaigns quickly, and its seasoned staff excels in tactical innovations. By making these often-invisible grassroots organizers evident, Swarts sheds light on factors that constrain or enable other social movements in the
United States
.
The Organizing book by Heidi Swarts, published by the U of Minnesota Press, is searchable at Amazon.
Reading
the “Excerpt” I found out that the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is a big financial supporter of ACORN. Swarts says CCHD follows a North American version of liberation theology which is heavily influenced by Alinsky. [However, I recently read in the paper that CCHD decided to no longer support ACORN because a brother of the founder stole a few million bucks and ACORN won’t fire him. Their decision has nothing to do with ideology or fraudulent voting registrations]
The religious groups Swarts covers (she says) like to use the language of religion to promote justice and redistribution. One of the favorites is to describe Jesus and his apostles as community organizers. That sounds familiar. Check it out.
Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing (Paperback) by Dennis A. Jacobsen
Product Description
Doing Justice is an introductory theology of congregation-based community organizing rooted in the day-to-day struggles and hopes of urban ministry and in the author’s 14 years of personal experience in community organizing ministries.Drawing from the organizing principles of Saul Alinsky, Jacobsen weaves the theological and biblical warrants for community organizing into concrete strategies for achieving justice in the public arena. Designed to be used by congregations and church leaders, as well as by ministerial students, Doing Justice opens new vistas for community action in support of the poor, the disadvantaged, and the disenfranchised of our society.
About the Author
Dennis A. Jacobsen is pastor of an ELCA congregation and the director of the Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus, a network of over 1,000 clergy that develops national and regional training events to ground the work of congregation-based community organizing in theology and scripture.
It was 3 Catholic parishes on S Side of Chicago whose pastors were affiliated with Gameliel who first hired Obama to work in
Chicago
.
You can also search this book at Amazon: “The world as it is, is the enemy of God.” – That’s the first sentence of Doing Justice
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radicals-Saul-Alinsky/dp/0679721134/ref=reg_hu-wl_mrai-recs
From the Inside Flap
This primer tells the "have-nots" how they can organize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy.
You can also look inside the Alinsky book where you will find this in the first paragraph on page 1.
“The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away. . . . We are talking about a mass power organization that will change the world… “
It also says something like: ask for 100%, fall back to 80% and then settle for 50%. Try again later for what you really want. Name of the game is compromise and stick with it.
On page 61:
“The ego of the organizer is stronger and more monumental than the ego of the leader. The leader is driven by the desire for power, while the organizer is driven by the desire to create. The organizer is in a real sense is reaching for the highest level for which man can reach – to create, to be a “great creator”, to play God.” [sounds like a messiah]
Yikes.
Lawrence
Eagleburger, Secretary of State under the first President Bush, was just on TV saying that he is very, very concerned that Obama is not who people think he is. He looked upset and said he’s afraid we are going to be very sorry a few years from now when we realize who we elected president.
If Obama had had a real contest when he ran for Senator all of this would have come out then. In case you don’t know, his democrat primary opponent was forced out because of leaked divorce papers & same thing happened to his Republican opponent who had a pretty good chance. A last-minute fill in – Alan Keyes- ran a joke campaign. So the presidency is the first time Obama has really had to run hard for something & along comes the economic melt-down to hand the election to him. I hope it doesn’t happen, but I’m afraid it will
Get out and vote – drag along your friends and family.
Julia
The index shows quite a few references to Saul Alinsky, the Berrigan brothers & at least one reference to Che Guevera. In fact, Daniel Berrigan wrote a blurb on the back jacket. The Berrigans were Catholic priests involved in anti-Viet Nam activities, including pouring blood on Selective Service office records.
Makes me wonder about the “peace and justice” movement in the Catholic Church.
Another from the NRO
Another from the NRO
The Obama Department of Peace & Non-Violence [Andy McCarthy]
Kathryn & Jay, At least we know what will become of that 25 percent of the Defense budget Barney Frank want to slash from the protection of Americans.
The DC Examiner reminds us that already proposed in the House (HR 808) is the creation of a new, multi-billion dollar, cabinet-level monstrosity: The Department of Peace & Non-Violence. (Thanks to Dr. Andy Bostom for calling this to my attention.)
The DPN-V would house such vital new agencies as The Office of Peace Education & Training, the Office of Domestic Peace Activities, the Office of International Peace Activities, the Office of Technology for Peace, the Office of Arms Control and Disarmament (ACM — notwithstanding that Barnie seems to have that covered already), the Office of Peaceful Co-Existence and Non-Violent Conflict Resolution, and, of course, the Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights. (Emphasis added.)
This, natch, is separate and apart from Wage Insurance (aka "Spreading the Wealth"), Obama’s proposed Global Poverty Act (aka Spreading the Wealth to the Globe through the UN), tax relief for oppressed classes such as trial lawyers (aka Spreading More Wealth to Top Democrat Donors); and gasoline subsidies (aka Spreading the Wealth to America’s enemies who are hurting now that oil is down to about $60/barrel).
Too bad Sarah Palin is too dumb to come up with an agenda like this — you can see why so many top conservative thinkers are flocking to the Obama ticket.
Another from the NRO
Another from the NRO
The Obama Department of Peace & Non-Violence [Andy McCarthy]
Kathryn & Jay, At least we know what will become of that 25 percent of the Defense budget Barney Frank want to slash from the protection of Americans.
The DC Examiner reminds us that already proposed in the House (HR 808) is the creation of a new, multi-billion dollar, cabinet-level monstrosity: The Department of Peace & Non-Violence. (Thanks to Dr. Andy Bostom for calling this to my attention.)
The DPN-V would house such vital new agencies as The Office of Peace Education & Training, the Office of Domestic Peace Activities, the Office of International Peace Activities, the Office of Technology for Peace, the Office of Arms Control and Disarmament (ACM — notwithstanding that Barnie seems to have that covered already), the Office of Peaceful Co-Existence and Non-Violent Conflict Resolution, and, of course, the Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights. (Emphasis added.)
This, natch, is separate and apart from Wage Insurance (aka "Spreading the Wealth"), Obama’s proposed Global Poverty Act (aka Spreading the Wealth to the Globe through the UN), tax relief for oppressed classes such as trial lawyers (aka Spreading More Wealth to Top Democrat Donors); and gasoline subsidies (aka Spreading the Wealth to America’s enemies who are hurting now that oil is down to about $60/barrel).
Too bad Sarah Palin is too dumb to come up with an agenda like this — you can see why so many top conservative thinkers are flocking to the Obama ticket.
Understanding Obama’s tax plan
Here is a good way to figure out what Obama wants to do with taxes.
Simple explanation of democratic tax policies.50,000 people go to a baseball game, but the game was rained out. A refund was then due. The team was about to mail refunds when Congressional Democrats stopped them and suggested that they send out the ticket refunds based on Obama’s interpretation of fairness.Originally the refunds were to be paid based on the price each person had paid for the tickets. Unfortunately that meant most of the refund money would be going to the ticket holders who had purchased the most expensive tickets. This, according to the DNC, is considered totally unfair. A decision was then made to pay out the refunds in this manner:People in the $10 seats will get back $15. After all, they have less money to spend on tickets to begin with.Call it an "Earned Income Ticket Credit." Persons "earn" it by having few skills, poor work habits, and low ambition, thus keeping them at entry-level wages.People in the $25 seats will get back $25, because it "seems fair."People in the $50 seats will get back $1 because they already make a lot of money and don’t need a refund. After all, if they can afford a $50 ticket, they must not be paying enough taxes.People in the $75 luxury box seats will each have to pay an additional $25 because it’s the "right thing to do."People walking past the stadium who couldn’t afford to buy a ticket for the game each will get a $10 refund, even though they didn’t pay anything for the tickets. They need the most help.Now do you understand?If not, contact Representative Nancy Pelosi, Senator John Kerry, Senator Joe Biden or Presidential Candidate Barrack Obama for assistance.
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