The Left’s Plans To Destroy America
It’s good sport to make Glenn Beck out to be a complete kook for all of his conspiracy theories and apocalyptic predictions. And Beck is often over the top in some of the things he says.
But it becomes really difficult not to take Beck seriously when stuff like this comes to light. Beck’s goofiness notwithstanding, there is in fact a movement of Bolshevik types out there who do want to destroy America – or at least the capitalist system that made this the greatest country on earth.
And when those Bolshevik types openly talk about specific plans of theirs to ruin our economic system, and refer to the chaos in Wisconsin as “playing defense,” it’s clear they think they’ve got momentum.
Via The Blaze…
The speaker in the video – which came from a forum at Pace University – is a man named Steven Lerner, who until November was a union leader at SEIU. He’s a lunatic, certainly, but he’s not some crank out in the wilderness. Lerner was in a position to direct millions of dollars of that union’s money toward building a scheme just like the one he describes in the video – mortgage strikes, students refusing to pay interest on their loans en masse, a Wisconsin-style demonstration on Wall Street. Lerner was a protege of SEIU’s former president Andy Stern, and he was purged along with a few others when Mary Kay Henry ascended to the presidency of that union. Now he can spend all his time trying to bring the economic system down.
This is in all likelihood going to turn up on Beck’s show this afternoon. It will be interesting to see if any of the things Lerner is talking about resurface in an operational phase down the road this spring or summer.
I, being as old as I am, remember when the unions were about the only reason that a “middle class” ever evolved in this country. From the end of World War II, up until the president fired the air traffic controllers, the unions provided the middle class with the means to buy cars, and homes, and raise a family in some semblance of respect. If you go back to when the unions were formed, employers,(big business) were working kids not yet 10 years old, from dawn to dusk for a dollar a day.
Funny, during the heyday of the unions, there were no companies going out of business because of the cost of labor. But, now, that the far right has declared war on the unions, you can bet their “bottom line” will improve drastically. And, as for the middle class, well look quick, cause its going to hell.
Unions didn’t build the middle class, technology and productivity built the
middle class. Yours is a common misperception fed to you…by the unions.
MacAoidh, you are either ignorant or arrogant. You really do need to do your homework.
Then answer this question, “centrist” (what a joke):
What innovations have unions brought to the marketplace?
Henry Ford wasn’t in a union, and when he created the modern assembly line
and brought the automobile within the price range of the average American
his plant wasn’t unionized. Car ownership did more to create a suburban
middle class than any union ever did.
You think that because unions were able to chisel wealth away from the
entrepreneurial class through force and in many cases violence, they created
the middle class – without understanding how that wealth was created in the
first place. I’d say it’s YOU who need some homework, but I fear it’s wasted
on you.
You are the joke, as well as those that think the way that you do. You hide behind your monitor and type things that are not factual just to try and steer those like you even farther to the right. You attempt to mislead people into thinking that unions and their members are public enemy number 1. Your reporting is biased and without merit. You seek to demonize public employees and your plantation mentality is evident. If you ever wish to meet face to face to have this conversation I would be more than happy to do so but I doubt that you would. You are just like the Fox propoganda folks who will not allow anyone on their network so that the other side may be told. You are a flake, although educated, still a flake. If middle class Americans were spending millions in advertising like the large corporations do,(the same corporations that are purchasing the politicians)I am sure that the messages on television as well as radio would be different. Wake up MacAoidh, If your opinion wasn’t being bought and paid for, you would also be a centrist like me.
Thanks for the complete exposition of both your political leanings and your ability to conduct a civil dialogue. Very instructive.
I do not wish to have the last word so if you reply do not expect me to reciprocate. Again you are attempting to deceive your readers by making comments about my political leanings. I am 44 and when I registered at age 18 I registered as democrat. Although I vote based on the candidate regardless of the party that he/she belongs to I will inform you that if broken down I probably vote republican 40% of the time. I do not know your age nor your background. I have already given you my age and I will let you know that I am a professional. I have been for 23 years. I have seen bad politicians in both parties come and go. What I have seen most of all in my 44 years is a trend of greed and not the willingness of the entrepreneurial class to grow the middle class. Am I wealthy? I guess that would depend on ones definition of wealth. I believe that I am. I have faith in GOD, I have a wonderful family, I have a career that I work hard at and that I appreciate, and I can go to bed at night knowing that I lived the day the way that God intended me to and that is by being a good, HONEST, hard working person. The day that you stand beforwe the MAN, i pray that he forgives you for your deceitfulness, and your misguided principles that you try to push upon HIS people.
Laughable.
Your political leanings come through from what you’ve written here. Anyone
can see them.
No one is deceived by what they read on this site. We are straightforwardly
conservative here. If you don’t like that, hit the road. We won’t miss you.
Also, Should I assume that you are a fan of the Koch brothers. Are they the entrepreneurerial class that you speak of? If so I understand where it is you are coming from.
What’s wrong with the Koch Brothers? But for them 50,000 Americans would not
have a job.
Only a far-left nut would have something against business owners engaging in
their 1st Amendment rights. Centrists don’t carry those kinds of grudges.
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Unions went to shit as soon as the Government gave illegal immigrant labor the OK.