Jimmy Hoffa and Union Bosses Propagate Class Warfare Rhetoric

[red states rule]

I wonder if the hippies in the streets atually know they are being used by the like of Jimmy Hoffa, the Dems, and the liberla media

Or are they really that stupid that they think these people actually care about them?





One of the themes of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement is that disgruntled protestors, who resent the purported inequities between the “99 percent” and the “1 percent”, consistently direct their angst at the wrong people. In an interview with Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/in-warning-to-tea-party-jimmy-hoffa-jr-says-lets-take-these-sons-of-bitches-out/), for example, the Big Government (http://biggovernment.com/) writer Christian Hartsock recently exposed (http://biggovernment.com/chartsock/2011/11/03/the-real-class-war-jimmy-hoffa-ohio-union-bosses-wont-lower-dues-to-help-workers/) the glaring hypocrisy of public sector union bosses. When asked if he would be willing to take a pay cut to redistribute his earnings to the due payers he ostensibly represents – Jimmy Hoffa makes at least $300,000 a year – his response was rooted in classic liberal ideology.

“Well, I think, the answer is we got to have more taxes on people," he said. "I think we ought to raise the taxes on the rich people in this country. And I think everybody should do that. And I think we should have more taxes. And let’s make sure that everybody has equality of sacrifice and we should be paying more taxes just like Warren Buffet.”

In other words, Hoffa believes that wealthy Americans – excluding union leaders – should pay higher taxes to compensate the public sector workers they unabashedly swindle. Indeed, considering the top 1 percent of income earners in the United States make roughly $343,000 a year (http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/top-1-percent-earn.aspx), Jimmy Hoffa is, by all estimations, as much a part of America’s so-called corporate greed problem as the Wall Street executives he patently derides.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2011/11/03/jimmy_hoffa_and_union_bosses_propagate_class_warfa re_rhetoric






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I'd be willing to bet that 99% of the 99% (that's 98.01%) would rather be in the top 1%.
So in all reality, the ethics of this "populist" movement rest in the (99%-98.01%=) .99% -- oh, I see, they just had the decimal point off.:cool:

Now I want to be the first to say that I am completely against the oppression of the 0.99% by the 1.00%...and the other 98.01% for that matter.

[Gunny]

I wonder if the hippies in the streets atually know they are being used by the like of Jimmy Hoffa, the Dems, and the liberla media

Or are they really that stupid that they think these people actually care about them?






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They're really that stupid.

[red states rule]

If you live in WI, yur kids may have been used by the teacher's union as political pawns




WITI-TV, MADISON—
When you send your kids off to school, you expect them to learn all about the "three r's": reading, writing and recall efforts?

That doesn't seem right, and it didn't seem right to FOX6 Investigator Bryan Polcyn either.

It is common practice for elementary schools to take students on a tour of the Wisconsin State Capitol, but how would you feel if your child went on just such a field trip, and ended up being led, quite literally, into the middle of a political protest?

One superintendent refused to watch video of this very thing occurring, and his elementary school principal waited 22 days to tell parents what happened.

Unless you've been living in a cave, or an entirely different state altogether, you're probably aware that some folks in Wisconsin aren't so happy with the current state of affairs.

It's been nine months since thousands of protesters occupied the Capitol in Madison, and the so-called "Solidarity Singers" still show up, every day.

"This is an exercise in free speech, and they're doing it in a respectful way," Sen. Mark Miller (http://www.debatepolicy.com/topic/politics/government/mark-miller-PEPLT004530.topic) (D-Madison) said.

Every weekday at noon, the "Solidarity Singers" gather around the Capitol Rotunda to vocalize their displeasure with Governor Walker's agenda.

"It energizes me to do the work we need to do," protester Sue Nelson said.

"I am very frustrated and angry," protester Valerie Van Horn said.

From traditional protest songs that date back generations, to other popular tunes with a clever change in lyrics, it is a peaceful protest, with an unmistakably political message.

"We want to sing in the Capitol the day after Walker is no longer working in this building," Solidarity Song Leader Chris Reeder said.

For first-time visitors, it's an attention-grabbing experience, especially when those visitors are fourth-grade students on a field trip.

It is one thing for students to witness a political protest, and quite another for them to become a part of it.

http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-20111103-protesters-kids,0,6947960.story