The Plight of Entitled New York Times Employees

April 25, 2012 Leave a comment

Unionized employees at the New York Times are in an uproar over pending changes to their retirement program. No longer able to afford lavish pension benefits for retirees, the Times is attempting to move to a 401k program that employees would contribute to. The union is outraged of course. What’s interesting here is that for all of the Times attacked Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and any number of businesses who have been forced to change employee retirement programs over the years, the Times is doing exactly the same thing.

The Times has no choice but to freeze their current pension plan and replace it with a 401k. In case the liberal reporters haven’t noticed, circulation is down for all newspapers including the Old Grey Lady. It doesn’t matter that the Times is popular among liberals and intellectual elites. Subscriptions are down and the Times is getting beaten online, badly, by other papers and internet sites. As such revenue is down and with a drop in revenue it comes as no surprise that there needs to be a drop in employee benefits be it in the form of pay, healthcare or pensions.

Hysterical liberal Times employees took to You Tube to grouse about the new retirement program. The reaction of these employees is priceless in that it exposes the root of liberal bias at the paper and it exposes the entitlement mentality of liberals. One woman claims she’ll be living in a cardboard box when she retires, another claims she’ll be living on food stamps. One man wonders if he’ll have to make the choice between living with his kids and suicide. The melodramatic rants are amusing but they really expose the absurdity of the union position. Millions of Americans have 401k programs. In retirement they aren’t being forced to live in cardboard boxes or go on food stamps. They certainly aren’t contemplating suicide.

These liberals seriously believe they are entitled to live off of their employer until the day they die whether they’re working for them or not. The fact is, employers cannot afford this sort of benefit anymore. In fact, taxpayers cannot afford to pay for this sort of benefit for government employees either. This includes the Michigan government school teacher who wants to retire at the age of 47 and get full pension and medical benefits for life. The notion that we must be paid by our employer once we retire, even for decades afterward, must fall by the wayside. No employer (taxpayers included) should be expected to pay former employees massive pensions for decades on end. This sort of lazy entitlement is not only absurd but expensive.

Everyone wants to have enough money set aside so they can have a nice retirement. But a nice retirement isn’t the job of your employer. It was one thing when companies had a lot of money and could lure talent with the prospect of a nice pension. Like it or not, companies cannot afford this sort of entitlement anymore. 401k programs allow employees to contribute to and partially manage their own retirement, something they probably should have been doing all along. Most Americans have such a program, only the most entitled of union employees (mostly government employees) think they’re above it all. The New York Times employees will soon be joining all of us little people with 401k programs. While they’re grousing about it, you might want to invest in some cardboard boxes and while you’re at it invest in dog food. I know of a lot of melodramatic Times employees who will soon be in the market for a well appointed cardboard box and a can of Alpo.

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States Face $4 Trillion In Debt; Unions Resist Cuts

October 25, 2011 Leave a comment

The 50 US states have debts totaling around $4 trillion. This to go with the nearly $15 trillion Federal deficit. One can only imagine how much in debt local governments are in. Part of the problem for states are massive salaries, health care and pension plans lavished on government employees. In Wisconsin there are bus drivers earning six figures. In Illinois two teachers union lobbyists gamed the system to earn six figure pensions for two days of substitute teaching. While Illinois may be more corrupt that most states, there are thousands of government employees set to earn massive pensions at taxpayers expense.

The average school teacher in Wisconsin earns $100,000 a year in salary and benefits. The same is true in Michigan and Ohio. In most states, government employees can retire after 30 years on the job and they receive a pension equalling 90% of their salary. Government employees who retire at the old age of 52 often go to work for another government agency and end up retiring with two lifetime pensions. Not to mention lifetime healthcare. Keep in mind, most of these people don’t produce anything. In the case of school teachers, they at best produce poor results.

Interestingly it’s the government employee unions who are aiding and abetting the Occupy Wall Street hooligans. The American Federation of Teachers is supporting the OWS folks by allowing them to use their property. Other government employee unions are also supporting OWS. It’s sort of interesting considering that some government employees receive pensions that put them into the dreaded 1% that we’re all supposed to hate.

What these government employee unions really want is to have rich capitalists pay for them to do essentially nothing. They want wealth redistributed from producers to non producers. Make no mistake, government employees don’t produce anything. Most who work for agencies are paper pushers and teachers, well, we all know the dreadful product the government schools produce. These people want to continue to be paid to do essentially nothing. Worse, they want those who actually produce something to pay an exorbitant amount for them to do nothing of value.

Taxpayers cannot afford this anymore. States are facing massive debts that total $4 trillion. Government employees simply cost to much money. We have two choices to get these costs under control. We can either cut salaries, benefits and pensions or we can cut a large number of government employees. We cannot raise taxes because Americans are already taxes at their limit.

Republican Governors in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana have all tried to do something about this problem. They’ve cut back on government union power and have required government employees to pay into their own healthcare and pension. It makes no sense for government employees to have bigger benefits than those in the private sector with no cost to boot. Government employees want us to view them as essential people who are sacrificing by serving the people. That’s a load of nonsense. These people not only aren’t essential, they aren’t sacrificing at all. They’re feeding off the taxpayer teet and they’re outraged that anyone would try to ween them.

But ween them taxpayers must. We cannot afford these lavish wages and benefits for people who do not produce. If working for the government is all about sacrifice, let the government employees sacrifice and earn less than their private sector counterparts. If they don’t like it, let them quit and enter the private sector. Most won’t because they can’t hack it in a competitive environment. With $4 trillion in state debts something needs to be done about government employee salaries and pensions. Gov. Walker got the ball rolling but more needs to be done.

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SEIU’s Stephen Lerner Wants To Break Laws, Create A Crisis

September 20, 2011 1 Comment

SEIU Union leader Stephen Lerner is back in the news again. You’ll recall that just a few months ago Lerner was advocating taking over banks and Wall Street. Having failed at that last week, he’s now encouraging radical leftists and union members to break laws and create a crisis for the wealthy. Lerner also wants folks to ‘occupy’ abandoned houses. Apparently the union movement doesn’t just want its members to break laws and create a crisis, it also desires members to become squatters.

Lerner cannot be taken lightly despite the failure of last weekend’s Wall Street takeover which could only attract 5,000 upper middle class white college students. SEIU is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, they have mutual short term goals. Those goals include destroying capitalism and Israel and creating a socialist state. SEIU is inspired by what happened in Cairo last spring, just like the radical Wisconsin unions were inspired. Lerner desires to have a similar revolution here in America.

It may be easy to laugh at Lerner’s desire to bring about a revolution here in the United States. Surely the US isn’t as unstable as Egypt was. That would be a grave error on the part of those of us who love freedom. One year ago today most Egyptians would have thought it impossible that, barring death, Hosni Mubarak would be out of power. We sit in our living rooms and assume that the United State could never be overthrown. While it remains unlikely, it’s not impossible. We have a substantial economic problem and a sharply divided nation.

While the US may not be ripe for revolution, people like Stephen Lerner want to make us ripe for revolution. He’s encouraging people to break the law. He wants to manufacture a crisis for the wealthy. This is the basic progressive, leftist playbook. The very playbook that President Obama learned when he was a ‘community organizer’. Obama is doing his part, making Americans more dependant on the government. Welfare rolls are rising, the number of Americans on food stamps is at an all time high. Poverty rates in America are skyrocketing under Obama. And yet the President has no solution to the problem. Perhaps because he doesn’t view it as nearly the problem that those of us on the right or in the middle view it. The more people dependant on the state, the better as far as Obama is concerned.

Obama is doing his part and rabble rousers like Stephen Lerner are doing their part. Lerner is trying to rile up college students and union thugs. Where Lerner and the progressive left is off is that the American people aren’t behind them. The public has soured on Obama and they’ve soured on unions. Americans don’t view unions nearly as favorably as they did a generation ago. Obama’s poor poll numbers are well documented. Lerner’s movement is even having trouble gaining traction on college campuses because students have figured out that Obama’s policies aren’t creating jobs for them after they graduate. Rabble rousing may be fun times in college but there isn’t much demand out there for rabble rousers.

Lerner’s calls to break laws and create a crisis are dangerous if they are followed by a substantial number of people. They don’t have the numbers yet, fortunately. What Lerner and SEIU’s position does do for us is expose the radical nature of these unions for everyone to see. Unions are not the friend of the working class or of Americans. They’re out to gain power for themselves. They talk in populist language but who do you suppose will be in charge when they win their revolution? Do you really think Stephen Lerner is looking out for you? Hardly. We should hope Lerner and his gang of radicals keeps talking. The more we know about them, the more Americans will oppose their radical policies.

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Obama’s Jobs Plan Amounts To Stimulus II

September 6, 2011 Leave a comment

President Obama held a rally with labor leaders yesterday in Detroit. Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa Jr. was Obama’s warmup act. He declared:

We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war.

President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.

Predictably the White House has no comment about Hoffa’s speech, which was given in front of Obama who said nothing about it during his 25 minute address. On one hand Hoffa’s comments are a very clear indication of how the leadership of the unions view politics. They and the extreme left really do view things as a war and they have little to no problem with violence. On the other hand Hoffa’s comments are almost laughably ridiculous. He apparently thinks this is the 1930′s where unions can get away with violent rhetoric because the public supports them and supports the left-wing pols they endorse. Polling indicates Obama has never had the rank and file union members, and has them even less so now.

While Hoffa’s comments are sure to be a hit on right-wing talk radio and blog roll today, it’s President Obama’s comments that are more interesting. Obama hinted at what will be in his big jobs speech on Thursday. It sounds like a good portion of the speech will be a proposal to spend more money in infrastructure. This includes an infrastructure bank, which would supposedly include the private and public sector.

In other words, if Obama’s Detroit speech is any indication of what his jobs speech will be he’s calling for Stimulus II. You’ll recall that Obama’s biggest argument for the Stimulus was all the “shovel ready” jobs that it would fund. Two years later Obama admitted that “shovel ready” didn’t mean right away. The Stimulus package did little, if anything to employ the American workforce. It was little more than a payoff for unions at the expense of taxpayers. Most of the “shovel ready” jobs already existed and they came at costs of over $250,000 per job.

So now it appears Obama is ready to offer Stimulus II. He’s learned nothing from the failure of Stimulus I. The President is devoid of new ideas, he’s clearly ready to retread a failed policy. People need to go to work now. There aren’t any shovel ready jobs that are being hoarded away for lack of funding. The fact of the matter is that when government spends on infrastructure, it takes two to three years before actual construction jobs are created. Stimulus II will create few if any jobs, but the jobs that it does create will happen during the next administration, not in the next year.

Last week the Weekly Standard declared Obama was President Zero. Zero jobs, zero ideas. That’s looking like an accurate statement. Job growth was zero in August and in September the President appears ready to show us he has zero new ideas. While Jimmy Hoffa Jr. will get all the headlines today for his ridiculous, violent rhetoric in Detroit, the President’s Detroit speech is far more important. It shows us that we have a President who doesn’t know what he’s doing and is unable to come up with any new ideas. His jobs speech is headed towards disaster.

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Right to Work States See Increased Job Creation

May 19, 2011 Leave a comment

Our country has a union problem. This is of course no secret to those who followed the union protests in Wisconsin a few months back. But the problem extends beyond government employee unions. There are 22 states that are right to work states, meaning union membership cannot be compulsory for employment. Those 22 states are largely in the south and west and account for around 40% of the nation’s population. Yet they accounted for 60% of the nation’s job growth over the last 20 years. With decade long double digit unemployment, Michigan ought to seriously consider passing right to work legislation.

This fact is unsurprising to those of us who understand the free market. Our nation became powerful not through military might but because of our freedom. Freedom led to Henry Ford’s assembly line, it led to the rise of Standard Oil, US Steel and any number of other companies. When there is less freedom, there is less innovation and ultimately less job growth.

Forced union membership drives businesses away because the costs of doing business with a union outweight the benefits of location. Dealing with unions is expensive and time consuming. It forces employers to focus on labor agreements rather than innovations. Union shops are notoriously inefficient, largely because of union rules. It has only been recently that GM has finally gotten rid of their sitting rooms where hundreds of full time employees came to sit around all day doing nothing. GM couldn’t fire those people because of union rules and contracts.

Surely those sitting rooms and other union rules were noticed by employers around the country who chose to build plants in the 22 right to work states rather than my state of Michigan. Michigan has had double digit unemployment for nearly a decade. Eliminating compulsory union laws would go a long way in relieving Michigan’s economic problems. Manufacturers would be able to return to our state and offer jobs again without the costs of dealing with unions. The jobs may pay a little less but that sure beats double digit unemployment for a decade straight.

But of course the sages in Lansing are unlikely to pass a right to work law. Even though we have a faux Republican Governor, a Republican House and a veto proof Republican Senate, the Legislature is unlikely to pass right to work legislation. Fear of the unions is to strong in Lansing to overcome. Gov. Snyder and GOP Legislature will pass all sorts of tax and spending bills that they allege will make the business climate better in Michigan. No doubt our business taxes have been difficult to figure out and burdensome but taxes are only a small part of the problem. The biggest reason why we’re losing our manufacturing base is unions.

The only way Michigan and other midwest and northeastern states can increase their manufacturing base is to pass right to work legislation. It’s very clear that the states who have passed right to work laws have less unemployment and increased job creation. Michigan has a shot to be a leader in the midwest and a regional magnet for new manufacturing jobs. If we pass right to work we’ll get jobs from businesses looking to move out of union friendly Illinois, Ohi0 and Wisconsin. We have the base in place for manufacturing, all we need now is the business climate.

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Walker Vindicated: Mass. Democrats Restrict Union Power

April 28, 2011 Leave a comment

The Massachusetts State House has voted to restrict government employee unions collective bargaining rights. It appears headed for victory in the State Senate and the Governor has vowed to sign the bill. Doesn’t this sound like a familiar these during the first four months of 2011? It’s similar but it isn’t quite the same in Massachusetts as it was in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana. The difference is that the Republican Party barely exists in Massachusetts. The State House and Senate are dominated by Democrats, who have a veto proof majority. The Governor is a very liberal Democrat.

I’m sure you’re thinking that Massachusetts is heading for Wisconsin style union rallies and protests over these restrictions in government employee bargaining power. While the unions are apparently irate over the bill, they aren’t planning any massive rallies ala Wisconsin. It’s not politically expedient to protest in Massachusetts as it would destroy the narrative that Republicans want to restrict union rights. The unions will no doubt fight these changes but they’ll do it by quietly targeting yes votes in Democrat primaries. The unions may stage some token rallies supporting the no voters but they aren’t going to overtake the Capitol building with 10,000 crazed teachers and bozo socialist college students.

The Massachusetts bill proves that Scott Walker was right in Wisconsin. Government employee benefits are out of control. It is an outrage that the average government employee makes more money in salary and benefits than the average private sector worker. Government employees don’t produce anything of value, they simply take from others. We cannot have a successful economic recovery so long as it is more lucrative to work for the government not producing anything than it is to work in the private sector. The fact that liberal Democrats in one of the most liberal states in the union recognize that government employee contracts are out of control says a lot.

Taxpayers cannot afford to pay for lavish union benefits for government employees. American taxpayers are being taxed to death. Like it or not, there isn’t any more money to squeeze out of the so-called rich and the middle class is currently being killed by taxes and inflation. It is absurd that bus drivers in Madison, Wisconsin are earning over $100,000 in salary and benefits. It is absurd that school teachers in some of the worst performing schools in the country are earning an average of $100,000. This sort of nonsense can only happen in government or when government interferes with private contracts.

Taxpayers in Wisconsin pushed back against out of control spending by electing Republicans in 2010. They backed those Republicans by re-electing a conservative Supreme Court judge last month, in what was seen as a referendum on Walker’s union law. Democrat Legislators in Massachusetts are finally pushing back against the out of control spending they helped create. They recognize that their state can no longer afford to pay lavish union salaries, benefits and pensions for government employees.

This issue was never about Republicans destroying unions. The issue was always about bringing state budgets under control. The fact that we now have extremely liberal Democrats doing the same thing as Scott Walker vindicates his position. It also exposes the unions as little more than the thuggish stuntmen they are. It also exposes the hypocrisy of the Wisconsin Democrats who left the state, as well as the media who of course isn’t reporting that Democrats are passing the same bill Walker signed in Wisconsin. In the end, state budgets must be balanced. Taxpayers cannot afford to pay anymore and it’s time for government employees to see their lavish benefits cut.

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George Soros, Other Radical Socialists Plan New World Order, Violent Revolution

April 9, 2011 3 Comments

George Soros is holding two massive radical left-wing conferences this weekend. He’s holding a Bretton Woods III conference in New Hampshire wherein he and his cohorts are going to attempt to remake the world economy. Meanwhile in Boston he’s holding another conference to change the world and the media. Soros is spending hundreds of millions on changing the world via his radical organizations. He has the ear of President Obama, not just through himself but through surrogates like Samatha Power, Cass Sunstein, Nancy Pelosi, Van Jones etc. Soros is an extremely powerful man, yet the media is silent about him.

In other left-wing news, radical socialist leader Brian Becker has declared that nonviolence is not always the answer. Sometimes there needs to be violent revolution. This is interesting as Becker has Soros connections. It’s also interesting in light of what The Nation has to say about Samantha Power, a Soros friend and close adviser to President Obama. You’ll recall that Power was credited with the duty to protect doctrine that allowed Obama to bomb Libya. The Nation said about Power:

She began to see war as an instrument to achieving her liberal, even radical, values.

So let’s connect the dots. Soros is working on the end game with his two conferences this weekend. It’s pretty clear that he has been doing this sort of thing for quite some time. He’s the face of what the left wants to achieve after the revolution. But we have to get to the Revolution first and that’s where Becker, Power and other radical leftists come in. It’s always been a farce when the left has claimed they are pacifists who oppose war. That has never been the case in the history of leftist thought. In fact the opposite has always been true. The left has needed violent revolution to force the sort of change they want. They only became pacifists and nonviolent in response to a war against other leftists in Vietnam. In other words, it suited them at the time but did not state their real position on war. Take Vietnam out and if you look at the major wars of the 20th century, the progressive left has always been first in line to support them. Particularly WWI.

Becker is willing to openly advocate for violent revolution while Power is willing to use the power of the US military to push change. Think about how disturbing Power’s statement is, she wants to use war as an instrument for radical leftist change. But Power isn’t the first one to come up with that idea. President Wilson and those who surrounded him held the same view. Wilson and company radically altered American society during WWI. They controlled the entire country from DC and from the end of the War until FDR took over the progressive left lamented the fact that DC didn’t control our lives. War was an instrument for radical change, even if the change went away for eight years. Power’s idea is dangerous because it is so effective.

We need to keep an eye on George Soros and the organizations that he funds. They are actively planning to radically change not only our country but the entire world. Soros isn’t some crazy old man playing games in his fantasy land. He’s serious and he has the money to fund this change. Couple Soros’ vision with the radical vision of the unions and Islamic socialists and we find a nasty socialist stew brewing and most of us have no idea it’s happening. It’s time for us to wake up. Soros isn’t kidding around, these radical leftists really do believe in violent revolution. They have a view of the world that is radically different than how those of us who love the founders of this country view the world. They don’t believe in freedom, they believe in radical centralized socialist government. Wake up America, these people aren’t playing games.

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Former SEIU President Andy Stern Attacks Constitution

April 8, 2011 Leave a comment

Former SEIU President Andy Stern penned an op-ed in the Huffington Post wherein he attacked the checks and balances of the Constitution. Apparently the checks and balances of the Constitution don’t allow America to be a global player in the “third economic revolution.” The US is to slow to respond according to Stern and government is full of self interested individuals who apparently don’t work for Team USA. The far left has long attacked the Constitution, dating back to President Wilson in particular.

Stern acknowledges that the Constitution with its checks and balances protects against tyrannical power. Yet he argues:

Now, however, in the midst of the transformative change of globalization and this third economic revolution, those layers have become an impediment to making the changes necessary to keep America competitive in the world economy. Today, America crawls along at a snail’s pace.

Apparently Stern and the left are unconcerned about tyrannical power so long as the US isn’t crawling along at a snail’s pace. Interestingly President Bush was a tyrant according to these people for putting together a coalition war in Iraq. Now that Obama is in power, Stern and company aren’t so concerned about tyrannical power. I wonder why.

The left has always attacked the Constitution as antiquated and slow to respond. They’ve long dismissed it as a quaint document from yesteryear. This is because the Constitution prevents them from forcing the dramatic, transformative change that they want to push on the American people. The far left wants to push radical socialism down the throat of the American people and one of the biggest obstacles is the American people who express their will through Constitutional means.

The checks and balances in the Constitution are one reason why the Republicans control the House today. The American people placed a check on President Obama and the Democrats by electing Republicans. This in Stern’s mind is outrageous and an example of America not falling in line with the rest of the world. What Stern and the left want is to fundamentally transform America into a radical socialist country. They don’t care for any checks on their power, in fact they want their in place before the American people figure out what they have done. The Constitution prevents them from doing this because it limits the power of the three branches of government and allows the people to vote every two years.

Stern’s criticism of the Constitution sounds a lot like another leftist attack on the Constitution: The so-called “living” Constitution. The living constitution is an argument long made by leftist lawyers and judges. They argue that the words of the Constitution don’t really matter and that the intent of the words matters even less. It’s how we end up with legalized abortion, an expansive commerce clause to the point when the left is serious in suggesting that the Constitution allows government to order us to buy health insurance and so on. The left, through legal scholars, has spent the past century attacking the Constitution as to slow to change in language. They have taken it upon themselves to change the Constitution via judicial declaration.

Andy Stern is a big Obama supporter. He’s been to the White House dozens of times since Obama took office. It should disturb us that the President is being advised by someone who hates the Constitution. Given SEIU’s ties to economic terrorism (Stephen Lerner is a SEIU executive) it ought to disturb the public greatly that someone like Stern is so close to the President. SEIU is an organization who is associated with economic terrorism and whose former President wants to toss the Constitution aside in order to force us into socialism via tyrannical government. These are the people Obama is associated with, yet no one in the media seems to care.

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Stephen Lerner, Francis Fox Piven, Other Leftists Unite Against Freedom

April 6, 2011 Leave a comment

April 4th began the We Are One Solidarity Days of Action. This is an attempt by several leftist unions such as the AFL-CIO to commemorate the death of Martin Luther King Jr. Their claim is that King died defending union rights for sanitation workers. Perhaps they forgot that King was killed by a white supremacist because King had spent the majority of his life fighting for black civil rights. That he killed King over his union efforts would have been news to James Earl Ray, who was an avowed racist. Nevertheless, the unions are attempting to rewrite the history of King’s death.

The We Are One rallies took place in several cities across the nation. It was also part of a teach-in orchestrated by leftists such as Cornell West and Francis Fox Piven. Boston had a rally on Monday in which union members offered threats to the Republican Party. The Massachusetts GOP was warned that if they tried to bring the state budget under control as they did in Wisconsin there would be “thousands of dead bodies.” The media is of course ignoring this threat, just like they’ve ignored all the other violent threats at union rallies. It’s only the Tea Party that threatens people with violence don’ you know.

Speaking of Francis Fox Piven, she’s busy joining forces with Stephen Lerner preparing for the destruction of the banks and economy. Piven and her ilk are using the teach-in held yesterday at high schools and colleges across America to recruit kids to fight her battles against corporations and banks. She and Lerner are working together. Piven’s teach-in antics go so far as to claim that the so-called greedy people at corporations “don’t have children.” Always factual these socialists.

Piven, Lerner, the We Are One campaign and all sorts of leftist groups are inter-connected. Lerner is planning a massive attack on banks and the economy in May, Piven is right on board as are the AFL-CIO, SEIU, We Are One, Code Pink, a host of other George Soros funded groups, the Communists, Socialists, community organizers etc. These people are connected and they are preparing to take down the economy. They are extremely well organized and in the least they are capable of getting numbers at their rallies.

They view the events in Egypt and Madison as a signal to begin a wider move towards worldwide revolution. These people are essentially Communists. If not in name, then in action. I wish that I could say that I’m being an alarmist or conspiracy nutter. But with the internet, it’s fairly easy to piece this stuff together. It’s largely out there for everyone to see. It’s not difficult to figure out who the leaders are in this movement and it’s not difficult to figure out who they respect. Francis Fox Piven, for example, likes to pretend that she’s nobody who wrote one article in the 60′s that has been misinterpreted. Yet radical left-wing rag In These Times hails her as an activist who has written classic books on social protest. Piven isn’t a nobody among radical leftists.

It’s important that we pay attention to these radical leftists. They are using school children to fight for socialism. They are preparing the economic collapse of this country and are prepared to take over when chaos erupts. These people aren’t joking around, they have the power and ability to at least make a strong effort at bringing down the country. We must be prepared to battle back against their plans. Not with physical force but with knowledge about what they’re up to and what their goals are.

We must be prepared to win the intellectual arguments first and foremost. It isn’t a matter of simply opposing socialism. We must support freedom and free enterprise. We must support private property and private right of contract. We must oppose democracy as the vile mob rule that it is. The founders didn’t create a democracy, they created a republic so as to avoid mob rule. Piven, Lerner and the other international socialists are trying to create the Marxist utopia that fulfills Marx’s theory of history. We must reject that theory as false.

We are in for some trying times in the next six months. There is little doubt that the events in Egypt and Madison have emboldened the radical left. I have little doubt that they will try to attack the banks, stock market and economy in May. Whether they are successful remains to be seen. What we do know is that they are recruiting and they are quite serious. If they aren’t successful in May, they’re already prepared with the next plan and the next and the next. We must counter them at all times. We must be prepared.

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Stephen Lerner Now In Print; Desires Destruction of Banks, Economy

March 30, 2011 Leave a comment

Rather than running away from his comments at Pace University, Radical leftist and SEIU executive Stephen Lerner is going forward with his plan to take down the American economy. Lerner has written an op-ed in a publication called “In These Times” wherein he states his case in print. It is Lerner’s goal to bring down the banks, which in turn will bring down the entire American and world economy. The reason he and others want this is because they’re prepared to take over when chaos erupts.

Lerner begins his op-ed attacking the usual left-wing strawmen such as libertarian outsiders the Koch brothers. He goes on the offensive against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, claiming that he and other Republicans are anti-union. He pretends like government employees are well liked by voters to the point where most folks find it outrageous that any pol would try to take away their benefits. In reality 2/3 of Wisconsin voters support Walker’s plan to have government employees pay more of their healthcare and pension benefits. But why get bogged down in reality?

It is banks that are the real problem. They ‘created’ the economic downturn don’ you know. If only that were true. The economic downturn wasn’t created by banks, it was created by government. It was government that ordered banks to lend to people who couldn’t afford to pay. It was Democrat run Fannie and Freddie that lent money like wild beasts. It has been a Democrat President who, just like FDR in the 30′s, has prolonged the recession by expanding the size of government and the national debt. None of this has anything to do with banks, it’s the fault of government.

Lerner then lays out his plan in four easy steps:

The Potential Power of Government—Don’t Do Business with Bandit Banks

The Potential Power of Homeowners and Students—Don’t Pay Unfair Debt

The Potential Power of Public Employee Unions—Bargaining to Protect Public Dollars

The Potential Power of Private-Sector Unions—Bargaining for the Greater Good

Lerner lays out his plan in print exactly as he laid it out in person at Pace University. He wants cities to refuse to do business with banks and demand lower interest rates, which would result in bank bankruptcies. He wants homeowners and students to refuse to pay their mortgages and loans. This would of course bankrupt the banks. He wants unions to bargain away the use of certain banks, which of course will result in bank bankruptcies.

We must understand why bringing down the banks is so important to Lerner and other leftists. These people aren’t against banks per se. Unions, including SEIU, use banks on a regular basis. For all their whining about Wall Street, the unions have never backed away from investing. Lerner and his band of radicals have other goals in mind. This isn’t about workers, banks or fixing the economy. These guys are after power. They’re after a revolution.

We can never forget that these people are at heart Marxists and they believe in Marx theory of history, which states that all of history will lead to a workers revolution and a utopian communist society. Lerner and others like him want to get to this utopian society sooner rather than later, so they’re coming up with plans to push things along. In taking down the banks, Lerner would take down the entire economy. Inflation would skyrocket as the dollar becomes worthless. The United States would not be able to borrow money, which in theory sounds good but in reality would devastate the nation.

People would lose their jobs, their savings, their futures. This is exactly what Lerner and his leftist cohorts want. Why? Because they’re already organized to offer a ‘solution’ to their mess they have created. It would of course be some sort of Marxist, left-wing utopia wherein we lose all of our freedoms. Lerner and his gang are staging a power play because at the end of the day this is all about power. Lerner is creating conditions for a revolution, which if he is not the leader he will certainly be one of them.

SEIU and other unions have already protested at banks and shut them down, as I wrote about over the weekend. The UAW shut down a Bank of America in Detroit for no particular reason and SEIU shut down an ESSA Bank in Pennsylvania last year. These people aren’t kidding around. They aren’t a bunch of pot smoking, big talking college students like the Noodles & Company communist.

Stephen Lerner is dead serious and he has the organizational skills and contacts in the leftist community to make his plan happen. Whether or not he is successful remains to be seen but he has the ability to make a good run at bringing down JP Morgan Chase and other banks. In the very least, it appears he’s going to try and we need to be aware of this. These people want to radically change America and they’re willing to stage a revolution to get their way.

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