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The Water Cooler Title: Tea Party Blogger Calls For No New Jobs Yesterday, Melissa Brookstone, a Tea Party blogger, called for a strike of small business owners against what she believes is a global socialist movement working with President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Senate. The strike would be accomplished by these small business owners refusing to hire any new workers until "this war against business and [the United States] is stopped." Ms. Brookstone, in this post and others on the same website, accused President Obama of having dictatorial powers. She has also accused the media and Hollywood of working with so-called progressive socialists against business, the free market, individual rights, and capitalism. Melissa Brookstone is a blogger for the site Teabook.org, which identifies itself as "social networking for the Tea Party." Anyone can sign up and get a blog on the site, although upon sign-up one is asked "Are you currently involved with the Tea Party?" and must choose between "Yes", "No, but would like to be," "That's why I'm here," and "I'm here to start trouble and will leave now." One must also list a political affiliation, and can choose Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Independent, Socialist, and Other. All members are approved by a moderator. Melissa Brookstone is also the author of "The Planetary Bill of Rights Project: A Blueprint for Peace, Prosperity and Freedom," described on Amazon as a "modernized extrapolation of Jeffersonian philosophy and the United States Constitution, individual rights and self-ownership, now offered to the world." The official current unemployment rate, as of August 2011, is 9.1 percent. While some other economic indicators have improved over the past few years, for the most part, this has been a jobless recovery. (The S&P 500, for example, has improved on average since 2008, but the unemployment rate dropped to 9.3 percent in 2009 and has not improved, noticeably.) A great fear of many is a double dip recession, and one of the best ways to prevent against that is to get people working again, and get people spending money again. A recent Gallup poll also showed that Herman Cain, who is running a campaign that relies heavily on his 9-9-9 tax plan, is widely supported by people who identify themselves as members of the Tea Party. The 9-9-9 plan would raise taxes on 84 percent of the American population. If the so-called "global progressive socialist movement" is somehow forced out of government by a Tea Party blogger-led (writing from a grassroots Tea Party site) call to stall the economy, how can this even be an idea worth discussing? (And why is the Tea Party, which got its start as an anti-tax protest movement, backing Herman Cain in the first place?) Melissa Brookstone is not a prominent politician, and the requirements for being accepted as a blogger on Teabook.org are unclear, but she is an example of the Tea Party process. The true Tea Party is not politicians like Cain and Michele Bachmann--the true Tea Party is the grassroots organization that spawned sites like Teabook.org, and it is these sites that birth ideas that derail the important political action that needs to be undertaken (such as the birther movement.) Melissa Brookstone is irresponsible and she is dangerous. It's time for this kind of absurd rhetoric to stop. Subscribe to *Tea Party On Parade* Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Yes brain shit.....cant have anyone spouting off wrong thoughts now can we? Lets make a law censoring her wrong thoughts before they get too much "Out there" Better yet why not lets just have rosie odonnel sanction her beheading? Spit....... Death to everybody who does not get outta my way. (decided to retire the beatdowns on old worthless retread posters that are bozoed) #2. To: e_type_jag, Brian S (#1) (Edited)
More evidence that individuals in the private sector do not follow principals of self interest and they tend to react in irrational ways because at the bottom line, businesses are run by human beings and human beings are irrational beings who support policies or carry out practices detrimental to themselves and to society if they are left alone. One way to correct this irrationality is for the govt of and by the people to set rules like you do for competitive sports so that humans can behave and their screw ups if they happen impact everyone as minimally as possible. Lastly, businesses getting together like this is against the various anti-collusion laws. Be it to fix prices or impact labor, it is still illegal and immoral (yes) for businesses to collude in any manner. "This is what economic policy in the West has become--a tool of the wealthy used to enrich themselves by spreading poverty among the rest of the population." Paul Craig Roberts #3. To: e_type_jag, Brian SS, LF House Commies (#1) (Edited) Yes brain shit.....cant have anyone spouting off wrong thoughts now can we? Lets make a law censoring her wrong thoughts before they get too much "Out there" Better yet why not lets just have rosie odonnel sanction her beheading? Lol... Most fascist people on earth: American Leftists and Commies. Only these delusion lunatics actually believe the "Tea Party" has the power to do what the Dem Congress will NOT: Create Pro-American business legislation that makes it worth-while for industry and factories and JOBS to REMAIN in the USA instead of leaving for Brazil, Mexico, and China. The ONLY "jobs" Goobermint creates are the fake ones embedded IN Goobermint.
#4. To: Liberator (#3) Create Pro-American business legislation that makes it worth-while for industry and factories and JOBS to REMAIN in the USA instead of leaving for Brazil, Mexico, and China. And then there is this: Tea Party Buys In To Trade Deals Freshman House Republicans voted overwhelmingly for a trio of trade deals last week despite hopes from opponents that the faction would move en bloc to stop them. The 89 House Republicans new to Congress this year — many of whom were backed by the Tea Party — were courted by both sides of the debate over the long-stalled trade deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. With their views on trade relatively unknown, some opponents of the deals thought they had an opening to sink them from the right. But in the end, almost all of the GOP frosh voted in favor of the three agreements. Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) told The Hill a consensus formed among the newcomers that the trade deals deserved their support. libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=25124 Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'! #5. To: Godwinson (#2) human beings are irrational beings who support policies or carry out practices detrimental to themselves and to society if they are left alone. Are you apologizing for supporting Obama? Do you take drugs?
#6. To: Godwinson (#2) When I hire people. I make sure they are not liberals. If they are they don't get the job. I only hire real Americans.
#7. To: A K A Stone (#6) When I hire people. I make sure they are not liberals. If they are they don't get the job. I only hire real Americans. Excellent policy.
#8. To: Liberator, A K A Stone (#7) When I hire people. I make sure they are not liberals. If they are they don't get the job. I only hire real Americans. The tyranny of the private sector. "This is what economic policy in the West has become--a tool of the wealthy used to enrich themselves by spreading poverty among the rest of the population." Paul Craig Roberts #9. To: A K A Stone (#6) When I hire people. I make sure they are not liberals. If they are they don't get the job. I only hire real Americans. LOL. No one with any sense would hire on with a privacy invading boss like you. When the people are afraid, that's when the greatest long term money is made.~~~~Clark Howard Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest |
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