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The late Steve Jobs was a visionary, but it didn’t take a visionary to see where Barack Obama’s abysmal economic policies were taking this country — or the president’s own prospects for reelection.
In a meeting with Obama which took place last year, Jobs blasted him for his anti-business initiatives and told him what to expect in return.
“You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” the Apple CEO warned him bluntly. Now, a year later, Obama just hit the lowest quarterly poll numbers of his presidency.
But even with 9-percent-plus unemployment, the S&P downgrade, ObamaCare’s lies being exposed, the wasted $1 trillion Stimulus and all the rest, he still insists he was right.
About everything.
“I believe all the choices we’ve made have been the right ones,” he boasted in an interview last week.
That’s because Obama is a true believer. And that’s why the Occupiers of Wall Street and other locales sound so much like him. They’re not just showing up to rage against the machine, but to rage for it. They are “anarchists for big government,” as Mark Steyn so aptly characterized them.
Make no mistake, this is Obama’s Army. The guy who came into office saying he wanted to “spread the wealth around,” and who has been demonizing “the rich” (they being people like small business owners, job creators, investors) and waging war on capitalism ever since, is parroted by the Occupiers. That is, by the few who can put two coherent sentences together.
Democrat pollster Doug Schoen, who worked for Pres. Clinton, conducted the first survey of these people and he found that they believe in “the radical redistribution of wealth” (you know, spreading it around) and other key tenets of socialism, they don’t care for capitalism at all, and they want more and more money funneled into the gargantuan welfare state despite the fact it is driving this country to the brink of bankruptcy, as it has in Greece and other European countries, as well as everywhere else in the history of the world that socialism has been tried.
Bill O’Reilly related: “I respect dissent, but not stupidity.....The Soviet Union fell apart...Cuba is a disaster. Zimbabwe is unspeakable. Every place on Earth that tries to seize private property implodes.”
This is a fact of history. Hey, just look at California. And as it has been said, everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts.
The late Steve Jobs was a visionary, but it didn’t take a visionary to see where Barack Obama’s abysmal economic policies were taking this country — or the president’s own prospects for reelection.
In a meeting with Obama which took place last year, Jobs blasted him for his anti-business initiatives and told him what to expect in return.
“You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” the Apple CEO warned him bluntly. Now, a year later, Obama just hit the lowest quarterly poll numbers of his presidency.
But even with 9-percent-plus unemployment, the S&P downgrade, ObamaCare’s lies being exposed, the wasted $1 trillion Stimulus and all the rest, he still insists he was right.
About everything.
“I believe all the choices we’ve made have been the right ones,” he boasted in an interview last week.
That’s because Obama is a true believer. And that’s why the Occupiers of Wall Street and other locales sound so much like him. They’re not just showing up to rage against the machine, but to rage for it. They are “anarchists for big government,” as Mark Steyn so aptly characterized them.
Make no mistake, this is Obama’s Army. The guy who came into office saying he wanted to “spread the wealth around,” and who has been demonizing “the rich” (they being people like small business owners, job creators, investors) and waging war on capitalism ever since, is parroted by the Occupiers. That is, by the few who can put two coherent sentences together.
Democrat pollster Doug Schoen, who worked for Pres. Clinton, conducted the first survey of these people and he found that they believe in “the radical redistribution of wealth” (you know, spreading it around) and other key tenets of socialism, they don’t care for capitalism at all, and they want more and more money funneled into the gargantuan welfare state despite the fact it is driving this country to the brink of bankruptcy, as it has in Greece and other European countries, as well as everywhere else in the history of the world that socialism has been tried.
Bill O’Reilly related: “I respect dissent, but not stupidity.....The Soviet Union fell apart...Cuba is a disaster. Zimbabwe is unspeakable. Every place on Earth that tries to seize private property implodes.”
This is a fact of history. Hey, just look at California. And as it has been said, everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts.
O’Reilly calls this movement the “Handout Brigade,” and with good reason. That’s what these able-bodied protesters are looking for, more government largess so they can continue playing video games and spouting left-wing agitprop on their social media sites all day long every day.
Remember that Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and the other protests have been going on for weeks already, and the Occupiers say they intend to stay “indefinitely.” Must be nice. The Tea Party events, meanwhile, are all one-day affairs, because the people taking part in them have to work.
I would tell these Occupiers to ask a poor person for a job and see how far they get, or travel to a country where there are no rich people and see what kind of a hellhole you’re living in, but there would be no point to it. As comedian Dennis Miller pointed out, the easiest way to break up OWS is to open a Jobs Fair where they’re encamped in Zuccotti Park and watch them all scatter like frightened sheep.
On the positive side, as Miller happily related: “I’m no longer the biggest loser on Wall Street, which my broker assured me up to this time that I was.”
On another positive note, Ann Coulter explains that the “Flea Party” has at least “finally put an end to their previous initiative: Occupy Our Mothers’ Basements.”
Last week, Schoen presented his polling data on OWS in an article in the Wall Street Journal and concluded: “The protesters...are bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies.”
His advice to his fellow Democrats: Stay as far away from these loons as possible. Besides all the violence and mass arrests, not to mention the rank, overt and widespread anti-Semitism, there’s the disturbing ideology underlying it all.
But they’re not taking his advice. The same Democrat leaders who disparaged the Tea Party in every way possible are sending every signal of support they can to the Occupiers of Wall Street and elsewhere.
And the Occupiers are returning the favor.
After all, you don’t see any anti-Obama signs at these rallies. Instead, they have co-opted his inflammatory class-warfare rhetoric about the 99% of the suffering masses of America (how they see themselves) and the 1% (the rich who “don’t pay their fair share”), not even knowing that the top 1% pay the bulk of the tax burden and the lower 50% pay no federal income taxes at all.
The Occupiers also marched on the homes of some of the “1%” in New York and skipped right past the apartment building of George Soros without so much as a peep, only to protest at the homes of Rupert Murdoch and David Koch.
Coulter perceptively commented that “this would be like protesting the Holocaust by walking past Adolf Hitler’s house.”
But, then again, Sean Penn has been a great pal of dictators like Chavez in Venezuela and the mad mullahs in Iran, and he told an interviewer recently that the person we really have to be afraid of is Murdoch. Needless to say, Mr. Personality isn’t a fan of Fox News.
Nor will the Occupiers ever say a word about the liberal Democrat politicians who are responsible for the economic mess we’re in, starting when Clinton insisted on making homes available to the underclass even though most couldn’t afford them.
Becky Akers, a New York historian, writes: “What OWS too often forgets is that members of the 1 percent like [Democrat politicians] Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd helped create the mortgage meltdown, then helped bail out Wall Street.”
This was a Democrat-created financial disaster. But as I mentioned before, these idiots aren’t interested in history.
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