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“Tenacity of protestors is to be admired” 1

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By Tom Quiner

Protestors created a pile of filth at Zuccotti Park in New York

The pro life protesters took over city parks around the nation. They were loud and profane.

They called themselves the 99.5, which represents the percentage of our population not aborted each year. They protest in defense of the .5% preborn who have no rights and are aborted each year.

At their encampment at Zuccotti Park in New York, violent crime went up. People were assaulted. The police officer in charge of keeping the peace with these aggressive pro-lifers was Edward Winski. He somberly reported: “Many of these were assaults against police officers.”

“We have a first amendment right of free speech and assembly” was the shout from these committed pro life zealots. Eventually though, American cities grew tired of the disruption caused by the pro life crowd and their anti Planned Parenthood rant. They could no longer tolerate the rapes, the drug use, and other associated risks to the public safety.

The authorities began to disperse the crowds. They had to clean up the filth left behind which included used hypodermic needles and buckets of human waste. One sanitation engineer exclaimed, “These were some of the worst smells I’ve ever experienced!” Just what kind of people are these pro lifers?

Despite the damage, the filth, and the thuggery that accompanied the pro life protests, liberal pundits jumped to the defense of the right of these pro lifers to assemble and protest the consequences of Roe V Wade. Just this morning, former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich voiced his displeasure with the treatment they received from city authorities around the country:

“… when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances — clubbed, pepper-sprayed, thrown out of public parks and evicted from public spaces.”

Liberal Des Moines columnist, Rekha Basu, had to reluctantly admire the tenacity of the protestors. Although she said the pro life protestors earned some of the criticism they received from their bad behavior,

“… such incidents are the exceptions, given the thousand of protesters involved. If, instead of protesting, these people spent their days playing video games and drinking beer at home, there’d probably be no public criticism. Instead, they are offering an alternative voice …”

In other words, Ms. Basu commends their civic-minded expression of their collective consciences.

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Of course, all of the above has been twisted. I fudged the facts. You saw it coming, although I did use actual quotes for Mr. Reich and Ms. Basu. However, their quotes were directed toward the defense of the Occupy Wall Street crowd.

If in fact the pro life community protested as the Occupy Wall Street crowd does, they would be crucified by liberal pundits and the mainstream media. They would not tolerate the rapes, the thuggery, the excrement, the drug use, the public nudity, and the overall barbarism that has accompanied the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. It says much about the value system of the Left that they do excuse the rapes, the thuggery, the excrement, the drug use, the public nudity and the overall barbarism that accompanies this movement.

The pro life crowd that works so hard on behalf of society’s least powerful, the .5%, does their work with civility, love, and prayer. Their anger is channeled in constructive ways. You would not know they had even been in a public space when their gatherings disperse. They are left spotless.

There’s such a difference between civilized and uncivilized movements.

What kind of people want to “occupy Wall Street”? 4

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By Tom Quiner

You can’t help but glean some quick reactions to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) crowd.

They’re profane.

They like to copulate in public parks.

The women like to display themselves in a state of undress.

Impressed so far?

But what is really on their minds?

Democratic pollster, Douglas Schoen, had a senior researcher poll OWS in New York about their beliefs and their goals. Mr. Schoen was the pollster used by former President Clinton. Here is a brief overview of his findings, as reported in The Wall Street Journal.

Media coverage led us to believe that OWS are disaffected because they are out of work. In fact, 85% are employed, a rate only slightly less than the national average.

The OWS view the role of government as to guarantee everyone affordable health care, to guarantee everyone a college education, to guarantee everyone a secure, comfortable retirement, the cost be damned.

But they don’t really want to pay for it.

They evidently want the “one percent,” the reviled rich, to pick up the tab.  Seventy-seven percent support raising taxes on the wealthy, but 58% of them don’t want taxes increased for everybody.

These folks don’t represent the nation. About all of them (98%) support civil disobedience to bring about a radical redistribution of wealth. Nearly a third (31%) support violence to bring about the change they demand.

What is most disturbing is the blanket support the OWS are receiving from President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and other members of their party.

The president seems increasingly comfortable currying favor with these left wing Marxists (forgive the redundancy). Will his support of these unwashed and naked (by choice) unleash a new wave of violence in our land?

Pollster Schoen issues a warning to members of his party:

“Rather than embracing huge new spending programs and tax increases, plus increasingly radical and potentially violent activists, the Democrats should instead build a bridge to the much more numerous independents and moderates in the center by opposing bailouts and broad-based tax increases.”

How do we create opportunity? 2

Political Correctness, Politics, Tea Party • Tags:

By Tom Quiner

Some of the folks participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests have a good point: they need a job.

The official unemployment rate continues to hover above nine percent. That number doesn’t reflect another group, the permanently unemployed. These are the folks that have given up looking for a job. When you factor them into the equation, some economists put the actual unemployment rate at 15% to 20%.

Americans are hurting. They want answers. They want solutions.

There seem to be two camps in America these days. The Tea Party camp sees government as the problem. The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) camp sees government as the solution. Specifically, the OWS seem to view the economy as a zero-sum game, that somehow the rich are rich at their expense. Their solution seems to be for the government to intercede by taxing the rich and redistributing it to the rest of us.

They seem to want more government intervention in the marketplace. And yet it is just that that is the root cause of so many of our problems.

Let me ask you a question. What are two of our most screwed-up market sectors?

I would suggest the housing market and health care. Both have been victims of what I term “politically-correct capitalism.”

The home mortgage market was corrupted by government pressure on the private sector to make loans to folks who weren’t credit worthy. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 was given teeth by President Clinton and his Attorney General, Janet Reno, who threatened to sue lenders if their client list wasn’t racially balanced. Lenders were pressured to lower credit, income, and down payment criteria by the government.

That was just just the beginning.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored enterprises, lowered their lending standards which encouraged even riskier loans by mortgage lenders.

President Bush pushed the American Dream Down Payment Assistance Act which required the FHA to subsidize down payments for low income Americans.

Between 2005 and 2007, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took on a trillion dollars worth of subprime loans and guaranteed another two trillion.

Of course, the market that soared built on politically-correct loans collapsed like a house of cards when home values began to decline.

Government intervention created the problem.

Look at the price of health insurance. Government prevents us from buying health insurance products across state lines, which dramatically limits consumer options. Even more, state and federal governments have systematically created mandates that require health insurance companies to provide (and charge) for coverage that their clients do not necessarily want.

So at the same time government reduced our choices, they ratcheted up the price we pay by forcing us to buy coverage we don’t want. All of this in the name of politically-correct capitalism.

You can see the results of this skewing of the marketplace by what you don’t see on television. Unlike car insurance companies that market across state lines without the burden of undue government mandates, there are no TV commercials touting low-priced health insurance policies.

Government has essentially suppressed competition, the life blood of a healthy market place.

The elites in Washington always know what’s best for us.

So how do we create opportunity for the legions of Americans hurting from the effects of politically-correct capitalism?

We need to reduce the role of government in the marketplace.

We need fewer regulations, not more. Each regulation has a price associated with it. Each excessive regulation costs us jobs.

We need less government spending and less taxation, not more.

We’ve done it Obama’s way.

Are you satisfied with the results?