George Warm: 'Judge Napolitano's Open Letter to Occupy Wall Street Oct 13, 2011'

Source:George Warm- Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano.

"The Judge say all protesters not allow the Democrats to Co-opt the Movement but nite behind three simple demands.

1. End the Federal Reserve Bank.

2, End the Undeclared illegal Wars

3. End the Income Tax and the IRS" 

From George Warm 

To say Judge Andrew Napolitano telling Occupy Wall Street what their demands should be when it comes to protesting government and our leaders is arrogant, is like saying it snows in Wisconsin in January: I mean the balls of this guy is earth shattering. 

OWS for the most part of a Far-Left (or 1960s New-Left) socialist movement in America that seems to hate everything that America is supposed to stand for, who blames wealthy people and corporations for everything that they believe is wrong with America and the world in general. They have almost nothing in common with Libertarians whether you're talking about Andrew Napolitano or anyone else.

These demands from Occupy Wall Street are coming not from the Democratic Party or its leadership, the White House or Congress, but coming from the Far-Left flank of the Democratic Party and the Far-Left in the country. The democratic socialist movement in America. Democratic Socialists USA , Green Party, Ralph Nader's movement and others. People who are anti-American capitalism, anti- free enterprise, anti-for profit, etc. And have set out their anger on Wall Street, who they feel is the center of American capitalism. 

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MSNBC: Rachel Maddow Show- Paul Krugman: 'Why The Flat Tax Fails'

Source:MSNBC- Left-Wing economist Paul Krugman, on the Rachel Maddow Show.

"Rachel Maddow Why a flat tax fails"

From MSNBC 

One of the few times I’ve ever gotten an opportunity to agree with left-wing economist Paul Krugman on anything, is where he appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC to talk against the middle class tax hike, also known as the flat tax.

“Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist and columnist for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about why flat tax proposals are a poor solution for America’s economic problems.”

Source:MSNBC- Left-wing economist Paul Krugman on the Rachel Maddow Show.

From MSNBC

Twenty years ago (and I will be nice here) you could accuse so-called Progressive Democrats (Democratic Socialists, in actuality) of being the tax hikers and not just on the wealthy, but on the middle class as well. And thanks to President Bill Clinton the Democratic Party was able to eliminate, or at least scale back that horrible stereotype, because President Clinton cut taxes for everyone and was very fiscally responsible as President. 

The tax hike stereotype kept Democrats out of the White House in the 1970s and 80s. But during this presidential campaign of 2011-12, hopefully that stereotype will be switched to Neoconservative Republicans. (As I call them) As it relates to Herman Cain with his 9-9-9 flat tax and now Rick Perry’s flat tax. Because that’s exactly what a flat tax is: a middle class tax hike. Because you would be raising taxes on people paying 10-15% in Federal income taxes, to 18-20%. While people who are currently paying 28-33% in Federal income taxes, would get a tax cut. 

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RT America: Heather Cirmo & Michael Prysner- 'Occupy Wall Street - Capitalism to blame?'

Source:RT America- Michael Prysner talking to President Vladimir Putin's Russia Today America, about Occupy Wall Street.

"RT (formerly Russia Today) is a state-controlled international television network funded by the federal tax budget of the Russian government.[5][6] It operates pay television channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and Russian.

RT operates as a multilingual service with conventional channels in five languages: the original English-language channel was launched in 2005, the Arabic-language channel in 2007, Spanish in 2009, German in 2014 and French in 2017. RT America (since 2010),[7] RT UK (since 2014) and other regional channels also offer some locally based content.

RT is a brand of TV-Novosti, an "autonomous non-profit organization", founded by the Russian news agency, RIA Novosti, on 6 April 2005.[3][8] During the economic crisis in December 2008, the Russian government, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, included ANO "TV-Novosti" on its list of core organizations of strategic importance to Russia." 

From Wikipedia 

"Occupy Wall Street continues to voice its disdain for the economic system. The movement's voice has gone global and people all over are tired of corporations influencing government actions worldwide.  So who's to blame - Wall Street or Washington? Heather Cirmo, a conservative political commentator and strategist, and Michael Prysner, an Iraq War veteran, help us answer that question." 

From RT America

Is Occupy Wall Street just that or is there more to it? Is this a group of people that just want to voice frustration, or are they looking for progressive change in America? What's clear is that this movement is diverse and not centralized. That it has Socialists, Liberals, and even Libertarians in this movement. So of course they are not united in how to replace what they are against, because these are three different political factions. That all have different approaches and different visions in where they want America to go. 

If you want to blame anyone for current state of the economy, look at Wall Street for running all of those big banks and companies into the ground and as a result we've seen millions of American jobs lost in the last few years. And then look at Washington for their lack of oversight of Wall Street and Corporate America, as well as all the borrow and spending that they've done in the last 10 years alone.  

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Russia Today: 'Thom Hartmann vs Herman Cain- What Those Dreaded Liberals Have Done'

Source:Thom Hartmann- talking about 2012 Tea Party presidential candidate Herman Cain.

"RT (formerly Russia Today) is a state-controlled international television network funded by the federal tax budget of the Russian government.[5][6] It operates pay television channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and Russian.

RT operates as a multilingual service with conventional channels in five languages: the original English-language channel was launched in 2005, the Arabic-language channel in 2007, Spanish in 2009, German in 2014 and French in 2017. RT America (since 2010),[7] RT UK (since 2014) and other regional channels also offer some locally based content.

RT is a brand of TV-Novosti, an "autonomous non-profit organization", founded by the Russian news agency, RIA Novosti, on 6 April 2005.[3][8] During the economic crisis in December 2008, the Russian government, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, included ANO "TV-Novosti" on its list of core organizations of strategic importance to Russia." 

From Wikipedia 

"Herman Cain says Liberals are out to destroy this country....In my Daily Take - I'll make Herman Cain wish he was out delivering pizzas again." 

From Russia Today

Thom Hartmann is right in this sense, a lot of the progress that has been made in America has been fought for by Progressives (not exactly Liberals) but people who believe in moving America forward. 

Calling Franklin Rossevelt a Liberal is a bit of a stretch. I mean this is a man who didn't give a damn about civil rights, or was even a borderline racist, and as a Liberal myself I find that a bit hard to take. FDR was sure a liberal on foreign policy, but unfortunately was a Nationalist on national security with the detainment camps of Japanese, German, and Italian-Americans during World War II, because of their ethnicity. Nothing liberal about that. 

Thom Hartman's problem with liberal and progressive, is that he associates liberal and progressive with everything that government does to move the country forward. That for something to be liberal or progressive, government has to be doing it. And generally that means through new social programs and tax increases or expanding current programs, or passing new regulations or expanding current regulations. 

When the fact is the only that Liberals believe in is expanding freedom for everyone, not contracting it, whether that means more or less government intervention. And Progressives believe in progress, whether that means more or less government intervention. 

It's Socialists who always believe in more government and that the only way to make society better is for government to be doing more and spending more of the people's money for them. Which is what Thom Hartmann seems to believe, whether he calls himself a Socialist (or even Social Democrat) or not. 

The Young Turks: Cenk Uygur- 'Debt Relief For Banks, Not Homeowners'

Source:The Young Turks- Cenk Uygur on government bailouts.

"The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur talks about Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae will screw homeowners." 

From The Young Turks

Wow! I actually agree with The Young Turks on something, or at least Cenk Uygur. Damn, sign me up for a head examination immediately, I must be overdue now. 

I agree with Cenk in this sense (and hopefully I didn't misspell that, its only four letter for crying out loud) that the wrong people were bailed out in 2008. The people who blew most of their wealth away, meaning their corporate wealth, I'm sure the people running these company's were doing great personally, but their company's were bankrupt thanks to them. And the people who did business with them, were left bankrupt or drowning in debt as a result of the Great Recession of 2008 and the housing crisis. They didn't get any bailed out and had they did or get bailed out soon, like having the debt forgiven. 

The Real News: Paul Jay- 'A Real Challenge to Corporate Power'

Source:The Real News- the U.S. Department of Justice.

"Arthur MacEwan: Opposing bail out of bankers and fighting for Universal Health Plan challenges corporate power." 

From The Real News

The problems with TARP of 2008 (or the Temporary Asset Relief Program) is that we borrowed about 800B$ to pay for it, to go on top of a 400B$ Federal budget deficit and a 10T$ Federal debt and we bailed out failing banks we essentially bailed them out for their bad behavior. While the victims of their bad behavior the people who did business with their banks, remained victimized. And three years later they are still struggling from the banks bad behavior. 

We bailed out banks that were "too big to fail" first of all we allowed them as a country to become "too big to fail" in the first place. And then we bailed them out for their bad behavior, which is a double-edge sward for the country. We suffered for our government's bad behavior of letting banks become "too big to fail" in the first place. And then we suffered from these banks and their bad behavior. 

What we should've done instead is force these banks that are "too big to fail" breakup as a result of becoming too big, as a condition of getting their bailout money, as well as forcing these banks to come up with new management, as another condition of receiving TARP, as well as forcing them to buy Bankruptcy Insurance. So they would never need to be bailed out again at all, because they would have their insurance that they could go to when they are failing.

Firing Line With William F. Buckley: James B Carey- 'Labor Unions and American Freedom (1969)'

Source:Firing Line With William F. Buckley- talking to American labor leader James Carey, in 1969.

"Episode 154, Recorded on June 12, 1969. Guest: James B. Carey. For more information about this program, see:Hoover Institution." 

From Firing Line With William F. Buckley 

"Mr. Carey, as Mr. Buckley tells us, had, with the help of John L. Lewis, launched a counterattack when his union, the United Electrical Union, had been taken over by the Communists. Host and guest sometimes talk past each other, but even so we get a clear idea of what is at issue between Mr. Carey's notion of "an effective union -- a union that represents the views of the people effectively and can deal with management on a basis of equality" and Mr. Buckley's observation that, in the aftermath of the New York City newspaper strike, "the few who survived ... did indeed get their 10, 15, 20, 25 per cent raises, but a lot of other people who would otherwise have survived, went from let's say $250 a week to welfare." 

From the Hoover Institution

One thing I think about when I think of labor unions organized labor, is what working conditions would be like for the American workforce without them. Because with organized labor we have weekends, Social Security, Medicare, Minimum Wage, Unemployment Insurance, Cobra, safe working conditions, etc. 

It's sort of how I think about Lyndon Johnson a man as a Democrat I have a lot of respect for, without President Johnson, how much longer would African-Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities, have to wait until their constitutional rights were enforced. Probably at least until President Carter. who had a large majority in both chambers of Congress and President Carter being a big believer in civil rights. But did he have the political skills to get civil rights legislation through Congress.