THESE people actually receive public taxpayers' funds from the state of NY - via the Stimulus Bill!!Jed Brandt, admitted Marxist, and his Brecht Forum [a non-profit Marxist / communist organization in New York City that promotes social activism] is the recipient of stimulus funds from the Obama American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
From Townhall.com.: "The Brecht Forum's 09-10 program features workshops in the participatory theater techniques developed by the noted Brazilian director Augusto Boal. The program includes monthly workshops led by members of the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory and two master workshops led by Augusto Boal.”
The website for the Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory describes this form of art in rather revealing political terms,
“Augusto Boal has defined Theater of the Oppressed as a rehearsal for revolution.”
The website further describes its mission as using “interactive theater as an organizing tool” and works with “educators, human service and healthcare workers, union organizers and community activists” to solve perceived problems.
Here is Brandt, in his own words: “We have to help bring this government down, we have to help destroy this system and that requires increasing the alienation that working class and oppressed people feel. The way change is going to happen in this country is through the destruction of what we call the United States of America. "I’m opposed to white supremacy not because it’s white people involved. I am opposed to the system we traditionally call imperialism and the idea that some people have rights and privileges that are not granted to all human beings. And the solution to that problem is called communism and socialism and we should put it in our mouths. We should say it when we say what is your politics? I am a socialist. I demand that we have health care for people and it’s not a demand that’s negotiable with health insurance companies.
"We will take your insurance companies; we will take the farms in this country; we will shut down the military apparatus in this country and I am tired of being told to stuff my anger back in my pants.”
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Big Government: "Friday night on National Public Radio, a fitting place to announce an unprecedented growth in federal power, Sen. Chris Dodd praised his partner in crime Sen. Bob Corker for working together to create an “independent, autonomous, rule- writing entity, unlike anything we’ve ever had before.” That is exactly why Tea Party activists from across the Volunteer State gathered in front of Corker’s office this past week to protest his back room dealmaking.
That entity won’t be regulating Wall Street. it will be regulating Main Street. Stores with layaway plans. Check cashing companies. Payday lenders. Debt settlement companies. Car Dealers and pawn shops (if their lobbyist written exemption falls out) will all be regulated by the federal government.
And that’s just for starters. How many government agencies do you know of that get less powerful as they go along? And how many can you think of that continue to grab more and more power over more and more parts of our lives?"
That entity won’t be regulating Wall Street. It will be regulating Main Street . Stores with layaway plans. Check cashing companies. Payday lenders. Debt settlement companies. Car Dealers and pawn shops (if their lobbyist written exemption falls out) will all be regulated by the federal government.
And that’s just for starters. How many government agencies do you know of that get less powerful as they go along? And how many can you think of that continue to grab more and more power over more and more parts of our lives?
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The Washington Examiner reported: "From a fact sheet on Obama's campaign website: Obama’s plan will save a typical family up to $2,500 on premiums by bringing the health care system into the 21st century: cutting waste, improving technology, expanding coverage to all Americans, and paying for some high-cost cases. However,the CBO just produced this analysis of the senate health care bill which concludes that the Senate health care bill will raise the average family's health care premiums by $2,300."
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From ESPN Outdoors: "The Obama administration has ended public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters."
"Now we see NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the administration planning the future of recreational fishing access in America based on a similar agenda of these same groups and other Big Green anti-use organizations, through an Executive Order by the President. The current U.S. direction with fishing is a direct parallel to what happened in Canada with hunting: The negative economic impacts on hard-working American families and small businesses are being ignored.
"In spite of what we hear daily in the press about the President's concern for jobs and the economy and contrary to what he stated in the June order creating this process, we have seen no evidence from NOAA or the task force that recreational fishing and related jobs are receiving any priority."
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The Slaughter Solution to passing the health care bill, proposed by the House rules chairman: the rule would declare that the House "deems" the Senate version of Obamacare to have been passed by the House. House members would still have to vote on whether to accept the rule, but House members would be able to say they only voted for a rule, not for the bill itself.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/House-Democrats-looking-at-Slaughter-Solution-to-pass-Obamacare-without-a-vote-on-Senate-bill-87267402.html#ixzz0hprhgHmw
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The Washington Times reports: "Last week brought bad news for universal health care. On Friday, the Daily Telegraph exposed Britain's National Health Service's secret plan to close hundreds of hospital wards after the next general election. Massive budget shortfalls will force Britain's government-run health care system to take this highly unpopular step in order to constrain costs. (Snip) But Britain's National Health Service demonstrates that what the government giveth, the government can also taketh away - especially when it runs out of money."
National Review Online writes of Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah): "he has made few friends in official Washington with his plan to empower federal agencies to fire employees who are habitual tax scofflaws. He has made a lot of enemies, and there are more of them than you’d expect: According to data from the IRS and the Office of Personnel Management, nearly 100,000 current federal employees are behind on their taxes. Not all of them are big offenders, but they are delinquent to the tune of nearly $1 billion — an average of about $10,000 each.
"Chaffetz is, in a sense, running with a political football he intercepted from President Obama, who in January called for legislation that would prevent the hiring of, and enable the firing of, private-sector contractors with tax delinquencies. Chaffetz signed on to that plan and added an amendment that would cover government employees, too."
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out yesterday at former Rep. Eric Massa, calling him a “poor baby” who is “exaggerating” his importance by appearing on television to discuss his longtime penchant for tickling men. Pelosi also told ABC’s Charlie Rose that Massa’s judgment may be clouded because he is suffering from cancer.
“This is a very sick person,” Pelosi told Rose. “He has been diagnosed with cancer. Perhaps his judgment is impaired because of the ethical issues that have arisen, and he is no longer in the Congress.”
The comments are surprising because new reports out today suggest Pelosi had known Massa was a “very sick person” for much longer than she seems to let on. [Count on Nancy to "drain the swamp" of the ethically impaired.]
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