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Mooch gone wild!

Mooch is sure having a great time with what seems like her endless Chinese vacation at US taxpayer expense.

Hat Tip: Jack W.

Labels: China, Communism, Michelle Obama

Video: Obama endorses Karl Marx for President

Obama Supporters Sign Fake Petition Supporting Karl Marx For President in 2016 as the Candidate for the Democrat Party After Being Told "Obama Has Endorsed Him." Filmed in San Diego,

Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Asher G).

Heh.

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Communism, humor

Obama adds a founding father

Yes, Obama really did compare Ho Chi Minh to Thomas Jefferson.

WND.com reports: When President Obama said Ho Chi Minh – the North Vietnamese communist revolutionary who led the war effort against the U.S. that cost almost 60,000 American lives – was a fan of the U.S. Constitution and Thomas Jefferson, he was echoing what an influential new book calls one of the most deadly communist disinformation campaigns in American history.

During a White House meeting with Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang last Thursday, Obama said he and Sang “discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson.”
- See more at: http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/obama-ho-chi-minh-comment-echoes-kgb-disinformation-t11477.html#sthash.fOvQbQNi.dpuf

WND.com reports: When President Obama said Ho Chi Minh – the North Vietnamese communist revolutionary who led the war effort against the U.S. that cost almost 60,000 American lives – was a fan of the U.S. Constitution and Thomas Jefferson, he was echoing what an influential new book calls one of the most deadly communist disinformation campaigns in American history.

During a White House meeting with Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang last Thursday, Obama said he and Sang “discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson.”

More here.

WND.com reports: When President Obama said Ho Chi Minh – the North Vietnamese communist revolutionary who led the war effort against the U.S. that cost almost 60,000 American lives – was a fan of the U.S. Constitution and Thomas Jefferson, he was echoing what an influential new book calls one of the most deadly communist disinformation campaigns in American history.

During a White House meeting with Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang last Thursday, Obama said he and Sang “discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson.”
- See more at: http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/obama-ho-chi-minh-comment-echoes-kgb-disinformation-t11477.html#sthash.fOvQbQNi.dpuf

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Communism, humor, Vietnam

Halloween, Obama style

I have lots of video for you this morning (which is good, because videos are faster than writing posts and I have a lot of work to do today). This one is about Halloween, Obama style. What will American kids think is fair: Letting them keep the candy they collect, or distributing it 'fairly' among all their friends?

Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Nice Deb).

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Campaign 2012, Communism, Halloween

KGB mole infiltrates the White House

Heh. (Hat Tip: Jack W).

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Communism

Obama: Success is based on luck

Here's more of the inner socialist Obama coming out. This time he claims that success is based on being lucky enough to be in the top 2%.

Let's go to the videotape. More after the video.

Jews believe that children, length of life and wealth (Banei Chayei u'Mzonei) are all things that are determined by Heaven, and not things where extra effort will necessarily lead to more. But that's a lot different than saying it's luck, or saying that you have to share the wealth with your government.

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Communism

Even the Israeli socialists never said anything like this

For better or for worse, despite the inroads that capitalism has made in the last 35 years, Israel is still a socialist country. Israelis don't cringe at the word 'socialism' - or even 'communism' unlike their American counterparts. Many - maybe even most - believe that the State is responsible for the welfare of its citizens (Hat Tip: Yaacov Lozowick via Twitter). But in Israel, no one would argue that if you own a successful business, it's due to the collective's efforts and not due to your own efforts. They would simply tell you that you have a responsibility to make sure that your fellow citizen's standard of living meets a minimum, regardless of how much effort they put into that standard of living.

But President Hussein Obama goes much further than Israeli socialists. He argues that there is no such thing as individual effort. You may be working 20 hours per day, but the State is still responsible for the success of your venture, and it deserves to be rewarded.

[i]f you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own...If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Four more years?

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Communism

Obama's new Communist campaign slogan

Forget 'hope and change.' That's just so 2000's. The Obama campaign has a new slogan.

Let's go to the videotape.

I'm sure you'll all be shocked to hear that the slogan is Communist. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

Oh, and by the way, Fortune Magazine reported yesterday that there are going to be 21,000 more layoffs on Wall Street in the next few days.

Today, Fortune reports that these layoffs will total 21,000 positions cut across the financial sector in New York City alone–a number that rivals the amount of jobs cut as a result of 2008′s financial crisis.

“Large layoffs are a virtual certainty,” said veteran financial industry recruiter Steve Potter at Odgers Berndtson in Fortune.

Yet unlike the financial crisis layoffs four years ago, this wave of downsizing comes on the heels of tentative economic recovery and modestly optimistic earnings reports from the first quarter of the year.

And it is true that smaller banks and boutique firms are snapping up talent, so the net result in the financial sector of the job market may not be as devastating as first appears. But can smaller institutions grab talent as quickly as bigger institutions shed it?

Regardless, bankers should expect to see compensation decrease by roughly 30% overall this year, according to Fortune.

What could go wrong?

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Campaign 2012, Communism

Jews drink the Obama Koolaid?

@NYJoo (whose real name is apparently Shifra) writes an open letter to the President. Here's what she says about Israel and the Jews.

American Jews really loved and revered FDR. They loved him so much that, after the Schechter brothers won their SC case, their business lost most of their customer base. It seems Jewish customers were upset that the Schechters had dared to oppose their beloved FDR. Unbelievable, but true.

And Jewish Dem/Lib/Leftist voters really love you, too. They have that far-away, “pass the Kool-Aid” kind of look. Oh, btw, you know who are your biggest fans? Jews from the former Soviet Union. They risked *everything* to escape the Commies, but you know how it is, moving to another country. Sometimes, you just get nostalgic for the homeland. And with your socialist/Marxist agenda, it just makes them feel right at home here in the U.S. of A. Why, just the other day, I got into a political discussion with my Russian Jewish shoemaker. As soon as I mentioned your name, he got all excited, and started screaming, “I *spit* on all the stupid Liberal Jews who voted for ….” Oh wait, this may not be the best example. But, anyway, on their behalf, thank you, Mr. President.

And while we are on the subject of Jews, thanks so much for that *fab* not-really-on-Chanukah party, held two weeks before the holiday. Jews around the country were thrilled! I mean, we all ran around, channeling Sally Field (“POTUS loves us. He really, really loves us!!!”) And that clip we saw of your welcoming remarks: you were simultaneously smug, condescending *and* bored. Very impressive! And your comment “We never need an excuse to have a party” really added to the significance of the gathering. Very clever, Mr. President.

Anyway, since I am doing all this comparing stuff, here is another clip of a Chanukah party (actually took place *on* Chanukah, what a concept!), at City Hall in Newark, New Jersey. It was hosted by Mayor Cory Booker. He is a Democrat, just like you. He is African/American, just like you. He is an Ivy League law school graduate, just like you. He is a Christian, just like….um…well…. whatever. But, unlike you, he seemed so… sincere. He spoke without notes, without a teleprompter, and he spoke from the heart. I guess Mr. Booker has a lot to learn from you.

Hmm. On second thought, maybe *you* should be taking notes. Just a suggestion, Mr. President.

Heh. I guess you have to have lived through Communism to understand why you don't want to go there unless you are going to be one of the people in charge. The ex-Russians here understand it as well.

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Communism

An experiment we ought to try in Israel

Isn't it amazing what happens when you put this sort of thing into a perspective that these kids can understand (Hat Tip: Debbie R).

Oliver Darcy, a recent college graduate, proposes that students with good grades contribute their GPA to their academically sluggish friends. He argues that this is how the federal government takes wealth from the country’s high wage earners and distributes it to the low income earners.

“They all earn their GPA,” said Darcy in an interview with "Fox and Friends." “So we asked them if they’d be interested in redistributing the GPA points that they earned to students who may be having trouble getting a high GPA.”

Darcy, who films his encounters with teachers and fellow students, doesn’t have much luck selling this theory.

He said many students on college campuses support high taxes on the rich, but when put into relative terms, cringed at the thought of spreading around their academic wealth.

In a video posted on Exposingleftists.com, one student said, “If I do give GPA points to students that don’t deserve it, it isn’t fair, I work for what I have.”

We ought to try this in all our Leftist universities here. I wonder if the poor little rich girl from Kfar Shmaryahu would contribute.

By the way, Israel Radio's Keren Neubach went all out on Thursday morning, interviewing 'social protesters' all over southern Israel. We wouldn't want the 'Palestinians' to distract us, would we?

Labels: Communism, housing crisis, Israeli economy, Israeli taxes

At heart, Israel is a Marxist country

For those of you trying to understand our 'housing protests' (which he cleverly dubs 'Woodstock on the Yarkon), Steven Plaut has some helpful explanations.

Yet those very same Israelis, who demonstrate every day their skills in succeeding in markets, hate markets. The word “socialism” carries enormously romantic and positive implications for Israelis. Especially among educated (non-Russian-born) Israelis. The word capitalism is something of an obscenity for most Israelis. I suspect that someone arrested for assault could get himself off in court if he claimed the victim had called him a capitalist, it being a form of hate speech. The Israeli media invariably use the word “capitalism” in conjunction with the word piggish. (Ironically, the one exception is the business editor of Haaretz, who supports market capitalism, while the rest of the same newspaper yearns for communism.) The only conceivable form of market economy in the minds of the Israeli chattering class is “piggish capitalism.” You would not believe the portion of Israeli professors and intellectuals who use that expression. The head of the Histadrut, Israel’s largest organized crime family, uses it, being a loyal believer in piggish communism.

In normal countries, pointing out that someone is a card-carrying member of the communist party is usually more than enough to discredit that person. Not in Israel. Carriers of communist party membership cards do so with pride. Most of the members of the history department at Tel Aviv University are such communists. So are oodles of other academics.

On the one hand, the operation of markets is what makes Israel a successful viable country, one incidentally that experienced almost no implosion at all during the global financial collapse of the past 4 years. But on the other hand, markets are things Israelis claim they want suppressed. Literate Israelis insist in unison that markets are what is wrong with the world, and suppressing markets is the answer to Israel’s problems. Markets are evil, rewarding selfishness. Benevolent governmental bureaucrats controlling the economy are what is needed.

Not every Israeli, mind you. Russian-Israelis, who today are maybe a fifth of the population, have no patience for those preaching the wonders of communism. And they are notably absent in the current “social justice” rallies and marches, or what I have been calling the Woodstock along the Yarkon Festival. Orthodox Jews rarely mouth the slogans of nostalgia for Bolshevik central planning of markets, although there are exceptions. (The commentator on the Torah portion in Maariv cannot get enough of communism and insists that suppressing piggish-capitalism is the highest form of Jewish ethics.)

Israeli academics are almost universally anti-capitalism. I am on the list of a chat list of Israeli social science faculty members, and for the past few weeks it has carried hundreds of postings yearning for socialist controls and denouncing capitalism. The posteurs universally fantasize about Israel adopting Scandinavian-style “socialism.” Putting aside some doubts as to how pleasant life really is in Scandinavia (witness Norway recently), Scandinavian “socialism” is actually not. It is essentially free markets mixed with very high tax rates and a gargantuan welfare state providing cradle-to-grave welfare services at state expense. In other words, Scandinavia has always been far more capitalistic countries than Israel, certainly of Israel was before the 1980s. In addition, Israel has always provided Scandinavian-style welfare state services, but without the freeing of markets and liberalization of production that characterized Scandinavia.

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The Woodstock on the Yarkon protesters are by and large leftist secularist Israelis demanding a return to the Bolshevik controls of the 1950s. They pine for the shortages and the rationing of that era because they figure that in a shortage THEY will be granted priority. The central demand of the protesters is rent controls. This will end up destroying the Israeli housing stock and pauperizing elderly owners of rental property who purchased those units with the intention of earning rental income in their old age. Like in New York and other cities having rent controls, the controls will create shortages, where the true cost of obtaining rental housing actually goes UP, not down.

The protesters pine for the Soviet steppes. They demand other forms of price controls so that Israel can turn into a Brezhnev-era style of country, where people spend their days waiting in lines for commodities in perpetual and growing shortage. They want markets to be suppressed, where squads of social justice commandos can decide who gets to live in which apartment, who gets to consume those commodities in shortage, and who earns what. They insist that wages be set based on what the protesters think people deserve to earn. Since there is not a single person in Israel who earns what he thinks he deserves to earn, this amounts to a demand for a Soviet-style wage board that fixes wages for all professions, starting with those who are on strike, like the MDs. In other words, wages in the opinion of the protesters do not have to clear markets and signal where shortages and surpluses are. Wages should be arbitrary measures of “fairness.” Try to imagine just what happens when half the jobs in Israel attract no applicants because the fair wages there are insufficient to draw workers, while the other jobs have six applicants for each position because the fair wages there are much too high to clear the market. Try to imagine what life would be like if a Marxist sociologist or a caring social worker were appointed as economic dictator to decide all economic matters and decisions in Zion.

Every society on earth and every society in human history has people living in hardship and in poverty. There are poor people in all countries, including Scandinavia. Mankind has not discovered an innovation that eliminates poverty and hardship.

Yet the caring dreamers about Bolshevism along Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv (note the irony of the name) demand an instant magic pill that will eliminate all hardship and inequality. And the failure of the government to provide one is proof that the evil “tycoons” are in charge and preventing the government from serving the people. “People not profits” is the slogan of choice used by those who are too stupid to understand that the only way to make producers serve the people and produce things the people want is for them to make profits doing so. Outlaw profits and you create mass starvation.

The tycoon fetish continues to dominate the protests. I have suggested that Mikey Lerner even change the name of his idiotic magazine from Tikkun to Tycoon. Many Israeli tycoons, at least outside high-tech, were made tycoons because of sweetheart deals with the political establishment, particularly back in the days of MAPAI socialism.