Speaking at the George Soros funded Center for American Progress (CAP) on Friday, former Barry "Almighty" Green Jobs Czar and current political "activist," Van Jones, praised the Arab Spring democracy movement in the Middle East as “people powered” and “non-violent” and called for the United States to follow suit. I must say, Mr. Jones must have a rather strange definition for "non-violent." Anyway, Mr. Jones said, “They had the Arab spring, which was a people-powered, non-violent opportunity to change the conversation in those countries.” Adding, “We should have an American Autumn – people-powered, non-violent.” “But let’s change the conversation and get more voices in,” said Jones, who is, which should come as a surprise to no one, a fellow at CAP and used his most recent appearance to promote what he calls, his American Dream movement. Which is a little something dreamt by Mr. Jones that is essentially left-wing in its purpose and nothing more than political organization run another liberal group heavily financed by George Soros, MoveOn.org Civic Action, in partnership with dozens of other liberal groups ranging from the Hip Hop Caucus to the Sierra Club and Planned Parenthood. The Hip Hop Caucus? Really?
Jones, who described himself as a communist in the 1990s, also praised those loons taking part in the Occupy Wall Street protests that have spread to cities outside of Manhattan, including to Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. Protesters in the plaza. This odd assortment of freaks that has earned the support of Mr. Jones runs the gamut, ranging from animal rights activists and people offering “pagan circles” to such anti-war groups such as Code Pink. The area is littered with the belongings of the protesters, including the sleeping bags of those who are camping at the site. Jones encouraged guests at the CAP event to join his movement and to support the Wall Street protestors, who he said have “moral clarity.” Moral clarity, a rather odd way to describe what afflicts these morons. “Join the American Dream movement,” Jones said. “Help the Occupy Wall Street movement.” “Keep growing it in a positive, non-violent and hopeful way,” Jones said. “When people speak truth to power, that takes courage,” Jones said. “I admire these young people so much.” “People say, ‘What the heck, these young people, I can’t understand their messaging,’” Jones said. “Look, they may not have message clarity yet.” But “they have moral clarity,” Jones said. “And that’s something. That’s something in this world.” What a bunch of drivel.
Jones also promoted his movement’s 10-point “Contract for the American Dream,” which includes the items listed below as they are listed on Mr. Jones' website:
1. Invest in America's Infrastructure: Rebuild our crumbling bridges, dams, levees, ports, water and sewer lines, railways, roads, and public transit. We must invest in high-speed Internet and a modern, energy-saving electric grid. These investments will create good jobs and rebuild America. To help finance these projects, we need national and state infrastructure banks.
2. Create 21st Century Energy Jobs: We should invest in American businesses that can power our country with innovative technologies like wind turbines, solar panels, geothermal systems, hybrid and electric cars, and next-generation batteries. And we should put Americans to work making our homes and buildings energy efficient. We can create good, green jobs in America, address the climate crisis, and build the clean energy economy.
3. Invest in Public Education: We should provide universal access to early childhood education, make school funding equitable, invest in high-quality teachers, and build safe, well-equipped school buildings for our students. A high-quality education system, from universal preschool to vocational training and affordable higher education, is critical for our future and can create badly needed jobs now.
4. Offer Medicare for All: We should expand Medicare so it's available to all Americans, and reform it to provide even more cost-effective, quality care. The Affordable Care Act is a good start and we must implement it -- but it's not enough. We can save trillions of dollars by joining every other industrialized country -- paying much less for health care while getting the same or better results.
5. Make Work Pay: Americans have a right to fair minimum and living wages, to organize and collectively bargain, to enjoy equal opportunity, and to earn equal pay for equal work. Corporate assaults on these rights bring down wages and benefits for all of us. They must be outlawed.
6. Secure Social Security: Keep Social Security sound, and strengthen the retirement, disability, and survivors' protections Americans earn through their hard work. Pay for it by removing the cap on the Social Security tax, so that upper-income people pay into Social Security on all they make, just like the rest of us.
7. Return to Fairer Tax Rates: End, once and for all, the Bush-era tax giveaways for the rich, which the rest of us -- or our kids -- must pay eventually. Also, we must outlaw corporate tax havens and tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas. Lastly, with millionaires and billionaires taking a growing share of our country's wealth, we should add new tax brackets for those making more than $1 million each year.
8. End the Wars and Invest at Home: Our troops have done everything that's been asked of them, and it's time to bring them home to good jobs here. We're sending $3 billion each week overseas that we should be investing to rebuild America.
9. Tax Wall Street Speculation: A tiny fee of a twentieth of 1% on each Wall Street trade could raise tens of billions of dollars annually with little impact on actual investment. This would reduce speculation, "flash trading," and outrageous bankers' bonuses -- and we'd have a lot more money to spend on Main Street job creation.
10. Strengthen Democracy: We need clean, fair elections -- where no one's right to vote can be taken away, and where money doesn't buy you your own member of Congress. We must ban anonymous political influence, slam shut the lobbyists' revolving door in D.C., and publicly finance elections. Immigrants who want to join in our democracy deserve a clear path to citizenship. We must stop giving corporations the rights of people when it comes to our elections. And we must ensure our judiciary's respect for the Constitution. Together, we will reclaim our democracy to get our country back on track.
Anybody hearing anything here that sounds eerily familiar when compared to what we've been hearing from Barry "Almighty?" These items sound remarkably similar to those policies being advocated not only by Barry "Almighty," but the Democrats in Congress as well. So when you have an individual such as Mr. Jones, a self-professed communist, and apparently proudly so, who is pushing the same agenda that we hear coming from the Democrat Party, what exactly should that tell you. Does Mr. Jones' "Contract for the American Dream" equate to that which Barry "Almighty" has referred to as "Hope and Change?" And isn't the philosophy of one twisted leftist "community agitator" pretty much the same for all twisted leftist "community agitators," both past and present? Kind of like, birds of a feather flock together, hence the reason behind Barry's wanting this guy on his team in the beginning before being forced to chuck him over the side. This just goes to show you just how deep the problem that we have with Barry, goes. That the things we hear coming from him so very closely resemble those things we hear coming from a character like Jones, should be considered by everyone as being more than just a bit unnerving.
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