Two Stories here; 1 is that Stephen Lerner–Former SEIU leader said this just this last weekend:
"We have an entire economy that is built on debt and banks so the question would be what would happen if we organized homeowners in mass to do a mortgage strike if we get half a million people to agree it would literally cause a new finical crisis for the banks not for us we would be doing quite well we wouldn’t be paying anything…
…So I think we weed out a very simple strategy: how do we bring down the stock market, how do we bring down their bonuses, how do we interfere with their ability to, to be rich."
And 2: the Media won't cover it because he's a friend of Obama
However, the Business Insider does report: “Caught on Tape: Former SEIU Official Reveals Secret Plan to Destroy JP Morgan, Crash the Stockmarket, and Redistribute Wealth in America.”
"....Lerner was ousted from SEIU last November, reportedly for spending millions of the union's dollars trying to pursue a plan like the one he details here. It is not clear what, if any, power and influence he currently wields. His main message--that Wall Street won the financial crisis, that inequality in this country is hitting record levels, and that there appears to be no other way to stop the trend-"
Than to destroy? Even SEIU knows that they can't have a message like this but something tells me they parted company with a mutual arrangment to continue both parallel missions simultaniously.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/seiu-union-plan-to-destroy-jpmorgan#ixzz1HSjrs0ub
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23 March 2011
17 March 2011
Colorado Majority Leader John Morse requested 331 days of Per Diem in 2009
If you've ever had to travel on business you know about submitting claims for extra pay to help reimburse you for food, expenses and travel. John Morse who was the State Majority leader in 1999 submitted claims for the maximum per diem (99$ per day) for nearly every day of the year! These are dollars taken from you in the form of taxes. It is time for Mr. Morse to stand to account for taking advantage of his situation. I am all about being fair in this situation but after I read the report, it appeared just like a government official taking as much as he possible can. While I understand if you are on State business and driving all over the state you should be paid for your time and expenses, however to ask for per diem on days where you are working in the capital I don't think I do understand. You've already been paid for that. Perhaps someone can straighten me out here but it looks a lot like fraud and waste to me.
To make matters worse, the rhetoric that Mr. Morse spits out toward others about "tightening their belt" would make you cringe. The only word that comes to mind here is Hypocrite.
"Recently, Sen. Morse ran an amendment to cut $25,000 from the Attorney General‟s budget. During debate of the same bill, he chastised Secretary of State Scott Gessler for his claims that he could not live on a salary of $68,500. Morse went on to say that Gessler "needed to tighten his belt the way ordinary Coloradans have." "
Colorado Government Accountability Project (CGAP) recently reviewed Sen. John Morse‟s 2009 per diem requests, obtained through an open records request. CGAP has discovered that Morse requested 331 days of reimbursement. This is nearly 100 days more than then Speaker of the House Terrance Carroll requested.
Morse claimed a full 120 days during the legislative session then claimed an additional 211 days, or nearly $21,000, after the end of the session. The majority of those days were labeled as „constituent work‟ on the reimbursement request; such „constituent work‟ was not supported by Sen. Morse‟s calendars. In fact, days where reimbursements were requested the calendar entries reflected haircuts, dentist appointments and packing and moving.
Mr. Bob is a contributing author at the People's Press Collective. Your source for Colorado Politics.
READ THE REST at COLOGAP.ORG
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To make matters worse, the rhetoric that Mr. Morse spits out toward others about "tightening their belt" would make you cringe. The only word that comes to mind here is Hypocrite.
"Recently, Sen. Morse ran an amendment to cut $25,000 from the Attorney General‟s budget. During debate of the same bill, he chastised Secretary of State Scott Gessler for his claims that he could not live on a salary of $68,500. Morse went on to say that Gessler "needed to tighten his belt the way ordinary Coloradans have." "
Colorado Government Accountability Project (CGAP) recently reviewed Sen. John Morse‟s 2009 per diem requests, obtained through an open records request. CGAP has discovered that Morse requested 331 days of reimbursement. This is nearly 100 days more than then Speaker of the House Terrance Carroll requested.
Morse claimed a full 120 days during the legislative session then claimed an additional 211 days, or nearly $21,000, after the end of the session. The majority of those days were labeled as „constituent work‟ on the reimbursement request; such „constituent work‟ was not supported by Sen. Morse‟s calendars. In fact, days where reimbursements were requested the calendar entries reflected haircuts, dentist appointments and packing and moving.
Mr. Bob is a contributing author at the People's Press Collective. Your source for Colorado Politics.
READ THE REST at COLOGAP.ORG
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11 March 2011
Breitbart posts on Huffpo? - NPR Is Collateral Damage in Battle to Brand Tea Party
#teaparty #tcot #breitbart
Want to watch Proggressives blow a gasket? ....he he, just read the comments after Andrew slices and dices the NPR scandal.
HUFFPO: The latest James O'Keefe success story against NPR has taken a predictable pattern --panicked press releases and firings, followed by denunciation of O'Keefe in a belated attempt to discredit him. Naturally, conservatives are crowing about it, but I wanted to give a little perspective to those Huffington Post readers -- whatever your political stripe -- who share my passion for free speech, honest debate, and fairness in the media.
Over the past year, the mainstream media has collaborated with the White House in an attempt to paint the Tea Party as racist. Remember the protests on Capitol Hill last March against ObamaCare, and the media's lie that members of the Congressional Black Congress had awful racial slurs hurled at them by Tea Party members that weekend? Did you know that there's video evidence that it isn't true?
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Want to watch Proggressives blow a gasket? ....he he, just read the comments after Andrew slices and dices the NPR scandal.
HUFFPO: The latest James O'Keefe success story against NPR has taken a predictable pattern --panicked press releases and firings, followed by denunciation of O'Keefe in a belated attempt to discredit him. Naturally, conservatives are crowing about it, but I wanted to give a little perspective to those Huffington Post readers -- whatever your political stripe -- who share my passion for free speech, honest debate, and fairness in the media.
Over the past year, the mainstream media has collaborated with the White House in an attempt to paint the Tea Party as racist. Remember the protests on Capitol Hill last March against ObamaCare, and the media's lie that members of the Congressional Black Congress had awful racial slurs hurled at them by Tea Party members that weekend? Did you know that there's video evidence that it isn't true?
READ THE REST AT THE HUFFINGTON POST
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09 March 2011
NPR Fires CEO Vivian Schiller in Wake of Video Sting
#PBC #NPR #teaparty #budget
NPR board ousts CEO Vivian Schiller in wake of video sting | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment##
NPR Foundation President Ron Schiller was fired yesterday after this video was released. Your tax dollars at work, with no accountability...until you the citizen with a camera exposes them. We are under attack from within people. Defend your country. Thank you Mr. O'Keefe.
More on this at The Blaze
Here is a report on the Video;
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NPR board ousts CEO Vivian Schiller in wake of video sting | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment##
NPR Foundation President Ron Schiller was fired yesterday after this video was released. Your tax dollars at work, with no accountability...until you the citizen with a camera exposes them. We are under attack from within people. Defend your country. Thank you Mr. O'Keefe.
More on this at The Blaze
Here is a report on the Video;
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08 March 2011
Obscene Salaries Uncovered at NPR
By Jim DeMint AP
...The executives at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which distributes the taxpayer money allocated for public broadcasting to other stations, are also generously compensated. According to CPB's 2009 tax forms, President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison received $298,884 in reportable compensation and another $70,630 in other compensation from the organization and related organizations that year. That's practically a pittance compared to Kevin Klose, president emeritus of NPR, who received more than $1.2 million in compensation, according to the tax forms the nonprofit filed in 2009.
Today's media landscape is a thriving one with few barriers to entry and many competitors, unlike when CPB was created in 1967. In 2011, Americans have thousands of news, entertainment and educational programs to choose from that are available on countless television, radio and Web outlets.
Despite how accessible media has become to Americans over the years, funding for CPB has grown considerably. In 2001, the federal government appropriated $340 million for CPB. Last year it got $420 million. As Congress considers ways to close the $14 trillion deficit, cutting funding for the CPB has even been proposed by President Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction commission. Instead, Mr. Obama wants to increase CPB's funding to $451 million in his latest budget.
Meanwhile, highly successful, brand-name public programs like Sesame Street make millions on their own. "Sesame Street," for example, made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales from 2003-2006. Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 in compensation in 2008. With earnings like that, Big Bird doesn't need the taxpayers to help him compete against the Nickleodeon cable channel's Dora the Explorer.
Read the full story at the WallStreetJournal.com
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...The executives at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which distributes the taxpayer money allocated for public broadcasting to other stations, are also generously compensated. According to CPB's 2009 tax forms, President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison received $298,884 in reportable compensation and another $70,630 in other compensation from the organization and related organizations that year. That's practically a pittance compared to Kevin Klose, president emeritus of NPR, who received more than $1.2 million in compensation, according to the tax forms the nonprofit filed in 2009.
Today's media landscape is a thriving one with few barriers to entry and many competitors, unlike when CPB was created in 1967. In 2011, Americans have thousands of news, entertainment and educational programs to choose from that are available on countless television, radio and Web outlets.
Despite how accessible media has become to Americans over the years, funding for CPB has grown considerably. In 2001, the federal government appropriated $340 million for CPB. Last year it got $420 million. As Congress considers ways to close the $14 trillion deficit, cutting funding for the CPB has even been proposed by President Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction commission. Instead, Mr. Obama wants to increase CPB's funding to $451 million in his latest budget.
Meanwhile, highly successful, brand-name public programs like Sesame Street make millions on their own. "Sesame Street," for example, made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales from 2003-2006. Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 in compensation in 2008. With earnings like that, Big Bird doesn't need the taxpayers to help him compete against the Nickleodeon cable channel's Dora the Explorer.
Read the full story at the WallStreetJournal.com
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