RNC ‘Delegates’ from Working Families
When I arrived in the Tampa airport on Saturday afternoon, I recognized an RNC delegate on my flight from Atlanta. She was sporting an Uncle Sam hat, but other than that and the signs welcoming RNC delegates and announcements about a Dixieland band playing in the airport, the atmosphere was not welcoming to Republicans.
The Democratic National Committee’s truck with the anti-Romney billboard was making a loop around the airport. I caught sight of it as I waited for my shuttle to my friend’s house. (I was instructed to not stand on the “dirty sidewalk” but wait in the “nice waiting area”—“we pay for it” by a very efficient woman with a New York accent selling me my ticket.)
My van arrived within the promised 20 minutes, and we loaded up to capacity.
Our driver, in a Boston accent, asked the crew if a new group of four were delegates.
“Yeah, we’re delegates,” said the burly guy named “Butch” sitting right behind me. They could have been. The four of them were talking about getting to a barbecue that evening. It was not a vegan barbecue, so it sounded Republican to me. They talked in general terms about organizing, meeting up. One of the four was a sixty-ish woman, not one of those aging flower children but with hair done, makeup on.
After we had let on a couple more passengers and settled in, I asked the man if he had seen the anti-Romney roving billboard. He said yes and informed me that he was a delegate for the “99%.” He showed me the front of his t-shirt that had an image of Romney as Darth Vader.
Aha.
Anybody, anybody, ANYBODY who says the phrase “bankster” with a straight face is not a person worth knowing in any sort of capacity.
There is an old pen-and-ink by Fredrick Remington (that illustrates one of my old books by Teddy Roosevelt) showing a tall gangly cowboy with an immense revolver jutting from his hip, and a short pudgy man with a 3 piece suit, pasted down hair, and an elaborate watch fob. The caption: Who’s the bad man?”
Bankers have long been the targets of jealousy. Politicians contribute to that, to encourage the bankers to ‘contribute’ to their campaigns in return for protection, and to distract people from the money that the government takes.
There was a time when banks served a purpose. They safeguarded peoples wealth and invested it for them, earning a sufficient return so that they could pay interest on savings accounts . When the government needed money (which were commodities, namely gold or silver) it would sell bonds, often to banks .
Today money is either paper or computer entries. It can be created at no cost in any amount . There is no need for bank vaults since there is nothing to protect . There is no real difference between a mutual find account and a bank saving account . The government could print currency as easily as the federal reserve. There is no need for it to borrow from the fed and pay interest on such “borrowings” .
Certainly the preservation of this archaic structure is a windfall for the fereral reserve banks (Citi, JP Morgan and the other too big to fail monstrosities) . The fed acts to enrich it’s shareholders and grant unlimited funding to the US government. All at the expense of those who hold US dollars, but lack the ability to create them. For example keeping interest rates at 0 benefits the US treasury. Paying non-zero interest on bank reserves benefits member banks . Everyone else loses, either from ridiculously low interest rates on savings (CDs, etc.), or inflation, or currency depreciation.
The fed is an archaic useless institution, and it’s member banks should be dismantled so that their subsequent failures will not inconvenience the country . We do not need a government/big bank institution setting the price for money . Price controls dont work and Keynesian economics (which justify the feds’ existance) is rubbish , both theoretically and empirically.
Without banks – and ATMs, how would you buy and sell?
“The fed is an archaic useless institution…”
I see you’ve been reading Ron Paul. He’s a nice old man with some strange ideas. Perhaps the next administration – whoever’s in charge – could make him Chairman of the Fed.
Wait a minute, what about Frank Raines and Angelo Mozzillo?
I would like to add people that say “Rethuglicans”, “Demonrats”, and “Sheeple”.
Their presence is a warning. If we win this election, they will be rioting in the streets as directed by their Leftist masters. If we lose, they will be applying for jobs as the real Brownshirts. We will do as we must do.
Just take the warning about how delusional they are, and be ready. Because they are not amenable to reason or reality.
Subotai Bahadur
Subotai,(and others) you may be interested in reading some related commentaries which I wrote at my blog -http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/02/revealed-the-second-term-plans-of-an-obama-presidency-nothing-short-of-a-national-nightmare-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
This is one of them, but there are others, as you scroll down the HOME tab.
It is as clear as mud what the Radical-in-Chief has planned if he wins the election, or if he doesn’t.
It ain’t pretty, but it is the truth!
I expect the riots to start well before the elections. They need an excuse to cancel the elections.
Rodney King, Part 2.
Were their clown shoes and squeaky noses obvious?
Their ignorance is breath-taking — Solyndra was denied money by the Bush administration, but Obama (“not of the 1%”) forked it over.
They’re street thugs,.. intelligence isn’t a job requirement for them.. just enthusiasm. The less informed they are, the better for their democrat party overseer’s.
I’ve met many like them, and am so far past being tolerant of the intentionally stupid, I can’t even speak with them, I can’t hold my contempt in check. They really don’t care if their facts are wrong, the history, or if Obama intends to turn us into the new CCCP… that would be a plus to the dem base average retard.. Free bread and lodging?.. free healthcare?.. whoo whoo where do I sign..
Then when they get the free clinc which has three dirty syringes, one nurse, no medicines, filthy conditions and a doctor who’s either drunk or can’t speak English…. They’ll blame that on the counter-revolutionaries too… Nothing is ever the states fault.. if they control it..
The street thug is the democrats most loyal tool, and the stupidest.
It’s catch-words and what they want to hear. Nothing about lifestyle and behavior.
Their rich are better than our rich apparently… not the money.. but the ideology.. that is all they care about, which tells us, that all the talk about the evil 1% is a lie.. even they admit it, when they make that statement, that all that matter’s is their ideology..
God.. I really hate these blue collar red’s… they spit on everything that made this country great, then tell us, it’s all about the “people”.. no.. not to them.. it’s all about power, and who they can punish for not adoring their anointed leader…
My opinion of the “rigger” is that low..
When the average blue collar worker would rather just be left alone, pay lower taxes, and is tired to his eyeballs with these left wing dirtbags F’ing up their kids schools, their jobs, their lives.. all in the name of “fairness” which always ends up being, fatcat leftists padding their pockets, their union friends pockets and screwing the working class these d*ckheads claim to represent.
There’s no better way to put it than yours, mark.
It’s indeed all about the ideology – or in sharper terms, the religion. There are Believers and Unbelievers. Worse even than mere Unbelievers are the wicked Heretics, who lead good Believers astray and turn them into bad Unbelievers. All that matters is not how you live, not what you actually DO, but entirely the quality and intensity of your Belief.
And these are the people who think the likes of us are dangerously unamenable to Reason because we attend weekly services. For the Love of Life Orchestra…
They’re certainly entitled to their own opinions; however, they seem to be operating with their own set of facts as well. What planet those facts came from is anyone’s guess.
Nice report from the lunatic asylum day trip crowd, with bonus Ronulan!
Communists need to be mocked for supporting a failed belief system that murdered millions along the way. These guys may not consider themselves marxists but their rhetoric is basically the same.
They would rather crap over someone else’s event than promote their own guy because they know their beliefs are toxic to most Americans so they have to lie and fudge and change their designations whenever possible. True brownshirts, just not violent yet.
These guys basically argues for a conclusion based on feelings and wrong facts. And I am convinced 90% of these Ronnies [Ron Paul worshipers] are ex-democrats who are too ashamed to admit so, but still hates GOP with a burning passion.
Which convinces me even more so why the liberals have to be stopped. I used to be a liberal for many years [since high school till many years after college]. I’ve heard, and believed what liberals said about conservatives. But when I finally hear what conservatives have to say [instead of hearing what a liberal THINKS what a conservative will say], almost everything liberals think about conservatives are wrong.
But when I hear what conservatives said about liberals, they were right on.
I had experienced both sides, and realized one side [liberals] simply living in a fantasy.
They think it’s funny and snarky to ignore basic facts, and if the fact doesn’t support their ideas [Obama and warren's income], they simply “feel” that they are on their side, and their feeling trumps facts.
I don’t need your feelings. Liberals have issues, and I think seeing a psychologist will do them a lot of good.
There’s nothing quiet so pathetic as a senior citizen still clinging to hippie nostrums long after the weed has been smoked, burned, and ashed. Working Families – love the name. That means the rest of us are what? Leisure families? Working families is a commie party started by communists and when one of them showed up last year on my doorstep collecting for the”party” I asked the young man if he knew he was working for a commie outfit. He was incensed at the suggestion. Nevertheless I threw his off the property telling him I didn’t want the stink of communism polluting the air around my house.
Were these four citizens paid to attend the convention? If so, by whom? Were these four citizens also paid to disrupt the convention? If so, by whom? If these four citizens are free to attend a convention on a work day, and they are being paid, are they also unemployed? Finally, if they’re being fronted by ACORN, of what ethnicity were any/all of them? That’s the trouble with PC reporting. Warm and caring handshakes all round tell you absolutely nothing. But will probably get this particular blogger a job on CNN.
It is so refreshing to read reporting like this. Quite a fascinating piece really – detailed, honest, interesting, quirky & humane. Good job!
‘Working Families’ is a front for ACORN, which is a front for democrats, which is a front against fools who would join. Comparable traps exist on the right, up, down, and everywhere you try to achieve goals. There is no opting out either- it’s compulsory schooling, taxes, then death on this planet. Beam me up, Mr. Scott…
I got an ear full of the leftist claptrap this weekend. Phony facts as fast as can be spoken. It was futile to try to confute any, because the left’s way of debate is to interrupt and talk over any dissent. The Koch Brothers are their Emmanuel Goldstein, arch-villains. I counter that they are decent, honorable, and law abiding businessmen, and they laugh at me ass though I’m the nut. Well, one of us must me a nut.
It would have been interesting to see inside their luggage. If there were Mitt Romney T-shirts or other Republican paraphernalia then I would expect some real bad things to make it into the msm main stream. It is like the TEA party events where one or two “Plants” display hateful or racists signs and they get all of the coverage. Look for these people to try to embarrass the R’s.
I’d like to hear them pressed on the meaning of “fair share”. See how much pursuit it takes to get an answer that isn’t vague generalities.
This is clearly a fabricated story: I’ve never met any Republican women at a contra dance. Not only is the story not true, but the author doesn’t exist, either!
@16 JeffJohnson;
You clearly haven’t been to enough contradances…
I love how the guy with a mouth full of “Obama is better” rhetoric wearing the “Romney as Darth Vader” shirt still has the balls to claim that he’s “neither Democrat or Republican.”
I don’t care what side you’re on. Just don’t feed me this B.S. about how you’re neutral!
Butch is right about this being a fight over the 1%, but he’s part of the 50+1% who live off of the taxes of the 49%. He and the other paid stooges are advocating for the continuation of political patronage and crony capitalism. It’s a battle of freedom-loving Americans versus parasites and it’s no wonder that the parasites will say and do anything to keep the gravy train, gravy boat and high-speed gravy rail from stopping. If they were truly motivated by “fairness” then they’d quit stealing from working Americans and actually be a benefit to society.
But the parasites would rather get paid to destroy the country because they see it as “getting even” with those who passed them over for promotion, who told them they just weren’t good enough, and who told them they had no marketable skills. Imagine… you’ve got a doctorate in Classical French, a minor in Puppetry, $200k in student loans and Corporate America says “we’ve got a minimum wage job for you”. How is that fair? They spent the best 10 years of their life “following their passion” and now you won’t pay? Oh, but you will, you’ll pay…
I can’t talk to these people because quite frankly, the sheer amount of lying they do, would cause me to feel the overwhelming urge to punch them in the face. “Oh, I’m sorry, you’re telling me unemployment was 15% under Bush and Obama got it down to 8%? That’s amazing” /smashes Butch in his face
I’m tired of the lying. Thats the big problem for me. Its not that their just socialist and trying to convince me of the appeal of socialism, its that their socialists trying to sell socialism as something other than it is and to so, they have to lie about 90-95% of what they’re doing.
But it’s so liberating, politically. Bound by the truth, the D’s could never have passed the ACA (“Obamacare) even when they controlled both houses.
Thanks for the update, Mary. Be careful down there!
acorn is alive and well. Pity, but evil never goes away easily. In this case, it doesn’t go away at all. acorn really has a middle eastern mindset – it only wants to dismantle and destroy what it envies rather than emulate success and the hard work that leads to success. It’s probably forbidden to join acorn or even the occupy movement unless a person is proficient at whining, avoiding doing anything that is productive, and believes “rich” people who work 60 or 70 hours weekly are conspiring against the poor.
If you’re a Ron Paul supporter, how do you agree with marxists? You both don’t like the current system, fine, but your solutions are polar opposite.
Increasingly, the Democrats seem to rely on thugs and thuggery to get their message out. Of course, not all working class people are thugs.
I swear, if I ever meet a real, live, honest-to-goodness Republican woman at a contra dance, I’d propose to her on the spot!
A Republican at a contra dance? Are they done differently than they were 10-70 years ago? I always thought of them as a type of square dance or two lines of men and women facing each other and with a caller.
From the talk about them in this forum do they do them naked now or do you have to have contra dance tattooed on your behind? A lot of my friends still do square dancing, line dancing, etc. WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL ABOUT IT that people here think Republican women don’t do it.
P.S. I have been a Republican all my life and am now a Conservative Republic. Please enlighten me!
Contra dances are a lot of fun! They are a great workout, too, and they usually have real bands playing great old-time music and serve great food. I’ve made many friends and met many interesting people at them. I have several friends who met their spouses at contra dances. I was hoping I’d do the same, but politically, the vast majority of people at contra dances are flaming liberals! So I was more than a little surprised to see that the author attends contra dances.
I am a Conservative Republican, not a Conservative Republic.
Come on to contra dance. We need more conservatives there! Let’s do a right-wing contra dance.
What a wonderful idea! Tell me where and when…