Democrat Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has committed yet another gaffe. Wait, it’s not a gaffe, it’s a packaged campaign ad that reflects what she wants voters to think of her. In the ad, Warren laments that the US doesn’t “put people to work” with infrastructure “investments” at the level of the communist Chinese government.
TRANSCRIPT: We’ve got bridges and roads in need of repair and thousands of people in need of work. Why aren’t we rebuilding America? Our competitors are putting people to work, building a future. China invests 9% of its GDP in infrastructure. America? We’re at just 2.4%. We can do better. We can build a foundation for a strong new economy and get people in MA to work right now. I’m Elizabeth Warren and I approve this message. Let’s go to work.
President Obama had the chance to “invest” nearly a trillion dollars from the 2009 stimulus, but he chose instead to spend vast amounts to pay off unions before admitting that there weren’t any “shovel ready” jobs to fund.
Warren is borrowing her ideas from pretentious NYT columnist Tom Friedman, who regularly publishes his wish that America could “be China for a day” so that those in charge could spend money the way the communists do, without having to get the consent of the people whose money they would be spending.
China has one of the worse environmental records in the world, and this year one of its “investments” poisoned a major river with 20 tons of cadmium.
Warren is far from the first Democrat to praise communism in recent years. Obama hired communist Van Jones to be his “green jobs” czar, and Obama communications officer Anita Dunn praised communist dictator and mass murderer Mao Zedong in a 2009 speech. A leader with the Communist Party USA wrote in June 2012 that re-electing Barack Obama is “absolutely essential.”
Update: Warren had to do some damage control after claiming that Wall Street backs her candidacy because she can rescue capitalism. Warren, who has no private sector experience, now admits that her comment was “over the top” and “silly.” “Desperate” and “totally insane” might have been closer to the mark.
– gonna have to off 100 million people in the process.
What, like that shoddy Three Gorges Dam? That was a pocket-lining exercise for everyone involved except for the average Chinese citizen living nearby. But, certainly, it’s Chicago/ACORN/SEIU Values at work!
Ms. Warren would undoubtedly welcome a Chinese-style totalitarian state because she sees herself as a future member of the Central Committee, Politburo and Commissar for Lies About Steel Production She is, after all, a Harvard faculty member and cannot be expected to live like “the little people” under such a regime.
The Left’s increased fawning over the “Chinese way” is one of the most disturbing things in a disturbing landscape. I didn’t used to believe it a couple of years ago but I believe it now – If the Democrats could get away with setting up a one-party state with a selected strongman (you-know-who) as “National Leader” I believe that they would do it.
P.S. – As we all know by now – When the Left talks about “rebuilding our infrastructure” they really mean “publc handouts to our political client groups.” Nobody is that dumb anymore.
“She is, after all, a Harvard faculty member and cannot be expected to live like “the little people” under such a regime.”
Yes, that’s a big part of it.
The other part is that as an esteemed member of the commissariate, she won’t have to suck hind tit to a few million entrepreneurs who make potfulls of money because they know how to make things people want…instead of an arrogant academic twit who would be living in a cave if it wasn’t for the knuckle-draggers she so wants to feel superior to.
I have an idea. Why don’t we act like the Chinese and do a deal for energy with the Canadians?
Even better, why don’t we put people to work tapping into our rich natural resources?
Lots of jobs and we can beat the Chinese instead of bowing to them.
http://www.realsea.net/1585_Alice-Drummond/#2 (By the way, has anyone ever seen Alice Drummond/Lucy from Awakenings and Warren in the same place?)
Let’s follow Deng Xiaoping’s dictum: “To get rich is glorious!”
I saw pictures of the Olympic sites in Beijing. They are pretty much abandoned, rusting and rotting away. Pretty good investment there, huh Liz?
Yes, let’s do engineering like the Chinese.
http://gizmodo.com/5304233/entire-new-13+story-building-tips-over-in-shanghai/gallery/1
In my lifetime (I’m 54), the communist Chinese have murdered tens of millions of their own citizens. Why does the American Left love murderers so much?
China is investing 9% of its GDP in infrastructure because China is still so far behind in infrastructure that it needs it.
The U.S., having invested in infrastructure for decades, now has the roads it needs. Building new ones would not enhance productivity. In many cases it would even harm productivity, taking people away from other projects, or taking land away from development.
The U.S. does need to pay maintain its infrastructure, and expand its energy infrastructure, but the first is constantly subverted by earmarking and useles new infrastructure building, while the second is constantly blocked by ecofreaks and their Democratic Party flunkies.
All of this also ignores that raw government infrastructure projects are only useful when there is private expansion available to take advantage of it. Without that, you wind up with ghost towns – like China’s phantom cities. Wtih private expansion blocked by Democratic Party promoted overregulation, adding infrastructure becomes a double waste – not only are resources diverted to build them, but resources must be diverted in the future to maintain them to no useful purpose.
Amen!
Not a single welfare recipient gets a job building roads and bridges. It is onlty more boodle for union thugs.
Someone please inform me: Why does anyone care what Fake-ahontas has to say on ANYTHING?
Can’t the private sector help with infrastructure, without government help?
the left’s perpetual chinaenvy coupled with the ridiculous commercials during the olympics touting the greatness of china is simply revolting
channeling the great frank costanza:
SERENITY NOW
Isn’t little Lizzie part of the infrastructure — like “intellectual” infrastructure? — LOL.
So, let’s be “true” Commies -who always hated “privileged” professionals, like doctors, lawyers, financiers, etc.- and follow their example:
I think Ms.Cherokee would look good “shovel ready”: Put some overalls on her, work boots on her feet, stick a shovel in her hands and get her rebuilding the South East Expressway. Or else! – Give her some taste of real work. We’ll even grant her union wages.
Anybody with at least half a brain could do her work at Harvard Law. After all, she “didn’t do it herself…” right?
Give her a three year “sabbatical” on the expressway, and if she thinks that is too harsh, we can “lend-lease” her to China – at local “wage rates”. She might even return having discovered she’s become 1/32 Chinese. Haaarwood loves diversity. And diversified twits!
California is building the train to nowhere; Elizabeth should like that. Of course, the rest of the sane people in California think it’s nuts!
And this pantyload is going to warm up keynote speaker BJ Clinton at the dem convention.
If it wasn’t such a severe mental health risk, I might consider watching it for the entertainment value.
Sad part is Pokahannis is again lying and saying anything to by votes 1/32 AMerican Indian YOU Are a lying Cxxt
China by the way is Capitalist with a one party system who is reaping the rewards of Capitalism – they DUMPED Maoism & Commie in 1990′s when they realized it is a LOOSING System