"The Revolt of the Bourgeois"

[NCVol]

The borrower is part of the problem.

I guarantee there hasn't been a time in history that banks sat around and begged people to take their money that there wasn't a long line of folks willing to take them up on it.  And you all remember the ads telling everyone, no income check, no credit check, no docs, no money down, buy a house, live the american dream, you too can afford to live in a fine mansion.  Hell, George W. Bush said EXACTLY that, that low income first time borrowers didn't have to settle for a crap house....  When those people don't pay, I blame the lenders who had the money and had the responsibility to lend it to people who could afford to pay it back. 

The sad part is a whole lot of subprime borrowers who got screwed with option ARMs and all that qualified for better loans, but the bonuses were better the higher the interest rate and the worse the loan, and the therefore with a bigger chance at default.  Sock someone with a piece of crap adjustable ARM they couldn't afford on the front end and sure as hell couldn't afford after the adjustment period, and collect a much BIGGER bonus than making a traditional loan with a chance at those folks making the payments.  It was criminal behavior in many cases, and when not criminal, immoral and unconscionable. 

[The One Man Gang]

Back to Mr. Lowry's main point:

Just as stunning as the tableaux of the massive throngs lining the reflecting pool were the images of the spotless grounds afterward. If someone had told attendees they were expected to mow the grass before they left, surely some of them would have hitched flatbed trailers to their vehicles for the trip to Washington and gladly brought mowers along with them.

This was the revolt of the bourgeois, of the responsible, of the orderly, of people profoundly at peace with the traditional mores of American society.

Unnoticed by virtually everyone was the Left's "answer" to the 828 rally.  Unions bussed in the perpetually offended and they gathered in their dozens to be hectored by various washed up hippies, union thugs and other fellow travelers.  Of note, the buses started leaving long before the official end and by the time the last speaker was on the dais the audience consisted of a handful of squirrels and rabbits wondering what all the noise was about.

The assembled "concerned citizen-activists" did leave a reminder of their presence.  They trashed the National Mall.







These people are pigs.  If you want 'em on your side, you are welcome to them.

From the aerial shots of the crowd all these .orgs sent one "representative peasant" to the rally.  No more, no less.



I also can resist pointing out that many environmentalist whacko .orgs are listed as "sponsors" yet none could seem to bestir themselves to actually DO SOMENTHING like, you know, PICK UP THE TRASH.

The guilty:

Sojourners
SEIU 1199
National Action Network
United States Students Association
UAW, International Union
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
SEIU: Service Employees International Union
Rainbow PUSH Coalition
PowerPAC
National Council of La Raza
NAACP
Green for All
Communications Workers of America
American Federation of Teachers
Center for Community Change
AFL-CIO
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
The Shalom Center
Children’s Defense Fund
Colage
Climate Crisis Coalition
NYC Environmental Justice Alliance
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Earth Day Network
National Wildlife Federation
Transition United States
United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park
Sierra Club
Center for Biological Diversity
Apollo Alliance
Green Party
Union Jobs Clearinghouse
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
The Southern Anti-Racism Network (SARN)
Green Party USA
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
General Board of Church and Society- United Methodist Church
TransAfrica Forum
Democracy for America
National Jobs For All Coalition
The Power: The People United for LGBT Equality
Ya Ya Network
Working Families Party
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Women’s Caucus for Political Science
WPFW
WAND: Women’s Action for New Directions
Whitman Walker Clinic
Witness Against Torture
Wishadoo
Win Without War
Ward 7 Business Professional Association
Veterans for Peace
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Voice of Haitian Americans Inc.
Harlem One Stop
Welfare Rights Committee
Veterans for Peace NY
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Urban Agenda
United Mine Workers of America
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
US Peace Council
US Human Rights Network
TWU Local 100
William Kelibrew Foundation
Sikh Coalition
The Religious Institute
The New York Immigration Coalition
Imani Group
The Opportunity Agenda
Stonewall Democratic Club - Los Angeles
Student World Assembly
Society of American Law Teachers
Women’s Funding Network
Teamsters Local 808
he Community Church of NY Unitarian Universalist
SEIU Local 722
Single Payer New York
Single Payer Action Network Ohio - SPAN Ohio
EIU Local 32BJ
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association (RENA)
Reform Immigration for America
School of Americas Watch (SoA Watch)
Progress Ohio
Progressive Democrats of America - NYS and NYC
Progressive Congress Action Fund
People’s Organization for Progress
Planned Parenthood
People for the American Way
Physicians for a National Health Program
Pennsylvania Council of Churches
Peace and Freedom Party
Peace Action Maine
Peace Action Education Fund
Peace Action Montgomery
Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore
NYC LCLAA
Ohio AFL-CIO
NY Coalition of 100 Black Women
New York Urban League
North Suburban Peace Initiative
New York State AFL-CIO
New York City Democratic Socialists of America
US Peace Council– Wisconsin
P.A.P.A.II People Assisting Positive Actions
The New Testement Revival Cathedral
The L.I.F.E. Institute
Suffolk Peace Network
Resurrection Temple of the Lord
Prayer, Praise and Worship Centers of America
Pledge of Resistance - Baltimore
One of the 266 Wrongfully Terminated
Northeast Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice
North Country Peace Group (Long Island)
New Jersey Black Issues Coalition
NYU Nursing Doctoral Students Organization
North Manhattan Neighbors for Peace and Justice
New England Region – AFSC
National Urban League
New Haven Peoples Center
National Union of Home and Health Care Employees
National Organization for Women California
National Nurses United
National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth
National Missionary Baptist Church
National Immigrant Solidarity Network
National Exhoodus Council
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Council of Negro Women
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
National Black L.U.V. Festival est. 1997
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression, Chicago Branch
National Association of Black Social Workers
Mother A.M.E. Zion Church
Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bailout
Midwest Academy
Maryland and DC AFL-CIO
Mexican American Coalition
Maine Green Independent Party
Make the Road NY
Lincoln Park Neighbors United for Peace, Chicago
Lemeul Haynes Congregational Church
Long Island C.B.T.U.
Left Labor Project
Latino Federation of Greater Washington
Latino Action Coalition of DC
Latino Equality Alliance
Jewish Labor Committee
Latin America Solidarity Coalition
Jewish Arab Dialogue Association
Iraq Veterans Against the War
International Socialist Organization
Interfaith Worker Justice
International Federation of Black Prides
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Injured Workers United
Institute for Policy Studies

llinois Single Payer Coalition
HOFADS Corp., Inc.
Humanist Party, New York City Chapter
Haitian American Caucus
Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement
Gray Panthers
Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral
Girldrive
Next Step
Gertrude Stein Democratic Club
Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition
Generation Change
Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley
Fur Cultural Revival (Darfur Community Center)
Friends of the Earth
Free Speech TV
Friends of the Poor
Fellowship of Reconcilliation
Ex-Offenders Association of PA
Equality Wisconsin, Inc.
Drum Major Institute
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. DC Support Group
Energy Action Coalition
Detroit Democratic Socialists of America
Demos
Democratic Socialists of America
Demand Equity Now
DC Vote
Delaware Pacem in Terris
DC Asian American and Pacific Islander Democratic Caucus
DC 1707, AFSCME
DC Latino Caucus
CUSH
CUNY University Student Senate
Community Empowerment Network
Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago
Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
Communication for Social Change Consortium
Communications Workers of America Local 2336
CODA (Coalition for a District Alternative)
Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Region One
Coalition for Peace Action
Cleveland Peace Action
Citizen Wave
Church of the Evangelical United Church of Christ
Chicago Teacher’s Union – AFT Local 1
Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
Charlie Fink Productions
Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War
California Black League of Voters
California National Organization for Women
Brooklyn United for Innovative Local Development
Brooklyn United for Innovative Local Development
Bryn Mawr Peace Coalition
Bronx for Change
Black Youth Vote
Black Women’s Roundtable
anid@s LGBT- The National Latin@ LGBT Human Rights Organization
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition
American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA)
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
AIDS Walk Washington
Parents, Families and Friends of RJ and Gays
1Sky
Black Leadership Forum, Inc.
Beulah Church of the Nazarene
Bethel Tabernacle AME Church, Brooklyn
Bail Out the People Movement
American Rights at Work
Americans for Democratic Action
American Association of University Professors
AFGE: American Federation of Government Employees
Amalgamated Local 171 UAW
Alliance for Democracy
All Hands on Deck
AFSCME 3800 - University of Minnesota Clerical Workers
Action LA Network
A. Philip Randolph Institute - The Metropolitan New York Chapter
350.org
Young People For
Working America
War Resisters League
Washington Peace Center
National Center for Transgender Equality
True Colors, Inc.
National Stonewall Democrats
Stonewall Democratic Club
Stonewall Young Democrats
Solidarity
Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO
United Steel Workers
US Labor Against the War
US Action
Unite Here
United for Peace and Justice
United Food and Commerical Workers Minority Coalition
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
Transport Workers Union of America
The Other 98%
Roosevelt Institute
RJs for Economic Justice
Pride at Work
Policy Link
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, AFL-CIO
People’s Organization for Progress
Progressive Democrats of America
Peace Action
Pax Christi USA
Tikkun-Network of Spiritual Progressives
National Education Association
National Congress of Black Women
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
National Black Police Association
National Black Law Students Association
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Black Justice Coalition
National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
Mass Transgender Political Coalition
Mass Equality
Maryland Black Family League
Majority Agenda Project
Jordan / Rustin Coalition
Jobs with Justice
Jewish Funds for Justice
immigration Equality
Human Rights Campaign
Institute of Caribbean Studies
Generational Alliance
Get Equal
Gathering for Justice
Family Equality Council
Disciples Justice Action Network
Equality Federation
Courage Campaign
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Color of Change.org
Coffee Party Progressives
Coalition on Human Needs
Campus Camp Wellstone
Campaign for Community Change
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
Campus Progress
Brooklyn for Peace
A. Philip Randolph Institute
Americans for Financial Reform
AFSCME
American Friends Service Committee
Coalition of Labor Union Woman
Campaign for America’s Future
Code Pink
CEEF: Center for Community and Economic Justice

[NCVol]

Not sure I trust pictures headed up by "Progressives, Union Bosses, Socialists and Communists" but I suppose it's a good way to vote, based on which rally drew more people.  I was thinking about voting based on which party had the better ideas, or at least, was moving away from policies that landed us into a depression, with a decade of falling wages, and zero jobs growth with a bigger share of income going to a tiny few than at any time in our history, and our production being offshored to China and Vietnam, a devastated middle class with nothing on the horizon indicating any change soon, etc. 

But I think those pictures changed my mind and I'll be supporting the GOP this time out.  They did a disastrous job last time they were in power, but you know, they don't leave as much trash and can bus more people into D.C. for a rally, so that's who I'll go with!

 

[Sasquatch]

You mean you are not going to base this vote on HOPE? I thought that would most certainly turn the country around.

BTW, I sure do HOPE the free Obamacare kicks in soon.

[Jeremy Roenick]

Obamacare is just the beginning.  Funny how art imitates life.  I know some of you are old enough to remember this one... "Logan's Run".  It was a TV miniseries of the late '70's that focused on the distant future.  When you turned 30, a little red crystal in your palm would turn red to black.  You would thereby report to the main theater in the domed city where you would commit ritualistic suicide in order to "save the planet" and "save the resources".  It was for the betterment of mankind that you threw your self on the sword.

How long before these wacko liberals (who've obviously dreamed and fantasized of this for decades) endorse population control, infanticide, eugenics etc. endorse the "speeding up" of survival of the fittest?

[NCVol]

Obamacare is just the beginning.  Funny how art imitates life.  I know some of you are old enough to remember this one... "Logan's Run".  It was a TV miniseries of the late '70's that focused on the distant future.  When you turned 30, a little red crystal in your palm would turn red to black.  You would thereby report to the main theater in the domed city where you would commit ritualistic suicide in order to "save the planet" and "save the resources".  It was for the betterment of mankind that you threw your self on the sword.

How long before these wacko liberals (who've obviously dreamed and fantasized of this for decades) endorse population control, infanticide, eugenics etc. endorse the "speeding up" of survival of the fittest?

Yeah, the liberals with their firm control over the military will just start going out and killing white cracker babies and the first born of every billionaire, to bring about the communist nirvana that all us liberals are pining for.

 

[LTC]

 

Obamacare is just the beginning.  Funny how art imitates life.  I know some of you are old enough to remember this one... "Logan's Run".  It was a TV miniseries of the late '70's that focused on the distant future.  When you turned 30, a little red crystal in your palm would turn red to black.  You would thereby report to the main theater in the domed city where you would commit ritualistic suicide in order to "save the planet" and "save the resources".  It was for the betterment of mankind that you threw your self on the sword.

How long before these wacko liberals (who've obviously dreamed and fantasized of this for decades) endorse population control, infanticide, eugenics etc. endorse the "speeding up" of survival of the fittest?

[Jeremy Roenick]

Wrong path NC.  It's about population control of the "undesirables".  You know, the brown babies man.  Why else would the leftists so fiercely defend their biggest tool for eugenics...  free on demand abortion.

Margaret Sanger was a pioneer of legalized abortion and the founder of Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the U.S. Sanger was also a well-known eugenicist whose writings make clear the historic connection between abortion on demand and eugenic thinking. Given that black women use abortion twice as much as white women, I think it's easy to see the connection.  

In "Pivot of Civilization" Sanger makes the following assertion:
"More children from the fit, less from the unfit--that is the chief aim of birth control." The people Sanger considered unfit were "all non-aryan people." She estimated that these people--the "dysgenic races"--comprised 70 percent of the American population. Sanger believed that this "great biological menace to the future of civilization . . . deserved to be treated like criminals." She proposed to "segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying." Successful implementation of her proposals, according to her, would result in "a race of thoroughbreds."

Face it, population control and eugenics all tie back into this grand Progressive scheme and it fits in nicely with this environmental fascism that dictates we are killing the planet, thus we need to reduce our carbon foot print or cease to exist.

[Sasquatch]

I wonder what current Supreme Court Justice and Eugenicist Ruth Bader Ginsburg meant by this statement? 

“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of,” said the Justice (emphasis added).



 

[Jeremy Roenick]

And we have guys like Bill Gates out there basically saying we need to depopulate to save the ecosystem.  Through the use of vaccinations, sterilization and eugenics...

These people are pure evil.  Their agenda hides behind a thin veil in the back rooms, waiting for their chance to be thrust upon the people through their legislative enablers.  God help us all, Satan is in control of these people and is the mastermind of their evil designs.

Bill Gates EXPOSED! Wants Depopulation Through Vaccines!

[NCVol]

It may be that Gates is evil, but he does explain the comment, here:

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter/2009/Pages/2009-preventing-childhood-deaths.aspx

A surprising but critical fact we learned was that reducing the number of deaths actually reduces population growth. Chart 3  shows the strong connection between infant mortality rates and fertility rates. Contrary to the Malthusian view that population will grow to the limit of however many kids can be fed, in fact parents choose to have enough kids to give them a high chance that several will survive to support them as they grow old. As the number of kids who survive to adulthood goes up, parents can achieve this goal without having as many children.

Now maybe he's a liar and a mass murderer on the scale of Hitler, or worse, but I'd rather wait to hear from an informed person to disprove his statement instead of concluding that a person spending billions of his own money on vaccines is actually engaged in mass murder.  It's the sort of thing a person should require a high degree of proof, for, IMO.  

What is true is the more advanced a country becomes, women achieve more rights, and with that and relative prosperity, birth rates decline.  In Europe and the U.S. we are at basically zero growth rate internally.