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Green Jobs: A Trojan Horse 8 comments
Though he is reported as resigning, it's important to understand the drving force behind those who wish to spare the earth great environmental harm. From IBD:
Van Jones, a special adviser to the president, revealed his Trojan-horse strategy during a 2008 interview on leftist Uprising Radio in Los Angeles.
"The green economy will start off as a small subset" of a "complete revolution" away from "gray capitalism" and toward "redistribution of all the wealth," he said. "And we are going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society."
A self-described "communist," Jones caught heat recently for calling Republicans "a**holes." He's also a 9/11 "truther" as it turns out, one of many red flags in a radical past that, remarkably, didn't disqualify him from shaping domestic policy in this White House.
Jones apologized for his "inappropriate" remarks concerning Republicans while distancing himself from the nutty people calling for an investigation of the Bush administration for bombing the Twin Towers on 9/11. Jones signed a petition pushing for such a witch hunt, even though the Ivy League lawyer claims he didn't know what he was signing.
But he hasn't been made to answer for his communist beliefs, which are even deeper than first thought.
Trying to change the subject, Jones insisted his work at the White House is "entirely focused on one goal: building clean-energy incentives which create 21st century jobs that improve energy efficiency and use renewable resources."
That doesn't tell the full story.
As the president's "green-jobs czar," it's clear Jones has a hidden agenda. Judging from his own words, his environmental concerns appear to be a front for creating a massive new welfare program — complete with paid job training and counseling — for criminals.
Jones has a shockingly soft spot for felons. Before joining the White House, he agitated against "the punishment industry," which he claims profits from a "racist war" against people of color. He has called U.S. prisons "slave ships on dry land" and has served on panels calling for an end to prisons and the freeing of all inmates.
The former Oakland, Calif., community organizer has said he wants to "build a pipeline from the prison economy to the green economy," including hiring parolees to weatherize homes and offices. He secured grants to start a Green Job Corps in Oakland.
In his 2006 memoir, President Obama proposed government-subsidized green jobs "to hire and train ex-felons on projects" such as "insulating homes and offices to make them energy-efficient." Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who worked with Jones in California as a congresswoman, has already put such plans in motion.
Jones' "green jobs, not jails" program is but a "radical kernel" of what Jones says he wants to reap. He intends to use the green movement as a Trojan horse to socialize the entire economy.
"Right now we say we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to 'eco-capitalism' where at least we're not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet," Jones said. "Will that be enough? No, it won't be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression altogether."
Beyond our system of capitalism to communism, is what he means.
Though Obama's father was a Marxist, there's no indication the president subscribes to Jones' vision.
But Obama and Jones share a common background in the same Marxism-steeped faith: Black Liberation Theology, which we first warned voters about years ago. The father of the movement — James Cone — believes that by merging Marxism with the Gospel, African-Americans will be liberated.
"Together," Cone said, "black religion and Marxist philosophy may show us a way to build a completely new society."
Cone mentored Obama's longtime preacher, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a big fan of Marxist regimes. Wright has made a number of comments over the years that have been described as anti-capitalist and anti-American, and that suggest he believes deep conspiracies drive American politics.
We also warned that it's dangerous for a presidential aspirant to surround himself throughout his career with a coterie of radicals. They could wind up in the White House making policy.
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Glenn Beck made clear to millions of Americans that Jones was a radical marxist.
Only recently did word of the 911 truthers and Republican Aholes surface.
The media portrayed Jones dismiossal as coming from his insult to Republicans. Read the AP story. Try to find a NYT story that lists Jones' marxist lineage.
This, to me, is the really frightening story. Almost all of our mainstream media, including FOX news, hid Jones' radical background.
Glenn Beck stood alone throughout this entire story.
Obama's election is beginning to look more like a coup in which he feels free to usurp power in any way he chooese to...........like a caudillo in South America.
The USA has the highest percentage of its citizens in jails. These prisoners are overwhelmingly black and hispanic. Moreso, however, they are almost entirely poor, untrained and have little value in the workforce.
Give people training and the ability to earn a livable income in the economy and you remove their motivation for criminal behaviour.
But I recommend this not as a form of charity for the poor, poor criminals. This is something that benefits us all. With fewer criminals and less crime we spend less on jails and avoid the costly consequences of crime.
As for the redistribution of wealth - I am not in favour of 'redistribution' as the government taking money from one group and giving it to another.
But the fact remains that we have wild wealth and income disparities in this country.
I believe this is not a natural consequence of free markets but, rather, the result of government and regulatory capture by monied interests to further their own advantages. This needs to stop.
The bank bailouts and fed purchase of toxic assets are an example of this - Goldman is having a record year because of this 'too big to fail' mentality.
The free markets were actually taking care of a lot of wealth and income disparities as the enormous, reckless, inefficient financial institutions were beginning to topple. But our government wouldn't let that happen because they have been effectively brainwashed by the banking industry to believe that we can't live without these parasites.
To sum up, job training is not just good for criminals, it's good for the economy. And, as Ronnie Reagan said, government is not the solution to all our problems - government IS the problem.
The one thing everyone downplays is Van Jones stint in prison and his convicted felon status.
Of course a felon would come up with the idea of putting criminals into the homes of the most at risk - the elderly and the disabled.
What great pickings this will give the poor parolees.
While I agree that we punish too many for bs, putting convicted criminals in homes seems pretty bleak.
And taking the jobs of millions of working class citizens to gift to China and the non-working doesn't really seem to fix anything.
Believing that when the Great & Powerful O states "share the wealth" he means stealing from those like Jeffrey Immelt to gift to the working poor, they will be in for a shock.
The guys like Mr. Immelt already have their promises of future millions and there will be no help in paying for the green revolution for the working class.
And yet, we still can't wake people up.
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