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The coalition — which includes unions like SEIU and CWA and groups like the Center for Community Change — is currently working on a plan to bus thousands of protesters from across the country to Washington, where they will congregate around the Capitol from December 5-9, SEIU president Mary Kay Henry tells me in an interview… One idea under consideration — pending various permitting and other logistical issues — is to have a series of tents set up on the lawn outside the Capitol, each representing a state, with the number of unemployed in each state prominently displayed. But the optics are still being worked out. One goal of the protests, Henry says, is to pressure Republicans to support Obama’s jobs creation proposals. More generally, the aim is to highlight Congress’s misguided obsession with the deficit and overall inaction on unemployment… “The reason we’re targeting Republicans is because this is about jobs,” she said. “The Republicans’ insistence that no revenue can be put on the table is the reason we’re not creating jobs in this country. We want to draw a stark contrast between a party that wants to scapegoat immigrants, attack public workers, and protect the rich, versus a president who has been saying he wants America to get back to work and that everybody should pay their fair share.”
I imagine she's taking her queue from Pelosi who said a few months back that 'welfare and unemployment would create jobs'...remember that little gem?
That statement is one of the most bass-ackwards I've ever read. "Misguided obsession with the deficit"? She really believes that government raising taxes is going to result in job creation in the private sector? Or is it she intends and expects that a government job can be "created" for the entire country?Some people are too f'n ignorant and steeped in their ideology to live.It is my hope and wish that they bring their crime, dirt, disease and disorder right into DC with them -- and redistribute THAT.
