A Tea Party activist has called on small businesses to stop hiring until the “war against business” by President Barack Obama and “Democrats-Socialists” is stopped.
Melissa Brookstone, on a blog posted yesterday on Tea Party Nation’s web site, called for this action, echoing the immortal words of Ellis Wyatt in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” —“I’m on strike!” In this libertarian manifesto, America’s most productive citizens, including business leaders, disappear to protest government control of industry.
To Brookstone, the U.S. has reached that point under Obama.
“Resolved that,” her post begins, “The Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Senate, in alliance with a global Progressive socialist movement, have participated in what appears to be a globalist socialist agenda of redistribution of wealth, and the waging of class warfare against our constitutional republic’s heritage of individual rights, free market capitalism, and indeed our Constitution itself, with the ultimate goal of collapsing the U.S. economy and globalizing us into socialism.”
The post goes on to accuse Obama of seizing “dictatorial powers” and committing treason.
The president and his Democratic allies are “killing businesses in this country with an environment hostile to business.” They’ve colluded with the news media to encourage
“Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations (and similar protests in other cities) that “are being populated by various Marxists, socialists and even communists, and are protesting against business, private property ownership and capitalism, something I thought I’d never see in my country, in my lifetime.”
“I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.
“I hereby declare that my job creation potential is now ceased.
“I’m on strike!”
Responses to the post ranged from full agreement to apparent sarcasm, such as “Business should stop providing services and goods to ‘liberal looking’ people. One commenter said it makes no sense for businesses to hurt themselves or people who need jobs and suggested a better approach would be to start a nationwide boycott of the federal government. Restaurants should stop delivering to federal offices, for example.
Think this is wacky? Well, look at what Senate Majority Harry Reid, said on the Senate floor this morning. He’s chopping Obama’s proposed jobs bill into pieces, and the first part he’ll bring to the floor is legislation to provide aid to states and localities so they can keep or rehire police officers, firefighters and teachers. Reid said public-sector jobs should be more of a priority for Congress than private-sector jobs, according to The Hill newspaper.
"It's very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine; it's the public-sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers, and that's what this legislation is all about," Reid said.
Sounds like a socialist, right?
Meanwhile, the Tea Party Nation blogger’s call for small businesses to go on strike may be moot: That’s already happening, according to House Speaker John Boehner.
“Job creators are basically on strike,” Boehner said back in September, because of a “triple threat” of excessive regulation, a tax code that discourages investment and the federal government’s “spending binge.”
Read more:
http://www.portfolio.com/business-n...mall-businesses-to-go-on-strike#ixzz1bQ6yU600
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