Tea Party blogger: Stop hiring workers

[Robocommie]

http://m.ibtimes.com/tea-party-nation-small-businesses-should-not-hire-new-employees-melissa-brookstone-keith-olbermann-235883.html


Melissa Brookstone, a blogger for the Tea Party Nation, gained notoriety this week after a post titled "Call For a Strike of American Small Businesses Against The Movement For Global Socialism" went viral, earning the scorn of liberal commentators and even landing her on commentator Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" list on his "Current TV' show. Brookstone has primarily been attacked for a line at the end of her Oct. 18 post -- which declares President Barack Obama and his administration is in alliance with a progressive socialist movement that aims to collapse the U.S. economy and convert the U.S. into a socialist state -- that calls on small businesses to cease hiring new employees as a way of fighting back against the policies of the president and the Democratic Party-controlled Senate.

"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," she wrote.The part I bolded is the real meat of the story, and what's really interesting is the way that this is the Tea Party openly declaring its class identity. I think people need to recognize this, we have a lot of leftists who blame right-leaning workers for the Tea Party, and while there are always misguided workers who do the boss' work for them (and that can be infuriating), the Tea Party itself is not a working class movement. It's interesting to note too that this is probably one of the main tactics used by the haute bourgeoisie to recruit the petit to their side of the economics question.

[The Jay]

Good analysis there. I didn't think of that.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

A worker who should not be hired is one Melissa Brookstone. Having said this, her comment is very welcome.The beast bares its fangs, making that much easier for people to identify the class enemy.

Good work Melissa!

[PC LOAD LETTER]

So right wingers want to fight perceived left-leaning political currents by exacerbating the unemployment problems in the US.

If this idea spreads and more small business owners adopt this stance ... perhaps it will lead to an uptick in class consciousness among working peoples? It seems a fairly obvious direct attack on working people.

[Os Cangaceiros]

If this idea spreads and more small business owners adopt this stance ...

They'd be bent over a barrel if their employees stopped working? :rolleyes:

Just more moronic posturing by some of the knuckle-dragging cretins in the "Tea Party Nation", nothing more.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

They'd be bent over a barrel if their employees stopped working? :rolleyes:

Just more moronic posturing by some of the knuckle-dragging cretins in the "Tea Party Nation", nothing more.
Yeah, because in the face of widespread unemployment the first thing people are going to do is quit their job before securing more work somewhere else.

If anybody takes this seriously it'll be a death sentence for their business anyhow. But I'm coming from the south with this. A lot of people here adore the Tea Party and their fucked up logic.

You'd be surprised.

[Ocean Seal]

:laugh: Lol is this some kind of Ayn Rand shit with the rich going on strike? Honestly, if she is genuinely petit-bourgeois she's going to be fucked if she doesn't hire anyone. What kind of logic is that. Not hiring workers to stop the Obama agenda? I can't even understand the stupidity behind all of this. Aside from a publicity stunt, I doubt that this will have any implications.


I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs (:D) in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped(the blue part reeks of fascism and yes I said fascism; my country and my business)

[GPDP]

I'M GOING GALT GUISE YOU SHOULD DO THE SAME

I say let her. See how long she and her little business last.

[Robocommie]

http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif

Seen this so many times, but it's still true.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Shes probably going out of business anyways so she decided to slap the water

[Le Socialiste]

It always floors me how ingrained this belief in "the wealthy begetting the wealth" is amongst the American population. Well, let her have her little strike (not that she'll really go through with it); let's see how long she and her small business will last.

[Agathor]

The part I bolded is the real meat of the story, and what's really interesting is the way that this is the Tea Party openly declaring its class identity.
I don't think so. This is just a blogger declaring her class identity.

[Franz Fanonipants]

I don't think so. This is just a blogger declaring her class identity.

This is patently incorrect.

In 2009 the NYT did a sort of demographic picture of the Tea Party. They are almost uniformly business owners, educated, white, and male.

There are few to no "Conservative Workers" in the Tea Party formally, while you all might hear Tea Party sympathizers in the working class the actual structure is made up of clear cut "class enemies."

[Red Commissar]

:laugh: Lol is this some kind of Ayn Rand shit with the rich going on strike? Honestly, if she is genuinely petit-bourgeois she's going to be fucked if she doesn't hire anyone. What kind of logic is that. Not hiring workers to stop the Obama agenda? I can't even understand the stupidity behind all of this. Aside from a publicity stunt, I doubt that this will have any implications.

That's what I was thinking too, the whole bit about trying to show who really 'holds up' the economy so to speak.

If that wasn't bad enough she buys into the whole 'global socialism' bullshit. But this is what makes 'journalists' money now, so they're all over that cash cow.

[GatesofLenin]

So right wingers want to fight perceived left-leaning political currents by exacerbating the unemployment problems in the US.

If this idea spreads and more small business owners adopt this stance ... perhaps it will lead to an uptick in class consciousness among working peoples? It seems a fairly obvious direct attack on working people.

This is exactly what we need to get the 53% to see that there's class warfare in the US. How blind can people be?

[Agathor]

This is patently incorrect.

In 2009 the NYT did a sort of demographic picture of the Tea Party. They are almost uniformly business owners, educated, white, and male.

There are few to no "Conservative Workers" in the Tea Party formally, while you all might hear Tea Party sympathizers in the working class the actual structure is made up of clear cut "class enemies."

First of all, I'd like to see the study.

Secondly, all I said was that that the text quoted only tells us about the class of the blogger who wrote it. Read more carefully.

[Bardo]

Here's a rough illustration of what she's actually doing to the anti-capitalist movement:

http://www.idiomsbykids.com/taylor/mrtaylor/class20022003/idioms/idioms2003/idioms3/add%20fuel%20to%20the%20fire.jpg

[Thirsty Crow]

It always floors me how ingrained this belief in "the wealthy begetting the wealth" is amongst the American population. Well, let her have her little strike (not that she'll really go through with it); let's see how long she and her small business will last.
Well, this person certainly has no clue whatsoever who produces value, more value, that is. But she's technically right in that the capitalist class produces jobs, and consequently, that their interests, or the realization of their interests, drives the "production" of jobs, and wages for the working class.

[ZeroNowhere]

Hey, we also want to put a stop to the hiring of workers by capitalists! Let's team up.

[MustCrushCapitalism]

Here's a rough illustration of what she's actually doing to the anti-capitalist movement:

http://www.idiomsbykids.com/taylor/mrtaylor/class20022003/idioms/idioms2003/idioms3/add%20fuel%20to%20the%20fire.jpg

Or that'll happen to the silly liberals.

[Rafiq]

Uh oh we better take her advise, she owns a gas station

[Leonid Brozhnev]

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/AsiniDiabolica/Things/dirtycommies.jpg

I'm sure this will end well for her :rolleyes:

[RedSonRising]

She does realize her non-producing bougie ass will starve, doesn't she?

[R_P_A_S]

I thought the workers were the ones who produced the wealth under the capitalist system? WTF is she talking about?

[Rusty Shackleford]

I thought the workers were the ones who produced the wealth under the capitalist system? WTF is she talking about?
funny thing. she couldn't even hide that in her rant.

"wealth producing jobs"

[ВАЛТЕР]

Notice how the second the working class makes any sort pf request, no matter how small it becomes labelled "class warfare".

Here she literally identified herself and her fellow business owners as a certain class and this is in their minds nothing serious.

[Iron Felix]

Increase unemployment? Surely this will help them! Right? Right? Right guys?

[Thirsty Crow]

funny thing. she couldn't even hide that in her rant.

"wealth producing jobs"
Yeah, it's particularly digusting how these folks actively stress the process of alienation in capitalist society, refusing even to acknowledge that the abstract "jobs" only produce wealth because of workers' labour. But hey, that shoulnd't be a surprise.

[Commissar Rykov]

http://m.ibtimes.com/tea-party-nation-small-businesses-should-not-hire-new-employees-melissa-brookstone-keith-olbermann-235883.html

The part I bolded is the real meat of the story, and what's really interesting is the way that this is the Tea Party openly declaring its class identity. I think people need to recognize this, we have a lot of leftists who blame right-leaning workers for the Tea Party, and while there are always misguided workers who do the boss' work for them (and that can be infuriating), the Tea Party itself is not a working class movement. It's interesting to note too that this is probably one of the main tactics used by the haute bourgeoisie to recruit the petit to their side of the economics question.
I had a runin with the Tea Party last week and this was common they all started with being small business owners or sometimes even bigger than that. It showed to me that the movement was nothing more than an attempt to draw the Petit-Bourgeoisie who have survived the Proletarization so far into the ranks of the bourgeoisie.

[GatesofLenin]

The Tea Party was started by the Koch brothers. They're not exactly small business owners ...

[Franz Fanonipants]

First of all, I'd like to see the study.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html?pagewanted=all

THESE REACTIONARY WORKERS ARE

[RadioRaheem84]

As anyone can see the class warfare against the working class is touted as an act of defending liberty by the right wing.

If Obama were to enact even some mild legislation to help workers her and her class would wage a business strike and it would be seen as a failure of Obama's "anti-business" policies.

Same happened in Chile with Allende.

[Revolution starts with U]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html?pagewanted=all

THESE REACTIONARY WORKERS ARE

This is at the end:


Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that since they had paid into the system, they deserved the benefits.
Others could not explain the contradiction.
“That’s a conundrum, isn’t it?” asked Jodine White, 62, of Rocklin, Calif. “I don’t know what to say. Maybe I don’t want smaller government. I guess I want smaller government and my Social Security.” She added, “I didn’t look at it from the perspective of losing things I need. I think I’ve changed my mind.”

:laugh:
Also, this is telling of the TP:


They do not want a third party and say they usually or almost always vote Republican. The percentage holding a favorable opinion of former President George W. Bush (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/george_w_bush/index.html?inline=nyt-per), at 57 percent, almost exactly matches the percentage in the general public that holds an unfavorable view of him.

Seems like over half of them were just your typical neocon until a black man was elected :rolleyes:

[CAleftist]

Ah yes, the petit-bourgeiois and small capitalist classes.

They know that they are getting fucked over, but they think it's the fault of "lazy freeloading poor people." They don't realize (yet) that they are pawns for the ruling class to use in the class war against the working class.

What's the matter, PB? Scared that you too might become yet another of those brutish proles? Realizing that those smug ruling class assholes don't give a shit about "small business being the backbone of America's economy"? Hey, it was a LIE, asshole.

Thanks for siding with the Ruling Class though. You will be rewarded for your reactionary treachery...you will lose all of your precious "freedoms" once the Revolution is at hand.

[CAleftist]

Notice how the second the working class makes any sort pf request, no matter how small it becomes labelled "class warfare".

Here she literally identified herself and her fellow business owners as a certain class and this is in their minds nothing serious.


Shut up, you Commie! We live in a post-class society, we're all middle class, except for parasites like you, so stop instigating class warfare!

If only those stupid lazy poor people would stop being so demanding, and if only those greedy unions would give some more money back to the productive people-the businessmen!