Last updated on February 8th, 2013 at 12:18 am
The Koch-powered Defending the American Dream Summit is a big deal, #2 after CPAC on the conservative hit parade.
Americans for Prosperity tells us:
The 6th annual Summit will be a spectacular event with the nation’s free-market luminaries promoting limited government principles. We have begun to turn the tide of public opinion in favor of economic freedom. We cannot afford to lose momentum now. Now, more than ever, we must make the case against government controlling our lives and sending future generations deeper into debt. Join us August 2-4 to receive training, hear discussions on today’s pressing free market issues, enjoy the Ronald Reagan dinner, network with like-minded activists, and meet best-selling authors!
Economic freedom, religious freedom…they have a lot of freedoms on their agenda but funny thing is, they don’t read like freedoms. Economic freedom is the freedom to be unemployed and religious freedom is the freedom to be force-fed someone else’s religion. What really gives the game away is the presence of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who will be the keynote speaker at the summit.
Scott Walker.
No surprise that the Koch brothers, who are the guys who funded AFP, would haul their fascist poster-boy Scott Walker to Washington to give a speech. Look at how much they spent on him in the first place, and then again – thanks to Citizens United – when they defended him from recall.
What is truly disgusting is their premise that Scott Walker, who has destroyed so many American dreams, can possibly defend the American Dream.
I suppose Hitler had a German Dream too, but that’s not the role model you want, is it? Like Hitler’s dream, Walker’s dream doesn’t apply to everyone – only to certain people. Not to unionists, certainly. Hitler hated them too. One of the first groups to feel the Fuhrer’s iron-hand the labor unions were outlawed (and their leaders arrested) under the Reich. Hitler, like Walker, thought they were a bunch of communists.
Few people even today realize how thoroughly Hitler sucked on the corporate Koch, so to speak. He did them all – Kodak, I.G. Farben, Siemens, Standard Oil. The list is almost endless. Corporations loved Hitler. He made them rich. And they made him powerful.
We have covered Scott Walker very thoroughly in these pages and Obama and his administration have laid waste AFP’s tactcs. Walker’s presence at the summit is a marriage made in heaven, no doubt, for the Koch brothers and their legions of doom.
Think about all Walker has done to Wisconsinites and then compare it to these examples of AFP’s actions via Wikipedia:
See, marriage made in heaven! These guys are made for each other. Scott Walker is a born Koch-whore – there is no doubt. Pro-Walker groups did the same thing as AFP and spread false info to keep voters from voting in the recall election, and really, lies have become as commonplace in the Walker era in Wisconsin as Republican voter fraud.
In this respect, Walker is also very much at home on alternate reality’s star website, World Net Daily, which lauds Walker’s economic promises but fails to mention the reality. Sure, as WND says, Walker promises to “create 250,000 jobs in his first term” but that’s a promise, not an accomplishment. WND hopes you won’t notice there is a difference.
And the reality is far more telling than the promise. Where are those promised jobs?
Oh, that’s rights – Walker’s Wisconsin did not actually create any jobs. It lost jobs. In fact, Scott Walker presided over the most job losses in the nation. As Sarah Jones reported here in May, “Walker’s March of 2011 to March of 2012 job numbers were the worst in the nation.” In April, Wisconsin was humiliated by being the only state in the nation with statistically significant job losses.
“Wisconsin job losses highest in nation for last 12 months, federal report says”:
Wisconsin saw the largest percentage decrease in employment in the nation during the 12 months ending in March, a new report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
During that time period, while 27 states and the District of Columbia saw significant job increases, only Wisconsin saw “statistically significant” job losses, the report said.
From March 2011 to March 2012, the state lost 23,900 jobs, for the country’s largest percentage decrease, at 0.9 percent.
Of the 23,900 jobs lost in Wisconsin in that period, 17,900 were from the public sector and 6,000 were from the private sector, according to the BLS.
So, we ask: where is the prosperity? Does this look like prosperity to you? It doesn’t look like prosperity to me. I suppose in the Koch ledgers it looks like prosperity – we KNOW they are making money hand over fist while they lay off thousands of workers.
But Americans for prosperity?
The prosperity isn’t trickling down to us. Then again, it’s not mean to trickle down to us. It’s meant to trickle up – to the 1 percent represented by the Koch Brothers and Mitt Romney and their fellow plutocrats.
What Americans for Prosperity would be called if they were being honest – an obvious impossibility – is Rich White Men for Making Rich White Men Richer.
But you can see why they don’t go there. Being dishonest allows them to charge between $99 and $129 to put that extra cash in the pockets of those rich White men just to attend. Of course, the students will have to borrow their $99 from their parents because that whole prosperity thing is working out so well…
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