When was the last successful campaign to dupe the masses into swallowing hook, line and sinker the tenets of class warfare – outside the last presidential election?
If we’re talking a vicious campaign of class warfare, we might as well recall California’s most infamous nutjob, Charles Manson, who in 1969 plotted to incite class warfare through a race war of apocalyptic proportions – that was supposedly inspired through the Beatles’ song “Helter Skelter.”
Now teacher unions have signed on to a similar (but more academic) strategy – to divide society into warring factions and witness its collapse by demonizing the so-called one-percent, the undeserving wealthy – because they’re out to exploit and, yes, “pee” on you.
However, Kyle Olson’s Townhall.com article dismantles the rhetoric of one particular California teacher union whose recently produced cartoon is designed to win over young minds to the absurd notion that rich people’s only enterprise is to suppress the rest of us.
Excerpted from Townhall.com – A new video produced by the California Federation of Teachers – which could be playing in your child’s classroom as we speak – drums up the typical class warfare images we’ve come to expect from Big Labor.
“Tax the Rich: An Animated Fairy Tale,” written by CFT staffer Fred Glass (2011 compensation: $139,800) and narrated by proud leftist actor (and 1 percenter) Ed Asner, advocates for higher taxes on the “rich” as the cure for government’s insatiable thirst for spending.
SEE THE VIDEO HERE (or here on the actual CFT site).
The video claims the rich got rich through tax cuts and tax loopholes and even tax evasion.
But when the 99 percent fought back, the “rich” apparently urinated on the “poor,” at least according to the video. What a classy way to frame your argument for children, Big Labor.
The video also claims that when the housing market crashed, the government printed money for “rich people” but they didn’t give any to “ordinary people whose houses and jobs were broken by the crash.”
That’s a patently a false statement, as evidenced by a handy-dandy chart courtesy of the New York Times. Here’s a sampling of what was contained in President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package:
– Help states prevent cuts to essential services like education – $53.6 billion
– Extend and increase unemployment compensation – $35.8 billion
– Health coverage under Cobra – $25.1 billion
– Increase food assistance – $20.9 billion
– Increase the maximum Pell Grant by $500 – $15.6 billion
– Provide cash payment to seniors, disabled veterans and other needy individuals – $14.4 billion
– Provide additional money to schools serving low-income children – $13 billion
– Provide additional money for special education – $12.2 billion
– Create new bonds for improvements in public education – $10.9 billion
And the list goes on and on.
The California Federation of Teachers’ video is little more than unsurprising leftist propaganda, aimed to indoctrinate children with no basis in fact. Do you know if your child is watching it in school?
And with his compensation of $139,800, we wonder who Fred Glass is urinating on.
– Read more of this article by Kyle Olson at Townhall.com.
