Really, guys?
We came across a funny quote today. While making our daily rounds of reading blogs, newspapers, and other sources, this quote stood out:
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.
Tea Party Nation, an American political organization on the forefront of the tea party movement, recently issued a statement urging businesses not to hire a single new employee.
Yup, you read that correctly.
Tea Party Nation’s website describes their organization as a “group of like-minded people who desire our God given Individual Freedoms which were written out by the Founding Fathers. We believe in Limited Government, Free Speech, the 2nd Amendment, our Military, Secure Borders and our Country!” Apparently, these ideals include deliberately not hiring people in order to make a political statement.
Read the text of the statement here (thanks to Right Wing Watch):
Resolved that: 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.
Resolved that: President Obama has seized what amount to dictatorial powers to bypass our Congress…
Hang on a second. Obama has “dictatorial powers” to bypass our Congress? I’d like to see a source for that little assertion.
…and that because the Congress is controlled by a Progressive socialist Senate that will not impeach one of their kind, they have allowed this and yielded what are rightfully congressional powers to this new dictator.
Resolved that: By their agenda and actions, those in our government who swore oaths to protect and defend our Constitution have committed treason against the United States.
Resolved that: The current administration and Democrat majority in the Senate, in conjunction with Progressive socialists from all around the country, especially those from Hollywood and the left leaning news media (Indeed, most of the news media.) have worked in unison to advance an anti-business, an anti-free market, and an anti-capitalist (anti-individual rights and property ownership) agenda.
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Resolved that: Our President, the Democrats-Socialists, most of the media, and most of those from Hollywood, have now encouraged and supported “Occupy” demonstrations in our streets, which are now being perpetrated across the globe, and which 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.
With a national unemployment rate of 9.1%, how can anyone think it’s a good idea to stop hiring people? How are struggling high risk families supposed to make ends meet if they can’t find work?
The scariest part of this plan is that it is not intended to help our country in any way, as all political action should. Instead, it aims to directly punish President Obama for alleged “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.” Instead of specifically targeting President Obama, however, this plan instead will harm families across America.
Never mind the fact that President Obama has worked to directly support small businesses. Tea Party Nation must have overlooked the fact that – among other things – small businesses with less than 25 employees that offer health insurance and pay at least 50% of the cost are eligible for tax credits of up to 35% of their share of the cost. (source)
It’s a shame that Tea Party Nation is choosing to directly harm our nation’s unemployed in a time of great need. Our efforts as Americans should be focused on creating jobs right now, not halting capable businesses from hiring people. With 68% of adults supporting a 5% surtax on people making $1 million or more per year, and even 31% of Republicans agreeing with the aims of Occupy Wall Street (source), it’s disappointing that Tea Party Nation is resorting to attacks on struggling families in order to gain cheap political points.