Surprise!… Chicago Teachers Union President Marches With the #Occupiers, Channels Obama’s “You Didn’t Build That!” Speech (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 7:48 PM
She’s an #Occupier.
Karen Lewis marching with anarchists in Chicago. (Founding Bloggers)
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis channeled Barack Obama’s “You didn’t build that!” speech at the march. She also made the critical mistake of revealing just how radical she is:
“They are trying to dismantle public institutions. They are trying to take money from us, the public institutions, and transferring it to the wealthy… But they’re blaming us for all of our ills… So these people owe a lot to all of the people on the street today. You don’t make money by yourself. So the key is when are they going to understand that this inequitable distribution of wealth is not the American way. It isn’t.”
This was recorded at an Occupy Chicago rally on October 10, 2011 in downtown Chicago.
Thanks to Morgen for the video.
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msr commented:
It’s amazing how these people always get the economics backwards. (I’ll ignore that you can’t take money “from public institutions” because, by definition, it isn’t their money anyway.)
A person offers a good or service to others. Many partake of this and give the person pieces of green paper in exchange. So, the many now have a valuable product, and the one has many pieces of paper. He can only use this paper if the many, in return, have something he wants. The many do not have such a product. The man with pieces of paper is now deemed “rich”.
Indiana commented:
Someone please put her out of her misery!
Texas_Treeroach commented:
Waiting for her cameo appearance in “Medea Goes to School.” — what a slug!!
donh commented:
No its the Elizabeth Warren spirit fingers ….Not just the words of ” not making money on your own ” but the menacing circular spinning hand gesture of the upright index finger….> http://youtu.be/hOyDR2b71ag
and the closed fist with the thumb pointing behind the shoulder….which Granholm used throughout her DNC …. I am going to have to go through the satanic Grimoires and find out specifically which evil demons the pagan indian tribes summoned by this circular hand wanding . ….> http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/17800000/satanic-hand-signs-music-17858675-600-750.jpg
bg commented:
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don’t give a flying bats guano what the idiot does or doesn’t do..
let me know when they’re picketing Mayor Rahm
or the Man’s Country Club for that matter.. /s/
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Patty commented:
What has happen when teachers are one disgrace, not generalizing but from what is happening to the Education system is not just sad for the kids but for the future and the productivity and it will have far reaching affects on this Nation as a Whole.
It place of Washington acting like leaders the have become pasties and we have allow Unions to run rough shot over our kids, through indebtedness and now their future.
Here is something that has some how doesn’t compute in the mind of these so called educators.
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$16,OOO,OOO,OOO,OOOBAMA!
November 16, 2011 was a historic date: that’s when the US officially surpassed $15 trillion in debt for the first time since World War 2. We celebrated it by cheering $15,OOO,OOO,OOO,OOOBAMA. Today, August 28, 2012, is when we can unofficially celebrate again, because 286 days after the last major milestone was surpassed with disturbing ease, total US debt following today’s $35 billion auction of 2 Year bonds is, well, in a word: $16,OOO,OOO,OOO,OOOBAMA!
The math?
.To get just over $16X1012 which means it took 286 days to go from $15 to $16 trillion: $3.5 billion in extra debt every day.
Alternatively take the above official Total Public Debt Outstanding, and add to this $76 billion in net new debt that will settle over the J-Hole weekend.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2012/08-2/Settled%20auctions_0.jpg
The result: $16.05 trillion, which is what the debt to the penny will officially show next week.
Of course this will be the total following the balance of this week’s auctions. In the meantime, the US is now officially between that ceiling and a $16 trillion floor.
But wait. You aint’s seen nothing yet. At this rate of growth, total US debt will surpass:
$17 trillion on June 10, 2013;
$18 trillion on March 23, 2014;
$19 trillion on January 3, 2015; and
$20 trillion on October 16, 2015
And on, and on, and on…
Average:
Take today’s $35 billion in 2 Year bonds.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/16oooooooooooobama
We haven’t money to give out, we have to tighten our boot straps. We cannot understand how a Teacher can’t do the math, further more shove a kid on to H.S. with a fourth grader reading skill at best.
THIS HAS TO STOP, THE TEACHER WHO HAS NO INTEREST IN TEACHING BUT MARCHING FOR MORE MONEY SHOULD BE SUSPENDED AND SEND IN THE AUXILIARY. THOSE WHO HAVE A CONCEPTION OF TEACHING OUR KIDS AND THEY CARE MORE ABOUT THEM THEN THEMSELVES AND HAVE AN ACTUALLY GRIP ON THE CRISIS OF DEBT THIS NATION IS IN.
Skinner commented:
This salad swerver does not know the word “NO”
pjean commented:
We can’t find any salary information on Ms. Lewis and the union won’t reveal it, BUT Ms. Lewis beat out Marilyn Stewart in 2010 and Ms. Stewart was earning $90,000 for her part-time job. No doubt, Ms. Lewis is making more than her predecesor.
http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=95
Patty commented:
Insurmountable Debt!!!!!!!!!!
What is happening to the integrity of this nation. They can see the forest for the trees.
Again, these are EDUCATORS, now we know why we rate:
A new report shows that Americans are lagging behind their peers in education, but are still reaping big benefits from their diplomas.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s 2012 Education at a Glance report shows that the U.S. falls behind many of its peers, and below OECD averages on several measures of educational progress. Below are a few of the measures on which the U.S. is falling behind.
OUR DEBT IS PLAYING A FACTOR AND OUR ECONOMY AND NATIONAL SECURITY WEIGH IN ALSO.
When we lag behind we will become what Obama has planned for U.S. a third world nation that just sits at the table and if allowed may get to say something. Enough of this abuse of our children. WE MUST CHANGE NOW, AND VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE BECAUSE OBAMA WILL DO NOTHING AND IN 2013 WE THINK IT IS BAD NOW, WAIT, IT WILL GET WORSE.
Out of 27 countries, the U.S. ranks No. 22 on this measure, with a 2010 high school graduation rate of 77 percent. That’s well below the OECD average of 84 percent, but well above countries at the very bottom of the ladder, like Mexico (47 percent graduation rate) and Turkey (54 percent). Still, a 77 percent graduation rate is an improvement over 2000, when the U.S. secondary school graduation rate was 70 percent.
NeoKong commented:
That is who is the leader of Chicago public school teachers is. They have a 50% graduation rate and that parasite think she is worth $100,000 a year.
If she wasn’t a teacher she couldn’t hold a job at Wal-Mart.
lizzy84 commented:
Notice the colors Lewis is wearing–black and red. oBama’s favorite colors. Commies all.
http://cdni.condenast.co.uk/240×360/k_n/mobama2_6nov08_rex_240.jpg
Jewel commented:
Their motto should be: Education. We don’t teach dat.
Larkin commented:
Lewis is the archetypical union boss.
And no, that is NOT a compliment.
Mick commented:
Educate, we much!
donh commented:
#12 When Hugo Chavez has a rally in Venezuela, it is a sea of RED.
mg4us commented:
With all those freshly graduated college students, 50% without jobs. . hmmmmm, wonder how many of them would like to be teachers at say $40K/yr?
Out with the old and in with the new. .
maybe then school scores and student performances would rise
Betty0224 commented:
OMG what a joke this woman is.
We are not robbing money from the public institutions…bc ITS OUR MONEY. They only exist b/c the private sector funds them. It is amazing the audicity of this woman and her way of thinking. People how did we get here?…Ill tell you how…liberals for decades now have been fostering this entitlement mentality to thier little union pals…to the point that they actually BELEIVE that we owe them our success, and therefore they have a right to our money. They are actually indignant and outraged that the true producers of this country are fighting to keep their earnings. She is enraged about inequitable distribution of wealth….claims its not the American way. Well lady, this is the land of equal OPPORTUNITY…not equal outcome. We all have the same opportunities…..its up to you what you do with yours.
And lets not forget this woman is a teacher in Chicago….makes at least 74,000 a year plus benefits, plus whatever else she gets for being a union thug. AND SHE IS COMPLAINING? Ill say it time and time again. They need to give these people lots of media coverage…..give them rope to hang themselves. The average american finds these parasites and their skewed logic reepulsive. Quickest way to get rid of the unions is to expose them for what they are and connect the dots for everyday folks how more pay and benefits for these goons translates into more money taken directly from them, so they elect candidates who will stand up to the unions.
No one is against fair pay and benefits, but these people’s bloated wages and benefit and retirement packages are obscene, particularly in light of the fact that most of the people who pay for them dont make as much or have benefits anywhere close to theirs.
Plaeeezeee….someone should tell this woman to find a REAL cause to protest about.
owl commented:
Fire her first. Then fire every single one of them.
Abolish all Unions that are tied to taxpayer money. ALL. No more.
Fire them.
Flintstone F. commented:
#14 Larkin
If I were asked to draw a picture of the head of the Chicago teacher’s union, I would draw her. I’m pretty sure the artist who did the cover art for Pink Floyd’s The Wall would have drawn the same thing.
Slug.
Sloth.
S’mores.
Sundae’s.
Sandwich’s.
Smoked sausage.
“I teach school.”
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