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18 February 2011

This is some Orwellian bullshit.

From Christopher Hitchens' 'Worse than 1984' (Slate, 2005):
In North Korea, every person is property and is owned by a small and mad family with hereditary power. Every minute of every day, as far as regimentation can assure the fact, is spent in absolute subjection and serfdom. The private life has been entirely abolished. One tries to avoid cliché, and I did my best on a visit to this terrifying country in the year 2000, but George Orwell's 1984 was published at about the time that Kim Il Sung set up his system, and it really is as if he got hold of an early copy of the novel and used it as a blueprint. ("Hmmm … good book. Let's see if we can make it work.")
I've really tried to avoid mentioning 1984.  But when seeds of The Party slap you in the face...
 
From 1984, excerpts from the 'The Book' The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism:
War, it will be seen, not only accomplishes the  necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way.  In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labor of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them.  But this would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society.  What is concerned here is not the morale of the masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself. 
Mr Walker: "If anything, I think it's made the Republicans in the Assembly and the Senate stronger."

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald: “If anything, what’s going on in this building is galvanizing the caucus.  There’s nobody in this caucus that’s soft."

National GOP chair Reince Priebus: “Our party’s all in. We’re going to be all in."

A 'We Ask Ameica' poll "asked respondents if they approve or disapprove of Walker’s plans. According to the poll, 43.05% approved and 51.9% disapproved. 5.05% were uncertain."  Margin of error: ±2%
Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio): "Republicans in Congress — and reform-minded GOP governors like Scott Walker, John Kasich and Chris Christie — are daring to speak the truth about the dire fiscal challenges Americans face at all levels of government, and daring to commit themselves to solutions that will liberate our economy and help put our citizens on a path to prosperity.  I’m disappointed that instead of providing similar leadership from the White House, the president has chosen to attack leaders such as Gov. Walker, who are listening to the people and confronting problems that have been neglected for years at the expense of jobs and economic growth."

AP: Walker insisted he was not targeting public employees and that his primary concern was balancing the budget.

jsonline: Walker has said his proposed cuts to employee benefits would save the state nearly $330 million [NOTE: $30 million this fiscal year, $300 million the next two] through mid-2013

Math: $3.6 billion - $300 million = $3.3 billion

Adventures in doublethink: jsonline: But Walker defended his plan, saying the public employee union has “a stranglehold” on the state through tough negotiating that is “like a virus, eating up our budget.”
If human equality is to be forever averted--if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently--then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
From the comments:
Man on GrassyKnoll: Go Governor Walker. The sound you hear outside your window are the howls of spoiled children that have been told NO by there parents for the first time ever. "Honey, our credit cards are maxed out. I can't buy you the $200 jeans. You'll have to buy the ones at the Gap."
Yabecoo: Senators,
Get back to work you gutless wonders! You took an oath to represent all of your constituency not just the ones you agree with! Stop underminding the democratic process and do the job you are payed to do!
WisconsinInNC: What a bunch of COWARDS! Get back and DO YOUR JOB! 
OurVoiceShouldMatter: Stand strong Gov. Walker. More are supporting you than are against you.  The 14 Dems are a disgrace to the state Government.  Liberal cowards!
Yanni: glow1615...where have you been? Didn't you hear, Jesse Jackson and Eugene Kane were protesting a local Dairy Queen for selling more vanilla than chocolate in Madison!
jimslip: To answer the question about whether a union cop would retrieve these awol bureaucrats, the answer is yes. A cop knows that his job is important. Apparently teachers didn't get that memo. No wonder America's education system is failing. Look who is filling these position. Very selfish people.
LibertyFirst1776: Liberals can never win an argument on the facts. They must resort to initimidation, name-calling, and violence. This is a perfect example.
 As told to Winston:
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.  Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating?  It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined.  A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself.  Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.  The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love and justice.  Ours is founded upon hatred.  In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph and self-abasement.  Everything else we shall destroy--everything.


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