Kshama Sawant - The Clueless Nutjob Brain-Child of Seattle Minimum Wage

[GHook93]

Look at what she stands for! Look at what she supports. Look at her vision for America. She should be declared a danger to America and deported.

Before you bash Wikipedia as the source, check the links that it quotes to they are more than legit.

Kshama Sawant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kshama Sawant is a member of the Socialist Alternative party, the United States section of the British-based Trotskyist international organization the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI). She has referred to herself as a Marxist.[30][43] Sawant has stated that she does not advocate for any system like the "bureaucratic dictatorship" of the former Soviet Union, but for democratic socialism meaning "the society being run democratically in the interest of all working people on the planet, all children - everybody who has needs, and all that being done in an environmentally sustainable manner."[44]

Yep calls herself a marxist, even though Marxism fails where ever it's tried. Latest victim is Venezuela. She states she doesn't want a dictatorship, but the Marxist principals she promotes ALWAYS leads to a tyrannical dictatorship disguised as a democracy!

Involvement with Occupy

Before running for office, Sawant received attention as an organizer in the local Occupy movement.[1][23] She praised Occupy for putting "class", "capitalism", and "socialism" into the political debate.[30] After Occupy Seattle protestors were removed from Westlake Park by order Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, Sawant helped bring them to the Capitol Hill campus of Seattle Central Community College, where they remained for two months.[14] Sawant has joined with other Occupy activists working with local organization to resist home evictions and foreclosures. She was arrested with several other Occupy activists including Dorli Rainey on July 31, 2012 for blocking King County Sheriff's Deputies from evicting a man from his home.[45]

She was the organizer of a occupy Wall Street movement! That should say it all!

Economic policies

Sawant called for large Seattle companies such as Starbucks and Amazon to be unionized in her most recent campaign.[33] In previous campaigns she has advocated the nationalization of large Washington State corporations such as Boeing, Microsoft, and Amazon.com[34] and expressed a desire to see privately owned housing in "Millonaire's Row" in the Capitol Hill neighborhood turned into publically owned shared housing saying, "When things are exquisitely beautiful and rare, they shouldn't be privately owned."[46] During an election victory rally for her City Council campaign Sawant criticized Boeing for saying it would move jobs out of state if it couldn't get wage concessions and tax breaks. She called this "economic terrorism" and said in several speeches if Boeing moved jobs out of state that the workers should take over Boeing facilities and bring them into public ownership. She has said they could be converted into multiple uses, such as production for mass transit.[47][48] She is also a supporter of single-payer health care.[33] Sawant maintains that a socialist economy cannot exist in a single country and must be a global system just as capitalism today is a global system.[49]

She wants to national large US corps aka she means put them out of business because that is what China found out when they tried to do that. The government can't run and make profitable big businesses! It's been proven time and time again. Funny she says that Boeing threatening to leave if they wages get raised as economic terrorism, but her calling for "Taking-over" aka seizure of assets is not terrorism. What a douche bag.

I love her last line. She states she is different than the Soviet, but they believe the best way for Communist Socialism to work is if it becomes global. Heck she probably wants camps in the frozen tundras of Alaska for dissenters!

education, and immigration

Environment,

She opposed the construction of the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel calling it "environmentally destructive" and "something most people were against, most environmental groups were against".[14]

Is it surprising a nut job who wants control everything is an EnviroNazi. I mean environmentalism is just a tactic big government hogs use to oppress the people! If she was in charge and gas was $100 a gallon at the pump because of her policies, she would say kill the oil executives, not place blame on herself!

Education

Sawant opposes the Measures of Academic Progress test in public schools and has supported the teachers' boycott of the standardized tests.[33] Sawant has called for a revolt against student debt saying that "the laws of the rich are unenforceable if the working class refuses to obey those laws."[30] She is an active member of the American Federation of Teachers union[43] and has been critical of American labor union leadership, saying the leadership, "...in the last 30 years has completely betrayed the working class. They are hand in glove with the Democratic Party, pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into their campaigns, and they tell rank and file workers that you have to be happy with these crumbs…" Sawant believes the American Labor movement should break with the Democratic Party and run grassroots left-wing candidates.[30]

She has a point on student loans, but of course her attack doesn't address the issue. It's because of the freely handing out of money that the colleges just shot up tuition to unaffordable levels. College can be free if you join the armed forces I might add! I have 3 colleagues that paid for undergrad and LAW SCHOOL that way!

Of course she supports the teacher unions, yet they are the PRIME cause of destruction US education. Of course she is against Charter School even though all the facts support that they provide a ton better education than public schools!

Immigration

Sawant advocates for a moratorium on deportations of illegal immigrants from Seattle and granting unconditional citizenship for all persons currently in the United States without citizenship. She opposes the E-Verify system.

Listen to this clueless bitch! Doesn't this dumbass realize that illegal immigrants flood the service and restaurant ranks. You know the people making minimum wage. I mean why do McDonald's works START at $15 an hour in North Dakota (more than double the minimum wage)? Because there is a shortage of workers and very few illegals there.

Caesar Chavez knew that illegals suppressed wages while he was trying to unionize. That is why he fought it. This clueless bitch should realize that FIGHTING illegal immigration is an unskilled workers POSITION. Supporting amnesty and illegal immigration is the WORST thing you could do for the unskilled minimum wage worker.


She is a hack, fool and will only lead Seattle to destruction. I look forward to seeing her fail.

She should be deported and disallowed to ever enter the country again!

 

[buckeye45_73]

wow, impressive list for a commie.....too bad she "dislikes" democrats, because I'm sure they'd love to put her on the ballot since they agree on almost everything.

 

[GHook93]

wow, impressive list for a commie.....too bad she "dislikes" democrats, because I'm sure they'd love to put her on the ballot since they agree on almost everything.

I know you are speaking tongue and cheek, but she is well beyond your average Democrat. She is much scarier. First, how could such a clueless woman first be hired by a college to teacher our kids. Second how fucking retarded are the residents of Seattle to even consider this bitch!

See this is how socialist win election across the globe. They offer the easy answer that will fail. They state how many freebies they will give to the uneducated masses (and yes if you are in a minimum wage job you are UNEDUCATED!!!)! It works in the short-term, but will lead to a disaster in the long run! Examples: North Korea, USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Greece etc!

 

[g5000]

First, how could such a clueless woman first be hired by a college to teacher our kids.

I bet she knows teacher is not a verb.

 

[GHook93]

Basically Homer Simpson promises the ignorant people of Springfield the moon and the stars for their garbage removal needs. They elect him only for him to bankrupt the city leading to the city being relocated! Funny and extreme, but it's right out of the Democrat playbook! Promise the uneducated masses that you will give them everything for their vote and allow the infrastructure around you to crumble later!

 

[LordBrownTrout]

They deserve her out there. They voted for that chavez wannabe.

 

[GHook93]

They deserve her out there. They voted for that chavez wannabe.

She is worse than Chavez and that isn't and understatement!

 

[thereisnospoon]

wow, impressive list for a commie.....too bad she "dislikes" democrats, because I'm sure they'd love to put her on the ballot since they agree on almost everything.

I know you are speaking tongue and cheek, but she is well beyond your average Democrat. She is much scarier. First, how could such a clueless woman first be hired by a college to teacher our kids. Second how fucking retarded are the residents of Seattle to even consider this bitch!

See this is how socialist win election across the globe. They offer the easy answer that will fail. They state how many freebies they will give to the uneducated masses (and yes if you are in a minimum wage job you are UNEDUCATED!!!)! It works in the short-term, but will lead to a disaster in the long run! Examples: North Korea, USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Greece etc!

Same reason why Minnesota elects nut cases like Jesse Ventura and Al Franken.
Just to flip the bird at the country.

 

[Mr. H.]

They deserve her out there. They voted for that chavez wannabe.

Glad the kid chose not to attend college there.

 

[GHook93]

wow, impressive list for a commie.....too bad she "dislikes" democrats, because I'm sure they'd love to put her on the ballot since they agree on almost everything.

I know you are speaking tongue and cheek, but she is well beyond your average Democrat. She is much scarier. First, how could such a clueless woman first be hired by a college to teacher our kids. Second how fucking retarded are the residents of Seattle to even consider this bitch!



See this is how socialist win election across the globe. They offer the easy answer that will fail. They state how many freebies they will give to the uneducated masses (and yes if you are in a minimum wage job you are UNEDUCATED!!!)! It works in the short-term, but will lead to a disaster in the long run! Examples: North Korea, USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, Greece etc!

Same reason why Minnesota elects nut cases like Jesse Ventura and Al Franken.

Just to flip the bird at the country.

Not true! There are many people that believe in the Marxist cause of social justice! Sounds great on paper, but it's been proven a disaster in reality!



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[MACAULAY]

If the woman actually admitted she is a Marxist, then she's more honest than that pack of Marxists in the White House.

Barack Obama is an obvious Marxist, he just can't admit it until he has a secure and reliable 51% sucking off the Big Government Tit.

"Reliable" is the problem. You move onto the Federal Government Plantation, you get used drawing a pay check for doing nothing at some bloated Federal Bureaucracy, or used to sitting on the front porch waiting on the welfare checks....and, soon, simple things like voting begin to seem like a chore.

And it boils down to the ones on the Federal Tit who are run by the Public Employees Unions have to get off their lazy asses, and go out and try to get Porch Sitters off their lazy ass and go vote---an that's why they hate voter I.D laws---because "Vote Early and Often" has been a motto in the Democratic Party in Chicago and other rotting Northern cities for decades.

Marxism.

It has never been successful in history, but the cocksuckers in the White House are determined to try one more time.

 

[Disir]

She's not clueless and I think that scares you. She won the $15 but made concessions and this was back and forth between the businesses--they were involved.

What I strongly feel is behind your fear is that the working class supports many of her stances. Those at the bottom start to fight back and this terrifies the status quo.

We have many issues that need to be resolved or addressed and nobody wants to put forth any effort. You (general you) don't want to stop the union busting, don't want to stop the shipping of jobs overseas where they work for $2 an hour, don't want to stop the SNAP fraud at the top, don't want to revert back to states subsidizing colleges, don't want to get the homeless of the street, don't want to get the severely mentally ill of the street, don't want affordable health care, don't want rent control, don't want to regulate the banks, don't want to keep privatized schools from stealing from the public coffers, and definitely don't want to address the consolidation of hospitals........

 

[Disir]

If the woman actually admitted she is a Marxist, then she's more honest than that pack of Marxists in the White House.

Barack Obama is an obvious Marxist, he just can't admit it until he has a secure and reliable 51% sucking off the Big Government Tit.

"Reliable" is the problem. You move onto the Federal Government Plantation, you get used drawing a pay check for doing nothing at some bloated Federal Bureaucracy, or used to sitting on the front porch waiting on the welfare checks....and, soon, simple things like voting begin to seem like a chore.

And it boils down to the ones on the Federal Tit who are run by the Public Employees Unions have to get off their lazy asses, and go out and try to get Porch Sitters off their lazy ass and go vote---an that's why they hate voter I.D laws---because "Vote Early and Often" has been a motto in the Democratic Party in Chicago and other rotting Northern cities for decades.

Marxism.

It has never been successful in history, but the cocksuckers in the White House are determined to try one more time.

The WH is not Marxist. The term is neoliberal.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Excrement....praise for her ilk

 

[GHook93]

She's not clueless and I think that scares you. She won the $15 but made concessions and this was back and forth between the businesses--they were involved.

Damn right she scares me. Look at what she stands for. Look beyond your bubble. The part that really scares me is there are millions of glueless fucks like you that can be bought (at least in the short-term), but entitlements and policies that can't last. See she will off short-terms items that will lead to destruction down the line!

And SHE didn't make concessions. Her party made concessions on the time frames. She strongly rejected time frame delays, she demanded it start immediately!

What I strongly feel is behind your fear is that the working class supports many of her stances. Those at the bottom start to fight back and this terrifies the status quo.

Another clueless statement. The liberals of Seattle supported her. The unskilled worker supported her, but anyone that thought about what she stands for and how her policies would only lead to destruction voted against her, which was many working class people!

You (general you) don't want to stop the union busting,

Government Unions? I want them disbanded. Private unions, I could support them as long as they leave the government out of there affairs.

don't want to stop the shipping of jobs overseas where they work for $2 an hour,

Wrong! North of $15 a hour manufacturing jobs are what we are losing (along with call center and other jobs). I have ideas on this (which I have posted about regularly), but that isn't within the scope of this thread.

don't want to stop the SNAP fraud at the top,

What do you mean by this?

don't want to revert back to states subsidizing colleges

,
Wrong, one of the areas we need to spend on is eduction at all levels, esp college. And this is not on the corrupt unions but rather the students. Privatizing all schools and making parents pay out of pocket for schooling isn't the way, but I do think Charter schools, no tenure and individual (very collective) retirement plans would solve many issues.

don't want to get the homeless of the street, don't want to get the severely mentally ill of the street,

See you going down the mental midget liberal methodology. Argue desired results and say only government can solves these. Of course people wants this, but how to get it done differs greatly! Government social programs have been shown not to solve either problem you just mentioned!

don't want affordable health care,

Obaminationcare didn't solve this! In fact it made it 100 fold worse

don't want rent control,

You are right I don't want this!

don't want to regulate the banks,

See liberals always talk in absolutes they know nothing about. I work as a compliance attorney for a large sized regional bank. The problem with regulations is they are ambiguous, written by so many people a lot is redundant and a lot contradicts itself. Many moons ago bills used to be 10-20 pages and easily readable in one sitting. Heck the constitution fit within these perimeters. Politicians knew what they were voting on, each section was understandable and easy to implement and the consumer would know their protections. Now bills are so long and confusing most lawyers don't understand them.

I believe in regulation of the banks, but in the responsible bill format.

don't want to keep privatized schools from stealing from the public coffers,

Of course I don't advocate this, because it's not true. It's the public schools that waste all the property tax dollars earmarked for education. Any dollars private schools do take, is put to an education a ton better than it's public school counter-part at a fraction of the cost per pupil!

and definitely don't want to address the consolidation of hospitals........

And you probably wouldn't want to discuss the fact that hospitals aren't taking Obaminationcare. You don't want to discuss the fact that illegals are bankrupting banks, due to the fact they use the emergency room like a primary care physician!

This women isn't the answer. She is definitely part of the problem!

 

[blastoff]

She's just another shitbag lefty dope. And her fellow shitbags and dopes would gladly join her in a defacating-in-public protest anytime, anyplace.

 

[editec]

Grow some balls, you right wingers.

You act as though this matters.

If, as you say this MW law leads to disaster, then you need not worry.

But you are being told that you must worry by your MASTERS, aren't you?

Why?

What are you afraid of?

 

[GHook93]

Grow some balls, you right wingers.

You act as though this matters.

If, as you say this MW law leads to disaster, then you need not worry.

But you are being told that you must worry by your MASTERS, aren't you?

Why?

What are you afraid of?

I am interested to see what comes about. It could be the liberal outcome, no significant change in unemployment, no businesses relocation, more people off public assistance and more consumer spending because of the increase. OR, it could be the conservative narrative: spike in unemployment, loss of benefits, massive company relocation, no decrease in public aid and a huge shot to the economy.

I am in the camp that thinks the conservative narrative will occur, but if the liberal narrative occurs, then I will readjust my views accordingly. However, this is 5 yrs away!




Also why is this significant you ask, because the liberal governed cities around the country are watching. Seattle is a well to do city. If this minimum wage increase is successful as the liberals say it will be, then expect a domino effect. A bigger fear is it is very unsuccessful, but the liberal cities will still pick it up because liberals don't learn from mistakes! At that point I fear a rapid destructive path were the results show a different end game.


If I was being truly honest, I hope it succeeds. I couldn't imagine living on less than $100K a year and supporting my family and there are families doing it on $31K a year. If it doesn't lead to mass unemployment of exodus of businesses, then I don't see a reason to not support it. Truly I don't. HOWEVER, I don't think the liberal outcome will occur. I think Seattle will get hit by a sledge hammer and fall hard like other big cities have done!

 

[ClosedCaption]

Ghook up to his Saul Alinsky again.

Instead of telling us why the Min Wage increase is wrong he tries to polarize the person.

Read the avatar. Stop being a dumbass

 

[Disir]

She's not clueless and I think that scares you. She won the $15 but made concessions and this was back and forth between the businesses--they were involved.

Damn right she scares me. Look at what she stands for. Look beyond your bubble. The part that really scares me is there are millions of glueless fucks like you that can be bought (at least in the short-term), but entitlements and policies that can't last. See she will off short-terms items that will lead to destruction down the line!

And SHE didn't make concessions. Her party made concessions on the time frames. She strongly rejected time frame delays, she demanded it start immediately!

What I strongly feel is behind your fear is that the working class supports many of her stances. Those at the bottom start to fight back and this terrifies the status quo.

Another clueless statement. The liberals of Seattle supported her. The unskilled worker supported her, but anyone that thought about what she stands for and how her policies would only lead to destruction voted against her, which was many working class people!


Government Unions? I want them disbanded. Private unions, I could support them as long as they leave the government out of there affairs.


Wrong! North of $15 a hour manufacturing jobs are what we are losing (along with call center and other jobs). I have ideas on this (which I have posted about regularly), but that isn't within the scope of this thread.


What do you mean by this?

,
Wrong, one of the areas we need to spend on is eduction at all levels, esp college. And this is not on the corrupt unions but rather the students. Privatizing all schools and making parents pay out of pocket for schooling isn't the way, but I do think Charter schools, no tenure and individual (very collective) retirement plans would solve many issues.


See you going down the mental midget liberal methodology. Argue desired results and say only government can solves these. Of course people wants this, but how to get it done differs greatly! Government social programs have been shown not to solve either problem you just mentioned!


Obaminationcare didn't solve this! In fact it made it 100 fold worse


You are right I don't want this!


See liberals always talk in absolutes they know nothing about. I work as a compliance attorney for a large sized regional bank. The problem with regulations is they are ambiguous, written by so many people a lot is redundant and a lot contradicts itself. Many moons ago bills used to be 10-20 pages and easily readable in one sitting. Heck the constitution fit within these perimeters. Politicians knew what they were voting on, each section was understandable and easy to implement and the consumer would know their protections. Now bills are so long and confusing most lawyers don't understand them.

I believe in regulation of the banks, but in the responsible bill format.

don't want to keep privatized schools from stealing from the public coffers,

Of course I don't advocate this, because it's not true. It's the public schools that waste all the property tax dollars earmarked for education. Any dollars private schools do take, is put to an education a ton better than it's public school counter-part at a fraction of the cost per pupil!

and definitely don't want to address the consolidation of hospitals........

And you probably wouldn't want to discuss the fact that hospitals aren't taking Obaminationcare. You don't want to discuss the fact that illegals are bankrupting banks, due to the fact they use the emergency room like a primary care physician!

This women isn't the answer. She is definitely part of the problem!

What she stands for are the people that you don't give a damn about. You aren't organizing, controlling and, therefore, directing their anger or frustration. Nothing more and nothing less. That is the frightening part. The libertopians, teathuglicans and the rethuglican-light failed to address the issues (two can play this game). When you chose to ignore it, you left a vacuum. You are fine as long as those people are silenced. The moment that they pull together without your consent then you are lost dazed and confused. She doesn't represent a major political party. She is filling a much needed gap.


What is to be bought? Nothing. Fair wages? Are you telling me that can't last? Ability to limit the extortion by slum lords? Policy that can't last? There isn't anything to be bought. There is no destruction down the line. I don't agree with all of her stances. I see zero reason to nationalize Wal-Mart. Now, oil? I can get behind that.

The point is that concessions were made. Agreements have a tendency to get things done in government........instead of a bunch of BS.

I see no reason for government workers to disband their unions. Those people do the jobs every day even when some asshat is elected based on a bunch of inconsistencies or half truths made on a stage whilst campaigning because YOU don't have the foresight to ask the necessary questions about the job in and of itself. Those people come and go whilst the people that do the work just keep doing what they have to. Those are people that you like silenced as well.

As far as public education: You are not just wrong, you are dead wrong. The data does NOT support your statements. As a prior attorney, fact checking should rate high on your list. You would see the cases outlining the reasons behind tenure AND the problems that have occurred with retirement funds. But, that isn't what you want. You want teachers to work for five bucks an hour and fired at will. Just say so, cut the shit.

Let's see, the banks understood the language of The Financial Services Modernization Act really, really well. They understand the language of repealing the federal tax exemption for credit unions really, really well. They understood how to limit the ability to get a loan for less than 50k to purchase a home really, really well. The big banks understood the ability to screw smaller and medium businesses and smaller banks really, really well. That damned Volcker Rule is a doozy, innit?

Don't give me some bs on how the liberal government can fix everything. You had ample time to address the problems. You chose not to. That self regulation isn't happening. Faux privatization doesn't work. You have had ample time to assess this, you chose not to. Getting people to actually acknowledge that a problem exists isn't happening. If somebody else does acknowledge the issues, you act like your seizing.

I didn't go for the ACA. I wanted single payer. You have entire states that opted out of the ACA and did so to set up their own system. Don't forget that aspect of it.

But, you don't want to nail those at the top because that would be really scary. It's much easier for you to nail those with the least amount of power.