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Newly-announced senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is proving her progressive street cred on her "talking tour" with powerful and sensible talking points on the usefulness of government in people's lives. She's doing the activists who petitioned for her entrance in the race proud.
Would that all Democrats could be this feisty!
Here's a transcript, via rumproast:
I hear all this, you know, “Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.â€â€”No!
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.
You built a factory out there—good for you! But I want to be clear.
You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.
You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.
You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
You didn’t have to worry that maurauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea—God bless. Keep a big hunk of it.
But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
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Watch Warren below:
Posted at September 21, 2011, 8:33 am
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The per head tax is also available on those web sites. These sites are often difficult to navigate if not impossible. If you dig a little bit the info is there.
I'll give an example of the per head tax. In Renton WA Boeing was chaged a $50/year per head (worker). This was for road usage, police, etc. This was in '90s. Boeing has since moved out of Renton. There is PACCAR and a few others still in Renton (I think). This I know personally.
It is not an easy subject to investigate which is why I believe it is to use as an election issue. Class warfare.
As far as buddies, I refer you to the news: Solyndra, something squared I forget the name and the law firm in MA to name a few.
Do a little scratching and see all the little bugs you dig up.
Elizabeth Warren is an academic with no experience with daily life. Having actually dealt with Ms. Warren I can tell you she would never herself help a single person. Instead she heads committees and tells others how things should be. Even in the case of people losing their home when she sat on the board for TARP and was involved in the initiation of Making Homes Affordable she and her staff refused to lift a finger to help a person in need.
You fans of Warren really do not know the elitism of this woman.
From her Wikipedia biography information:
Elizabeth Warren was born Elizabeth Herring in Oklahoma City, the daughter of middle class parents Pauline and Donald Herring.[7] When Warren was twelve, her father had a heart attack which led to a pay cut, excessive medical bills, and eventually the loss of their car. Her mother went to work answering phones at Sears and Warren worked as a waitress.[8] She graduated from Northwest Classen High School in 1966 on a full debate scholarship and attended George Washington University, where she debated for them. At that time most scholarships were athletic scholarships for boys, and there were few girls on the debate teams as well. At 19 she married Jim Warren; they divorced in 1979.[9] She graduated in 1970 with a degree in speech pathology and audiology and worked with children who had head trauma and other kinds of brain injuries. [10] Warren went on to study law at the Rutgers School of Law–Newark, where she served as an editor of the Rutgers Law Review, and was one of two female summer associates at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft's Wall Street office.[11] She received her Juris Doctor in 1976. After law school, Warren worked from home, writing wills and doing real estate closings for walk-in clients.[9]
Warren is married to Bruce Mann, a legal historian and law professor also at Harvard Law School. She has a daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, with whom she has coauthored two books and several articles, and a son, Alexander Warren. She has taught Sunday School and cites Methodist founder John Wesley as an inspiration.[3]
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