This isn’t one of those cases where the candidate can explain something away by saying it was a youthful indiscretion. It’s not like Christine O’Donnell saying she experimented with witchcraft in high school or even Chris Coons calling himself a bearded Marxist right after college.
Cue the song "Still Crazy After All These Years"
No, Governor Moonbeam was 55 years old and had already served two terms as California governor in 1995 when he said we need more welfare and fewer jobs.
Here’s the genius’s complete quote:
The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs. Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I’m talking about welfare for all. Without it, you’re going to have warfare for all. Without a universal health care like every other civilized country, without a minimum level of income, this country will explode. You can’t blame the guy at the bottom forever. At some point there’s a reaction and we’ll see that the real criminals are those calling the tune, making the rules, and walking to the bank.
Remarkably, Brown’s ahead in the polls. To which we can only say, elect this guy and you get what you deserve, California.
Let the exodus begin.
H/T: Fox Nation
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Pass this article along to every California voter you know!
Here’s a shortlink to this article: http://www.ihatethemedia.com/?p=44155
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That’s not real is it? Seriously, an American said that? An American who currently holds office-and who will probably lead the “state” of california come January? Really, a person who is educated said that?
Sounds like Jerry is hitting the medical mary-jane dispensary on a very, very regular basis!
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Moonbeam Brown: “…and we’ll see that the real criminals are those calling the tune, making the rules, and walking to the bank.”
Pot, meet Kettle.
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Of course an American said that; we are the most self-entitled lazy f–ks in the civilized world. We have a mexican invasion because we’re too high and mighty to mow our own lawns or clean our own toilets, and we won’t make the welfare trash do it to earn their money.
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Brown asserted, “We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I’m talking about welfare for all.”
Okeydokey, Comrade! Aren’t you late for a meeting in Pyongyang?
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“Welfare for all” and “dignity”? Are you having the same trouble I’m having getting those concepts to fit together?
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Yes I am having the same trouble, RKae. Can’t think of much on earth that is more undignified than living in handout housing while eating handout food that one “purchased” on an EBT card. More trouble comes, however, in how so many recipients of welfare have no problem with it all.
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We need more welfare and fewer jobs.
Will someone who has an in with the Whitman campaign please tell them to plaster this quote in a commercial quick!
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OMG. Governor Moonbeam. He has slung more mud and fought a dirtier fight than anyone I’ve ever known. Just WHY this clown is ahead is beyond me. Cafloronia is doomed. We obviously didn’t learn from the first time this looser was in office.
Vote Often! Democrats do!
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Jerry Brown has been in politics for 4 decades, outside of a couple of years in radio, he has never actually worked in the private sector, he does’nt believe in it, so he does’nt care about what his policies do. Like most libs, he is an economic retard, & if he wins the statehouse, California will be over. Seriously, & I will feel no sympathy as I watch it burn. People get the gov’t they deserve, & if you are dumb enough to elect Jerry Brown, you know what you are getting. So don’t come crying looking for the rest of the nation to bail you out.
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Thats the thing though….the libtards will vote this retard in and when the titanic continues its slow decent into 3rd world status they’ll bail into neighboring Arizona and begin corrupting it there.
Working stiffs without retirement or already collecting their generous state pensions won’t have the means to move.
I think the US needs to be broken into 4 or 5 countries. Every major political group can move to and run their own. That will make it harder to f-up one area and move to another.
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I’ve looked at the map, & I have an idea where the new borders would be. Seriously, I have thought about that & where I would end up going to. I’m guessing I would end up in the Dakotas.
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And when MOONBEAM wasnt in office , He was living off of his father’s estate . ” THE KALIFORNIA DREAM “
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Looks like the moonbeam hit this idiot in the head.why do they let people on welfare vote?
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Way back in the day only land owners could vote. Thats how they made sure voters had “skin in the game”. Probably not a bad idea to start but could also be expanded to other major investments like 50K of equities and bonds or something too.
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When I saw a recent picture of Gov. Burnout I thought I was looking at a picture of the late Peter Boyle in “Young Frankenstein”!
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I live here, I’ve seen this state go from boon to bust and Brown was the start of the bust. We are dealing with a lot of his policies NOW. The state aid program is ridiculous here. The taxation on business, the over regulation nanny state Brown envisions is exactly the reason we are 48th in the nation for business.
I actually hope he wins. Evidently the only way the rest of America will wake up is to see Greece on our shores. California must become ruined to the point of example then maybe DC will listen. I’m outta here ASAP but if I don’t make it say a prayer for me…
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Kinda like what’s happening nationwide with Obama? You have to elect the worst possible socialist so that the majority can be shocked into paying attention to the destruction? It’s sad that it had to come to this.
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“We need more welfare and fewer jobs.”
If Californians elect Jerry Brown that’s exactly what they’ll get. But if there are fewer jobs who’ll pay for his welfare utopia? His ideas are so stupid and unworkable that only economic illiterates could support them. Brown is a dangerous lunatic, his election would be a disaster for California and, soon thereafter, the nation.
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Sounds suspiciously like the old communist system, doesn’t it?
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Good grief! I’m glad I got to see California before it ends.
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You & me both. Beautiful state, but totally effed up, & it’s really sad.
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I live in San Diego, and I love the place. But I know it’s not going to last for me. The political climate is just getting too bad here. Luckily, I am mobile, and ready to leave at a moment’s notice.
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Near Los Angeles here. Not mobile. Not happy.
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San Diego is by far the nicest big city I have ever been to, don’t know if it still is.
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The biggest problem San Diego has is it’s proximity to the porous border to our south, and the local politicians who won’t allow the police to do their job when it comes to illegals. But we’re not giving up yet. Still working hard to keep it the beautiful place it’s always been.
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and it’s about damn time someone said the truth ! Cloward-Piven here we come!!!! (at least in California) … we’ve waited a long, long time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
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There’s a link at the bottom of the story. Follow the links and you’ll eventually get back to a complete transcript from Pacifica Radio, one of the lefty-est organizations in media, where Brown had his own radio show back in the 90s.
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» Sounds suspiciously like the old communist system, doesn’t it?
No, it doesn’t, really.
What Brown is saying here is that society can and should be based on fewer people actually working and contributing, with more people simply idling as parasites, living off the work of the fewer people who are working.
Even Communism recognizes the absurdity of this position. Communism recognizes that a healthy society needs everyone to contribute to the best of their ability. Communism’s failure is that it assumes that the population as a whole can be motivated to do so out of some desire for the common good, rather than out of their own self-interests.
In practice, what happens in any socialist society is that many people, not having an individual self-interest in working harder to gain greater rewards, end up doing the minimum that they can get away with, so the population as a whole produces less, and society winds up being poorer. Even a Communist would recognize this as a failure of the society.
Brown’s position, as expressed here, is to describe as desirable and inevitable, the situation that even a Communist would recognize as failure.
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I think thats a fine proposal but I suggest one modification: Whoever stands up and supports such a system should be the one made to work while those willing to work can sit on ass all day and watch.
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I like this idea. jackass jerry brown, barrack and joe biden will have to get a job! damn that would be worth money to watch that charley foxtrot.
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Poor Jerry. He’s brain dead from all the dope he did in the 60′s and 70′s. And 80′s. And 90′s. Wait! I see a pattern forming!
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Jerry Brown:
Fruit Fly
Moonbeam
Buddhist Socialism
No need to say anything more.
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ALL HAIL THE RECIPIENT.
Remember that, it will come in handy. Beacause when leftist jackasses like Jerry Brown tax & regulate buisinesses to the point they say “EFF THIS…”, & they pack up & leave, don’t come crying to me. California is going down the same road Michigan did, & that state is dying. EVERY LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE/SOCIALIST idea that you can put in place, IS IN PLACE in Michigan. The result, 1 of the worst state economies in the nation. In fact, the places with the sh!ttiest economies, are run by big spending liberals. All of them, & the cities especially, all run by big city political machine mayors & city councils, like Detroit, LA, NYC, Chicago, Cleveland, Philly, Washinton DC, & SF to name a few. Capital will always go where it is treated best, & it will flee high tax, anti buisiness locations. Nobody every got a paycheck from a poor person, unless they are a dealer or a prostitute, & even that’s a COD buisiness. Gov’t has never created wealth, they only know how to destroy it by taxing & regualting it. You can hate buisinesses & the people who create & run them all you want, but you can’t escape this fact, capitalism is boss. The laws of economics will always find a way around liberal/progressive/socialist idiocy, ALWAYS. Buisiness will make their money wherever they have to, & folks like you want to run them out. Besides, China makes great products anyway, why would we need to make things here?
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“At least he means welfare for everyone…” pk… what is that?.. an abbreviation for pinko or punk? Because that’s what you are if you endorse and support the welfare entitlement mentality that has been eroding the foundations of this nation since the 60′s. If you pull your head out of your @ss and look around you’ll see that 90% of the people Brown Clown is pandering to (read; buying votes with the promise of more freebies) are lazy slacker punks that live off the largess of their elders, newly arrived illegal alien dead-beats, and of course the ever present multiple generation “Great Society” descendants that have made bilking the system a way of life.
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I think you need to go back and re-learn who was in charge when this whole banking mess started PK…it was the Clinton Administration that forced these banks into the position they were in, and the likes of Barney Frank, Andrew Cuomo, Tim Geitner, Ben Bernanke, Chris Dodd…the list is VERY long and they are DEMOCRATS! I know you libs are not the brightest crayon in the box, but really, you should try to cover it up a little better!
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the banking deregulation that clinton signed was a gimme to the GOP to drop the lewinsky inquisition. additionally the bill was written by mccains economic advisor phil gramm. what clinton did was wrong, however the bill was written and supported by “conservatives”… which abolished the glass-steagall act and transformed our banking industry. so… when we use the word “forced” we should understand that the banks actually lobbied for this bill and used conservatives and a desperate clinton as their puppets for passing the bill.
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Unbelievable. I never knew he said that. Thanks for posting it.
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Agreed. IOwnTheWorld.com rocks.
Nice to know who those rainbow lips belong to.
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What’s really, really sad, is that there are enough yahoos in California who are stupid enough to reelect this nutjob.
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Huntington Beach?
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“What’s really, really sad, is that there are enough yahoos in California who are stupid enough to reelect this nutjob.”
Him AND the vast cavern of political cretins before him throughout the state! They have destroyed a once beautiful and bountiful state forever. Growing up in LA, my dad said that LA was an absolute paradise in the 30′s and 40′s.
Thanks Mom & Dad for seeing the writing on the wall and getting us out 35 years ago!
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