On May 22nd big government activists went to Trenton supposedly to protest Governor Christie’s budget cuts and to push for a “millionaire’s tax” on New Jersey’s wealth producers.
But AFP was there to catch it all on video and show you who they really are!
While the media portrayed the crowd as mainstream and “just caring about the children,” a look at the list of attendees shows the event was a who’s who of radical, far left organizations, socialists, and public sector unions who were there to push a Marxist agenda and to protect their own precious pensions and benefits.
One of the featured speakers was Larry Hamm of the People’s Organization for Progress, a socialist who rails against capitalism and calls for a “radical redistribution of wealth.”
Union bosses take to the stage to sound off about “the rich” while they take in salaries in the hundreds of thousands of dollars – paid for on the backs of their members.
In fact, here are just some of those groups at the rally – including the ACLU, the NJEA, and, yes, even SEIU.
American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, NJ Council 1
American Federation of Teachers, NJ
Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War
Communications Workers of America, District 1
Democracia USA
Displaced Homemakers Network of New Jersey
Fund for an Open Society
Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey
Immigrants Rights Defense Committee of New Jersey
La Casa de Don Pedro
National Association of Social Workers, NJ Chapter
New Jersey Education Association
New Jersey Immigration Policy Network
New Jersey State Federation of Teachers- AFT
People’s Organization for Progress
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of New Jersey
Progressive Democrats of America, New Jersey
Service Employees International Union, NJ State Council
Sierra Club, New Jersey Chapter
But you don’t need me to tell you who what these people stand for. You can watch for yourself here. Click on this video and see for yourself what these “progressives” believe and how they really want to “transform” America.
These radicals might think the people are on their side but there is mounting evidence that the American people are beginning to turn on public sector unions. They are beginning to understand just how organized labor like the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the NJEA are hurting taxpayers and destroying state budgets due to their outrageous benefits and pensions. New polling data show a large majority of Americans think “having a federal work force that was more generously compensated than workers in the private sector ‘was a bad thing for our country.’” (Read the article on the polling data here)
This is good news but it is not enough.
If you and I are going to reclaim our state and lead it back to prosperity, then we must send a message to these proponents of socialism and enemies of free enterprise: Your ideas have failed around the world – and they will fail here as well!
We must tell them that enough is enough and that we will no longer tolerate them blocking what is in the best interests of our state just so they can enrich themselves at our expense. The time has come for them to live in the real world just like those of us in the private sector.
Taxpayers’ Budget Hearing Tonight in Newton, NJ!
AFP’s next Taxpayers’ Budget hearing will be in Newton, NJ on Wednesday, June 2nd at 7:00pm
For more information and to see a full schedule of our upcoming Taxpayers’ Budget hearings, click here. To download and read the AFP Taxpayers’ Budget, click here.
On to Victory,
Steve Lonegan
State Director
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