Grab your weapons & ammo & head for the hills. Or head for Grosse Pointe w/ a guillotine before it's too late.Durant, a Grosse Pointe charter school executive who helped found Cornerstone Schools, is vying for the Republican nomination against former Congressman Pete Hoekstra and a field of candidates in the race to unseat Sen. Debbie Stabenow in next year’s election.
All joking aside, Durant, 62, explained over pizza and cookies the silver linings that came out of his own collegiate failures and suggested several times that rejection was a good way to refine and rethink one’s own path through life.
Invoking the name of God several times, Durant described himself as a “nerdy” kid whose life was profoundly changed by the C.S. Lewis allegory “The Great Divorce.”
He told the students he is running for office because he feels the “essence of the country” is at risk due to unsustainable federal debt levels run up by “my generation” and the waning “integrity of our money” without something like the gold standard backing it.
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He called his primary opponent, Hoekstra, a “wonderful guy” who nevertheless “spent 18 years, along with my ultimate Democratic opponent, voting for higher spending and more debt.”
“And quite frankly, he made a devil’s bargain with the Teamsters. He committed to voting against opportunities that open up markets around the world, in China, South Korea, Columbia, Panama,” he said. “We need open markets and open opportunities.”
In regards to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Durant said the protesters should “go find a job.” In regards to the wealth gap the movement decries, Durant said, “I think it should be wider.”
“Does anybody think Steve Jobs should not be (sic) in the 1 percent? He made life better for the 99 percent of the rest of us. You want to create opportunities for people with their unique gifts,” he said. “They have created value and wealth.”
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Class Warfare Report
Tension between the have-nots & the want-even-mores has been building for all of human history, & it's now coming to a head. Another gun was pointed at the heads of the proverbial 99% Thursday.
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He told the students he is running for office because he feels the “essence of the country” is at risk due to unsustainable federal debt levels run up by “my generation”
So, why doesn't he give it up and let a younger candidate run?
Yeah, those young Chinese workers locked in the factory dorms are doing really well!
Damn, thought I'd pasted this part:
He made life better for the 99 percent of the rest of us.
Yes, open opportunities for the rich to get richer. WOO-HOO!!!! Thanks, douchnozzle! Thanks for giving us opportunities!
w/v says he just wants to us to content ourselves with "crums."
You know, I've been reading Michael Gross"s book "Unreal Estate" - which is about the excess of wealth in LA viewed through the real estate market. It's a fascinating read, but now I'm almost through with it I can't tell you how much my stomach turns reading about the utter self-indulgence and heedless waste the lives of the very wealthy seem to be full of.
I know nothing about Steve Job's personal life, but surely even the benefits of Apple don't justify the kind of conspicuous consumption of people like Marvin Davis, Bernie Cornfeld, Aaron Spelling, the Resnicks, etc.
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