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And another one is a play off of a Soviet era poster

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Check out the entire group of artwork at the zerohedge link.  There are some absolutely hilarious pieces where Ben Bernanke's picture is deftly inserted onto communist propaganda posters, and a particularly funny one of Hank Paulson's as Nikita Kruschev at the UN banging his shoe on the podium.   And visit William's personal site as well.  He has all kinds of goodies for sale so you can take his creations with you to go.

Also, speaking of May day and communism, check out Laura Ingraham interviewing Harry Alford, president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce.  Dude! he unloads on Obama, calling him and his people "Marxists" and "fanatical", and says:

“Obama wanted the National Black Chamber to dance to his music and have blind allegiance to his crazy programs and agenda, which are totally anti-business. We are a pro-business organization. So we have to stand on the side of business, and the benefit of our members, which are black entrepreneurs.”

"They might as well put on the brown shirts and swastikas..."

But that’s not all. Alford also admitted he only voted for Obama “because he’s [Obama] black,” a move he now regrets.

“That is a lesson I will take to my grave,” he said solemnly, later saying Obama is “wrecking” the country and is “dangerous.”

Keep in mind that this is coming from a man who supported Obama in 2008. See the story with more quotations here.  And listen to it at Real Clear Politics.

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According to sources, the salaries of the top 25 highest paid executives of the firms named will be cut an average of 90%, but factoring in bonuses, benefits, and retirement contributions brings that number closer to the overall figure cited.  According to one executive who chose to remain anonymous, the compensation restrictions were much worse than anticipated.  Still, the executives will still take home salaries that are large by the measure of most Americans.  And while the largest package, which will go to a Bank of America employee and come to a little over 9 million dollars, overall the pay czar’s ruling is sure to provide fodder to the administrations critics; not only for the restrictions themselves, but for the disproportionate way they are being applied.

The Obama administration gave Mr. Feinberg the job of more closely tying compensation to long-term performance, something the White House believes will help prevent employees from taking unnecessary risks for short-term gains. The administration believes skewed compensation incentives were one cause of the financial crisis.

Some of the toughest pay restrictions will come at the financial-products unit of American International Group Inc., which has been blamed for the firm's near-collapse. No employee within that unit will receive compensation of more than $200,000, people familiar with the matter said.

Mr. Feinberg will also demand a series of corporate governance changes at the firms, including splitting the chairman and CEO positions, requiring boards of directors to create "risk" committees and eliminate staggered board elections, which critics charge inhibit change.

Companies under the pay czar's purview gave sharply differing reactions to the latest news. At Bank of America, executives worried about how the changes will be received by the global banking and markets group, run by Thomas Montag and home to a number of highly paid investment bankers, executives say.

I expect that there will be mixed reactions to this policy.  While some may applaud, and readily accede to these invasive policies, owing to the back-stopping of the effected businesses with public funds, the move in itself is unprecedented.  Even more disturbing is the fact that these are being applied unevenly to the different companies and divisions within those companies, based on how the administration feels the blame for the financial crisis should be assessed.  It’s very much like what many on the left are often decrying about the justice system, that unequal treatment under the law based on status or identity is the norm; that we are, in fact, a nation of men and not laws-instead of the opposite, as was intended by the authors of the Constitution.

Plus, these government dictated compensation restrictions may have the adverse and unintended consequence of encouraging the experienced executives that are currently employed at these firms to leave, as well as discourage other talented individuals from joining these companies.  This could have a disastrous domino effect, not only hurting the firm in question, but also ultimately increasing unemployment, and perhaps even jeopardizing the government’s ability to ever recoup the funds that they were lent; as well as the fact that the shares the government has taken as collateral may greatly decline in value. And while I’m personally on record as wishing that the bailed-out firms would have exercised more constraint and discretion when awarding salaries and bonuses while owing the government money, this selective application of penalty increasingly seems politicized to me.

The government control of business executive compensation is part of the class warfare agenda that the left has been advocating for some time.  Indeed, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) intends to press for legislation that would give the government control over salaries and governing executive practices of all publicly traded companies.  But these controls wouldn’t necessarily have stopped the fall 2008 market collapse, and when coupled with the fact that the U.S. has the second highest corporate tax rate on Earth would most certainly result in corporations choosing other countries to do business in instead of America; yet another factor that may result in even greater unemployment.
 

I believe that, just as with the Fox news vendetta, the dithering on Afghanistan, and the recent reiteration of the Presidents promise to repeal, “Don’t ask, Don’t tell”, this is another political bone being thrown to his far-left base to keep them energized and engaged for the struggles ahead.  Obamacare is facing increasing opposition by the public in spite of the full court press by the White House.  And cap-n-trade, the next issue to come into the public square will be a hard sell indeed; especially when the public is experiencing the coldest winter in 10 years.  During the campaign the President would have called this a “distraction”, but it’s really like a group of huddled up football players “pumping up” before a game.  He needs the fighting nutroots completely on board for the political battles to come lest his agenda, and administration, crash on the rocks of his diminishing approval ratings.
 

This is a disturbing detour born of classic Marxist style class envy that could lead to a slippery slope of wage regulation and de-facto fascism; but, you know, the trains will probably run on time.  In fact, the real danger is that we may be witnessing the first lines being written of the American version of the famous poem, “First they came…”

“Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

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Fascism is a particularly ugly form of collectivist economics because it retains the illusion of private industry, which is dominated by the state. Private industry does not like to be dominated; it resists. This gives the fascist an early, and urgent, need for domestic enemies he can rally the public against. Van Jones signed a document alleging that Obama’s predecessors, in collusion with a huge number of military and civilian government personnel, conspired to murder thousands of American citizens for financial gain. Obama wanted to put him in charge of an agency that would use its lavish funding to assert that uncooperative businesses are conspiring to destroy the planet for financial gain. It would disburse taxpayer subsidies to politically connected businesses that support the President’s environmental agenda, which is marketed as a mystical religious faith, with dissension treated as heresy. Does any of that sound designed to bring Americans closer together?

The media is trying to ignore the Van Jones outrage. Don’t let them. This is not a “mistake.” A mistake is a matter of chance, a momentary failure of reason and wisdom. This is part of a pattern. Are we supposed to believe Obama knew nothing about any of his appointees? Are we expected to believe his White House staff is utterly incapable of matching the research a bunch of bloggers managed in less than twenty-four hours? Would President John McCain have been indulged if he’d appointed a “white nationalist” who signed a petition calling for the investigation of Bill Clinton in the murder of Vince Foster? The paper Van Jones signed says that every soldier who fell in Iraq died to cover up an act of mass murder, joining thousands of willing accomplices. That’s not an “indiscretion.” It’s an insult to everyone who died on September 11, everyone who mourns them, everyone who comforted the mourners, and everyone who fought to bring justice to the murderers.

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Do yourself a favor, read the whole thing; it's insightful and thought provoking

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