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Skriven 2005-11-05 19:44:00 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: Liberals
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Original posted by Sean Dennis


Found some entertaining facts about some of the beloved liberals in 
today's society:

# Filmmaker Michael Moore insists that corporations are evil and claims
he doesn't invest in the stock market due to moral principle. But
Moore's IRS forms, viewed by Schweizer, show that over the past
five years he has owned shares in such corporate giants as Halliburton,
Merck, Pfizer, Sunoco, Tenet Healthcare, Ford, General Electric
and McDonald's.

# Staunch union supporter Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has received
the Cesar Chavez Award from the United Farmworkers Union. But the
$25 million Northern California vineyard she and her husband
own is a non-union shop.

The hypocrisy doesn't end there. Pelosi has received more money from
the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union than any other
member of Congress in recent election cycles.

But the Pelosis own a large stake in an exclusive hotel in Rutherford,
Calif. It has more than 250 employees. But none of them are in a union,
according to Schweizer, author of "The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty"
and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal
and other periodicals.

The Pelosis are also partners in a restaurant chain called Piatti,
which has 900 employees. The chain is - that's right, a non-union shop.

# Ralph Nader is another liberal who claims that unions are essential
to protect worker rights. But when an editor of one of his publications
tried to form a union to ameliorate miserable working conditions, the
editor was fired and the locks changed on the office door.

# Self-described socialist Noam Chomsky has described the Pentagon
as "the most vile institution on the face of the earth" and lashed
out against tax havens and trusts that benefit only the rich.

But Chomsky has been paid millions of dollars by the Pentagon over the
last 40 years, and he used a venerable law firm to set up his
irrevocable trust to shield his assets from the IRS.

# Air America radio host Al Franken says conservatives are racist 
because
they lack diversity and oppose affirmative action. But fewer than 1
percent of the people he has hired over the past 15 years have
been African-American.

# Ted Kennedy has fought for the estate tax and spoken out against
tax shelters. But he has repeatedly benefited from an intricate
web of trusts and private foundations that have shielded most of
his family's fortune from the IRS.

One Kennedy family trust wasn't even set up in the U.S., but in Fiji.

Another family member, environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr., has said
that it is not moral to profit from natural resources. But he receives
an annual check from the family's large holdings in the oil industry.

# Barbra Streisand has talked about the necessity of unions to protect
a "living wage." But she prefers to do her filming and postproduction
work in Canada, where she can pay less than American union wages.

# Bill and Hillary Clinton have spoken in favor of the estate tax, and
in 2000 Bill vetoed a bill seeking to end it. But the Clintons have
set up a contract trust that allows them to substantially reduce the
amount of inheritance tax their estate will pay when they die.

Hillary, for her part, has written and spoken extensively about the
right of children to make major decisions regarding their own lives,
including having abortions without parental notification.

But she barred 13-year-old daughter Chelsea from getting her ears
pierced and forbid the teen from watching MTV or HBO.

# Billionaire Bush-basher George Soros says the wealthy should pay
higher, more progressive tax rates. But he holds the bulk of his
money in tax-free overseas accounts in Curacao, Bermuda and the
Cayman Islands.


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