• About Us
  • Activity
  • Advertising
  • Books
  • Business
  • Contact
  • Dashboard
  • EB5
  • Entertainment
  • feedback
  • Forgot Your Password?
  • Government
  • Home
  • Interviews
  • Login
  • Members
  • Meme generator
  • National
  • Nevada
  • Nevada News and Views
  • Newsmax
  • NN&V Ads
  • Opinion
  • Pick a New Password
  • Politics
  • Polls
  • Privacy Policy
  • Profile
  • Recent comments by me
  • Recent comments on my posts
  • Register
  • Submit post
  • Subscribe
  • Subscription Confirmation
  • Survey
  • Survey
  • Terms of Service
  • Today’s Top 10
  • Travel
  • Travel
  • Travel
  • Welcome!
  • Yop Poll Archive
Nevada News and Views
  • About Us
  • Advertising
  • Contact
  • More
    • Nevada
    • Opinion
    • Business
    • Travel
    • News
    • Sports
  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • Pinterest

  • RSS

Opinion

UNLV CRs Host S.E. Cupp: OWS Is Intellectually Dishonest, A Pawn Of Obama

UNLV CRs Host S.E. Cupp: OWS Is Intellectually Dishonest, A Pawn Of Obama
N&V Staff
December 13, 2011

NN&V Exclusive

(Lori Piotrowski) – “Occupiers are an intellectually dishonest group,” said S.E. Cupp, addressing more than 50 listeners this afternoon. The group didn’t spring up naturally, she continued, “it was ginned up by Obama to incite class warfare,” mimicking the president’s language to sell initiatives like health care and stimulus packages.

“The Us vs. Them is meant to divide and polarize and get him re-elected,” Cupp explained.

She was in town, by invitation of the UNLV College Republicans, talking about conservative fiscal policies.

Wall Street Occupiers don’t understand that they’re radicals who are in fact upholding the doctrines they claim to be railing against. “They are pawns, taking power away from individuals and giving power to a small group of people in government who will make all the decisions.”

Cupp compared the OWS protestors to the famous, and infamous, protests that had taken place throughout U.S. history, such as those Susan B. Anthony led for women’s voting rights. She wryly noted that “When Kanye West shows up at your protest wearing $30,000 jeans and railing against the economy, you know protests have seen better days.”

The crowd, mostly young college students, supported a variety of the Republican candidates still in the running, although a majority loudly supported Ron Paul.

Cupp acknowledged the devotion of Paul supporters but adamantly stated he would not be elected. She recognized that half of his policies were great, mostly those that focused on national and fiscal issues, but that the other half “was crazy. If Paul were president, we would have no national policy at all.” Seeing what has happened in Libya, for example, where Obama and his coalition entered the Libyan Arab Spring with no plan, no agenda, “was amazing. Now we have no idea of the devil we’ll be dealing with.”

Cupp, author of Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media’s Attack on Christianity and Why You’re Wrong About the Right: Behind the Myths: The Surprising Truth About Conservatives, turned the focus back to fiscal conservatism by talking about what affects her most in her day-to-day life–taxes.

“Big government in my pocket, that’s what affects me most,” she said. She then compared two quotes that had appeared in Our Sunday Visitor, a publication for Catholics.

The first, by Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), said, “A budget with low taxes, spending restraint and less borrowing can help restart the economy, create jobs and increase resources for investment, charity and assistance for the needy.” Ryan advocates that a moral imperative exists for balancing the federal budget.

The second, by Stephen Schneck: “But it’s wrong — it’s immoral — to do this by shredding already stretched safety nets that save lives and give a bit of dignity to those in need. Maybe the rich can forgo more tax breaks? Maybe we can reduce some giveaways to Wall Street? Maybe we can trim weapon systems that the military does not even want? Before we cut Medicaid funds for our elderly and needy, or take food stamps away from hungry kids or slash programs for at-risk moms and babies,” demonstrates the liberals’ desire to expand government while taking money from those who “deserve” to pay more.

Candidate Rick Santorum, in one of the debates, brought up the need to remember the family when working with the federal budget, which Cupp explained, is a point that should be given more emphasis by whoever the Republican candidate is after the primaries.

“The approach to social issues doesn’t have to be emotionally loaded,” she explained. “A moral imperative provides ways for us to support those issues that are important to us. Avoid the divisive issues by focusing on fiscal issues in a compelling way.”

Come November, 2012, she said most voters will have an existential decision to make: “Do I vote to make a point or do I vote to win? It can be a bitter pill to swallow.”

 

Prev postNext post

Related Itemsfiscal conservatismLosing Our ReligionS.E. CuppUNLV College Republicans
Opinion
December 13, 2011
N&V Staff

Related Itemsfiscal conservatismLosing Our ReligionS.E. CuppUNLV College Republicans

More in Opinion

Question 1 on Nevada Ballot is Not What It Seems

N&V StaffNovember 1, 2022
Read More

Roadmap To Saving Nevada

Troy La ManaOctober 21, 2022
Read More

The Lil Governor That Couldn’t

Troy La ManaOctober 10, 2022
Read More

Nevada Continues To Fail Our Students

Troy La ManaOctober 9, 2022
Read More

This Failed Policy Needs To End

Troy La ManaOctober 8, 2022
Read More

Viguerie: If We Stand Up for Parents’ Rights Now, We Will Win!

N&V StaffOctober 7, 2022
Read More
Scroll for more
Tap

Subscribe Free By Email

Looking for the best in breaking news and conservative views? Let Chuck do all the work for you! Subscribe to his FREE "Muth's Truths" e-newsletter.

* indicates required
Nevada News and Views
Nevada News & Views is an educational project of Citizen Outreach Foundation, a non-partisan IRS-approved 501(c)(3) organization. It is not associated or affiliated with any political party or group. Nevada News & Views is accessible by the public at no cost. It funds its operations through tax-deductible contributions from donors and supporters and does not accept government money or grants.

TAGS

Featured Article Nevada Politics business Muth's Truths government Opinion Government Muth’s Truths Obama Ron Knecht News Donald Trump GOP Republicans

Copyright © 2022 Citizen Outreach | Maintained by VirtualAlly

Government Regs Threaten to Bury Local Contractor
Too Much BS In Reno Animal Abuse Story