Thanks, Ken. Yes we are aware of the part that the CEO of Progressive Insurance plays in funding liberal causes in general and the DNC in particular. And FWIW, our family will not do business with Progressive for exactly the reason you stated.
Regarding George Soros...... He is the person funding (both directly and indirectly through various organizations under his control) the bulk of Democrat party political campaigns and their ultra-left wing websites such as 'moveon.org', 'media matters', etc. For all intents and purposes, he now 'owns' the Democrat party and their 'leadership'. He is the man behind the curtain. He holds the DNC purse strings and he calls the shots. It was Soros who determined that Barry Soetoro (AKA "Obama') was more electable than Hillary Clinton because the public knew nothing about him and wouldn't learn who he was and what he was all about until after the '08 elections. You may thank George Soros for 'Obama' and all that he and his radical operatives are attempting to do to our nation.....
http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-h ... cal-power/
http://www.citizinemag.com/politics/pol ... ntrics.htm
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/04/ ... vades.html
I touched on Soros' role in this thread here recently......
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=20576
To begin to fathom the great evil this man and those who do his bidding pose to our nation, one must look to his character and his formative years. As a youth, he was a willing Nazi collaborator in his native Hungary. You take that and follow his history since and it tells you pretty much what you can expect of such a man.
This is the relevant portion of the transcript taken from an interview of George Soros (from the 20 December, 1998 broadcast of 60 Minutes)......
KROFT: (Voiceover) To understand the complexities and contradictions in his personality, you have to go back to the very beginning: to Budapest, where George Soros was born 68 years ago to parents who were wealthy, well-educated and Jewish.
When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros' father was a successful lawyer. He lived on an island in the Danube and liked to commute to work in a rowboat. But knowing there were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to split his family up. He bought them forged papers and he bribed a government official to take 14-year-old George Soros in and swear that he was his Christian godson. But survival carried a heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his appointed rounds, confiscating property from the Jews.
(Vintage footage of Jews walking in line; man dragging little boy in line)
KROFT: (Voiceover) These are pictures from 1944 of what happened to George Soros' friends and neighbors.
(Vintage footage of women and men with bags over their shoulders walking; crowd by a train)
KROFT: (Voiceover) You're a Hungarian Jew...
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
KROFT: (Voiceover) ...who escaped the Holocaust...
(Vintage footage of women walking by train)
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
(Vintage footage of people getting on train)
KROFT: (Voiceover) ... by -- by posing as a Christian.
Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Right.
(Vintage footage of women helping each other get on train; train door closing with people in boxcar)
KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.
Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made.
KROFT: In what way?
Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should understand and -- and anticipate events and when -- when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a -- a very personal experience of evil.
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.
KROFT: I mean, that's -- that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
Mr. SOROS: Not -- not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't -- you don't see the connection. But it was -- it created no -- no problem at all.
KROFT: No feeling of guilt?
Mr. SOROS: No.
KROFT: For example that, 'I'm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that?
Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c -- I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was -- well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets -- that if I weren't there -- of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would -- would -- would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the -- whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the -- I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.
And FYI...... George Soros' son is highly placed within management at Google. Draw your own conclusions regarding the implications there as to partisan data mining and so forth.
Best regards,
Harry
P.S. >>>> Back to the topic of Mike's thread here regarding the ongoing attempt at imposing socialized medicine (government run health care) on the American people against our will......
Given current events, Ronald Reagan's remarks on this very subject are just as relevant today as when he gave this talk 50 years ago......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
HB
