Alinsky Re-Post

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Alinsky is dead but more alive today than when he lived.  Democrats have allowed "Four Snakes:" to take over their Party and have embraced everything Alinsky set forth.

I have posted this before but it is timely. ( See 1 below.)
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Hollywood gets rich on subsidies so it may choose to ignore the Abortion Issue in Georgia. (See 2 below.)
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Dick
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1) We "are" there  :

The BEST SLAVE IS ONE WHO THINKS HE IS FREE.. 

Saul Alinsky died about 43 years ago, but his writings influence those in political control of our nation today.......

Recall that Hillary did her college thesis on his writings and Obama writes about him in his books.

Died: June 12, 1972, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Ca

Education: University of Chicago

Spouse: Irene Alinsky

Books: Rules for Radicals, Reveille for 

RadicalsAnyone out there think  this stuff isn't happening today in the U.S.?

All eight rules are currently in play

How to create a social state by Saul Alinsky:

There are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state. The first is the most important.

1) Healthcare– Control healthcare and you control the people

2) Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing  everything for them to live.

3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.

4) Gun Control– Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state

5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income)

6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to – take control of what children learn in school.

7) Religion – Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools

8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.

Does any of this sound like what is happening to the United States ?

Alinsky merely simplified Vladimir Lenin's original scheme for world conquest by communism, under Russian rule.

Stalin described his converts as  "Useful Idiots." 

The Useful Idiots have destroyed every nation in which they have seized power and control.

It is presently happening at an alarming rate in the U.S.
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2)

 State Movie Subsidies Are a Flop

Georgia should welcome a threatened studio boycott over its new abortion law.

By JayStarkman

Movie studios are threatening to leave Georgia if the recently passed antiabortion law goes into effect as planned on Jan. 1, 2020. Alec Baldwin, Rosie O’Donnell, Sean Penn and others have pledged to boycott Georgia over the law, but their threats will likely prove hollow. Hollywood producers film wherever they find the right mix of subsidies and tax incentives.

The Peach State offers a sweet deal: refunds of 20% to 30% on production costs for anyone making films, TV episodes, music videos, commercials and videogames in the state. But while these incentives pad producers’ bottom lines, they do little to benefit Georgians.

Once upon a time, movies and television were shot exclusively in Southern California studios. That changed in the 1990s, as high labor costs driven by inflexible union rules pushed many productions to search for greener pastures. Canada offered a host of filming locations that could readily pass as U.S. cities and towns, as well as a frequently favorable exchange rate. Studios leapt at the chance to pay their film crews in cheap Canadian dollars.

Louisiana and New Mexico launched incentive programs in the early 2000s, hoping to capture some of the business fleeing north. Today nearly 40 states offer some form of rebate, credit or grant to lure productions to film within their borders

Even when they snag a big movie or TV show, however, states often don’t see much overall economic benefit. Ostensibly profitable films often fail to earn much revenue over cost. Hollywood is notorious for creative accounting. Among the bookkeeping tricks is to manipulate paper profits away from states where filming took place. Movie makers pay little in state taxes, and states allow them to sell excess credits to corporations or individuals, who can use them to reduce their own taxes.

Movies are increasingly dependent on tax incentives to lower production costs. Hacked emails of Sony ’s top executives in 2014 disclosed that they were borderline obsessed with identifying and capitalizing on “favorable tax incentives.” Projects that couldn’t find the right mix of subsidies and incentives were canceled. Sony executives vigorously lobbied states and foreign countries for the best deals, even donating to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s re-election campaign because he “has been a strong protector of the film incentive—even amid recent criticisms of the program.”

Studies by state economic-development authorities and film-industry lobbyists routinely inflate investment and employment returns. Only 4,000 Floridians, for instance, work in film and television production. Yet in 2015 the Florida Office of Film and Entertainment claimed that film incentives and sales-tax credits had created 675,000 jobs in the state over 10 years. The best jobs on a film or TV production invariably go to nonresidents flown in from New York or California. Locals usually get spotty, part-time and relatively low-paying work as hairdressers, security guards, carpenters, drivers and caterers.

State film bureaus sometimes employ their own creative accounting to try to prove the economic benefit of hosting productions. For 30 years Georgia has multiplied actual production spending by 3.57 so it could claim a $9.5 billion “economic impact” from $2.7 billion in direct film and TV spending drawn by nearly $400 million in tax credits. Alaska issued $56,517 in tax credits for every full-time job in its local movie industry between 2008 and 2012, with 84% of wages paid to non-Alaska residents. From 2006-15, Massachusetts issued more than $100,000 in tax credits for each new film job it brought to the state.

Jobs on movie sets often only last a few days or weeks, yet state officials rarely note this when trumpeting the success of their film incentive programs. A Michigan study found that the average film-industry job in the state lasts only 23 days. A background performer hired for one day counts as a “job created.” Someone working on several film shoots for a day or two at a time can be counted in the statistics multiple times.

Film is New York’s largest corporate subsidy, costing the state $6.5 billion over the last 15 years. A study prepared for the Empire State Development agency claimed the program had created 85,835 jobs in 2017-18. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed only 18,482 new film-related jobs in the state over 14 years. Why the discrepancy? The study counted every working assignment, no matter how short, as a state-funded job.

Louisiana curtailed its program in 2015 after spending more than $1.5 billion since 2002, amid fraud prosecutions for false invoice charges and transfers of money between bank accounts made to look like movie-production expenditures. Other states should follow Louisiana’s lead.

A federal court will soon decide the fate of Georgia’s abortion law. Whatever the result, don’t expect “The Walking Dead,” “Stranger Things” or “Ozark” to relocate production. The Peach State’s film, television and digital entertainment tax-credit program is too sweet to pass up.

Mr. Starkman, a certified public accountant in Atlanta, is author of “The Sex of a Hippopotamus: A Unique History of Taxes and Accounting.”

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