She encourages small-business owners to go 'on strike'
(NEWSER) - Well, here’s one idea for small businesses to help get us out of this economic mess we’re in: Stop hiring people! That’s the proposal from Tea Party Nation member Melissa Brookstone in a manifesto picked up (and derided) by Gawker and Wonkette . Brookstone’s post accuses the Obama administration, the “progressive socialist Senate,” the “global progressive socialist movement,” and the liberals that make up most of Hollywood and the media of teaming up with the “marxists, socialists, and even communists” of the Occupy Wall Street movement in an effort to wage class warfare, redistribute wealth, collapse the US economy, and turn the nation socialist. And because of that, Brookstone encourages small-business owners to go on strike and stop hiring “until this war against business and my country is stopped.” More»