Chinese takeover of America: fear mongering tv ad?

[Jumpinjack]

Just saw this ad last night for the first time although some say it has been out for a while. It is creepy. Something about it seems like fear mongering but for what and why I don't understand.  Who are Citizens Against Government Waste - probably not the people whose jobs were outsourced to China.

http://youtu.be/OTSQozWP-rM

[copperfiend]

It's more or less a lobbying group. Bankrolled by the likes of big tobacco, big oil and the insurance industry.

[copperfiend]

Examples from the St Pete Times:

Two years ago, the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste launched a lobbying campaign about avocados.

The group, which enjoys a strong reputation in the nation's capital for keeping an independent eye on government spending, plunged into an obscure agricultural dispute. It issued press releases and prodded its members to support avocados from Mexico.

Tom Bellamore, whose California Avocado Commission was fighting the Mexican imports, was puzzled. "I don't think avocados have much to do with government waste," he said.

Indeed, Citizens Against Government Waste did not reveal what motivated the aggressive campaign: It had received about $100,000 from Mexican avocado growers.

That's just one of many instances in which CAGW has traded on its watchdog reputation by taking money from companies and trade associations and then conducted lobbying and public relations campaigns on their behalf - without revealing that money changed hands.

CAGW took at least $245,000 from tobacco companies while urging the federal government not to regulate tobacco and to drop a lawsuit against the industry.

It received thousands from a health club association while promoting a bill that would give tax breaks for health club memberships.

CAGW took money from Diageo North America, a major liquor company, and wrote letters to Congress opposing government regulation of flavored malt beverages, which Diageo makes.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/04/02/Worldandnation/For_price__watchdog_w.shtml

[ben says]

China taking over America?

Great...bring on the better food!

[Jumpinjack]

Found out the group was founded by Peter Grace whose Grace Commission was appointed by Pres. Regan to ferret out ways to stop government waste. Mentioned also as a taxpayer watchdog outfit. Totally surprised to see this ad. I've heard of "scaring someone straight" but scaring them out of a deficit?

[buckethead]

Every cause becomes a business. Every business becomes a racket.

I paraphrased and searched the source.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer

Holy CRAP!

Take a few moments to read this wiki page.

This guy is the shiznat.

[Dog Walker]

And a proud union member!

[Ocklawaha]

Look beyond the tinsel folks, it's just a VERY SLICK (and well done) ad to promote the issues that are near and dear to the heart of GW, JEB, RICK SCOTT, and every other Federale from the Grand Old Party. What do they want?

ZERO money for AMTRAK
ZERO money for Health care
ZERO money for alternate energy research
Massive cuts in school budgets
Elimination of all social programs

And a society where like the Libertarian mantra we have absolutely zero government involvement in anything but defense, delivering the mail, and a few select projects approved by the triumphant. A land of opportunity where everyone can start their own business and be free... as long as you don't infringe on "THEIR" business. Eugenics and social experimentation by approved think tanks with the crisp delivery one would expect from a Peenemünde research facility (Which BTW belonged to a similar strain of people).

OCKLAWAHA

[jcjohnpaint]

well if they take us over at least something might get done. 
....and I did laugh because I was thinking it should of ended my stating 'and they didn't want to pay their taxes'