Starbucks CEO "Howard" Schultz is speaking out at an event for Oligarch group "No Labels."
Yep. He's fighting mad.
America is sick!
The problem?
Those damned deficits!
Check this:
Starbucks CEO and former Sonics owner Howard Schultz opened up his online “Conversation With America” on Wednesday by saying it “took a lot of personal courage” on his part to call for a boycott of political donations until federal politicians reduce the deficit and work in a bipartisan manner.
So, the Oligarchs are going to boycott donations until Congress agrees to starve working people to pay their bills?
What a laugh.
Given that so much of their political power comes from the fact that the Supreme Court says that "money is speech" ... It just seems to hard to believe that they'd give that up.
But it is the insane wrongness of "Howard's" diagnosis of the current ills that shocks me.
The businessman said there was a “direct linkage” between the soaring federal deficit and the “unbelievable pressure that is on the economy” and high unemployment levels.
Really? Pray tell, what is that linkage exactly?
Queerly, it seems like Mr. Starbucks himself is confused about how all of this works out:
However Schultz then complained about the fact that so many states are cutting budgets to deal with their own deficits.
Translation:
"I have no idea what I'm talking about."
The article linked above goes on to mention that Schultz is working in league with -- you guessed it -- Pete Peterson, yadda yadda.
Enough.
Anyone know of a good, small-business coffee roaster that does mail-order delivery?