I keep hearing the “Christian Conservative” or “Evangelical” vote looking for the perfect republican, to me there is nothing more hypocritical then putting those two groups together. If you look at who has more religious values conservatives are the last group to come to mind, looking at a couple issues that they take into account.
LIFE
Conservatives believe that life begins as soon at conception and are 100% anti abortion even in cases where a relative may rape a 10 year old girl. This is fine but after a fetus becomes a living, breathing baby conservatives don’t care if they die from starvation or lack of health care and have no problem sending them off to fight and die in wars or execute them even if there is doubt of guilt. You can not say all life is sacred and be willing to just throw life away like conservatives do. The conservatives goal is to gut Medicare, Social Security, Welfare and other programs that put food on the table of the poor and old, with over 40K people dying a year because of either lack of health care or decisions made by insurance companies to allow a person to die if it means saving money. I would give this issue to the Democrats who believe that a women has a right to choose and believes that helping your fellow man is more important then money.
FAMILY VALUES
This is a tough call, both parties are horrible on this issue but Democrats don’t use this as a political issue. Republicans love to tout their family values until they get caught in a gay sex scandal or caught cheating on their wives. Newt Gingrich has been married 3 times and David Vitter often used prostitutes outside his marriage while both tout their “family values”. While republicans are more hypocritical on this issue I would call it a draw with neither party winning this issue.
COMPASSION FOR FELLOW MAN
Republicans believe that the lord helps those who help themselves and are all about putting profit over the lives of their fellow man. Only one party believes in putting profit over the health and well being of their fellow man . While they cry about Christians being attacked and persecuted they turn around and do the exact same things to Muslims, Mexicans, and gay people. They do not believe we are all created equal in the eyes of the lord and that gay people deserve the same rights as straight people and in a lot of cases believe that they choose to be that way and can be “fixed”. Republicans believe that it’s not our responsibility to make sure that all children are fed and clothed and that all seniors are taken care of especially at the expense of profit. This is a simple one, thought history the Democrats have shown more compassion then the Republicans for their fellow man.
It is the abortion issue that makes many vote republican but when you take the total of their beliefs it’s obvious God would be a liberal. Republicans put profit over the life and think that God created capitalism and thinks that every many has a right to make as much money as possible, the “Christian conservatives” have bought into this and while I’m not a religious scholar I believe that if there is a heaven these people will have to answer for this after they die. I would rather meet God telling him I died poor because I believed in helping my fellow man then trying to explain that I died rich and fighting against caring for my fellow man.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The GOP Hypocrites
The republican party has become a party full of hypocrites who love to hold up the bible and the constitution while not following either. These are just a few of the things I see them being hypocrites on
Founding Fathers and Our Creator
The love to quote the founding fathers, especially the Declaration of Independence and “Our Creator” but they ignore what our creator endowed us with. They love to say that we are endowed with the pursuit of happiness which means we have the right to succeed in their eyes but are not guaranteed anything. They ignore the right to Life and Liberty completely. The only people they feel have a right to life are fetuses, any actual living, breathing person is on their own and in the GOP eyes if you can not afford to live you shouldn’t. While most civilized countries have universal health care for all it’s citizens America still has a free market system and the republicans want to make it so even the sickest, poorest and oldest amongst us have to find our own insurance. They support the insurance companies decisions to allow people to die to increase their profits, because of insurance company decisions over 40,000 people die each year who could be enjoying their right to life. Not only is our system killing thousands of people it is the most expensive and least efficient system in the world, our government spend 50% more then countries with universal healthcare and gets worse results. If they are allowed to get their way they will change it from “Right to Life” to “Right to profit from peoples Lives”
Since they took power in 2001 the GOP has taken away more liberties and rights from Americans then any time in history, Again ignoring the rights endowed by our creator.
Election 2010 - Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
The Tea Party helped the republicans take control of congress in 2010 with the promise of creating jobs, a great plan that they soon abandoned when they took their oath of office. It’s been a year of GOP control and they have not passed one serious jobs bill but have done everything they can to ruin the economy and prevent job creation. They used the debt ceiling to and threat of a government shutdown to help lay off hundreds of thousands of public sector workers including teachers, fireman and police and because of their fight America had their credit rating downgraded. The party who ran up record debt and whose policies lead the second biggest financial collapse since the great depression is now trying to claim they are “fiscal conservatives”. They fought for an passed a trillion dollar bailout for the banking system and refuse to do anything to help people with out insurance or jobs. They are fiscally responsive when it comes to taking food out of kids mouths or medicine out of older peoples hands but have no problem offering welfare to the rich and powerful.
Debt “Crisis”
The same people who helped turn a huge surplus left by President Bill Clinton in to a huge debt are now crying about the spending. Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Eric Cantor all helped pass the biggest entitlement program with Medicare Party D, voted for record tax cuts while fighting 2 wars at the same time blowing another trillion dollar hole in the debt, and voted to give trillions of dollars in welfare to the banking companies who made bad investments. The same republicans who ran up the largest increase in the debt since Ronald Reagan was president now have less uneducated people in the republican party believing that if they are put in power they will stop the spending.
Right now the front runners are Mitt Romney who has changed his mind on many, many issues and Rick Santorum who while in the Senate voted for Medicare part D as well as raising the Debt ceiling five times in his six years in office. It’s been said that you can full some of the people but my worry is that these hypocrites who helped put us in the mess we are in full enough people to allow them to regain power, then God help us all.
Founding Fathers and Our Creator
The love to quote the founding fathers, especially the Declaration of Independence and “Our Creator” but they ignore what our creator endowed us with. They love to say that we are endowed with the pursuit of happiness which means we have the right to succeed in their eyes but are not guaranteed anything. They ignore the right to Life and Liberty completely. The only people they feel have a right to life are fetuses, any actual living, breathing person is on their own and in the GOP eyes if you can not afford to live you shouldn’t. While most civilized countries have universal health care for all it’s citizens America still has a free market system and the republicans want to make it so even the sickest, poorest and oldest amongst us have to find our own insurance. They support the insurance companies decisions to allow people to die to increase their profits, because of insurance company decisions over 40,000 people die each year who could be enjoying their right to life. Not only is our system killing thousands of people it is the most expensive and least efficient system in the world, our government spend 50% more then countries with universal healthcare and gets worse results. If they are allowed to get their way they will change it from “Right to Life” to “Right to profit from peoples Lives”
Since they took power in 2001 the GOP has taken away more liberties and rights from Americans then any time in history, Again ignoring the rights endowed by our creator.
Election 2010 - Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
The Tea Party helped the republicans take control of congress in 2010 with the promise of creating jobs, a great plan that they soon abandoned when they took their oath of office. It’s been a year of GOP control and they have not passed one serious jobs bill but have done everything they can to ruin the economy and prevent job creation. They used the debt ceiling to and threat of a government shutdown to help lay off hundreds of thousands of public sector workers including teachers, fireman and police and because of their fight America had their credit rating downgraded. The party who ran up record debt and whose policies lead the second biggest financial collapse since the great depression is now trying to claim they are “fiscal conservatives”. They fought for an passed a trillion dollar bailout for the banking system and refuse to do anything to help people with out insurance or jobs. They are fiscally responsive when it comes to taking food out of kids mouths or medicine out of older peoples hands but have no problem offering welfare to the rich and powerful.
Debt “Crisis”
The same people who helped turn a huge surplus left by President Bill Clinton in to a huge debt are now crying about the spending. Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Eric Cantor all helped pass the biggest entitlement program with Medicare Party D, voted for record tax cuts while fighting 2 wars at the same time blowing another trillion dollar hole in the debt, and voted to give trillions of dollars in welfare to the banking companies who made bad investments. The same republicans who ran up the largest increase in the debt since Ronald Reagan was president now have less uneducated people in the republican party believing that if they are put in power they will stop the spending.
Right now the front runners are Mitt Romney who has changed his mind on many, many issues and Rick Santorum who while in the Senate voted for Medicare part D as well as raising the Debt ceiling five times in his six years in office. It’s been said that you can full some of the people but my worry is that these hypocrites who helped put us in the mess we are in full enough people to allow them to regain power, then God help us all.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Why Bush gets NO credit
With the Fox “News” propaganda machine giving credit for anything good to previous president George W. Bush and all the blame for anything bad to current president Barack Hussein Obama, I just have a few questions.
1. Death of Osama Bin Laden
Fox right wing TV hosts like Hannity and Bill O’Reilly give credit for the death of Bin Laden to former president George Bush and his policy of torture. First off the fact that torture was used means any information is not only sketchy but the person or persons who authorized the techniques are war criminals in the eyes of many. The techniques like water boarding where used in 2002 so I have to ask
Question: If Torture worked and is responsible for the death of Bin Laden then why did it take 9 years?
The fact is president George Bush had a chance to capture or kill Bin Laden in in 2001 in Tora Bora but pulled American troops back and allowed the man alleged to be behind the 9/11 attacks to walk free across the Pakistan border where he would live and command Al Qaeda for almost 10 years until he was killed by the Navy Seals. Along with a shot to kill him and end his terror reign at that time there are many reports that the Taliban was willing to arrest him and turn him over to America in a neutral country but the Bush administration declined and chose war instead. The fact is the first time that president Obama was given a chance to take out the terror leader he authorized a risky mission and the Seal team carried it out ending 10 years of fear in America and helping some families who lost loved ones get closure. He didn’t hesitate and allow him to escape or ask permission to enter another country and many, many things could have went wrong and he would have taken all the blame, and even after an almost flawless mission he gets very little credit from the right wing and their propaganda network.
2. Iraq War
Again the right wing loves to give the former president all the credit for “victory” in Iraq and his courage to do the surge when everyone wanted the war to be over. So again I ask
Question Why where we in Iraq in the first place and why didn’t we send enough troops in to do the job right the first time?
Many generals recommended that the only way to win in Iraq is to send in a large enough force to keep and hold the peace but President Bush, VP Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld all of whom never had the nerve to fight for the country they where running decided they knew better then the military and went with a smaller force. They started the Iraq war with a small force and no exit strategy and thought it would be easy, remember the “Mission Accomplished” victory dance before thousands more Americans where killed or injured. I would go as far as to say that they never had any intention of ending the Iraq war for fear that we may be attacked in America again. In their eyes as long as we had Americans in their land for terrorists to kill then they wouldn’t want to come here and kill us. They even said many times we are fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here which really means we are willing to sacrifice our soldiers to prevent another attack and make us look bad.
4. 9/11
I am not one of those people who thinks that it was an inside job, mainly because our government can not keep a secret and it would have gotten out but I do have to ask.
Question : Why wasn’t it prevented?
Lets just ignore the memo received before 9/11 that was titled Bin Laden set to attack inside America, that would be to obvious of a warning that was ignored. It has come to light that between January 2001 and September 2001 America was warned by foreign governments at least 10 times about an upcoming attack. Below is just a small example of the warning America was given in the months leading up to the Sept. 11th attack and one has to ask “why where none of them taken serious”., and as you can see the lies that the Bush white house told about “No one could have seen it coming esp. with airplanes” again was a total lie. It was the worst failure in American history and the response was worse by doubling the size of government creating Homeland Security and no one losing their jobs.
WARNINGS GIVEN TO USA BEFORE 9/11
June 2001 British took 3 men into custody in the Cayman after they where overheard talking about a terrorist attack which would take place in NY city and in August 2001 they received information that attack would involve hijacked airplanes and was imminent.
In late July 2001, ”Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil learned that Osama bin Laden was planning a “huge attack” on targets inside America. The attack was imminent, and would kill thousands
An undercover agent from ” Morocco successfully penetrated al-Qaeda. He learned that bin Laden was “very disappointed” that the 1993 bombing had not toppled the World Trade Center, and was planning “large scale operations in New York in the summer or fall of 2001.” He provided this information to the US in August 2001
In June 2001, German intelligence warned the US, Britain, and Israel that Middle Eastern terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft and use them as weapons to attack “American and Israeli symbols which stand out.”
In late July 2001, Egyptian intelligence received a report from an undercover agent in Afghanistan that “20 al-Qaeda members had slipped into the US and four of them had received flight training on Cessnas.” To the Egyptians, pilots of small planes didn’t sound terribly alarming, but they passed on the message to the CIA anyway, fully expecting Washington to request information. “The request never came.”
1. Death of Osama Bin Laden
Fox right wing TV hosts like Hannity and Bill O’Reilly give credit for the death of Bin Laden to former president George Bush and his policy of torture. First off the fact that torture was used means any information is not only sketchy but the person or persons who authorized the techniques are war criminals in the eyes of many. The techniques like water boarding where used in 2002 so I have to ask
Question: If Torture worked and is responsible for the death of Bin Laden then why did it take 9 years?
The fact is president George Bush had a chance to capture or kill Bin Laden in in 2001 in Tora Bora but pulled American troops back and allowed the man alleged to be behind the 9/11 attacks to walk free across the Pakistan border where he would live and command Al Qaeda for almost 10 years until he was killed by the Navy Seals. Along with a shot to kill him and end his terror reign at that time there are many reports that the Taliban was willing to arrest him and turn him over to America in a neutral country but the Bush administration declined and chose war instead. The fact is the first time that president Obama was given a chance to take out the terror leader he authorized a risky mission and the Seal team carried it out ending 10 years of fear in America and helping some families who lost loved ones get closure. He didn’t hesitate and allow him to escape or ask permission to enter another country and many, many things could have went wrong and he would have taken all the blame, and even after an almost flawless mission he gets very little credit from the right wing and their propaganda network.
2. Iraq War
Again the right wing loves to give the former president all the credit for “victory” in Iraq and his courage to do the surge when everyone wanted the war to be over. So again I ask
Question Why where we in Iraq in the first place and why didn’t we send enough troops in to do the job right the first time?
Many generals recommended that the only way to win in Iraq is to send in a large enough force to keep and hold the peace but President Bush, VP Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld all of whom never had the nerve to fight for the country they where running decided they knew better then the military and went with a smaller force. They started the Iraq war with a small force and no exit strategy and thought it would be easy, remember the “Mission Accomplished” victory dance before thousands more Americans where killed or injured. I would go as far as to say that they never had any intention of ending the Iraq war for fear that we may be attacked in America again. In their eyes as long as we had Americans in their land for terrorists to kill then they wouldn’t want to come here and kill us. They even said many times we are fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here which really means we are willing to sacrifice our soldiers to prevent another attack and make us look bad.
4. 9/11
I am not one of those people who thinks that it was an inside job, mainly because our government can not keep a secret and it would have gotten out but I do have to ask.
Question : Why wasn’t it prevented?
Lets just ignore the memo received before 9/11 that was titled Bin Laden set to attack inside America, that would be to obvious of a warning that was ignored. It has come to light that between January 2001 and September 2001 America was warned by foreign governments at least 10 times about an upcoming attack. Below is just a small example of the warning America was given in the months leading up to the Sept. 11th attack and one has to ask “why where none of them taken serious”., and as you can see the lies that the Bush white house told about “No one could have seen it coming esp. with airplanes” again was a total lie. It was the worst failure in American history and the response was worse by doubling the size of government creating Homeland Security and no one losing their jobs.
WARNINGS GIVEN TO USA BEFORE 9/11
June 2001 British took 3 men into custody in the Cayman after they where overheard talking about a terrorist attack which would take place in NY city and in August 2001 they received information that attack would involve hijacked airplanes and was imminent.
In late July 2001, ”Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil learned that Osama bin Laden was planning a “huge attack” on targets inside America. The attack was imminent, and would kill thousands
An undercover agent from ” Morocco successfully penetrated al-Qaeda. He learned that bin Laden was “very disappointed” that the 1993 bombing had not toppled the World Trade Center, and was planning “large scale operations in New York in the summer or fall of 2001.” He provided this information to the US in August 2001
In June 2001, German intelligence warned the US, Britain, and Israel that Middle Eastern terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft and use them as weapons to attack “American and Israeli symbols which stand out.”
In late July 2001, Egyptian intelligence received a report from an undercover agent in Afghanistan that “20 al-Qaeda members had slipped into the US and four of them had received flight training on Cessnas.” To the Egyptians, pilots of small planes didn’t sound terribly alarming, but they passed on the message to the CIA anyway, fully expecting Washington to request information. “The request never came.”
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Occupy Thoughts
Watching the coverage and listening to the media mock and insult Occupy Wall Street movement and trying to discredit it a few things have hit me like a ton of bricks.
THERE IS NO LEADER
This is the easiest one to discredit, that is how things should be and how America was set up to be run. America is not supposed to have leaders, we are supposed to have representatives who speak for us. We don’t’ elect politicians to lead us we elect them as our voice, they work for us and their jobs used to be to vote how we wanted them to. Each Congressman is supposed to represent a district and vote on issues how the people in his district think he should, it shouldn’t be his decision and that’s part of the problem. Politicians who are elected to office think they get in to lead us and vote how they choose to vote, truth is they are elected to speak for the thousands of Americans who put them in office and to vote how we the people want. We need to get back to we the people having a voice in Washington D.C. not leaders who do what’s best for them and the rest of America be damned.
THERE IS NO MESSAGE
That’s because the movement has many messages, it is not a movement of one or two issues but is a movement where people can speak their minds and try and change things. The key message is equality, the average person just wants the same breaks that the rich and powerful receive. We don’t want a bailout or the government to hand us anything (except maybe healthcare) but they also shouldn’t be giving Exxon billions of dollars in tax credits or bailing out banks when they gamble all their money away. We are not socialists and the only socialism that I see in America is the one directed at the rich and powerful. This is a movement where anyone with any with any issues will be heard, whether it be Global Warming, Taxes, or the income gap. No voice is drowned out and everyone is given a fair chance to be heard.
IT’S THE LEFT WING VERSION OF THE TEA PARTY
The truth is that many in occupy movement have same issues as the tea party, unlike the tea party occupy wasn’t formed by a news channel and major financial backing from a right wing billionaire. If these two movements ignored all the negative media and just sit down and talked they would see that there is common ground and if the two movements ever joined politicians and news media all over the country would be scared to death.
COVERAGE
I would like to thank people like Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and others who have given the movement a fair shot. People like Bill O’reilly who tow the company line have attacked the movement and went as far as calling it dead while not even giving it a shot or speaking to anyone involved. They make wild claims with no real evidence and if they had any “victims” of the occupiers like they claim you can bet they would have been on the air already.
OVERALL THOUGHTS
I think it has already changed the dialogue, thanks to the right wing of our government all we where talking about was cutting spending from middle class and poor people like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, college grants etc. but now we are talking about Jobs, cutting loopholes that rich people receive and even raising taxes for the rich while cutting taxes for the middle class. Yes there is negatives with the movement but lets not forget the original tea party was not peaceful and quiet, some times you have to break a few laws to change things for the better. BUT now I think it’s time for the movement to leave the streets and start working towards real change, start getting behind candidates, raising money to run TV commercials to get their points of view across and to become real players in Washington. Like it or not change will only come from Washington.
THERE IS NO LEADER
This is the easiest one to discredit, that is how things should be and how America was set up to be run. America is not supposed to have leaders, we are supposed to have representatives who speak for us. We don’t’ elect politicians to lead us we elect them as our voice, they work for us and their jobs used to be to vote how we wanted them to. Each Congressman is supposed to represent a district and vote on issues how the people in his district think he should, it shouldn’t be his decision and that’s part of the problem. Politicians who are elected to office think they get in to lead us and vote how they choose to vote, truth is they are elected to speak for the thousands of Americans who put them in office and to vote how we the people want. We need to get back to we the people having a voice in Washington D.C. not leaders who do what’s best for them and the rest of America be damned.
THERE IS NO MESSAGE
That’s because the movement has many messages, it is not a movement of one or two issues but is a movement where people can speak their minds and try and change things. The key message is equality, the average person just wants the same breaks that the rich and powerful receive. We don’t want a bailout or the government to hand us anything (except maybe healthcare) but they also shouldn’t be giving Exxon billions of dollars in tax credits or bailing out banks when they gamble all their money away. We are not socialists and the only socialism that I see in America is the one directed at the rich and powerful. This is a movement where anyone with any with any issues will be heard, whether it be Global Warming, Taxes, or the income gap. No voice is drowned out and everyone is given a fair chance to be heard.
IT’S THE LEFT WING VERSION OF THE TEA PARTY
The truth is that many in occupy movement have same issues as the tea party, unlike the tea party occupy wasn’t formed by a news channel and major financial backing from a right wing billionaire. If these two movements ignored all the negative media and just sit down and talked they would see that there is common ground and if the two movements ever joined politicians and news media all over the country would be scared to death.
COVERAGE
I would like to thank people like Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and others who have given the movement a fair shot. People like Bill O’reilly who tow the company line have attacked the movement and went as far as calling it dead while not even giving it a shot or speaking to anyone involved. They make wild claims with no real evidence and if they had any “victims” of the occupiers like they claim you can bet they would have been on the air already.
OVERALL THOUGHTS
I think it has already changed the dialogue, thanks to the right wing of our government all we where talking about was cutting spending from middle class and poor people like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, college grants etc. but now we are talking about Jobs, cutting loopholes that rich people receive and even raising taxes for the rich while cutting taxes for the middle class. Yes there is negatives with the movement but lets not forget the original tea party was not peaceful and quiet, some times you have to break a few laws to change things for the better. BUT now I think it’s time for the movement to leave the streets and start working towards real change, start getting behind candidates, raising money to run TV commercials to get their points of view across and to become real players in Washington. Like it or not change will only come from Washington.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
A Tea Party Christmas Carol
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
The Tea Party Republican Version
Jacob Marley is sitting at his desk in when Mr. Scrooge tells him he will have to work on Christmas day.
“Please Mr. Scrooge I want to visit my son in the hospital” said Jacob.
“I’m sorry, you are way behind on your work and need to get caught up so you will work” yelled Mr. Scrooge.
Later that night Ebenezer laid his head down and went to sleep in his nice silk sheets watching his gigantic big screen plasma television. He was awoken by the sounds of rattling chains, to his surprise there was a pale white ghost floating over his bed. After catching his breath the ghost pointed at him and said “you will be visited by three ghosts this night, the past, the present and the future”.
Ebenezer was rattled and could not get back to sleep so he called down to his kitchen and asked the maid if she would make him something to eat. While he sit waiting for his late night snack the window blew open and a young ghost appeared, he grabbed Mr. Scrooge and yanked him out the window. They stopped outside a small home with a beautiful family getting ready to go on a vacation.
“What is this?” asked a startled Ebenezer Scrooge
“I am the ghost of Capitalism past” replied the ghost, “This is what life was like before the great Sir Ronald Reagan rode into town on his horse and freed the rich and oppressed from their shackles”. He continued to explain to Ebenezer that before Reagan families lived a nice life and could afford homes, cars and even family vacations and all with one parent working. The ghost pointed out how simple life was then, how the rich still had a large share of money but the poor and working class where not hurting and could afford the things they needed to live a good life. He then returned Ebenezer to his bedroom just in time for the maid to bring him a late night sandwich.
Upon finishing up his sandwich the walls rattled and a second ghost appeared “I am the ghost of capitalism present” the ghost cried out. He took Ebenezer by the hand and whisked him away to what appeared to be the child ward of a hospital.
“What’s this that you are showing me?” Mr. Scrooge yelled with anger in his voice. “Just watch and see” the ghost of capitalism present snapped back.
As they watched Jacob Marley came in and hugged the feeble young women who was sitting over the hospital bed of what appeared to be a sick child. He explained to his wife and children that he will not be attending their Christmas dinner because his mean old boss has to make him work. Shortly after a beautiful busty nurse came in and explained to the family that the insurance company approved surgery and that their little boy would survive and live a full and healthy life but will have to spend the rest of his life on expensive medications. The nurse left the room and the family decided they could go without eating a few days a week if it meant their son would life, or if need be Jacob would get a 4th job to help pay the bills.
With that Mr. Scrooge found himself back in his bedroom and was feeling sad and depressed
for what he had just seen, just then a third ghost appeared saying he was the ghost of capitalism future and reached for Ebenezer who pulled back and said “I don’t think that I can take any more of this”. The ghost grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him away. They ended up in a nice home with a car in the driveway.
“Whose house is this?” asked Mr. Scrooge as he looked on.
The ghost pointed to Mr. Marley getting out of his car as his children ran out and gave him a hug, Mr. Scrooge even noticed the small boy from the hospital who appeared to be on his death bed. Jacob reached in the back seat and pulled out presents for everyone and handed the gift to the once sick boy and said “Tim this one is for you”.
“How is this possible?” asked Ebenezer Scrooge as he looked on in amazement. The ghost pointed out that after winning re-election President Obama raised taxes on the richest Americans and helped bring down the income gap in America while providing health care to every American so that a father could care for his children and didn’t have to worry about losing everything if he or his wife got sick.
“That is amazing, so if I pay just a little more in taxes this country could be a beautiful place again and the American dream will thrive?” asked Ebenezer “But I though you where the ghost of capitalism and that seems like socialism.”
The ghost said this was only one choice, then he showed him the same family sitting around a grave crying. “What is this you are showing me now” asked Mr. Scrooge with a sad look on his face. The ghost explained this is the future if he chooses to move his company to China where he can find cheaper workers and expand his company. With him gone Jacob lost his insurance and could not find any that would help his son because they called his sickness a pre-existing condition and would not cover it. Jacob would lose his house and all his possessions while trying to find the money for his sons surgery and would ultimately be unable to save the life of Tiny Tim. His wife would leave him and he would have one son in the ground and never be able to see the other 2 until he drinks himself to death.
“That’s Horrible” exclaimed Mr. Scrooge “why would I put this poor family thought this”? The ghost handed him a bank slip showing him how much money he would have if he moved to China. Then told Ebenezer “remember that nubile young nurse who was taking care of Tim while in the hospital”?. Ebenezer nodded his head as the ghost said “That would be your new wife”.
Christmas morning came and Ebenezer Scrooge walked to the desk of Jacob Marley and informed him that today would be his last day as the company is moving overseas and he will greatly be missed.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
My Constitutional Amendment
They are trying to change the constitution to add a balanced budget amendment, while it’s a good idea it will do nothing to fix Washington and the real problem - CORRUPT POLITIANS. Instead of a balanced budget amendment how about one that reforms the real problem. If I was to change the constitution it would be to add the following.
Elections day every two years will be a national holiday so everyone has the chance to vote and no laws will be passed that will prevent even 1 person who is of legal age from voting. Presidential elections must have a standard ballot as it is for the highest office in the land and for a national office so standards and ballot should be same for everyone.
Elected officials will have term limits with Congress getting a maximum of 3 terms in office, senate and president getting 2 terms in office max.
Any new legislation must be posted at least 72 hours before a vote is taken and all politicians that have received money from any company or companies involved in legislation must make public within 24 hours of casting their vote the amount of money they have received as from said organizations including campaign donations, lobbying money or any money they have invested in the companies. The public needs to know if there is a reason said politicians are voting the way they are other then the “public” interest.
Supreme Court judges must make public any gifts of cash or property they have received from anyone who has or may have a case before the court. These judges will be held to the same legal standard as all other federal judges and can be removed from the bench if they break ethics or federal laws.
Any politician is not allowed to lobby the government for a period of 10 years after leaving office nor allowed to work for any company they regulate while in office for a period of 2 years. If a politician goes to work for any company they have regulated or supported legislation that may have benefited said company then a full review must be done by an independent council if any favors where exchanged.
Finally politicians shall only be paid the average median income of the American workers and any pay increases and benefit increases shall be put up for vote by We The People who are the true employers of said politicians. In time of war politicians shall not have a higher yearly salary then soldiers who they have voted to send to war and must either increase the soldiers pay to match theirs or take pay cut to match the soldiers. Each politicians will be given one paid intern except the three leaders in each party who may have up to 5 paid employees, any other interns or employees shall not be paid. Each politician will be allotted a certain amount of money to pay travel expenses or any other fees associated with their job and if they exceed that amount are responsible to compensate the American Tax Payer.
Elections day every two years will be a national holiday so everyone has the chance to vote and no laws will be passed that will prevent even 1 person who is of legal age from voting. Presidential elections must have a standard ballot as it is for the highest office in the land and for a national office so standards and ballot should be same for everyone.
Elected officials will have term limits with Congress getting a maximum of 3 terms in office, senate and president getting 2 terms in office max.
Any new legislation must be posted at least 72 hours before a vote is taken and all politicians that have received money from any company or companies involved in legislation must make public within 24 hours of casting their vote the amount of money they have received as from said organizations including campaign donations, lobbying money or any money they have invested in the companies. The public needs to know if there is a reason said politicians are voting the way they are other then the “public” interest.
Supreme Court judges must make public any gifts of cash or property they have received from anyone who has or may have a case before the court. These judges will be held to the same legal standard as all other federal judges and can be removed from the bench if they break ethics or federal laws.
Any politician is not allowed to lobby the government for a period of 10 years after leaving office nor allowed to work for any company they regulate while in office for a period of 2 years. If a politician goes to work for any company they have regulated or supported legislation that may have benefited said company then a full review must be done by an independent council if any favors where exchanged.
Finally politicians shall only be paid the average median income of the American workers and any pay increases and benefit increases shall be put up for vote by We The People who are the true employers of said politicians. In time of war politicians shall not have a higher yearly salary then soldiers who they have voted to send to war and must either increase the soldiers pay to match theirs or take pay cut to match the soldiers. Each politicians will be given one paid intern except the three leaders in each party who may have up to 5 paid employees, any other interns or employees shall not be paid. Each politician will be allotted a certain amount of money to pay travel expenses or any other fees associated with their job and if they exceed that amount are responsible to compensate the American Tax Payer.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Class Wars
Since America ended the draft it has been mostly poor and middle class kids who have joined the military and fought the wars that have helped make many people rich. While companies like Halliburton and people like Dick Cheney have made record profits off of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan the men and women who volunteered to join the military are coming home to find they have no jobs or prospects for the future.
The brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces are used as pawns by the rich and powerful, not for the best interest of America but for the best interest of their wallets. After September 11th 2001 many young men and women joined the military to fight terrorists and the people who attacked us on that horrible day. These men and women where taken advantage of and their patriotism was used against them, they joined to fight the men who attacked us and instead where used to personal gains.
A young man by the name of Pat Tillman gave up millions of dollars to play in the NFL and jointed the military and was sadly killed in action. It was a tragedy that this young man lost his life but that was just the beginning, his death was exploited by the military to help get more patriotic people to join the army. To this day we still do not know what happened to Mr. Tillman and his poor family had to fight for the little information they did receive. We learned that he was not killed by terrorists but died by friendly fire, rather then release this information the military exploited his death for their own gains.
These brave soldiers risking their lives to keep America safe and free do so for little pay, they receive a lot less then contractors like Halliburton and KBR make. KBR is a company who gets paid billions of dollars to do jobs that our military should be doing, and in some cases they are responsible for the deaths of about a dozen American soldiers. Instead of paying these war profiteers billions of dollars to do the jobs of soldiers we should just pay the fighting men more while on active duty. The soldiers have to live by a code of conduct while the contractors can run rough shot over the country and not be held accountable. Then when the soldiers come home they are having a hard time finding jobs or are suffering mental illness and many end up homeless. We ask these people to lay down their lives for a country that turns their back on them as soon as they return home.
Why do I mention these things? The military is made up of brave men and women who do it for pride and their love of this country and not for the money. People sitting in comfy offices making five times what soldiers do are the ones who decide where and when they go and for what reasons they might lose their lives. Soldiers do their job, the don’t complain because what they are doing is what they believe is best for America. They are willing to give their lives for America but rich and powerful people are not willing to give up another 3% of their income to help keep America running. It’s ok for hard working people to lay down their lives just don’t ask the wealthy to pay a little more? Even worse to help keep the few extra dollars in the pockets of the few the republicans have decided they need to cut the benefits of the soldiers that they move around like chess pieces.
If the rich want to keep their 3% tax break then they should strap on a gun and go fight for it, stop attacking soldiers, teachers, police and firefighters and blaming them for everything that is wrong with this country. It is these hard working people who built this great nation, I never saw a rich person paving a road or putting on a police uniform. When we speak up about the people who have gotten rich off the backs of others it’s called “class warfare” but the truth is that for 30 years it’s been a genocide and the poor are finally standing up and fighting back.
The occupy movement is the people wanting their voices heard, we don’t have the money to buy a politician or judge. All we want is equality, time to take away all the breaks that rich people get and even the playing field. Exxon should be receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer money while paying little or no taxes themselves, stop bailing out the banks of America if you are going to let the middle class lose everything. We should reinstate Glass Steagall act, it kept America working for over 50 years after the great depression and only took 8 years after it was repealed to bring down the country again. Finally we need to get the money out of politics, when you have John Boehner handing out checks from tobacco companies on the floor of congress while they are voting on tobacco issues shows how corrupt politicians are. Until you separate money and politics you will have class warfare and the middle class will always come out the losers.
The brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces are used as pawns by the rich and powerful, not for the best interest of America but for the best interest of their wallets. After September 11th 2001 many young men and women joined the military to fight terrorists and the people who attacked us on that horrible day. These men and women where taken advantage of and their patriotism was used against them, they joined to fight the men who attacked us and instead where used to personal gains.
A young man by the name of Pat Tillman gave up millions of dollars to play in the NFL and jointed the military and was sadly killed in action. It was a tragedy that this young man lost his life but that was just the beginning, his death was exploited by the military to help get more patriotic people to join the army. To this day we still do not know what happened to Mr. Tillman and his poor family had to fight for the little information they did receive. We learned that he was not killed by terrorists but died by friendly fire, rather then release this information the military exploited his death for their own gains.
These brave soldiers risking their lives to keep America safe and free do so for little pay, they receive a lot less then contractors like Halliburton and KBR make. KBR is a company who gets paid billions of dollars to do jobs that our military should be doing, and in some cases they are responsible for the deaths of about a dozen American soldiers. Instead of paying these war profiteers billions of dollars to do the jobs of soldiers we should just pay the fighting men more while on active duty. The soldiers have to live by a code of conduct while the contractors can run rough shot over the country and not be held accountable. Then when the soldiers come home they are having a hard time finding jobs or are suffering mental illness and many end up homeless. We ask these people to lay down their lives for a country that turns their back on them as soon as they return home.
Why do I mention these things? The military is made up of brave men and women who do it for pride and their love of this country and not for the money. People sitting in comfy offices making five times what soldiers do are the ones who decide where and when they go and for what reasons they might lose their lives. Soldiers do their job, the don’t complain because what they are doing is what they believe is best for America. They are willing to give their lives for America but rich and powerful people are not willing to give up another 3% of their income to help keep America running. It’s ok for hard working people to lay down their lives just don’t ask the wealthy to pay a little more? Even worse to help keep the few extra dollars in the pockets of the few the republicans have decided they need to cut the benefits of the soldiers that they move around like chess pieces.
If the rich want to keep their 3% tax break then they should strap on a gun and go fight for it, stop attacking soldiers, teachers, police and firefighters and blaming them for everything that is wrong with this country. It is these hard working people who built this great nation, I never saw a rich person paving a road or putting on a police uniform. When we speak up about the people who have gotten rich off the backs of others it’s called “class warfare” but the truth is that for 30 years it’s been a genocide and the poor are finally standing up and fighting back.
The occupy movement is the people wanting their voices heard, we don’t have the money to buy a politician or judge. All we want is equality, time to take away all the breaks that rich people get and even the playing field. Exxon should be receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer money while paying little or no taxes themselves, stop bailing out the banks of America if you are going to let the middle class lose everything. We should reinstate Glass Steagall act, it kept America working for over 50 years after the great depression and only took 8 years after it was repealed to bring down the country again. Finally we need to get the money out of politics, when you have John Boehner handing out checks from tobacco companies on the floor of congress while they are voting on tobacco issues shows how corrupt politicians are. Until you separate money and politics you will have class warfare and the middle class will always come out the losers.
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