Getting Practical About Politics

Just reporting on the facts of the Republican Primary run has left me feeling like Rush Limbaugh, but instead of the liberal hate campaign, I have reported on the Republican hate campaign that actually is going on.

Today I want to get back on a more practical message of a more positive note and that is whether we are Republican,Independent or Democrat we all can look at this as an election year that offers hope for all of us.

It has been many years since the libertarian Party has been able to offer the hope that it does to those who support Rod Paul. The Republicans are convinced that they can win against OBama and the Democrats are convinced OBama can beat either Romney or Gingrich.

For a while anyway, as Americans, we are all hopeful that our candidate can and will win.That is the kind of Democracy that makes America great. It refreshes the ideology of those who call themselves grassroots, although they are battling which candidate if any they can support, it does bring hope to all of us who either want to believe as we always have, or that God expects us to bring morality to law, or those of us who want to remain the same as we believe that given another four years, we will see a robust economy with cuts made to balance the budget and bring down the deficit, as the facts show it is currently in the plans. Whatever argument or persuasion we are this year, it appears to be offering hope to all of us.

That sadly will fade when we get back to the problem once the elections are decided, and find a Congress that refuses to budge off of the same old same old of business as usual. Too often in our desire to vote in or re-elect the President, we have over looked the fact or mistaken the idea that if we vote in a Democrat President then we will need a Republican Senate or Congress or vise versa. It is when we realistically look at the candidate that represents us the most and the party that will work with the President we choose,”We the People” can break the dead lock in both Congress and the Senate.

We too often think that the system in Washington is broken instead of looking at ourselves as to why it isn’t working. When the Republican Party is made up of moderates, conservatives, and Tea Party sponsored members, who all have different ideologies and refuse to budge on their own personal beliefs, and then the Republican Party blames Democrat leadership for not supporting them, how in the World can anyone realistically think a Democrat of any kind can solve the problem and the lack of cohesiveness that the Republican Party itself cannot mend or fix?

If the Republican people, themselves, do not agree to either elect a moderate,or a conservative, or a Tea Party sponsored majority so that the dead lock in their own Party stops, instead of concentrating only on getting rid of OBama, who quite frankly is not the problem with the Republican Party today, then Congress or the Senate, who do not have a majority group, will remain as dead locked as usual in the Republican Party, itself.

The same nastiness and negativity that we see going on amongst the candidates in the Florida race. is identical to what is going on in the Republican Party today, and yet both the media and the Republicans, themselves, are saying it is good that they are discussing this early and getting it out-of-the-way before the Democrats pounce on it, or we have 10 long months left before the election. No one seems to want to acknowledge that this behavior is normal in the Republican Party today or have any desire to stop it or at least try to mend it or fix it in their own party. As long as they deny it, the attitude of blocking all decisions made will continue amongst them, and they will continue stalemating the Congress and Senate regardless who is elected.

Obviously, if we are Republican,Independent,or Democrat and dealing with reality, over hate and denial, we almost have to be able to understand that with Mitt Romney trying to be a conservative because apparently being a moderate seems to be related too much to George Bush but a Conservative is related to Ronald Reagan, the discord will continue in the Republican Party.

Right now, if any of us have ever tried to put three little girls together for a play time and watched how two side against the other, then we have a pretty good idea of why the Republican Party cannot agree within its own membership.

By viewing the larger picture, If President OBama is finally going to have a Congress and Senate who will respect his leadership then we must elect people who will work with him instead of against him.

Until we all acknowledge, the media included, that currently the Republican Party cannot get along within its own Party, the only way that the deadlock in Congress and the Senate will be broken, is when the Republican Party figures out for itself if the GOP will become Tea Party sponsored ideology, Conservative in their ideology, or remain in the moderate ideology, no one will be able to lead, because no one in their Party is willing to compromise. Not even Ronald Reagan, whose name they like to invoke and who did raise taxes, would be able to break this divide.

It is time to get practical and to accept the reality of why the system does appear to be broken and why, instead of getting off on the ridiculous. The truth is, until the Republican Party can and does repair its own broken membership, deadlock will remain.

The only Party that can agree and get things done currently, is the Democrats. The liberals and centrist in the Party may not always agree but at least they can compromise without the third member of the Tea Party freezing off every decision they try to make,or the conservatives refusing to raise taxes while the moderates think they are the spokes people for the Party, and are too arrogant to listen.

While they demand that all members must agree on no more taxes, no more payments on birth control or on abortion to the poor, even in cases of unreported incest,rape, or sex slavery,if they really do want to cut the deficit or balance a budget, or if all Republicans must support the Ryan plan to eliminate Social Security and Medicare, as we know it, and no one wants to hear what “We the People” want, they must decide for themselves if they are with the middle class or against the middle class. Its time to get practical and to elect members who will compromise, while the Republicans try to decide just what it is the GOP does want their own Party to represent.Hopefully they will decide that at their own convention later this year.

When they do then we will all be able to hope again in the Democracy that has always made us and kept us strong. Its time to get both realistic and practical with our votes so that we get something done in Washington again, by voting for Barack Obama, who understands us and is working for us. “We the People” need to take back our rights to have the President we elect be respected by those, who we also elect, and will work with him instead of against him.

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Why Truth In The White House Matters

As horrendous as the two main candidates for the Republican Party primaries are acting in Florida, as they bounce back and forth about who the biggest liar is between Mitt or Newt there are legitimate claims coming from the mouths of both.

The only reason that Newt Gingrich did not leave the Speaker’s position in shame is because if we listen to Newt justify his shameful behavior in his marriages it becomes apparent that Newt is not capable of being shamed. While he acts repentant on one platform he brags about how he is more normal because of his poor behavior in another agenda. Newt realized that he did not have the support or caucus group that would swing behind him so that he could win the Speaker of the House, so on his way out instead of bowing out gracefully, in total Newt Gingrich behavior, he called his own Republican Party a bunch of cannibals.

The same is true about Mitt Romney. He did not leave as governor of Massachusetts because his job was done. He left because jobs in Massachusetts fell to the lowest they had ever been and left Massachusetts the 47th State in the Nation for jobs gained as versus the losts that were incurred, by the time Mitt was done doing the job in Massachusetts that he claims he had finished.

57% of the Massachusetts’ voters did not want Mitt back. By the time we subtract out the undecideds it did not leave much support left for Mitt to run again. He has run as pro-choice. He did support Democrat Tsongas against the Republican candidate in the primaries,(when he lost to Bill Clinton then Mitt switched to the Republican candidate),not all of his investments are in a blind trust,Mitt has been unemployed for 10 years and campaigning for 4 years, and I think it is safe to say that every time he opens his mouth he lies. The man simply appears to be unable to tell the truth.

Mitt’s Super Pac which is being paid for by the Mormon Church and friends, has already spent over 30 million dollars in just 4 States and they are coming to our town to infiltrate and poison our airways. Is this the way that any of us really want our Presidents elected or are they even representative of what any of us really want or stand for. Both have a record of me first and only, and it is clearly showing up in the way they are conducting themselves. This should matter a whole lot more than trying to defeat our President Barack OBama, out of hate, when he and the Democrats are slowly,without the support of Congress, bringing America back to the Country we want it to be.

The only person who is speaking on any of the issues that matter to all of us is President Barack OBama. He has been trying to drill that into the heads of a Congress who wants to go back to what Bush started for 3 years now. All the Republicans are saying is, “all we care about is getting rid or Barack OBama,” to the point they have the same dedication drilled into the heads of the people who will elect either,Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich, even though both are acting like 6 year olds on a playground.

Truth does matter in the White House and it will never exist in either Mitt or Newt because we are not seeing it in either of them while they campaign against each other or when they campaign against President OBama.

The sad thing, are the number of voters who acknowledge that they know the Republican candidates are lying and do not have their best interest at heart, but will vote for them anyway because their hate for Barack OBama, is greater than voting for the person who will represent the truth in the middle class. These same people will complain the loudest when they do realize they voted for the person who could tell the biggest lies, and not once take a good look at themselves for why their hate against our President, who is working for us, was greater than voting for what was best for all Americans.

The last thing that the Republicans want the voters to know is that the economy is recovering without them, so who ever wins the Republican primaries, simply will lie even more when they are up against the President. The Democratic Party has vaults filled with information on both Republican candidates as well as facts on a recovering economy to back up the President. All President OBama will need to do is to continue talking about the issues that matter to us while his Super Pacs tell the truth on who ever does win the Republican primaries.

When we get both facts and truth combined together in President OBama, we get the man who the majority will want in the White House, instead of the man who will be chosen in the Republican Party for reasons of hate,only.

The most powerful Man in the World, is the President of the United States of America, and if “We the People” know that the Republican candidates who would wish to be President are all lying and therefore can’t be trusted while fighting like children in the Republican primary run, so will those who have to negotiate in strategic matters throughout the World, also know they are lying and cannot be trusted, to not hide behind their own personal agendas if they ever take office.

The truth should and does matter, not just in the White House but in all of our lives. It is about respect for the office and Trust in the President who takes office both at home and throughout the world, and when we find that severely missing in all the serious Republican candidates, who would want to hold the Office of President, as well as those who hate, We find ourselves left with the man who is working for us and that is Barack OBama. Common sense will win out in November along with the truth.

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Politi-facts and Other False Information

Rick Santorum attacked Mitt Romney at the hopefully last and final debate (thank God) on his health care plan being the same as OBama’s and it is an accurate statement as both were devised by the same man by the name of Johnathan Gruber who acknowledges that both plans and mandates are one and the same. When Mitt says it did not require borrowing any money, that too is true, since it is the federal government that pays for it, and not the State of Massachusetts. However Santorum said check it out on Politi-facts, as if that is the Holy Grail of all truth.

The people who do check out the facts such as when President OBama said in his State of the Union Address that business had added more than 3 million jobs in the last 22 months and it was the largest increase since 2005, politi-facts had no problem in saying the information was true. 3.2 million new jobs were added in the last 22 months in the private sector.

It is who ever runs the meter that is showing anything but the truth. Although they stated the facts as spoken by President OBama as being accurate the meter registered it as being half-truth. It was when the people demanded it be corrected they changed the meter to mostly truth. There is no way that they are going to come out and say that anything that is 100% true, when it has been spoken by our President,is the full truth, obviously.

When President OBama said that we are more independent from foreign oil than what we have ever been and 50% more free than what we have been since 2005, again the facts when checked by the Department of energy show that to be 100% true and again they acknowledge that, until the meter registers it as half-true. Either the meter is constipated or someone needs to check their meter manager out as if a group,company, or organization is going to be legitimate and advertise itself as such then it needs to obey the dictates that governs the same. It costs them so much more to deal in half accurate facts when the meter turns truth to half truth, while claiming to be the site for the truth, than it does to be honest as represented.

When Rick Santorum was speaking of social and religious rights last night he got off on the Declaration of Independence and was quoting it as the rights given us in the Constitution so I will proceed to offer the data of each as follows: The Declaration Of Independence was nothing more than a statement adopted to explain why the 13 colonies in America were declaring their Independence from England and gave no one any rights or power under it, beyond announcing our freedom from England and it was signed on July 4, 1776.

It was the Constitution of the United States that gave all power and rights to both The Government and the people. Religion and any rights given them, was not mentioned or even written into the Constitution, that gave all power of the law to the Supreme court. Our founding Fathers very wisely understood the influence that could be played on the Congress and Senate so set the Supreme Court up with full power to establish law. The Constitution was signed Sept. 17, 1787.

It was not until 1802 that the amendment was added to the Constitution to allow Religion the freedom to practice Religion with the understanding that Religion would play no role in government. If Religion broke the law of the land then they would be punished the same as mankind. Some say that John Locke established separation of Church and State but in truth it was when Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to the Danbury Baptist Church that it was made clear that religion would play no role in government and in exchange for that government would not begin a Religion of their own. the conservatives and the right-wing seem to think that their Religious beliefs were guaranteed under the Declaration of Independence as too many times I hear them quoting it as the concepts of the Constitution and it clearly is not nor does it give power to anyone beyond explaining our Freedom from England.

We all are paying the lowest taxes that have ever been paid in the history of America, and unless we eliminate the Bush tax cuts so that we can add revenue to the Treasury so we can pay our bills we will not pay the deficit down. We are being led to believe that the Republicans care about the deficit and it is not true as when Cheney said the deficit does not matter he spoke for all of the Republican party.

Spending increases the gross national product and in doing so it raises our credit rating, where as denying the taxes to put back into the Treasury so we can pay our bills both destroys our credit rating as well as lowers the GNP.However if we pay it off then our credit rating increases. Every President since Herbert Hoover raised the taxes until it came to George “Dubya” Bush and the conservatives refuse to have any one pay taxes or to touch the Bush tax cuts because they do not believe that anyone has to pay taxes. They and the Tea Party both would like to weaken government entirely by eliminating the Treasury.

This one is a piece of cake to figure out who is right and who is delusional on the subject, because we all know that if we do not put money into our checking accounts and go out and start writing checks it won’t be long before we are writing bad checks because we have depleted the amount we had to spend. The same is true if we are not putting revenue from taxes collected into the United States Treasury.

We may raise the profit or the need for the gross national product in the Store, but common sense tells us all that when we buy more than the money we have, we will ruin our credit as well as deplete our checking account, unless we put money into our accounts to cover it. When we pay off the money we spend by having the money in our accounts then we increase our own GNP from the purchases that we buy,as well as, increase our own credit rating. The same is true when government collects the taxes to pay off their debt or the deficit. Yet the Republicans insist that the free market will determine what the need is, and it is hogwash and the mentality of the 1890′s that is talking.

The OBama healthcare plan is not a top down government plan as told by Rick Santorum, as it deals with our own doctors and private insurance companies,his statement of the same in last nights debate is false, and it will not cost the American public 95 billion dollars as being told by Mitt Romney, but instead will save us 210 billion dollars, as told by the experts in the field whose business it is to know the difference.

It has already saved Senior Citizens 250 million dollars. No one will need to change from their own Doctors or insurance company unless they wish to do so.The mandate portion of the bill is currently in the Supreme Court checking if it is legal to do so, if not, it will not become part of the plan. It eliminates all insurance companies from discluding Americans due to pre-existing disease and grants parents the right to cover adult children until the age of 26 on their coverage.

Finally the greatest lie of all that is being acted out in the State of Georgia is to get President OBama’s name off of the primary as well as general election ballot. The Republican conservatives claim that he is not a citizen of America so therefore cannot qualify to run as President. As crazy as it is to those of us who recognize that this idea exist in America, these people still refuse to believe Barack OBama is a citizen. The Democrats have sent it to the Federal judges in the State to get the movement stopped. For the sake of the people in Georgia, as well as their own Constitutional right to vote, we can only hope the Democrats win, and that our President’s name will be left on their ballots.

There is so much talk going on against OBama and the military as well as foreign policy and energy, that are so much more about lies than truth, but I’m fairly certain that most of us know by now what a “bang up job,” that Obama is doing in those areas, so I will end it at this, and wish everybody a good day with an even better evening. Don’t forget to hug someone.

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State Of The Union Address

It was really inspiring for me to watch the State of the Union Address and hear President OBama, verbalize exactly what it is that the Americans expect of their politicians, and to offer hope to Americans who have suffered long enough.

After one Debate after the next debate of the Republican candidates doing nothing but bashing each other and then going on the attack on everything President OBama said and calling it lies, I realized to what a degree that the negatives and lies in the Republican Party can lead to and are adding to their own destruction in America. I would just like to add, however, that before Mitch McDaniel, gives a rebuttal and accuses OBama of lying and uses Apple as an example over the truth of the auto industry, it would be good that he does not hold up a company like Apple as a prime example of success.

Since they only hire 43,000 people in America and the other 700,000 are hired outside of America,its probably not such a good idea to use them as a prime example of Republican support.

The auto industry on the other hand that President OBama did work with and helped save, hired 1.4 million jobs that were saved, as well as, added another 170,000 jobs in America. The Republicans never check their facts but instead accuse Barack OBama of lies even though Barack OBama’s information always checks out and theirs’ rarely does, unless they are talking against each other. I think it is the lies, more than anything, that can and is wearing us all down.

Apparently my feelings match the majority view held in America,as early as 2011 as the CBS poll that was conducted the day after his State of the Union then, showed an extra-ordinary number of Americans polled, 91% to be exact, felt that what Barack OBama talked about was what the American people approved of, Only 9% disapproved.

With President OBama, being much more forceful, and the private sector having more months of improvements with increase in job employment taking place, in our economy this year, and after the fiasco of December with the Republicans fighting amongst themselves about lowering the taxes on the middle class, his enthusiam to Unite Americans in fairness, I thought, was even more persuasive. Even more Billionaires, including Bill Gates, came forward and said they too think it is not right that the working poor and middle class pay more than they do, and they want the tax laws changed as well.

The wealthy who are paying less, like Warren Buffet, even said “that the idea of warfare by the middle class and working poor is ridiculous.” He went on to say,” if this is a war dividing us then it is not the workers doing it because it is the wealthy who have the nuclear weapon on their side with all the lobbyists and the lawyers while the middle class and working poor have nothing to defend their side against us.” The envy that Mitt talks about, only exist in the minds of those who refuse to pay their fair share.

While this was going on Mitt Romney, who previously said that Corporations are people, stood in front of a foreclosed house and said, “that Bankers are not bad guys they are just over whelmed”, after telling the people the real problem is the 99% just envied the 1%. This is in a State with high unemployment and the third largest State in the United States when it comes to homes that are being foreclosed on.

At the same time it is being reported that Newt Gingrich is on the Christian broadcasting Network saying,”He is not Normal.” Then in rebuttal he turns around and says,”He is more normal that a man like Mitt who acts so perfect and has only had one wife because he has had affairs, divorces, and married three times.”

This is not the kind of stuff that the Liberal media, that Newt curses, can make up. Even late night comedy cannot come up with the things that are coming out of the mouths of the two main Republican candidates left running.

Even those of us who would never vote for them in 100 years cannot help but feel sorry for them every time they open their mouths and try to explain things like how they actually pay more in taxes even though their money sits in Swiss and Caymen Island Bank accounts, or that the 99% are dividing the Country. How in the world do we get a larger cohesive majority than 99%? If nothing else where is Mitt’s Patriotism that would make him invest in America while he professes to bring jobs to the middle class?

Then there is Newt who says he asked God for forgiveness and then brags about how his behavior is more acceptable than someone who remains faithful in their marriage. The man who had to pay $300,000.00 for ethics violations brags that he has never had a felony. After that he says his friends were turned down by ABC news in rebuttal to his second wife’s statement and it turns out to be nothing more than his two daughters. I mean how much credibility does he think, that gains him.

All I can say to the Super Pacs, who are putting millions and millions into both of their campaigns is, spare yourselves the cash, as nothing anyone can do can keep either or both from talking and at this point when they are not bashing and showing Americans, that they are on the wrong side of the fence when it comes to representing the views of the voters, they are showing us how real the hate is that they are spreading into the airways. They are both making a spectacle of themselves, at a time when Americans need to eat, and all the money spent in the world cannot change the facts. As many a generation before us have said,”You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”

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The Class Warfare Stupidity

The Republican’s Class Warfare Stupidity claims, along with the envy they claim the have-nots have for them, can be compared to the analogy of an undocummented Latino who is threatened with being sent back to her homeland, if she does not continue being mistreated and accepts unfair and unjust treatment, by the wealthy, for whom she works under duress.

The only class warfare that exists, in this kind of scenario, is in the mind of the wealthy family who is mistreating her, when her family comes and rescues her. The rest of us see the rescue as fairness and justice, and breathe a breath of fresh air in the sense that justice finally does occur when she no longer has to deal with the threats and unfairness of the working environment that the wealthy created.

It is when she is finally able to spend time in the arms of her loved ones, is when she and the rest of us know and understand, is the real wealth that we all seek. This is something that too many times go right over the heads of the disillusioned or those yelling class warfare in the Republican Party.

To think that these arrogant or obtuse people, would refuse to believe that the 99% have anything but disdain directed against them, and justifiably so,for the way they mistreated a woman who could not defend herself against their mistreatment, and the relief we feel when she is finally rescued, simply does not register in the minds of the home owners radar, anymore than it does in the minds of the current Republican Party.

They have been so use to feeling entitled to a life where they can order people around or treat them in any manner they wish, that the likely hood they will ever understand the difference between fairness and class warfare is next to nil. The Republican Party, does not get or understand that they are elected to serve our needs over that of their peers. That there is another world that exist and has nothing to do with either envy of them and their peers or class warfare, totally misses any level of understanding in their minds, so we will all need to show them at the ballot boxes what it is that we do mean by fairness.

There is little to nothing about any of them that we do envy, or would we waste a moment of our time to try to mess up a hair on their head. Some people are just so far removed from the rest of us that we would not cross the street to shake their hands and it is not class warfare but instead a total disinterest in the people who refuse to acknowledge our right to gain and hold onto our own dignity in order to work and provide for our families.

These are the real feelings that exist against the 1% but they are so full of themselves, that they would prefer to think that their pathetic lives and lack of compassion or empathy for anyone but their own goals or peers would hold anything other than the feeling of pity for them. For them to think otherwise, would lessen their own image of their own self-importance. Therefor like everything they do, it is better to put the onus or blame back onto the sholders of the 99% because they always have done so.

The great majority of us want to be as far away from their idea of morality as we can get. We might envy a sports figure’s ability or natural talent or a lottery winner who won the lottery ticket on the same lottery we spent a couple of dollars on, but there is not a thing about the wealthy who gain their millions to billions off of the back of workers, and then mistreats them, that we even want to go to war over, much less envy.

To blame the latino, or the 99%, or for that matter President OBama, for dividing the Country or to think it is class warfare on the part of the people under similar circumstances, is as unthinking and morally as objectible to the 99% as the Republican Party’s argument of class warfare, when President OBama and the Democrats ask them to cease and desist and to pay their fair share in taxes.

We understand that life is not always fair and that suffering is a part of life. We also understand the sacrifices we need to make for “Liberty for all”, as well as, the financial future of the working poor and middle class, and our government, is at stake. The problem is that the 1% do not understand that, or the fact that they need to make sacrifices, as well. If they were not so use to having their fanny kissed by the working poor and the middle class, then they would understand the difference between disdain,frustrations, and pain as versus envy and class warfare as versus fairness.

I am all in favor of teaching them at the polls, by re-electing Barack OBama for President, in November. I hope you agree with me and will join me at the polls to educate the Republicans, who need to know and accept the education on their behalf,without blaming those of us who do not believe in or fall for their own brand of ignorance or attempts to hide behind their deliberate moral corruption, as well.

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All Wind, No Action

Can any of us possibly imagine how difficult of a job we would have if we were Barack OBama? Just imagine trying to move ahead or walk at all, with a two ton ball and chain of Congress strapped to our ankles, while they yell, “,”No,” No” No,” every time we tried to free the middle class from the inequity that exists under the Bush tax breaks.

Could any of us do it for four years and come back for 4 more? Especially when they yell victim, while they do nothing for being paid $850,000.00 a year, and paying 14% or less, in taxes, by the government they want to eliminate? Those of us who still do have jobs are averaging 30% plus, if we make more than $70.000.00 or less. Clearly they have made the Bush tax cuts about them, instead of about we who elect them to office.

The reason we hear so much noise but no solutions in the Republican party, is because they have nothing to give. Most if not all of the trillions dollars of debt accumulation, is a direct result of the Bush tax cuts, that they refuse to raise on the 1%. Instead they accuse the workers and Barack OBama who has tried to help us keep food on the table as being welfare whores who expect the wealthy to feed us when it is such an insult as well as a lie.

Think about it, The Republicans have a one term candidate from Pennsylvania, another one term candidate from Massachusetts, and a one term House Speaker, that the voters did not want back and their own party did not want back as speaker, or would support, and they think they can fool the rest of us,into wanting them back? The only thing holding any of them in the race is their Super Pacs that are paid for by the Mormon church or Billionaires, and they call the working poor and middle class food stamp whores?

If we listen carefully, we will hear them say the economy is worse today than it was five years ago. Of course, we know they have to say five years ago because four years ago, the Republicans were responsible for laying off 8 million factory workers, and to date OBama through the improvement of the car industry, has been only able to hire 2 million of them back, because of the refusal of the Republicans to stop or release the tax breaks given to Corporations who build over-seas.

The other 6 million jobs went over seas to both China and India who they can hire at slave labor rates. They like to brag about how some lowly Chinese woman, was able to feed her children because American Business moved over there, after closing down the mines in Minnesota, and gave her a job at a dollar an hour so she could feed her children.

The same way that the oil companies like to advertise temporary jobs to build pipelines and to drill natural gas to ship to both China and Japan while exaggerating the numbers they will hire while the jobs will only last until the job is done and is some cases that is only for months or weeks, where others might last a year. Certainly nothing the middle class can count on as far as making mortage payments or moving their families with them.

While giving a Chinese worker a job at a dollar an hour, might win an argument with those who feed into that kind of stuff, and might even be admirable if it was being done by one of the Christian groups, it does not hold water, when politicians are elected to put Americans to work.

When the truth is instead: Corporations are closing down American jobs while the Republicans are giving American Corporations tax breaks to promote slave wages in foreign countries,or the oil companies are depleting our own natural resources by charging Japan and China for the natural gas rights with British Petroleum owning the oil rights, in the Gulf, while the Republicans are professing to make America, energy independent.

Do we really think the conservatives know anything other than how to deny rights to Americans, when they promote family values? It seems to be their driving force to press their own Christians views on the many Americans who are the majority, and believe instead that, “We are all created equal,” over choosing who are and are not in their eyes.”

The other day one of the 99% stopped Mitt Romney and asked him what was in his tax forms that he was hiding, and Mitt Romney yelled back at him.” that he should quit dividing up America, and it was people like him that brought disgrace by dividing Americans and he should be ashamed.”

First of all we either need to send Mitt to math classes or perhaps politics 101? 99% is the majority Mitt. To accuse them of dividing the Country when they are the 99%, who do all of the dirty work for the 1% and the odds of finding any better odds of uniting anyone, including even the Republican Party, at a 99%, simply does not exist.

The real truth is that the 1% have never been confronted because the 99% were worried about losing their jobs. Guess what Mitt? They have no jobs because of the refusal to hire by the 1%. The 1% no longer are special or hold special privilege or loyalty, to the 99% any longer, because all they are getting is, “All wind, and no action.”

It is no accident that George “Dubya” Bush is in hiding and not a single Republican candidate has him out campaigning for them. Not one of them want him to remind, their possible voters,they are just more Bush Republicans who refuse to tell the truth.

As a matter of fact, those few honest news outlets left are being called liberal when they do tell the truth. What an honor that truth, at long last, has been given its rightful place of honor, where it has long deserved to live and that is in the camp of the liberal.

The only plans the Republicans do have is to return to the politics they started during the Bush years. That is why we are hearing so many lies being told by this group of candidates with their checkered pasts. They are so busy hiding or covering up the truth on themselves, that they have to lie in order to survive their own primaries.

Anyone who thinks that any of them will raise the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy, in order to stop the bleed of trillions of dollars out of our Treasury, so we can actually start paying down the deficit, simply are not facing reality.

If any of them think they will offer full-time,long-lasting jobs with good benefits and retirement pensions, once they are elected then all I can say is, “denial will not make it true.”

When the Republicans, cannot talk about accomplishments, and if we listen carefully, not a one of them can without fudging on the truth, then all we can plan for in our futures, if any of them win the general election is just, “more wind, and no actions,” taken to save the middle class and the working poor. Re-elect Barack OBama in November.

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Social Security For Future Generations

The Ryan Plan,that all Republicans have signed on to 100%, like most of what I write about, will not affect my husband and I, but I have real concern about it when it comes to my children and grandchildren. I have no doubt that they waited to apply it to, the 50 and under crowd, because they were afraid of the great power that the AARP is able to influence and knew it would be defeated if they even tried to deal with them.

It is only an introductory way to eliminate Social Security in Government and turn over Social Security Insurance to the private sector. Since Social Security Insurance is 6 times larger than all the other insurance companies combined, the private sector has been salivating over take over for years, and to gain more of the profits for themselves.

To think that the average cost of health care per senior is between $7000 to $16,000.00 per year,now, and despite what we Americans have been told, the government does a pretty good job of keeping the cost down.They can buy health care in a much larger block than what individual private insurance companies can or ever will be able to, and in doing so, it keeps the cost down that the public has to pay. The Ryan Plan would cap all people in 2022 to $8000 a year with the cost of healthcare going up at a growing rate every year, certainly the senior citizens, will not be cared for at this rate.

If the people find that they do not have enough coverage then, they will be able to buy the difference from private Insurance companies. Of course, when many senior citizens are unable to buy, then the private insurance companies will end up with government subsidizing the difference. Surprise! surprise! The private sector, grows rich as a result of Corporate welfare provided by the government and paid for by the public.

There are no bigger welfare whores,than the 1%, who feel more entitled to all the welfare that government can give them, than any other of the population in America. By the people thinking they can invest their own money into social security by investing into the stock market, they will be guaranteed to be victims of the private sector and the private Insurance Companies will be the winners.

Unless we are a member of the wealthy class or work at Wall Street, we will not get the “insiders’ trading tips.” (although they are illegal, everyone does it and then denies it happens). Playing the stock market and investing our retirement futures in Wall Street, for the, “regular Joes” is no different from betting our future on slot machines or roulette wheels.

As any of us know, when a chain store of any size moves into our communities, they usually charge decreased prices in order to get us into the store, and then they gradually raise the prices once they get us in the habit of shopping there. This is also true of any and all insurance companies.

It may sound like a good deal, the first couple of years, but then when it does eventually take control and push government out, it is the American public who has to pay the price in both premium jumps, as well as, the huge jump in exchange for Corporate welfare. When the insurance companies are paid the difference between what the public can pay and what the private insurance companies are charging, then the public pays again when government makes up the difference for the corporate welfare whores.

The other concern is that employees would not need to choose the plan at their work place that Unions will guarantee but the Republicans are trying to eliminate the unions and instead employees could opt out and choose their own. This sounds all well and good until we understand that slowly and surely that all guaranteed coverage would be drained away until employees would find their coverage worthless.

The Republicans fight against all and any regulations on the greed of the private sector from pollution to price controls, and as long as the private sector or Capitalism is not under the control of government, our children and grandchildren are all looking at exorbitant costs either at the market place or at the tax levels. Either way it ends up with them, “Owing their souls to the Company Store,” or the 1%”.

While Newt Gingrich campaigns and says, “OBama is being a Saul Alinsky,” who OBama would have been 10 years of age when he died, what Newt is really saying is that the Republicans under his Presidency, will continue as usual, until every penny they can drain is drained of the middle class today.(Saul Alinsky was all about the reverse in that the have-nots be supported by the haves).Newt, of course, made his 100 million off of government taxpayers and as a lobbyist to Congress but of course, according to him, he is a Federalist, Christian, and a defender of the Constitution. Anyone who believes that would sit in a crowd and “boo”, if the media asked Newt about his character.

The main reason that Newt finds it necessary to demean Barack OBama all the time with lies, is he has little to no understanding, about the fact that the majority of the middle class go on food stamps temporally. When Republican Bob Dole initiated the food stamp program to help farm subsidies, which were at an all time low, Newt was irate over it. Newt wouldn’t know what the Constitution does say as was proven by his ethics violations.

He still holds a grudge against food stamps, all these years later. That is typical Newt Gingrich behavior, as well as, demeaning everyone that disagrees with him. He is the same mean and angry Newt he has always been, while his conservative followers, have forgiven him and say because he is a grandfather and he has sought forgiveness, he is a different man. The man is proving in his campaign that he still needs extensive psychological help. He is still the erratic canon he has always been.

The last thing that the working poor and the middle class want to do, is be in the position where they do have to go on food stamps. All they are asking for is that the 1% pay their fair share, and give them a full-time job so they can work and have a chance to provide for their futures, with a job that offers benefits and possibility for retirement. No one out works or are harder workers than Americans. The economy rebounds when the middle class are made strong and have discretionary money to spend. It is a proven commodity.

The pompous Republicans running on the Conservative ticket,and in Congress, like all conservatives, can only stoop to name calling when they haven’t a leg to stand on and they would rather lie that find solutions for anyone other than the profit that goes into the pockets of the 1%. Their so-called million oil jobs (an exaggeration when we look at the true reality of the jobs) is nothing more than temporary jobs, because they would not dream of getting their finger nails dirty, while the workers do the dirty work and the oil companies, drain our natural gas, to sell to China and Japan.

This election year is more about the price future generations,if we are over 50, will have to pay than the current, because the economy is recovering and they will be able to fill those temporary jobs that will ruin the pristine beauty and touchy eco-systems, in time.

What kind of future, will that leave, should frighten all of us for both our childrens’ and grandchildrens’ sake . Electing conservatives, who either believe it doesn’t matter because Christ is coming or the World is ending, or they are just plain arrogant Jackasses, will not solve the problems of today, much less tomorrow. Vote the Republican bums out and re-elect Barack OBama in November.

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The Disposable People

The Churches in America have the right to deny people of their choosing the right to worship,marry, get abortions and even to deny insurance coverage when it is their Church,charity, or hospitals.

We often object to their lack of sensibilities, not to mention their lack of empathy and compassion, and intolerance against people of their choosing. Christ clearly showed the Christian Churches that they needed to embrace all people, and all people are the Children of God.

At the time of Christ, people who suffered from leprosy, would be shipped off and held separate from society. They were shunned by everyone because of the fear mongering of the time. Christ went into their colony’s to embrace them to teach all Christians, of his acceptance of all people. The only real power given to the Churches were to forgive the sins of mankind when they asked for forgiveness, and to leave the judging of their behavior to God. We were all granted free will by God after Adam and Eve together made the decision to eat of the apple or pomegranate.

Our common sense alone, if not our religion or spiritual beliefs, should tell us that after the failure of the Garden of Eden, God who is all Omnipotent as well as all Wise, recognized that He could not give mankind free will and then deny them the right to use it when it came to making the decisions in their lives for themselves. No man or woman are ever given the right to deny that which God has granted, except when it comes to failure to obey the laws of a free Democracy.

Mankind is meant to be governed both by their own conscience and then by the law of the land that governs us all and supersedes that of our own conscious or free will. It is the Supreme Court as dictated by the Constitution who has the right to tell all Americans what laws we are to live and abide by, when it comes to those who govern us all.

The bigotry in the Churches, with Churches receiving government subsidies and the Churches controlling both elections and the men who govern, certainly was never established by Christ. He would abhor it, if He would return today.

Their argument is that they can feed the poor cheaper than government, because they have a volunteer staff. The early Christians established feeding the poor long before the government did, and now it would appear that giving alms to the poor needs to be subsidized, in order for the Churches to fulfill that part of their faith.

The simple truth is religion has a right to point out sin to their people who attend their Churches and then it is up to the free will, of both men and women, to choose how they will live their lives, within the boundaries of the law of the land. As Christians and as non-Christians, we have the equal right to choose how we will vote and worship, and pursue the rights of our own conscience through the guidance of our religious or non religious beliefs, while living within the boundaries of the law of the land.

As citizens of a Free Democracy, we have a responsibility to abide by the laws of the land. When we refuse to abide by the laws of the Justice Department we will be punished by the laws of government, accordingly. When we refuse to accept the laws established by government then government has the right to tell us what behavior is acceptable or isn’t. Churches can do the same within their own Churches but cannot over reach the right of government to establish and make laws that protect both the Constitution and its citizenry.

The next time we complain about stupid laws and government interference, it would do us well to understand that stupid laws are as a result of too many conservative judges that also come with conservatives who are elected, many times if not more than or at least equivalent to, liberal judges, even though liberal judges get blamed for the majority of the stupid laws.

There is a large sector of people who will deliberately enter our properties, if we do not make them safe against intruders, and then turn around and sue us because they get injured. Others will fake falls from grapes or water, they deliberately place on the floor or spill, and then sue. Laws are made by government to protect us against thievery,horrendous crimes,excessive greed, the corrupt,mother nature,to protect us at the workplace,protect us from foreign terrorists, and to protect us against our own carelessness.

The rest of the balance of laws come from the fact that people have little to no consideration for their neighbors and as a result laws are made to protect the citizenry against the thoughtless and selfish, who do abuse. If too many people do not protect their neighbors property against damage when they trim or remove their trees, for example, the next thing we know is that no one will be allowed to trim their trees. Stupid,inconsiderate, and thoughtless people, are more times than not, responsible for way more stupid laws, than what government will ever be. Government simply protects the rest of us against them.

The same false information, can be said about Churches, who have lost total sight of where their place in Society, should remain. When we protest against the fact that they have over stepped their boundaries,we hear all kinds of names from liberal leftist, commies,Atheist,Calvinist to heathens, because they have led people to believe that they have a God-given right to advise those who govern.

When elected officials fail to govern according to the Churches views of acceptance and decency, then they find they will not be elected or the conservatives will begin committees to try to find fault in them. As is what happened to Bill Clinton and has happened to Barack OBama. No one is above their scrutiny, unless they agree fully with their views. Elected officials who put Country first, quickly find they are under attack by the conservatives. Sadly the Churches clearly bring their views of bigotry and intolerance into the fray of government.

When Churches over step their boundaries and deny civil marriages which is a State right, or they enrage people against planned Parenthood and demand that government deny birth control and abortions to the poor, they are interfering with the rights of both gay and women, and denying government the ability to govern.

In a sense they do tell gays and women that their lives do not matter and they are disposable, as it is all about their right to govern and we are sitting back and watching entire blocks of people in the right-wing or Evangelicals and Fundamentalism govern in America.

When this same view is brought into the political arena and controls the way politicians govern then religion has over-stepped their and our boundaries, as well. The fact that the Conservatives are governing according to the approval of the Tea Party fundamentalists and Evangelicals and they are an entire block of electors, is a gross over-step of power by religion. The Republicans play to that base in order to win votes and that is what needs to be stopped.

Our sensibilities as Christians, if we truly believe that “All men are created equal, under God,”are highly offended by the way that the poor,women,gays, and minorities are treated as disposable people. With the 1% having voice over those of the middle class we are now finding that the middle class are becoming every bit as disposable as the rest of the people have been for centuries.

Certainly the history of the Churches views, with the exception of the Baptist Churches of the time, held that slavery was a God-given right as the African-Americans were not capable of making decisions for themselves. If we listen to Newt Gingrich today, we realize that too many still have the same, or close to it, bigotry yet today. Women’s lives have been worth less than that of a fetus since the beginning of the Catholic Church,even when it is a child who is forcefully raped. Minorities have always been expected to remain in their place and to speak when spoken to, with the understanding they could have jobs, no one else wanted.

There is zero tolerance for the gay population amongst Christian Churches, to the point that the Republican legislators even refused to acknowledge the threats being made on the gay population,in the name of the Bible, as the hate crimes, they are, in America. The poor have never been heard and have had to starve or be made to lose all rights to their own sense of dignity to feel worthy of charity. The middle class are now the new disposable people.

What is so appalling about all of this is that we the American public have tolerated the views of the Christian Churches, to govern our Country since the beginning of American Independence although our Founding fathers gave the Churches of America no power over government what so ever. It was through amendments, years later, that religion was added to our Constitution. It was spelled out and made clear that Religion was to stay out of the business of government and in exchange for them doing so government would not begin a religion of its own.

Unfortunately, abuse of power by religion, has led the American people to believe that the Atheists of America are threatening the rights of religion to practice when it is the opposite, in that religion through the conservatives, have and are threatening the rights of the politicians to govern and in doing so “We the People” have lost the power granted us in the Constitution, with equality for all.

A Republican President in America, who does not agree to the Churches views on gay, races, and women’s rights or the lack of them,and acceptance or rejection of non-Christians, are not being supported by the Republican Party today. The abuse of power by religion, is the reason and the only reason that every President in America has been chosen either by the Protestant Churches, Catholic Church, or the Evangelicals.

Watching just how pathetic the candidates for election in the Republican Party are this year, and how they are pandering to the Evangelicals should frighten all of us who believe in diversity and therefore Democracy. Knowing that others who do not have the support of the Churches, will never have the backing they need to win, needs to be changed by “We the People”, before we find that we are all disposable and are trained to serve their needs.

It has already gotten there, in too many ways, and we need to stop it by stopping the elected officials, who govern by their Churches beliefs, instead of by what is the best for All Americans as stated in our Constitution. Those who govern need to get back to Country First, and the Churches need to go back to understanding, themselves, that both men and women and all Americans are given the inalienable right to choose the pursuit of happiness regardless of race,creed,gender or color, as long as we obey the law of government that should govern all of us.

If the Churches are doing their job, inside of the doors of their Churches, by teaching their congregations the difference between right and wrong, true love of everyone with the understanding that we are to forgive our enemies but God ,only, has the power to forgive all, acceptance of all people and the equality of everyone, in the eyes of the Lord, then Americans of all beliefs, will make choices of their free will that is either, pleasing or displeasing to God.

This is the right of every American citizen, and is both their God-given and State-given right under God and The Democracy of a Free government. We need to elect Republicans who understand that while eliminating those who pander to the Evangelicals and right-wing of conservative politics. We need politicians who understand that they are to represent the needs of the people and Country First, period.

We begin, first and foremost, by acknowledging that the interference of religion and the intolerance they bring with them, is what is leading to the deterioration of freedom and Democracy for all of us.

When WE take back our own power, given to “We the People” through the Constitution, by eliminating those who refuse to put Country first; and elect officials who are willing to work together, in both the Congress and Senate, to do the job that the majority agree,is what we elect them to do, we will return to the Democracy of the people,by the people, and for the people, regardless of religious belief, gender, race,color, or sexual orientation.

Sadly as things are in the Republican Party today, it is all about the 1%, while the middle class has become as disposable as the poor have always been, with the Republicans trying to lean so far right, they are making a Circus out of Democracy.

Re-elect Barack OBama, who has given a voice to those of us who are not being heard, and re-elect and elect the Democrats that will work with him. If we don’t replace the Republicans who refuse to work for the middle class then we send ourselves to the disposable pile.

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The Psycho Right

First of all I need to establish with my readers just what Psycho behavior is, according to my standards of the definition. It is someone like Newt Gingrich, who attacks John King, for asking him the question in rebuttal to the statement made by his second wife. Newt came out venomous against John King and the media and established, “how dare he ask that question?”

He got a standing ovation from the right-wing crowd that appears to follow him in these debates or perhaps the conservative right are every bit as psycho as Newt. Lets not forget that the Conservatives spent 100s of thousands,of tax payer’s money, on the Star committee trying to track down any kind of dirt they could get on Bill and Hiliary Clinton from the Whitewater investment firm, where the judge even had a friend of their’s jailed for weeks, when she refused to answer personal questions that pertained to the Clintons to the attempted impeachment of Bill Clinton.

They even at one time accused the Clinton’s of murdering a dear friend of their’s, who unfortunately committed suicide. The Conservatives, were vicious against Hiliary when she tried to bring healthcare to the people, just as they were and still are, against OBama, and were with Bill Clinton, and no one lead the attack more than Newt Gingrich.

This is the same group of people who,with Newt as their leader, moved towards impeachment and spent many millions more, of taxpayers dollars, in their drive to have Bill Clinton impeached when he was president. Newt was just as verbal,”of how dare Bill Clinton lie, at the same time, he himself was lying to everyone and having an affair, with the woman who now says he wanted to have an open marriage.

Bill OReilly ranted and raved for months into years on Fox News against the Clintons and especially Bill. Bill O’Reilly was paying quite a bit at the time for phone sex, himself, at the time and even had to dismiss it as not that serious on the air. The atmosphere was filled with hate at the time, due to the conservative’s, Newt, and his friends. If ABC refused to hear Newt’s friends out, then congratulations for not falling for the same old tricks of the psycho right! Newt took great umbrage with that on the stage, last night and called the fact that his ex said he wanted to have an open marriage, a lie and got a standing ovation from the crowd.

Someone needs to tell Newt, and that crowd, that it does not matter if he said the words or not. He lived the ideology of an open marriage, whether he has friends that testify or not. It’s not about words Newt, although you seem to forget that, it is all about actions, that matter. No matter how verbose you are, when your behavior represents the need for anger-management courses, then you need say nothing else.

When a person is having an affair, while still married, he is living the life of an open marriage. It is that simple. No pain in a marriage effects both the spouse and children worse, than adultery. Both will spend the rest of their life seeking out approval and having issues with trust, unless they seek help. Statistically,children but girls especially, will act out the behavior of the cheating parent.

We know while his first wife, and the mother of his children was living with cancer, Newt was having an affair with what would become his second wife, during the Clinton impeachments, that he was spear heading right along with the Star committee, who was selected by the conservatives. We know when his second wife developed M.S., he was having an affair with Calista, his current wife. It is an open marriage, regardless of what Newt calls it, his friends call it, the debate psycho crowd calls it, or the psycho Conservatives call it, when a person is married and having sex with another person.

More recent happenings by the right are: denying the child in Colorado, the ability to attend private school, because her parents are gay. Denying insurance to all their employees because a gay person, maybe, working amongst them. Defiling the funerals of our brave soldiers while screaming.” it is God’s punishment because of Gays in America.” Denying gay people the right to worship and civil marriage.Denying gays, and people of the Muslim religions, the pursuit of happiness, as guaranteed in our Constitution, for all American citizens. Firing a nun, from being a Hospital Administrator, in Arizona, because she allowed Doctors to perform an abortion in order to save the life of a young woman who suffered from serious lung disease, and could not survive a pregnancy. Accusing OBama of being Muslim and a non-citizen of America

There is no end to the list of the denial of freedoms taking place in the name of Christianity and marriage, by the right-wing in America. It has a lot to do with why there are fewer marriages taking place, in my opinion. Their do as I tell you, but not as I do, mentality is choking all of us who do not share in their own hate campaigns in America.

When the question of marriage is asked of them,and it does not favor them or the person they are trying to deny is a cheater and has lived his life in open marriage, then it is grounds to boo, with their crowd. Instead they talk about their Christian values of forgiveness. Give us a break–PULEEEEESE! When forgiveness works for their side then they forgive, but when hate works for them, there isn’t even a drop of empathy or forgiveness in the room.

Now that the Conservatives are on stage apparently, lies are a good thing, as there is no limit to the amount of lies, they are telling. We recognize it in the moderate, Mitt Romney before he opens his mouth, so we can’t conclusively say it is just the conservatives, as much as. it is the candidates running on the Republican ticket. Rick Santorum stood on stage in front of a military crowd and said,”OBama is refusing to cut social entitlements, but instead is cutting back on defense and the health care for the military, who fought in the wars, It is despicable!.” If there had been a truth-meter running the needle would have broken off when it turned to lies.

OBama is cutting back both in waste on Social Security,medicare, and Medicaid in an effort to help balance the budget, that is if the say “NO” Republicans will agree with him. As far as cutting back on defense, OBama, is cutting in areas where there are automatic cuts, such as eliminating old technology and equipment, along with the fact that they do not need to spend as much due to the fact that he has brought the troops home from Iraq and is cutting back in Afghanistan.” No president in history along with his wife Michelle, have done or continue doing more for the American soldiers and their families, who have fought in these wars, than what Barack and Michelle have and continue doing both in healthcare for the wounded as well as for those who suffer from post stress syndrome.

It is the Republican’s own out of control lies and their own hypocrisy, that weakens their own credibility, and makes the media entitled to pursue any and all questions on marriage and character, or the lack of it, especially when it applies to them in the reverse. It does not make the media liberal leftist. It makes the media legitimate; Which is something they obviously need to look up, in Websters Dictionary, as clearly they will not find it in the Bible from which they preach. They will need to, if they are going to return to reality, and leave their psycho world.

If the platform of the right is going to lie every time it suits them,are against education to our children, and come out against gay marriage, then the question of marriage and truth, are fair game on the platform, where debate is occurring in the Republican Party and every candidate up there is trying to out lean right the next candidate.

I applaud John King for having the courage to ask the tough question, despite the psycho Newt and his followers. It is not only an insult to all women but all Americans, to be treated like we are too stupid to know the difference between an open marriage as verses a committed marriage. My own marriage, certainly would not have lasted 42 years and counting, if I used Newt’s or the Conservative’s terminology for truth.It is high time that we as a Country, stand up against those who poison our political arena while accusing those who seek the truth, of stooping to their own pathetic levels.

Regardless if they call themselves: Evangelicals or fundamentalists, or we call them right-wing. They are the ones who tried to make it impossible for Bill Clinton to try to govern or lead our Nation, and have done and are doing the same to Barack Obama.

If the media, in its efforts to try to sort out and learn the truth, over lies,in the Man who will lead our Free Nation, is the new Liberal leftist, then more power to the liberals! The best barometer of future behavior is past behaviors and both the psychoes as well as the hypocrites need to be confronted, no matter how nasty their spokes people get. Trust me, I know first hand just how mean and nasty, they can and do get. Congratulations, to John King of CNN and ABC news, for not falling into their web of deceit! I personally applaud you both!

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America, Energy Efficient?

One of the things that we keep hearing from the Republicans is that OBama and the Democrats are standing in the way of oil and natural gas drilling in America.

They promise more drilling in America, would bring jobs but they never speak about if these jobs will be here long enough for a person to be able to make mortgage payments, move their families in, sit up pensions and reach retirement age while working these jobs.

Today I will clear up those details, as well. We do have enough oil and natural gas along with solar,clean coal, alternative gasoline, and wind to make us energy-efficient as well as independent, as a Nation, but instead those natural gas and oil rights are being bought by American oil Companies and sold to foreign interests.

Republicans like to talk about being energy Independent but vilify being energy-efficient. Do we as a Country benefit when safety guidelines are not followed and ultimately the people suffer as a result? If we simply drilled in the areas that do not interfere with a delicate eco-system or the pristine beauty of the red rocks of Utah or Alaska,(somehow it is almost Un-American to disturb that great beauty with mining or wells once we have seen it and spent time there),but instead relied more on both clean alternative gasoline, coal,natural gas, and solar along with wind energy, we would not need to import from foreign countries. We can be both energy independent as well as energy-efficient if the oil companies quit selling away our own natural resources to foreign interests. Not to mention, fighting against ridding the air of carbon emissions, so we can become energy-efficient as well.

We need to develop further technology to go along with supply and demand and keep our own natural resources in America while developing cleaner and safer alternative means to gain both efficiency as well as independence. Did we not learn anything from the gulf danger and the lack of supervision by British Petroleum about our workers safety?

OBama tried to do so, but Solyndra, that the Republicans have made much about, failed and filed bankruptcy, in the process of doing so. Mistakes have been made as is bound to happen when given a difficult task to perform.

The truth is that America has oil rights in Russia, the Middle East and South America that is sufficient to keep us supplied and cheaper for the oil companies to transfer on barges and ships than what it would cost them to drill in America.Even though we keep hearing about the costs of OPEC driving up prices they have their own oil rights and drill their own wells, in these Countries, so are really not totally dependent on Saudi Arabia as they claim.

The Canadian pipeline, or Keystone that they will not drop, and instead, held up the tax decrease on the middle class over, and claimed would give 20,000 jobs was just another of their lies. They would hire 200 employees, according to the Company itself, while laying the pipeline and it would result in 50 full-time jobs in total.

They do not talk about the trucking or freighter jobs that are lost as a result of laying the pipeline, and these were full time jobs. Where the real money lies is in the refineries that it goes to in Texas to have the crude oil refined and into the pockets of the oil companies. Just as British Petroleum owns the oil wells in the gulf and Americans do not get a break from it at the gas pumps.

Another fine example of what the Republicans like to deny happens with drilling, is what is happening in Youngstown Ohio. Is that energy independence that they like to taut and if so what are the eventual effects that the people who live there are paying for the price of that drilling? Natural gas rights have been sold to China and Japan in the Youngstown, Ohio area.

Although there is enough scientific evidence coming out that the fracking, that is coming out of there, has led to 11 earthquakes, in a State who has never had earthquakes before, the oil companies are still denying that the fracking is leading to it. Remember conservative Republicans do not believe in global warming or Science,either.

The farmers are being paid $5000 an acre, while other farmers are quite upset by it. It has made a boom town out of the area. It has done the same in North Dakota, it is not like drilling isn’t happening in America, under Barack OBama. Drilling has also been opened up in the areas that statistically provide oil and natural gas from Texas, to Wyoming, and Montana.

The problem with boom towns is they attract people to their areas, but when the steel pipes are laid underground and the job finished, then the steel plant will close down, and people will be unemployed again. The businesses and stores in town along with the restaurants, that depend on the trade, goes under when the wells run dry and the oil and natural gas interests move out of their towns. The housing market crashes and they end up, many times, not much different from a ghost town.

These towns before these foreign interest moved into town, built and ran business according to what the market could bear and learned to live around the agriculture or tourist trade of the area. When the wells go dry or are built and the large crews leave, it destroys the boom towns with it, because the people who remain, no longer know how to survive without the money they have learned to rely on.

When the natural gas and oil are depleted by foreign interests, then the people are left with the destruction of their environment, that is left behind, while these oil companies and politicians deny it happens. When all is said and done drilling for natural gas and oil will not make Americans energy sufficient, since it does not remain here.

When they were threatening to add the Canadian pipeline as in Keystone, to if, the middle class, got a tax break or not and claiming everyone wanted it. They must have talked to the three Republican State Senators in the State of Nebraska and called that everybody.

Just the week before or a couple of weeks before that, these same Republicans, who yell for States rights over Federal involvement, failed to tell the American people that OBama had turned those rights over to the State of Nebraska.

Nebraska is a very unique State as its electoral votes, as well as, the entire State are declared winners for the Republicans on election nights, before the polls are closed and the votes are counted. It only went Democrat once in its history, and that was for Lyndon Baines Johnson. It is possible to be a Democrat and reach the age of 80, in the State, and never see a candidate you ever vote for President, win.

I would imagine that the Republicans did believe that the politicians in the State are in favor of the Canadian pipeline. What the rest of the Nebraskan ranchers as well as the citizens who live in the Sandhills of Nebraska know is that the Sandhills of Nebraska was known as “the Great American Desert”, before the pioneers went out and hand sewed grass seeds.

Prairie grasses are the only thing that is keeping it from returning back to being a desert. The grass never comes back under these pipelines and during dry years, that are very common, it takes less than that to start erosion and blow outs. During the dirty thirties the Sandhills returned to a desert,in areas that did not have underground water or artesian wells, and became a total dust bowl.

It has an aquifer with the most underground water of any State in the Nation. There is a corner near a small town of Brownlee where every native grass in America grows. Many Nebraskans are not in favor of the pipeline as they know well, just how touchy this eco-system is. There are still a few that learned it the hard way.

Farther south in the State, it will go through a State Park that is as much a part of the history as the capital itself is. There are a number of reasons that many in the State do not want the pipeline. This is a lot to risk for just 50 permanent jobs that will run from the Canadian border to Texas.

Nebraska has not been as hard hit, as many States with unemployment, and is one of a few that is hiring. Those who want the pipeline, are those who have nothing at stake and are telling the citizens that the Company has a fine reputation for maintaining the pipeline, while others further up North are saying they just get promises but never any action, when it comes to them coming out to correct the land, the pipeline has ruined.

If they drill for oil or natural gas or allow Canada to send their crude oil to the Texas refineries, none of it will make a difference in the American workers or voters pockets,for any length of time that is dependable, nor will it mean less cost in natural gas to heat our homes or in the gas that we put into our tanks, we fill.

When we simply allow foreign interest to buy out the rights then it is the oil refineries and some land owners, that profit. Americans are left with part-time jobs with future lay offs, as is currently happening and is what is causing the middle class to fall into poverty.

They brag about the jobs paying $40.00 an hour, but it is hard to go from that to unemployment in a year or so. If the middle class cannot depend on long-term jobs to pay the mortgage then they have no chance to become home owners or to be established in a community.

Sometimes it also turns into a mess, as is happening in Youngstown Ohio, where the population has experienced 11 earthquakes, in exchange for what will ultimately become lay-offs or part-time jobs, when the foreign interests move out.

I don’t think I am being unfair, at this point, but about anytime that a Republican opens their mouth to defend oil companies,and to talk about jobs, it is a safe bet we are not going to get close to the full picture or I would even speculate, in saying, the truth.

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