The Biggest Lie

If we listen to Mitt Romney speak we become acutely aware of the fact that he is promoting the same  lie that has been promoted since the 70′s and that is that “trickle down economics” works.  To quote him exactly,”When Companies do well we all do well.”  The truth is when we have jobs the companies do well and we all do well.

It is a fact and has been since the beginning of an economy that wasnt totally dependent on agriculture in America, that consumers with discretionary spending is what makes economies better.  When that income is robbed from the middle class,with” the right to work laws,” then the very people who have been the biggest consumers since World War II, are also unable to buy the products produced by American companies.  When we don’t spend then companies fail.  Business without consumer’s  money do not ever create jobs.

Economist know as all of us should know that during times of a bad or slow economy that it is made worse when the spending stops.  When we increase spending on intra-structures and highway building, with construction of new homes, or even with government helping out with foreclosures on our homes and with food stamps we give people the ability to eat or to spend again. Obama has tried to consistently pass the bills that would give jobs to the middle class while the Republican have refused to vote on them by filibustering.

Economies recover and grow if Congress pays on the deficit during a good economy and spends during a poor economy.  It has worked to keep the deficits down since Democrats Roosevelt and Truman did so following the Great Depression and Democrat Clinton did in the 1990′s. The Congress have simply  refused to pay on the deficit since George W. Bush took over the White House or to pay for two wars, when the economy was doing well, even when Bill Clinton handed the Republican majority a balanced budget and a surplus.

The Republicans make a lot of noise over balanced budgets when there is a Democrat President in office but have a history of doing nothing and not even so much as a whisper about it, when there is a Republican President in office and they are the majority. Even the media is silent on the lack of one in most cases. The last time that the Republicans balanced a budget under their own leadership was in the 1950′s under Dwight D. Eisenhower although they like to credit themselves with the Democrat President’s success to do so.  A great deal of the hate against Bill Clinton and the Conservative’s attempt to dig up dirt on him was due to the fact that he balanced the budgets during both of his terms in the White House and was only the second President in history to do so.

Before any of us believe what Mitt Romney says and that is he and Bill Clinton think alike, make sure you hear what Bill Clinton says about that, before you believe a thing that Mitt Romney says.  The Republicans tried to impeach Bill Clinton for heaven’s sake!  Bill Clinton is not campaigning for Barack Obama because he thinks that Mitt Romney can make a better recovery of the economy than what President Obama’s administration is doing and that we  can all be certain of.

Bill Clinton is also a big supporter of Obama’s healthcare program so is Romney lying on that as well when he says they think alike? Why is Romney telling the Billionaires that he will cut their taxes by 4.6 trillion and add it to the deficit if he plans on taking their taxes from 0 to 12% to 39% like Bill Clinton did, if the two of them think alike? They have absolutely no kind of history in common in their records of running government as history will tell us in the way that Mitt Romney ran the jobs creation into the hole in Massachusetts.

The need of the consumers being met with good wages, affordable housing, and discretionary spending is what builds economies. We can all be assured that Mitt Romney has no history at all in either government or his career experience of doing any of this. When the Tea Party governors are trying to run the Unions out of the States that guarantee the workers the fair wages by voting on the “right to work laws,” and Mitt Romney has promised his supporters, “I will eliminate the housing and development Dept.(HUD)when I am elected.”  Then we should all understand the working poor and the middle class having fair wages backed by the Unions, controlled rents in reasonable markets,extra income over expenses, because we are the main consumers in America, will not happen under a Mitt Romney Presidency and businesses  will and do cease to exist when we the consumers are denied a fair days pay for a days work.  If you read my post “Mitt Romney and Bain Capital”, then we all understand why business begins hoarding money, as well.

“Trickle down economics has been a lie told to the American workers for so long that it has become the biggest lie told in America today.  When Mitt says,” when companies do well we all do well,” he is totally wrong, as it is when we have jobs and discretionary spending then we all do well.  When we have Corporations refusing to hire and instead hoarding their money to protect themselves against the Vulture Capitalist like Bain Capital then the economy fails.

The wealthy should invest in the middle class but instead they have been robbing from the middle class by not paying their fair share in taxes.  Corporations are getting tax breaks from the Republican majority to invest over-seas, over investing to create more jobs for the working poor or middle class here.These same Corporations are being paid our income taxes to keep us employed, instead of it going to our individual States, and that is leading to our States going broke, so we are being hit twice by the Capitalism that is protected by Congress. In allowing Wall Street’s  greed to grow, we the middle class get absolutely nothing out of “trickle down economics.”

Mitt and all the other Republicans have  promoted the idea of “When Companies do well we all do well” since the beginning of Reaganomics.  While their income has grown by 150% ours has fallen by 30% in the same time period.

It should have become very clear to all of us that we have been lied to for way too long by those who stand to profit the most. I assure you that it isn’t the working poor or the middle class who are the ones profiting when Corporations do well. Even with President Obama placing regulations back in place, Wall Street is doing as well now as they did during the Clinton years.

Regulations are not making companies unable to hire, as Mitt Romney claims, and that has been well proven by the Obama Administration.  Regulations simply slows down the greed and makes it more difficult for Companies to default on their promises or loans. In short it makes the boards more responsible to the shareholders and makes it more difficult for them to ”throw the dice”, so to speak.

It is the tax incentives offered through the Obama Administration that is helping the Private sector, who are the ones hiring. They always have been the main job creators in America. Without us buying the products,making their products, and selling their products Corporations are left to invest in an effort to fend off the Vulture capitalists, and that is what is happening today.

The less income consumers have to spend  the less Corporations need to create jobs. When the consumers  over-seas and here at home are buying those products, and when we have discretionary cash to buy those products, because we have jobs that pay a fair days wage, then we will all do well again. Don’t let the Mitt Romneys, Republicans and Tea Party members of this world keep lying to us for another 40 years or America will truly be back to where it was at the turn of the twentieth century and that is with the middle class having been replaced, by the working poor and the rich getting even richer. Vote in November.

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Mitt Romney And Bain Capital

I begin this post with my apologies for saying that Mitt Romney was nothing more than a hatchet man as he also spent his time establishing businesses that would make a profit of gross proportions for himself and his friends, as well.Speaking for most of the people I  speak for, I don’t think anyone begrudge Mitt’s success as an investment  success but to use it as a background that makes him more experienced at creating jobs than President OBama, when it simply rings hollow with most of us who are in or have been in business, is more than most of us can stomach.

The  OBama Administration has worked hard to gain 4.2 million jobs for the middle class and working poor while Mitt’s experience has been to take away jobs from the working class, in an effort to profit the already wealthy.  To run an equity company and all that it entails takes a personality type different from what most of us possess.  When Mitt accuses us of envy, I can assure him that we have many emotions on the subject but envy in how he accomplished his own financial gain does not even register with us.  Disdain maybe more like it.

Not all capitalism meets with the moral register of most of us.  Just because there may be huge gains in it or just as many losses does not always make it right in the minds of those of us who would object to the way Mitt has made his money. The Mafia made a lot of money in business that was legal as well, but just because it may be legal ,many times capitalism can also be morally objectable to the senses of those of us who have tried to add to the lives of others, in business. There are many legal ways to make money that enhances the life of everyone involved and we need to keep checks and balances on  capitalism as a reminder of that.

Mitt Romney along with Partners, T Coleman Andrews III and Eric Kris started   Bain Capital in 1984,and it’s reported wealth  has been established to be worth $66 Billion dollars today with a work force of 400 plus.  They began the private equity company on borrowed money of 37 million dollars.  Most equity companies do borrow their money from banks rather than use their own personal money as capital.

If we type in jobs created into any equity company, we will get 0 results since equity companies are not in the business of creating jobs but instead to make profits for their investors. They are often known as venture capitalist or by the slang word of “Vulture Capitalists”. They are the predators of the business world who take advantage of a weakness in a Company to prey upon.  The great proportion of investors in Bain Capital is and have always been the owners and professional personnel that works in the company where as many others are financed through mutual funds funded by, cities, States, and outside investors traded over Wall Street.  Bain Capital remains private.

Bain capital has been both an investment company as well as a buyout company that moves in and bankrupts Companies and takes out the profit for its shareholders.  It is the manner of the way an equity company runs that makes its real goal that of gaining profits for the owners of the company and sometimes efforts to streamline companies by laying off a great many of the people in an effort to make a company more profitable.

Bain Capital takes  its profit of 20% with terribly high fees off the top and at times  their profits grow 16 fold while the Companies  they take over go bankrupt and employees lose both their jobs and pensions.  When the companies do not go bankrupt after a take over then only approximately a third of the people are hired back if that and they often find their wages half of what it was before these equity companies take over the companies they work for.

Bain Capital is currently in the process of working American Airlines through bankruptcy so one would have to question if there is a conflict  of interest with Mitt Romney even running for President since airlines are heavily government subsidized.  It  is believed that he still has ownership in Bain Capital and it is in a blind trust.

Because of the way these equity companies are structured there is not a single Corporation or Company that finds itself losing profits because of the uncertainty of the economy that does feel comfortable in not stock piling money over creating jobs.  Everyone of them are susceptible to take over by an equity  company who has more wealth than they have, and they know that. Equity companies do not only swallow up the assets of other companies but also the jobs of the working class.  Instead of promoting job growth they prevent it.  Equity companies bully their way in with the first sign of financial weakness in a Corporation or company.  They are not invited in unless a company sometimes feels that restructuring may help save the company by the board of directors.

Mitt took two  leave of absences as CEO from Bain Capital to run as Senator of Massachusetts where he lost against Ted Kennedy and again for Governor when he won a one term election as Governor of Massachusetts. He had planned to return but never did.  Mitt worked with both Goldman Sachs and the Frist family of Indiana in partnership of take overs and with other investors.  No doubt it is his connections with Wall Street that helps explain the great amount of wealth that is pouring into his campaign.

Mitt Romney, if truth be told and we find it very lacking in his campaigns, is not a job creator but instead a wealth creator for his buddies on Wall Street.  Although he has not worked for Bain Capital for years many believe that part of his retirement package  included retaining partial ownership of Bain Capital and it is impossible to learn more since Mitt has always in all of his campaigns ,which is his right to do, refused to give full disclosure of his assets as well as his earnings over any length of time.

When asked if Bain Capital has created more jobs than jobs they lost, both Bain Capital and Mitt Romney refuse to answer the question.  It would be foolish of all of us to not to understand if Mitt created more jobs than he caused people to lose, he would be exaggerating those figures as much as he has his jump of creating 10,000 jobs while running against Ted Kennedy in 1994 to claiming to have created 100,000 today without having worked a day at Bain capital since.

As owner of Bain Capital,if Mitt wants to take credit for jobs created a decade after leaving as CEO then he needs to also take blame  for initiating the process that caused lay-offs at both Armco Steel in Kansas City as well as the steel Company in South Carolina that he merged together and both would end up failing and causing massive layoffs with employees being screwed out of their benefits and pensions.I personally had a friend who worked at Armco from the 1960′s and had over 20 years put in when  they were all escorted out. Just as he lost everything so did the majority of the others see their dreams of retirement go down the drain.

After Mitt ran a dirty campaign taking advantage of his fellow Republicans, with more money to spend, he is now finding that we are all tired of the same old lies that have been around since 2008 on President OBama, so he now claims  to be seeking the higher ground. Since Mitt Romney’s past history disputes his lies, yesterday is a hard argument for Mitt to defend or win on against President OBama.

He can not attack the Religious issue again as too many conservatives are suspect about his own Mormonism. What worked with,” the also rans,” in the Republican primary will backfire on him if team Romney repeats it against President OBama.  His campaign is struggling on the best way to re-initiate the hate campaign that worked so successfully for the Republicans and  the Tea Party in 2010.  The fact that President OBama is likeable while we do not have a clue who Mitt Romney is, makes the hate campaign against President OBama susceptible to blow up in their own faces both with women and Independent voters.

So once more Mitt Romney is using the Carl Rove approach and that is to attack the opposition of what we ourselves are guilty of doing.  Since Mitt used the character assassination attack to win the primary he is now using the reverse by accusing Barack OBama of character assassination against him, while he claims he plans on running a clean campaign.  In Republican language that means if the opposition has a truckload of facts that disputes the lies that Mitt is telling then the opposition are guilty of character assassination.  Lets face it, Mitt cannot produce the facts against Barack OBama that the OBama campaign can on him  from all of their film footage of what Mitt said in order to win before, so he is pretending to take the high road with more lies on his own accomplishments.

Mary Matalin, who ran the George W. Bush campaign openly announced on CNN that Mitt Romney wants to return to the Bush policies.  Although I do not agree with her politics, I have always found her dedication and honesty in a Party that lacks both when speaking to the American people,refreshing. When the Republicans attack President OBama for not keeping his promises, they have to be very careful as we know that President OBama kept the promise made by George W. Bush, when he stood at the sight of the attacks of 9/11 and promised we Americans that getting Osama Bin Laden was his first mission.  The last thing Mitt Romney wants to do is to be honest enough to admit that if elected he will set his sail with the Bush Administration;or in other word, tell the truth.  When a campaign  runs on lies, then they all know as we do, that their house of cards can all come tumbling down.  With all their bravo they are still trying to find the right mix  of lies that will work for them while denying they want to finish what the Bush Administration started.

Mitts true job experience during a job recovery that can be undone by greed just as the economy failed by that same greed  under the Bush Administration needs to be avoided at all cost since,it is the common practice and legal for equity companies or what most understand better as “take over companies,” to drain the pension funds of workers in companies in order to have their fees paid.  Bain Capital takes 20% of company assets off the top before they even begin to restructure or to bankrupt a company, as is common practice with Equity Companies. These are the loans that the large Banks gamble on as to if they will be paid, since equity companies borrow money as I said previously.  We have just seen a prime example of what happens in J.P. Morgan Chase when they place a wrong bet.  Mitt Romney says the Banks do not need tighter restrictions placed on them while they run their banks as a casino.

After Mitt resigned as CEO of  Bain Capital, as I said previously, he kept partial ownership of Bain Capital.  When we have the media asking how did Mitt Romney make his millions don’t we have to all scratch our heads and wonder how come they don’t know or if they are deliberately misleading us?  Of course a partial ownership of a $66 billion dollar Company paying profits and dividends into a well-managed  fund with profits being sent over-seas to avoid paying taxes would create millions if not billions of dollars over time.  One might even have reason to believe that Mitt Romney’s wealth is grossly under reported.

Bain Capital also own interests in Hong Kong, London and many other  countries, and those who have checked out the facts as far as it takes them which is often limited due to the secrecy of Equity companies, believe that Bain Capital also holds  interests in Iran. They continue to own companies whose worth are into the Billions.

If any of us think that Mitt Romney could ever feel what the lost of dignity feels like when we are fired from a job after we have poured our loyalty in,and dreamt of our investments and pensions when we retire only to have them taken from us; then perhaps this information will at last make it quite clear to all of us why Mitt Romney cannot relate to the suffering of the working poor and middle class. It must be humanly impossible, not that I ever tried it, to continue bringing in money made on the backs of the people he was responsible for firing, while promising jobs.

How can he have compassion for the working poor and middle class and still retain his own self-respect unless he has the ability to lie to himself along with all of us?  If he could he would not have begun a company on borrowed cash, whose main objective was to make himself and a few of his buddies wealthy,while doing it through firing people and taking their hard-earned savings.I quote Mitt Romney himself, “Don’t you just love to fire people?  I just love to fire people….”

When the work experience Mitt  has, is to grow wealth for himself and a hand full of others while firing the working poor and middle class, and as losing jobs as governor of a State that fell to 47 out of 50 in jobs creation, then we should have a better understanding as to why Mitt Romney does not have a conscious of empathy left for us. Any one who thinks he will be a representative of us instead of the 1% just isn’t believing what they are hearing when the truth is told to them, in my opinion.

For Mitt to develop a sudden conscious for the working class people, would cause Mitt to have emotions that he was not capable of expressing.  I suggest that is exactly why the majority of us do not feel as there is any sincerity in Mitt Romney when he is out campaigning.  He is not one of us and no matter how much he promises us jobs he will never sound sincere in those promises, simply because that is not the direction Mitt Romney will take and he knows that.

On the other hand if the rumors of him being a bully in highschool while remaining in command of a total lack of  feelings, when it came to the feelings of others is true, then we could all believe  and accept the fact that Mitt  found his calling while still in highschool couldn’t we? Have a good day everybody and don’t let the idiots get you down:)

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Why Are They Anti-Education?

We who heard Rick Santorum’s comment, “Barack OBama is such a snob he thinks everyone needs to be educated,” were amazed to hear a Tea Party and Conservative representative admit that both the Tea Party and Conservatives would acknowledge their drive to eliminate funding for public schools and State supported education. The student being under attack does not come as a surprise. I agree he did not exactly say that in those words but even though both are educated as a group they believe in vouchers going to Private schools instead and are against paying taxes to public or State schools. Their ideology is often fraught with contradictions. Santorum’s comment was intended to appeal to the home schooled children in America as well as those who do not have a college degree and supported him.

The reason that education is under attack by the right-wing is for the obvious, in that education, according to the belief of the right produces Atheists or non-God fearing individuals. This is a long held belief going back to the 1700′s. Education has always been under-attack by the Religious right or the right-wing Conservatives.

The less obvious reason today is the fact that more women than men are getting college educations in far larger numbers and the attitude still exists amongst them that education makes women “uppity,” and less likely to take orders from a man. With far more jobs requiring an education today, they over look the reason why more women are hired today than in the past. They believe, as I have said many times,that women are taking jobs from the white male who are rightfully entitled to those jobs even when they lack the same level of education.

With education and State Universities teaching our young people to think for themselves or individualism and the power to solve problems, the right-wing believes that the answers that are taught by Religion are replaced instead by answers found in Science and this underminds Religion and leaves people as Atheists or Calvinists.

Some religious beliefs are tied so tightly to the literal interpretation of the Bible that anything or anyone who disputes it are heretics.When education replaces the history that is often taught them through the Bible and not always accurately, by Religious leaders, then they blame the educators for teaching their students heresy.With the Conservative majority of 70% in the Republican Party, we will not see Science on the platform of the Republican Party in Tampa, Florida, when they officially select their Presidential candidate later this year.

At an earlier time in our history, before the McCarthy era, College professors were under literal attacks by Religious leaders and many fled to other parts of the Country or Europe because the Religious leaders were accusing them of being infidels who were teaching the young atheism. It was no different from the lies that were spread by the Conservatives during what became known as McCarthism and was of course named after Joe McCarthy who felt there was a Communist behind every tree and a conspiracy between Hollywood and the Democratic Party.

Carl Rove’s group has an ad out that calls President OBama the entertainment President because he is adding humor to his message while campaigning. I’m amazed with all the vile lies that have come out of the mouths of the Conservatives and Tea Party against our President, that he is even able to smile. God Bless him for not being the mean spirited and angry old man that Mitch McConnel and Boehner are. I wouldn’t be surprised if they drummed up conspiracy theories in Hollywood with the Democrats again. After all, all the other lies voiced by Joe McCarthy has been said against the Democrats today, that were said then. It is as though they have the playbook of that seriously disturbed man and are using it again.

Excuse me for the fact that I digressed. The belief that college professors outside of the conservative private schools are Godless people, still exists in areas of our Nation and explains why education along with educators are still degraded by some members of the Right-wing Conservatives. To hear another grown man call the President of the United States, and the only person running in this election when he openly annouces that he is from humble roots, to me, sounded as immature as it is.

Of course, in order to hold groups together the masses need to believe as their spiritual directors teach and that is why people who attend Churches are quite often referred to as flocks. When young people are taught to think for themselves or to express theories that are derived my their own efforts,they become more invested in their own abilities to solve problems as well as to question the theories taught them by others. State Universities teaches other subjects based on the beliefs of other Religions that Religious leaders feel is in direct conflict with Christianity. Many of the subjects are not part of any State curriculum but instead electives and choices given to students. It runs the gamut from pre-Bible to Hinduism

With individualism in any kind of organizations or groups or even in cliques we lose the ability to control the direction that others take when it comes to self expression of their own individual thinking. When control is lost many believe that we end up with unrest and anarchy amongst the masses. In earlier days people who were different were thought to be such a threat that many were stoned to death or burned at stakes because they were so feared by the majority. Many were simply just brighter or more talented or accepted others to a greater extent than they were accustomed to in their towns or villages. The superior intelligence of the Jewish people has been grounds for hatred against them since the developement of civilization, by other nationalities.

The Republican Party will double the amount of interests on student loans in July, if Congress does not vote to extend the lower interests of 3.2% that is currently in place on student loans. Republicans do not like student loans,not because of some of their attitudes or ideas against education, but because they have limited tolerance for the poor in America and our college students are amongst the poorest. Not all college students are born with a silver spoon in their mouths or attend Harvard or Princeton. Many find that the only way they can attend college is on student loans. Any jobs that they hold along with getting the degree goes for rent,clothing,gas and food. Many in the Republican Party do not see education as an investment in the future of America but instead as a way for banks to make money.

As a collective unit the poor do not vote for the Republican Party and we often hear the Republicans say that they are draining the resources in America. This of course is so far from the truth of where the tax payer’s dollars are spent as to be declared rediculous by all outside of Washington economists. A far greater amount is paid into Corporate welfare than goes to the poor. The poor do not have a voice in how America is ran nor are they homeowners who can add a proportionately level of income to Capitalism, as a rule, so the Republican Party pretty much shuns them. Mitt Romney has openly admitted to the fact that he does not care for the poor as they have a safety net already. That so-called safety net is slated for removal by the Republican Party under the Ryan Plan. Instead we will hear the Republicans say, along with Mitt Romney,”the fact that the Republicans do not care about the poor,” is just a myth or a diversion tactic used by the Democrats and Barack OBama, in an election year.

When the Democrat majority lowered the interests rates to 3.2% all the Republican Party saw was the interests that would be lost to Capitalism, and banking especially. That is why when a student asked Mitt Romney if he planned on lowering interest rates on student loans in his last run for the President in 2008 his reply was,”No siree, we are not going to give away any cheap money here.” He can now agree on a temporary extension since it comes up for vote again in July before he would be in office.

Many believe that both sides of the aisle will vote to continue it temporarily since it is an election year. However, It is just another one of those investments in our future that is slated to be done away with under the Ryan Plan, if we end up with a Republican majority, in November. Your vote is needed for your own future as well as ours. Vote in November.

Addition: In support of Mitt Romney, Boehner, and Mitch McConnell, both announced yesterday they would extend the current student loan interests rate at 3.2% for another year. We can all bet if a Republican majority is elected, it will be gone after that. The Ryan Plan claims to be tax reform but it is the biggest disgrace in our Nation yet when it comes to tax inequity provisions because it is balancing the budget on the backs of the poor,students,middle class workers and the elderly while leaving Corporate welfare and oil subsidies alone along with the wealthy untouched while lowering their taxes even further. It is a disgrace in the eyes of many but what the Republicans have taken a oath to defend and to pass.

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Intelligence vs. Ignorance

Living in a Society that is both civilized and advanced requires educating ourselves to levels equal to or greater than those who do threaten both our fiscal as well as our personal safety.

We do not always need to sit in a class room to educate ourselves when all things relevant is just a keyboard away. Not all people have the luxury of formal education but to own a computer and to not check out the facts but instead to say,”politics bores me because they are all alike,” is no excuse to not educate ourselves on the differences before we vote. If we only check those sites that agree with our own views then we operate from ignorance rather than intelligence as to consider the view of the opposition is what education really entails. All candidates who have held previous office will have a voting record that can be easilly checked out at any.GOV website as well as elsewhere on the net.

It is not the responsibility of people who write blogs to refer us to their chosen sites and lets face it,it is quite lazy of us to depend on that as a source of our information as many of those websites are slanted to project the view of the person responsible for either writng it or presenting it. If the Democracy that brave men and women have fought and died for in order to preserve freedom for all of us is not worth our time to check out credible websites on our own, that are free from political views, then we should question our own value system.

The Conservatives are in such control of the Republican Party today, they will not allow either Science or global warming to be part of their platform at their National Convention, that will be held to select their candidate for President later this year.

When we as a Society need to change our text books, as they have in Kansas and elsewhere, to eliminate and get rid of the the theory of evolution and to replace it with only Creationism;when a Republican majority passes laws that state life begins two weeks before conception or before the sperm meets the egg;When men meet to determine that women are not entitled to equal pay for the same job or to protest their firing as men are allowed to do, or to decide on the use of birth control;when laws are backed up in our States in regard to the rights of Americans in the bedroom and to marry; when people of a different colored skin than the white male are being stopped in automobiles to check if they have a green card;when children born in America are denied citizenship; when workers’ Unions are being eliminated and the list that is being made longer each year by the Tea Party and right-wing Conservatives, individually or together, to eliminate both public schools and our freedoms; it does not take a high level of intelligence to realize that someone or something is drastically denying reality by setting up a smoke screen to divert our attention elsewhere through the use of lies in the Republican Party.

When children are bullied and both are punished equally then do any of us have to question why children return with a gun to their classrooms?
Children are no different from adults in that what they really want is respect from adults for doing what is right and respect for what belongs to them.Why can’t an adult act like an adult and make the children sit down and disguss why the bully feels entitled to pick on someone who refuses to stoop to their level of ignorance and use fists to solve anything?

Perhaps respecting each other and our differences needs to be taught in class rooms since parents obviously are not teaching it at home. Sometimes it requires nothing more than keeping the bullies a few minutes longer by allowing the child or children who are being abused to leave a few minutes earlier with or without parents support, and yet adults that are suppose to keep our children safe will not take those few minutes to assure the safety of our children.

School boards can make rules and ask that they be enforced when common courtesy is missing in the home, if they themselves do not fear the child or parents position in the community. Most people who have an iota of common sense will and would question what is taking place in America that makes us not want to seek justice in an intelligent way over that of showing children how to be a better bully by punishing the already abused with the same punishment that the bully receives. Too many schools will expell the innocent along with the guilty when they do try to defend themselves. Years of research shows that children who are taught to respect others do not become criminals where as those who have no respect for others,do.

Instead some Americans voted in the “Stand your ground law” that was inacted by the Republican majority in 17 States that will give the bullies of America even more power to bully those who refuse to let ignorance rule their lives by the use of fists or force. These same Republicans are eliminating Unions who set the standards of safety and establishes the level of wages for all middle class workers by voting in favor of “the right to work laws” that require workers to work longer hours and to receive less pay.

To the rest of the World whose economy is at a minus rate and the best that the economy is expected to grow in the Nations who use the euro is .03% our growth rate at 2.3% is a booming economy. We always have looked like a bunch of whiners to a world economy that has faltered and stopped many times while we continue growth at a larger or much greater rate than they do. We also are much more under taxed than these Nations are, while the Republicans talk about lowering taxes even further and driving our deficit even higher. Common sense should tell all of us if we just keep borrowing on our accounts and never put anything back in that we will go broke and farther in debt. That is exactly what has happened and is happening in America because our federal tax rates are the same as they were in the 1950′s and we are not putting money back into the United States Treasury to pay for our bills and yet Mitt Romney and the Republicans want to lower the taxes paid by the wealthy another 4.6 trillion dollars.

When we have politicians and voters both of the attitude that the only thing that is important in a free Country is to make sure President OBama loses and instead their candidate wins, even when he is a well documented liar,was unpopular in his own constituency and State and quit rather than run again because he knew he would lose if the people of Massachusetts voted; when he did win the election he took his own State to being 47 in the Nation for job gain and amongst the largest for job lost, while the economy was still healthy on the very same things he is running on in order to increase job growth today and denies his intent to return to the Bush era politics; we know he supports the Ryan Plan that literally robs money from our own pockets, after we have already paid in, to give to the 1%;he embraces the likes of a man such as Ted Nugent instead of standing up against hate;and we can expand that list further, then America and Americans are being offered far less than what we deserve as a free and rightfully Proud Nation. Intelligence as well as common sense should be the reason for our votes in November if we are to defeat ignorance in America. Vote in November.

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An “Ode” To Truth

I have been interested in and followed politics for many years, but never have I heard so many lies as I heard in 2010 and already this election year; for that reason I am including the following quotes as a reminder to all in the Conservative movement,Tea Party movement, and the Republican Party to understand the value of Truth.

Lies are not only a corrupt way to win elections they also erode the very foundation of what “We the People” hold dear in Democracy. The truly great men of History did recognize the Honor of truth. An election won on lies is never won by great men or women but only by losers, as no person who wins on lies, can ever win the respect of A Nation or the World, for long.

Regardless of what the bigots or the 1% do towards stroking their ego or how much wealth they endow their campaign with, or how great their own lust for power and greed or to rub elbows with the wealthy is, none will ever measure up with the great men in history, unless they run an honorable campaign based on truth.

It is up to “WE the People” to recognize the truth over the lies before we vote. Sadly, there are more lies than truth coming from those who want to represent us in both the incumbents as well as those who wish to lead in the Republican Party all over our Great Country. When women lose their right to choose it will only be a matter of time for everyone else in the middleclass to lose their right to choose,as well. If we waste our votes on their lies, then we only erode our own freedom. Here then are the quotes on Truth that I have selected:

1.It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak it and another to hear it–Henry David Thoreau

2. A Nation that is afraid to let it’s people judge the truth or falsehood in the marketplace, is a Nation that is afraid of it’s people—John F. Kennedy

3.Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to Society—–Thomas Jefferson

4. Morality is the basis of things and truth is morality—Mahatma Ghandi

5.The object of a Superior man is the Truth—Confuscious

6.The truth is incontrovertible,malice may attack it,ignorance may deride it but in the end it remains—-Winston Churchill

7.When I despair, I remember throughout all history it is love and truth that have always won. There have been Tyrants and murderers, and for awhile they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.—-Mahatma Ghandi

8.I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarilly defeated is stronger than evil triumphant—-Martin Luther King Jr.

9.I am for truth no matter who tells it, I am for justice no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and as such I am for whatever or whoever benefits humanity the most.—Malcolm X

10.Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted with truth in large matters—-Albert Einstein

11. Tell the truth or someone will tell it for you.—-Stephen Klein

12. Above all do not lie to yourself, as the man who lies to himself and listens to his own lies comes to the point that he cannot distinguish the truth in him or around him, so loses all respect for himself and others,in losing all respect he ceases to love.–Fyodor Dostoyesky from “The Brothers Karamzov

I hope you enjoyed my, “Ode to truth”, as much as I enjoyed writing it. Heaven knows after a long Republican primary bordering on insanity at times, the majority of us can agree on one thing and that is truth in the Republican Party is long over-due.

Hug those close to you and send love to those far from you this weekend if YOU have been meaning to call or e-mail. If not then just enjoy your space.

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The Smear Campaign Starts

Mitt Romney in his campaign to win back the Women’s vote yesterday, visited two women owned businesses and began his efforts to win back the women’s vote by saying the Obama Administration has declared war against women. For those who do not know yet that is the old Carl Rove attack message, accuse the opposition of what we ourselves are guilty of doing.

Mitt flashed around a piece of paper showing that 92.3% of women were laid off during the recession because President OBama was doing war on women. Of course Mitt ignored entirely the truth that it was his good buddies in the 1% who were the ones laying off women. Had it not have been for the OBama Administration the recession could have been a worse Depression than the Great Depression.Apparently Mitt Romney did not want to acknowledge the lay offs of the previous administration.

So many men were laid off by the Republican 1% that it became known as the man-cession. No one was spared by the recession that began as a result of the Republican and 1% greed long before President OBama entered the White House. Mitt in his efforts to show women how much the Republicans planned on doing for them carefully stayed away from birth control,conception, and the Republican years of repeal of equal pay for equal work for women.

The facts on the 92.3% layoffs in women are that the recession started 18 months before Barack OBama entered office and after an average of 750,000 people a month were being laid off per month by the previous Administration with a total of 8.4 million people losing their jobs. During the OBama Administration a total of that 8.4 million people laid off involved 1.2 million jobs for women, while 3.4 million men lost their jobs.

What Mitt Romney has failed to acknowledge is that a great deal of these layoffs for women were teachers,librarians, and women who worked in labs. The majority of both middle class men and women were laid off in the Red States due to Tea Party sponsored and Conservative elected Govenors, Union busting and budget slashing, while introducing the “right to work laws” that lower both the wages as well as lengthen the hours the middle class must work.

President OBama has been able to add back one million jobs for women in this last year alone and a total of 4.2 million jobs during his time in office. During the same amount of time that President OBama has been preventing a deep Depression the Republican Party has offered zip,zero, and nada in way of a jobs package for either women or men, even though they have had control of Congress since the 2010 elections. With the Republican majority insistence on lifting all restrictions on Corporations and Financial Institutions which they continue to promote, they offered nothing to stop or prevent the greed in the previous Administration that led to these massive lay-offs of the middle class, while they had control of the office of President, House and Senate.

When Sam Stein of the Huffington Post asked Mitt Romney if he would support the Lillian Ledbetter Act, he was told he would have to get back to him. Mitt Romney clearly did not know or understand that the Lillian Ledbetter act was held up for decades by the Republican majority or even appeared to know what it was. It is what President OBama signed into law the first week he was in office. It gives women the same pay as men get for the same job. Later Mitt, after checking with his advisers, would not say he would support it but he said he would not repeal it. The last vote taken by the Republican Party before President OBama signed it into law when we still had a majority of Democrats in Congress shows that only 7 Republicans voted in favor of it and all the others voted against it.

Arizona is at it again. Just when we think they cannot make birth control anymore limiting for women then the Republicans show us,”Yes we can.” The Republican led Senate in Arizona has passed a bill stating that life begins 2 weeks before a woman has sex or in their terms Conception. So I say this with tongue in cheek,”Beware all Virgins across America who have never had sex as according to the Arizona Senate every egg you lose during a menstural cycle is susceptible to no less than having an abortion,if you are thinking of having sex, according to this Republican majority.”

Taking into consideration that the Republican majority denies Science, then I guess, they have no idea of the study of Biology in which it takes sperm to actually meet with an egg in order make a fetus. Just thinking about having sex that may lead to conception does not a pregnancy make. We could not make these things up if we tried. The Republican Party has gone insane over trying to restrict and eliminate the rights of women and in the meantime Mitt Romney is lying through his teeth while saying that President Obama is at war with women. The Republican majority have fought President OBama on his efforts to help women, and yelled instead,”Interference with Religious rights!”

Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman,both Tea Party darlings, announced that Mitt Romney should go rogue and appoint Republican Allen West of Florida as his vice President. Want to know the connection? When the McCain and Palin ticket fell in the polls against Obama and Biden, Sarah Palin started hinting at the lie and then came out in full force of it, that President OBama was a socialist and a terrorist. It is where the insistence that President OBama is a Muslim and not a Citizen of United States got its roots.

Tea Party supported Republican Allen West of Florida stood infront of a crowd in Florida and announced that there are either 78 or 81 communists members in the Democratic Party. He named the entire Democrat delegaton of the Progressive Caucus as being active members of the Communist Party. The same members who refuse to back the Tea Party Backed Ryan Plan that would add another trillion dollars plus to the deficit by lowering the taxes on the wealthy.

There clearly are no boundaries against the lies told by any and all Tea Party sponsored candidates and darlings and their associates, as a website operated by one of their associates even has me operating under several aliases since they have not found any information on me. I can assure everyone that I do not have any idea how people do form aliases. The fact that I have no record and haven’t even had so much as a parking ticket must just make it easier to accuse me of being someone capable of aliases.Anything I write about sounds more suspect when they uses aliases than if they just said they could not find any information on me. Anyone who doubts their infiltration of lies all over the internet,in print,cable, radio, Facebook,Twitter, and other social networks, simply are not being realistic.

Anyone who does not agree with them or dares to tell the truth are labeled as liberals, communists, socialists, and or terrorists. This is identical to the way people’s names and reputations, along with their property, were destroyed by the Conservatives during the McCarthy era. McCarthy, along with the overwhelming support and help of the Coservatives, accused almost all of the actors and stars of Hollywood of being communists. Their lies did great damage to the innocent as well as led to a great amount of loss of income and people being fired because these innocent people were black balled in Hollywood by these lies.

The Democratic budget that is being decided on by the Progressive Caucus that lowers the deficit, and the members that Allen West Calls Communists, meets with over-whelming approval by “We the People,” I present the following statistics of the budget worked out by the Progressive caucus:

1. eliminate the Bush tax cuts for those making more than 1 million dollars a year. This meets with 68% approval of “We the People.”
2. eliminate subsidies given to oil Companies. This meets with 78% of approval by “We the People”
3. Place a sur-charge on the income tax of all people making 10 Million dollars or more per year; 81% of “We the People” approve
4. adoption of the Buffet Rule or Reagan Rule as both proposed the same and that is to close the loophole that makes it possible for some millionaires and billionarires to pay less in taxes than their secretary does. 65% of “We the People” approve.

For any and all who still do not get that the smear campaign against all Democrats and especially President Obama has been NASTY and will get much worse, with both the managers of the Republicans and Tea Party Supporters adding lie after lie, then all I can say is just keep repeating to yourself, “There is a Tooth Fairy” “There is a Tooth Fairy” and you will end up in another America foreign to anything we were fortunate enough to live in. Vote in November.

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So Mitt’s Purchase Is Complete

By outspending his fellow Republicans by 10 to 2 or more, Mitt Romney, has won the support of Republican Party. All I can say to the Republican elite is,”Are you nuts?” or “Is that the best that the Republicans can do?” Mitt was a candidate who could not even gain in the double digits just 4 years ago, because quite frankly, no one wanted him then either. It leads me to question just how arrogant has the Republican Party become?

Did they think anyone could win against President OBama? Did they think they were able to buy the elections in 2010 with the lies being told by the Tea Party and we would all buy into it again? Were they going to send in their trojan horse in the name of Romney and convince us that a Hatchet man for Baine and Company would do an honorable job of getting unemployment down after he laid off all of the people slated for a pension plan?

Do they think they have so sucessfully won over the middle class by doing nothing but filing law suits against the OBama Administration to undo his efforts to try to help the middle class, and it left us wanting more of the Republicans? Did they think anyone could beat OBama and Mitt will be a good stick man to do their bidding because he changes direction like most people change underwear? Or are they so desperate to go back to what the Bush Administration was not able to complete that they needed a man so desperate to gain the White House he would be perfect to blame for all the lay offs ahead? After all that is the experience of Mitt. He made the State of Massachusetts one of the highest for lay-offs while Govenor as well.

Whatever the reason, Mitt Romney, is their new front man and I just shake my head and have to ask,”Who do they think will support or vote for Mitt Romney, other than the white collar male worker who will ultimately find that they will get the pink slip since it is their benefits and pension plan that will be the first to be eliminated? The Bush Administration did not quite get there with their 780,000 people laid off the last month of his Presidency so they need to complete their overhaul in order to save money for the 1% who do not want to be burdened by what they feel are unecessary pensions and benefit packages. Not to worry, once they have your vote, you will be able to get a $10.00 an hour job at Staples. Mitt likes to fire people,remember?

If there are any blue collar workers left of the male persuasion, naive enough to support any Republican candidate then it is because they are working for themselves or the family business and have done well with the migratory labor who work much cheaper and do not need to be paid a fair days wage. Others have been successful by paying a fair wage and as a result have fallen into the habit of always voting Republican. All the guys he drinks beer with or entertains are Republicans and they have their blue color stories on people of different races,religions and gender. They either hate them or are indifferent about them but they enjoy a good joke or two aimed against them. Unlike women many of these Republicans will not vote as they would prefer to complain about President OBama than vote for a candidate that cannot relate to them, even if they are Republican.

Finally we have people whose Father always voted Republican who believe every lie they have ever heard against President OBama because the Republicans do not lie to them,in their minds. After all they have been told by Rush Limbaugh,Christian Broadcasting,Sarah Palin and Bill O’Reilly of Fox News, along with the Tea Party and Republicans that President OBama is a heathen and a threat to the American people. These people cannot wait to get him out of office, because their ministers have riled them up enough to believe every word they have been told. There still are those left who do not know the Republican Party is no longer the same Party it was when their Dad was alive nor do they care. They will vote Republican anyway.

The real lack of interest in Mitt Romney that explains the lack of enthusiasm beyond his own record and personality, is that the zealots who really do hate President OBama do not like Mitt Romney any better. They will vote for him but they will not be happy about it.

If the Power that be, thinks that the above people will be enough for them to get over the top and win the election in November then we all must ask ourselves just what kind of lies or dirty tricks do they have in mind, that they think will win them this election?

I didn’t mention minorities,women, and the majority of the middle class workers in the above analogy because quite frankly the majority of all of us will not believe a word that the Republicans do utter anymore than my generation did Richard Nixon after the wire tap of Watergate. The “do nothing” Republican record speaks for itself and although this is pure speculation on my part, I am still amazed that the Republicans would think that they would not need to defend their own record of fighting President OBama everytime he tried to improve the well being of the middle class.

Personally, “it blows me away”, that the Republican leadership is that out to lunch or that arrogant, that they felt that the Bush record was now far enough behind them and they did not take into consideration their own miserable record of the last four years. Has the Republican Party now reached the point that any millionaire or billionaire can buy the Republican election or are they simply that out of touch with the majority of Americans? I’ll let you answer that question for yourselves at the election polls in November.

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The Lies And Threats Of The Tea Party

There have been many lies told and attempts made at endoctrination by the Tea Party in its membership, but the two greatest lies told are that they are bi-partisan and they are fiscally conservative. They are not nor will they ever be, Democrat or Independent. They will add all the pork to any and all bills as well as delay or drag their feet on any or all provisions made for the middle class by the Democrats or moderate Republicans, as long as they cannot take personal gains from it. When it suits their image they will flood us with photo or media opportunity.

The Tea Party are Republicans and do not mistake them for being fiscally conservative as their main goal is to compliment and promote the goals of the far right in America, while eliminating government altogether.They have made attempts to promote the idea that they want to thin out the Conservatives in politics, however, it is their dollars and support that has increased the strength of the far right.

The Tea Party leaders in truth, want to eliminate any control over commerce, and currently what are considered illegal practices, through eliminating the laws protected by government. In order to do this they need to instead make the legalization of both prostitution and street drugs including heroin the norm, and in doing so profit from it. They have put a great deal of money into campaigns to defeat any incumbents both Democrats and Republicans that voted with President OBama in his choices for the Supreme Court.

In areas like Indiana which has always been Republican Luger’s territory and Utah which has always been Republican Orin Hatch’s domain, it may even backfire on them as it opens up the possibility of a Democrat being able to win their seats after years of the Democrats never challenging either candidate. It’s not likely but it is possible that a Democrat could now win,but we do need to understand in both cases the Tea Party will match two dollars for their choice of Republican candidate to every dollar spent by the Luger and Hatch campaigns and $3 dollars and more against any Democrat candidate that will run.

They have tons of people whose only job it is, to make certain they spend hours at looking through the candidates personal life as well as their records in an attempt to get “dirt” on them that will defeat them at the polls. The Tea Party wants both out of office because they voted in favor of President OBama’s candidates to the Supreme Court. The Tea Party is after control of the Supreme Court appointees as well as behind the voter suppression and the “Stand Your Ground Laws.”

The hate against President OBama along with the lies told and the propaganda that has divided us in America has been done by the money and influence in America that backs and supports the Tea Party movement. They neither believe that America was intended to be a Democracy nor led by a government. They are racists to the inth degree and would deny all Americans the same freedoms that they feel that the white male is entitled to.

They are also flaming Religious rights against a woman’s right to her own health issues and to deny us the insurance coverage we women all pay for in greater amounts than the male gender. It has been their elected govenors who have attempted to make the vaginal probe of women law. They have been vocal from day one on the lies that were spread and even helped coin Obama care. They like the Conservatives encouraged lawyers and judges to take the healthcare voted on by our elected majority before the Supreme Court and continue to mislead the people on the fact that instead of costing us 90 million it actually saves us 101 million dollars. People with pre-existing disease and children who could not get coverage otherwise are now covered. It gives students time to complete their studies while still covered under their parents’ healthcare plan. It has already saved retirees millions of dollars in the drugs they require in order to remain active or alive, by closing the donut hole.

Although the true views and actions of the Tea Party are entirely against the beliefs of most Americans, the polls still show that 60% of the American people support the Tea Party movement. It is time that we all recognize to what extent this movement is destroying both the Republican Party as well as our own rights to Freedom that we are ALL entitled to and have paid for. They are behind the elimination of the Unions that set the standards and wages for all middle class workers with their “right to work laws” that only lower wages and demand longer working hours for all of us. They are the Ryan Plan that would deny millions of middleclass workers’ children treatment through Medicaid or the elderly the choice of Doctor or treatment by eliminating Medicare and Social Security as we know it. They are as driven as the Conservatives are to eliminate the Dept. of education,headstart and Planned Parenthood.

In their efforts to destroy Democracy for all, which they truly are working to eliminate through the elimination of government control, they unfortunately will gain ground with the display by the GSA in Las Vegas, recently.

The behavior of the GSA only increases the belief that all government agencys need to be done away with, in the minds of the American people. The actions and behavior of the GSA in Las Vegas, will be broadcast widely by both the media and the Republicans who have tried hard to promote the idea that it is President OBama and the Democrats who favor big spending and waste in government. Of course, that is just another lie but they will take it and run unless the Democrats can prove that the same was going on during the Bush years. At any rate they will deny it anyway. Too many of us will buy into the idea of the Democrat’s spending long before we recognize that “We the People” are the government and without it the middle class becomes much more vulnerable to the class rule that the Tea Party truly favors.

Without government and Unions to protect us; with the Tea Party spread of the lies of voter fraud, they will continue making it more difficult for us to vote;with their “stand your ground laws” they are promoting the right to the return of vigilantes who shot people who said anything they didn’t like and called it self defense; with their legalization of prostitution they will sell more foreign women and young girls into prostitution; with their inflaming the belief of liberals destroying religious rights insane laws will continue to protect their rights against the rest of the citzenry of Americans and the ways in which they are slowly eroding our rights through their propaganda and lies will continue.

If we the voters do not wise up and do it quick then we will continue being the 99% who are denied our freedoms and rights, while sliding further into poverty by these John Birch Society beliefs that are being promoted by the Tea Party.

I will close then with this,Anyone who thinks that the Tea Party promoter of hate against President OBama, as an active Marine, is entitled to promote his hate on Facebook, then I encourage you to go on FaceBook and say the same thing about your boss and see how long you keep Your job. Also anyone who believes that the 1% should not pay their fair share, I remind you that your vote for any or all Republicans, will testify to the fact that you do stand with the 1%.

Its time to stop the lies and in doing so to stop the Tea Party movement that would destroy the Democracy that makes America great. Freedom is Democracy and the reason so many have shed blood and died, so we all could remain in charge of the rights that our Constitution insures. The young people who have shed that blood and made those sacrifices are neither Democrats or Republicans but are of all races,creeds,colors, and gender. Its time we as citizens support the very reason we are free and get rid of this movement that poisons the freedom for all of us. We are at our strongest and greatest as Americans when we join together. We must educate ourselves to defeat all of those who would destroy both Democracy and freedom, before we vote. When we do, I am confident that we all will throw them out in November.

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Duping The Blue Collar Workers

One of the greatest tragedys being done in America by the Conservatives and Tea Party candidates today, in my estimation, is the duping they are doing to the blue collar workers in America; Because this sector of workers have been the hardest hit of the American middle class workers.

The National statistics show that it is the highscool graduate who is the hardest hit by unemployment today and yet the Conservative right continues to discourage both the study of Science and education as a whole. Rick Santorum even called President OBama a snob for the efforts he has tried to make towards making education more affordable for all. What the Republican Party with the actions of the Tea Party sponsored candidates have done with the “Right to Work Laws”is nothing short of immoral, to add insult to injury.

While the Republican candidates talk about adding jobs that are being outsourced over seas the current statistics show that unemployment for the highschool graduate stands at 8.3, while those with a trade certificate or an Associate degree is 7.3 and those with a Bachelor’s degree is at 4.2, which is below the National average of 5.5, during a robust economy. It is Corporations in America who are adding to the unemployment rate, while the Conservatives and Tea Party protests the injustices towards Corporate America and point a finger instead to the unfriendliness of the OBama Administration towards Big Business.

While the Conservatives and Tea Party talk about morality and family values in America, they have convinced the blue collar workers of the injustice of Unions instead and their right to hold jobs that have been Union backed in the past.In doing this they are only continuing what the Republicans started twenty plus years ago while doing nothing more than lowering the pay of the middle class workers all over America.

Since the Unions, who the Republican Party have fought since the advent of their introduction into American life, established working conditions and wages for everyone, both blue and white collar workers alike, the Republican argument for free enterprise or Capitalism has tried to poison the water of the Unions. Only by removing the worker’s Unions, from the life of all American workers, could Capitalism cheat the American worker out of an honest day’s pay.The pay rate has continued to drop as a result of the Republicans and their introduction of “the right to work laws.”  They are not honest enough to explain this to the 99% of workers but the real point of all their greed has been to eliminate minimum wage while lowering expectations of the middle class.

Too many people in an effort to feed their families and to keep their pride alive are following along with this demeaning charade that has been enacted upon them by the Tea Party and Conservative politicians, in hopes that their original pay will return when in truth it will never come back.  The workers are being told that the company will go bankrupt if they are not willing to make the sacrifices today and this has worked for too many years while the Company projects unheard of profits. While the 99% are willing to sacrifice out of Company loyalty the 1% refuse to understand or accept the concept of shared sacrifice.

People who are looking to Mitt Romney to lead them out of poverty are simply being led to believe that Mitt is a person of great business ability.  Mitt, instead, is a person who is a promoter of the right to work laws and has never worked as anything in the private sector other than a hatchet man.  People who put their hopes in the basket of Mitt Romney, foolishly thinking he will turn around the economy to the point that it will grow in leaps and bounds for the middle class, are only duping themselves into a false reality or hope.  They will be sadly disappointed if they pin their hopes on him. 

Mitt’s job was to eliminate the $40 an hour jobs for the minimum wage jobs in Staples that he likes to brag about.  Mitt has made the Mormon owned Corporations and Companies millions while laying off hundreds of thousands in the private sector.  As Governor of Massachusetts he took the State to one of the highest job lost of any State in the entire United States. He wisely chose to not seek a second term when his own advanced studies showed that 57% plus of the population of voters did not want him back.

Everytime Mitt opens his mouth against President OBama and his own accomplishments he either exaggerates the truth or outwardly lies about the facts. Others kindly call it flip flopping while others less kindly refer to it as Mr.Etch-A-Sketch. We expect that all of the Republican politicians will make a few exagerations and tell lies but never has a candidate for President told so many as Mitt.

The duping that is being done to the middle class American workers by the Republicans is only second to the bigotry when it comes to the greatest shame taking place in our Nation by the Party who claims family values, today.

Until we all educate ourselves on the lies being told, we are only aiding them in their greed. The Corporations in America who are willing to employ the “Blue Collar” worker must have better trained as well as educated workers, as the job market changes. We must promote education instead of discouraging it as the current Consevatives continue to do.

It is through making education affordable to all Americans the middleclass will move itself out of the poverty it progressively fell into. Todays mechanics,brick layers,factory workers, etc. need to be better trained in the technology and equipment that runs the jobs today. It is our responsibility in the final analysis to know the difference between the lies being told us and the sucessful needs of our own future. Re-elect Barack OBama,who is the only man in the office of President and those who would try to claim it, who is fighting hard for you.

All the other candidates are only trying to replace your jobs with minimum wage or lay offs or your social security checks with private enterprise greed. They simply want to take over Medicare, the government owned insurance agency, to make greater profits for their cronies private owned insurance companies under the name of the Ryan Bill,(See Social Security For Future Generations written by me previously) while demanding entitlements and welfare from government subsidies in the process. It’s a fact that we can all bank on.

It neither matters if Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum wins in the primaries, as if either wins in November, we all stand to lose at a much greater rate than any of us have since they waged this same war in the 1950′s and 60′s. Vote the bums out in November.

 

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The Conservative Need to Control

In Griswold vs. Connecticut the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the use of contraceptives could not be prohibited by any State and that is was a private matter protected by the clause in the 14th Amendment. The use of contraceptives is a personal decision granted to American citizens.

In Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court made it clear that abortion is a personal decision and a woman’s right and should be made between a woman and her Doctor.

The Conservative movement in America is screaming about Government being in the bedroom but in truth it is they who have filed case after case with Conservative judges to the point that the number of cases in the Court system are backlogged when it comes to their attempts to control sex and birth control in America. They are spending today and tomorrow at their annual meeting to firm up their decision to who can best control us as a Nation.

The Conservatives constant interference into the private rights of American citizens should be a concern to all of us, as it boils down to a bunch of white males or “Good Old Boys” and 33% of the American population, who have become so involved into denying the private rights of American citizens, to the point they have lost all touch with reality in most cases.

Their lack of respect for the Constitution and Supreme Court that grants the private rights of women and gays has made them totally disrespectful towards both. They are telling both women and gays that we do not have a right to enjoy the freedom granted us by law and under the Constitution of America. In their back rooms they practice bigotry and hate towards other nationalities and beliefs, in the most bigoted manner, while they deny that prejudice exist in America.

It is this hate in them along with their obsession over the sexual act itself that is destroying the Democracy that we all have a right to enjoy. All four candidates running on the Republican ticket are leaning so far right as to curry the favor of the Conservatives to the point they are making a mockery out of our Constitution and the Supreme Court that was given the clear power to grant us the rights of Freedom to choose for ourselves.

When a couple of Catholic Bishops complained that Religious rights had never been so stepped on by President OBama it was nothing more than the same old smoke screen thrown up every time that the Christian Churches in America become concerned that their right to control women is slipping.

Since 98% of sexually active Catholics use birth control and since the Church cannot force them to not use it, they are trying to force government to ban all contraception used by women, and in the process, deny all women their Constitutional right to their own health issues.

It is Religion interfering into government while President OBama is insisting that women’s healthcare needs are as important as men’s. In Griswold vs. Connecticut it is specifically spelled out that no State under the 14th amendment can deny women the coverage of insurance for contraception.

Since our forefathers clearly formed the Constitution making both separation of Church and State law as well as the decisions of the Supreme Court the last law of the land including over Religion, then it is religion that is transgressing over the law of separation of Church and State in their efforts to force government to abide by their teachings.

Pro choice is not pro abortion but instead the choice of women to determine their own health issues. The Churches promote the label of pro-choice being pro abortion when it is instead the right of women to ensure The Equal Rights Amendment that guarantees women the right to make decisions on their own bodies and health issues. It is not only abortion that the Churches are fighting against as it is the use of all contraception by women, through forcing the government to do what they cannot do in their own Churches, they are clearly trying to usurp the authority of our Constitution and Supreme Court decisions.

We experienced the same thing with labeling by the Conservative attacks against the liberals during the McGovern years. Since then the word Liberal or Progressive has been held in the same position and demonized as a product of Satan, amongst the Conservatives; To think that in the year 2012,anyone who wanted to advance the cause of women, gays and minorities would be branded as sinner and destructive towards Religious rights, blows the minds of most free thinking and rational people.

I have already reported 28 States have already made in mandatory that Religious Institutions provide contraception for women. The largest Catholic University in America. Depaul University, along with numberous other Catholic Hospitals and Universities have always provided for contraception.

In their efforts to defeat President OBama and swing the vote back to their candidate of choice, Rick Santorum, they threw  up a smoke screen to win and control the elections in the swing States and called out the Evangelicals to assist, and it worked for them. The truth is they do not like Mitt Romney as they think that the Mormon Religion is a cult and not a member of Christianity. Personally, I believe he is every bit as destructive to our right to be free as all the other candidates, as he too claims to do away with contraception. It is banned already in the Mormon Church.

If we have ever been raised Christian then we all know that we are born with an automatic defense system to protect the Church. That is because we are brain washed into believing from almost “day one” that the Church has always been under attack since the day of Christ. We take a Sacrament to protect the Church in some cases, so we become defensive anytime we hear anyone speak against it, even when others know what is being said is nothing more than the simple truth. they have come to rely on that when shoving their candidate of choice onto the American voters.

This is true in most other religions as well. Christianity survived because of the women after Christ death and Resurrection and it was the women of the Church who gave alms to the poor and established much of what would draw Pagans to the Christian Church. that has been lost in the teachings of too many, today.

The need to control women and gays has never been greater than what it is today, across America,by the Conservatives to the point it has reached the point of a sick obsession. Rick Santorum would convince all Americans that the 40% of Americans who are single or from single family homes, are all nothing but losers, and therefore not worthy of the Constitutional rights of the perfect family that consist of both Mom and Dad in a home where the couple are married.

When a candidate like Rick Santorum is their candidate of choice in the year 2012, we can begin to worry until we realize that worry is not necessary when we realize that we are rational and aware. If he is President he has said he will ban the use of all contraception because the libertine movement of women and the use of contraception is just plain wrong. How he plans on doing that with the Supreme Court being the last law of the land, he does not say.

Rick Santorum has also said that gay sex is not same person sex but man on dog sex. He like Michelle Bachman, another Tea Party favorite, would point missiles towards Iran without the use of sanctions or diplomacy. He claims that President OBama is protecting Iran to attack Israel. Clearly this man does not plan to lead by putting the Equality of Americans, truth, or common sense, above his own bigoted views of hate. We are looking at a very disturbed mind indeed, and the people who would vote for such a person are equally disturbed, in my estimation.

Although the polls show that these same 33% of women oppose the use of contraception the other 58% of women believe it to be our own personal right, since it is, and has been established in the Supreme Court. The great majority of us would like to think that if we were being denied our rights of equality we would make certain that the person trying to deny us the same would not be the person we would elect to office of the President.

This seems to go right over the head of some women when they are told to vote their conscience. Unless we have been brainwashed ourself, we cannot possibly understand why women do constantly vote against their own best interests and for inequality, without being made to feel guilty when they do get the courage to do the right thing for all Americans, and demand their own God-given as well as State given right to free will and equality.

It flys into the face of all of us who use our brains to rationalize, that Trump would promote the Birther Belief that these 33% of our population still cling to, when they firmly believe that President Barack OBama is a Muslim and not a citizen of the United States. That is until we realize that Trump is the Master of Paper Capitalism, that got our economy into the mess it is in. Without backing the Birther belief, he stands to lose the Republican support of getting banks to loan him money without collateral or assets to back it. This 33% are being held hostage by the greedy in the Conservative Party, from this brainwashing, to the point that they are trying to remove President OBama’s name from their election ballots in Georgia.

The Republican Party, is being controlled by the Conservatives and Tea Party, and are doing their best to destroy the Democracy that has always made us Great. They believe that their own personal need to control humanity is more recognizable and entitled, than the right granted each of us under the Constitution and the Supreme court.They will not be stopped until they appoint their own judges that will deny all minorities, gays and women equality in America, while promoting their causes.

The Conservative Party, joined by the Tea Party, within the Republican Party in America today,is nothing more than a bunch of Rednecks and Bullies in Suits, who plan to keep their woman in place. The Republicans are arrogant enough to think they, not the working poor or the middle class, have the right to keep us subjugated to them, through lowering our standards of living and denying us both the Unions that protect our wages and working conditions, while they eliminate the Government Departments that protect our rights and offer us jobs.

The Conservatives can be likened to a bunch of people who go out and eat an expensive meal which they may pay $300.00 a person for, and then come home and try to deny the baby sitter the $10.00 that she has earned by giving her $6.50 instead. They feel that they are the entitled amongst us and therefore they have a right to deny the rest of us our just due.

They have taken their religious convictions into the political arena to the point their real and only political zeal in to deny the rest of us both our God-given rights as well as our State given rights. When we are told it is a matter of conscience, what they really mean, it is a matter of conscience as long as we agree with their interpretation of the same. When we don’t, they will do everything in their power to pass laws and to block us from the equality that is our right to own.

Since the Conservative base only makes up a third of our Nation,but they have to throw up more smoke screens to upset us as a Nation and use their politicians, such as Boehner to yell louder about the injustices of President Obama against Religious rights, while they block legislation to improve the lives of small businesses, the working poor, and the middle class. The Republican Party itself has grown to 70% of Conservatives, in the last 10 years and that explains the ruination of the Republican Party to get any agreement on anything.

All this hate is to convince Americans the Conservatives and Tea Party base, are the moral majority with the right to control the lives of the rest of us. Sadly, they instead are promoting hate through their sick obsession to control the human race on their terms, and by denying all of us both our God given as well as our State given rights to free will and the pursuit of happiness, while calling President OBama dangerous.

It is time we stop all the upset and drama being created by the Conservatives and Tea Party, so we can get back to solving the problems that our wounded Nation needs us to do, by electing those Democrats who will work for us, and with our President that we elect. Make sure before you do that you check their voting record out, as 20% of the Democratic Party are Conservative, as well as, a few lean so left that they create stunned growth as well.

We Americans always have been and always will be the strongest, without these Redneck Bullies trying to control our lives and destroying our freedoms. We need to eliminate their little band of thugs, at the election polls in November.

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