Just Another Republican Congressman

The Conservative  Republicans are going around the Country calling Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan a bold and Gutsy decision on the part of Mitt Romney.  I could not agree with them more because to choose a man who has sat in the Republican Congress since 1998 and voted for every bill that was passed through by the Bush Administration,that led to the worse economic crises in our history as a Nation since the Great Depression, has to be either bold and gutsy or they are so out of touch that they think they have indoctrinated the Nation of voters to the point that we neither think or believe anything beyond what they tell us.

Others, would prefer to say the Republicans who are out of touch elitists, shows in their views and  attitudes and the belief that we the American voters are too stupid to know the truth because they feel the Tea Party and Conservatives so effectively lied to us and trashed President Obama,and that all women should be subservient to a male, in their minds anyway,is more likely the truth.  Electing a member of the Congress that has only a 10% liking rating is border-line insanity. Others question if Mitt believes he can buy the general election as he did the primaries?

Clearly he has read the polls that say the American voters have become much more informed than we were on the Tea Party in 2010 and the polls now say that 69% of us oppose the Tea Party.  The Republicans must feel that they have been successful enough in blocking the election polls and early voting so “We the People” will not be able to cast our ballots or they feel with the help of people like Grover Norquist,Adelson and the Koch Brothers, they  can effectively do as they did in the Gore and Bush campaign and dismiss our votes, while gaining the electoral votes.

785,600 voters in Pennsylvania alone, do not have voter ID although many marched with Martin Luther King to gain their civil rights.  Without a birth Certificate  some will be unable to get the ID to vote and they are primarily the elderly from war-torn Countries or the Black population who were born at home before birth certificates were given to home births.  Without a birth certificate they cannot get picture ID although until this election they have voted for years and are supporters of President Obama. The Tea Party are openly anti-Civil rights no differently from The John Birch Society.  Something is not just fishy in Denmark but in the Republican Party,as well.  Most of us are smart enough to understand where the rotten fish originate from, without having to question the motives.

Mitt Romney has a campaign ad running that they want to save Medicare and is handing out the same spill on the campaign trail.  They claim that President Obama is taking $716 Billion out of medicare while they are saving medicare.  The truth is that yes President Obama is removing $716 Billion to pay the Seniors back the money they put into it for early cancer screenings and other check-ups and closing the donut hole that saves the cost of drugs for Seniors.  The money that Seniors paid into is going back to them as well as the Seniors currently on long-term care and on Medicaid, while President Obama brings down healthcare for the rest of us by cutting out fraud and waste in the system and in doing so it will  bring down the costs charged by Insurance Companies, Hospitals, and healthcare providers.

The media that is owned by Wall Street, are moving fast on promoting the Romney/Ryan lies, because a Obama re-election means that any attempt to take regulations off of Corporations,oil companies, and Banking will end if President Obama and the Democrats are re-elected while all of the Republicans get the boot.  The billionaires will also have to start paying their fair share along with Corporations loop holes being closed.  I’ve never been more ashamed of CNN than I am today.  We have always know that Fox News was faux news but CNN’s new low is just that, a new low.  To claim that you are fair and honest and then to not question the obvious lies, is not to their credit.  They have been dropping in the polls so perhaps that is part of their problem but I have given Wolf Blitzer more credit than he apparently deserves.

The lies being promoted by the media and The Romney/Ryan plan is that they will save the middle class and Seniors money and in doing so they will save Medicare. They are telling the same people, the Romney and Ryan Plan are not the same but instead Romneys plan.  They are claiming that President Obama is taking money out of medicare and giving it to Obama care and will bankrupt medicare for Seniors..

The truth is that the Romney/Ryan Plan takes out the exact same amount that President Obama does, but instead of giving it back to the Seniors who put the money in they give  it to drug Companies,suppliers,Insurance Companies and hospitals and in doing so they keep open the donut holes while charging the Seniors to make up the difference out of their pockets. By taking yet more money from Seniors they claim that they will refurbish Medicare when in truth not giving it to Seniors will not save us the working poor, middle class, and Seniors,  but enrich the Insurance Companies in form of subsidies by robbing the working poor and middle class workers with increased cost of Insurance policies and taxes in the subsidies they give instead to Insurance Companies.

They plan on repealing Obama care that would lower costs over the next ten years to all of us by forcing Insurance Companies, healthcare suppliers and drug Companies to compete more effectively and to eliminate the waste and fraud in their own systems in an effort to be more efficient and cost-effective to small businesses and the middle class. Staying on our parent’s policy until the age of 26,closing the donut hole and saving Seniors millions already,free preventive screenings for all patients of all ages, Insurance Companies not being able to kick off the chronically ill, and free birth control all are already in place with Obama care.  Paul Ryan’s father was a lawyer who died when Ryan was 16 and his own college was paid for on Social Security benefits from his Father’s account.

Mitt Romney hired the same team in June, that Paul Ryan has on his Ryan Plan,  to establish his own economic plan. When asked if they have run the numbers or what the numbers are on Mitt’s economic plan his advisers tell the people asking them, “No we don’t know yet but will get back to you.”  They never do, of course, because there are no numbers to run as the same numbers on the Ryan plan adds to the deficit and does not balance a budget for 30 years.  When Mitt says he will not be using Paul Ryan’s plan he is splitting straws because he has the same plan from the same team just as Romney care and Obama care are the exact same plan as stated by Johnathan  Gruber of MIT, who formulated both plans.  Gruber says that Mitt Romney is lying when he says they are not the same.

When did Mitt Romney ever tell any of us the Truth?  Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich both called him a liar when he ran against them and Rick Santorum even said,”He is the worse possible man to run against Barack Obama.”  His prediction is coming true if the voters are as well-informed as I believe them to be.

We know how bad Mitt Romney’s record in Massachusetts was and that the voters did not want him back a second term because job loss escalated making Massachusetts 47th in the United States, while jobs were being shipped to India, under his governorship.  It took Democrat Governor Patrick two full terms just to clean up the messes that Mitt Romney made in the bridges after he left and Massachusetts is now at tenth place in job production.  So What kind of record does Paul Ryan have in Congress?

In the 14 years that Paul Ryan has been a Tea Party Congressman he has only been able to pass through his own Party as well as the Democrats two bills.  One of those was to name a Post Office.  He engineered and tried to pass through the bill that all women who wanted to get an abortion,even victims of rape and incest included, would first have to have an ultra-sound with a vaginal probe, while the person giving the ultrasound would look the other way or revert their eyes so the women would not feel embarrassment or raped again.

Since this is an election year, even the Republican cowards in his own Party had to return to their home towns, otherwise they would have voted in favor of it. We can be certain both that bill will pass while the lost of Pell Grants and student loans, that both Ryan and Romney along with the Republican majority want gone, will not pass after the election, if any of us are foolish enough to vote for them. Paul Ryan as a bold and gutsy new leader,as they claim voted with the Congress in its entirety to filibuster 83 times any thing that President Obama tried to pass and this was agreed on when they all  took a pledge to so 10 days after President Obama was sworn into office.

The Democrats tried to pass through 300 plus bills that would help the middle class as well as the drought stricken farmers and ranchers but on each of these bills, Paul Ryan who is being touted as the bright young leader of their Party along with 100%  of the Republican Congress were made to take a pledge again at their Convention retreat just ten days after President Obama was sworn in,that they would attach an anti-abortion Bill to each bill the Democrats tried to pass through.

The Republicans all rose to the occasion and followed through as planned and at no time did this bright young leader suggest anything was wrong with their plan morally.  He is a big promoter of wealth and has voted for each and any bill that increased Corporate and Oil welfare subsidies, while taking it from the working poor and middle class by increase cost in medical care and increasing taxes to the middle class.  He was just another one of the Tea Party members who held out against giving us the decrease in taxes in January, if I may remind all of us.

He was amongst the Republican leadership who refused to work with the Democrat majority to pass healthcare unless the Democrats refused to shut down women’s healthcare by banning any and all medical provisions and clinics that gave healthcare to women not approved by them. He is first and foremost a Tea Party member of Congress and did not show up on the turnip truck with the rest of the yahoos in 2010, but has been in the Congress long enough that he has been effecting Republican policy going back to the Bush years.

He is both a radical in his policies and thinking and claims that his moral convictions come from Russian philosopher Ayn Rand (that is before he was chosen as Mitt’s VP and now he says no just her theories in economy). Just like Mitt he has proven to change stream when it suits him or the truth leaks out. Ayn Rand was an atheist all her life and did not believe that children were a necessary part of Society.  Paul Ryan has said for years that Ayn Rand was the person who most influenced him in life and the reason he decided to go into politics but now that he is running as VP he says he did not know she was an atheist when she was always very open about her beliefs.  It’s like  saying we do not know the Pope is Catholic.  The fact that he has  told on numerous occasions that Ayn Rand was his mentor and shaped his morality and this offends the sensibilities of the right-wing, he is now denouncing Ayn Rand.

For Paul Ryan to deny it or that he does not support the Farm Bill,Personhood and all of the rest of the things his records indicate, explains to most of us why he and Mitt Romney feel close to each other.  Neither has to take lessons on how best to deceive the American people, so they can get out hot on the trail without the necessary time it takes to teach either how to best lie bogging either down. Now he claims he is Catholic in his morality

To be fair,many of the Catholic Leadership claim his radical plan is  one void of compassion. The bus load of nuns have been out on the bus for months telling Americans just how unfair his intentions for the poor and middle class is as he plans on doing away with Medicaid altogether and let the States decide if they want to continue it or not and eliminate food stamps in their entirety.  With States that are run by TEA Party governors since 2010, do any of us think these same Governors will give health care needs and food to our children and our long-term elderly who go off of Medicare and onto Medicaid?

We do know the Tea Party governors along with our State Republican legislatures are firing police,firemen, and teachers as quickly as they can without drawing too much of that to our attention in our States don’t we? They have instead replaced those who protect us, with vigilante law entitled “Stand your ground Laws” co-sponsored by the NRA. To add insult to injury the Tea Party along with Republican legislatures in our States have passed,”the right to work laws” that gets rid of the Unions who protect our wages while lowering those wages by 36% over a two-year time Span, and then both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan along with the Republican majority are blaming President Obama for the decrease in pay that we the middle class are receiving along with the 5 trillion-dollar deficit that only Congress can pass when they themselves have blocked every effort attempted by the Democrats to pass through job relief for the middle class.

When the Republican elected Congress has totally tried to deny equality to women and as the majority have clearly failed to pass a budget and control the purse strings while they blame the Obama Administration for a failure to understand how businesses work or for failed policy, that they themselves have created, how can we the American public not believe that the Republican Party has fallen into the abyss and  slime of their own doing. Every budget cut the Ryan plan makes is on the backs of the working poor and the middle class while bringing the taxes Mitt Romney and Billionaires pay down to 0 (zero). This has gone on in the Republican majority since the Bush Administration and continues today in Congress. To re-elect any of them is a vote against us, the working poor and middle class along with our children and Seniors.

Together on the campaign trail Paul Ryan is as effective as Mitt has been in saying, “He was for it before he was against it,” when it serves his needs and spares them both from telling us the truth,which would lead to boos from even some of their own Conservatives in the crowd.  Mr. Etch-a-Sketch and Etch-a-Sketch Junior are headed to your town in the near future.

In the meantime we still wait for the never present tax returns of Mitt Romney’s to be turned over while he hems and haws or says it is just more ammunition for the Democrats to jump on.  When we hear the word ammunition, then why wouldn’t we ask, “Where is the smoking gun,Mitt?”

You will recognize the Republican hopefuls from the fact that they will tell you they will get back to you on a question, which they never do, or by the lies they tell as their noses get even longer, as the truth in the Republican Party only belongs to the leadership of the Republican Party until their campaigns end in November, and the facts cannot be told in truth and in its entirety.  Vote them all out before they continue to spread as the cancer that they created since the Republicans gained control in 2000 and threw America along with the working poor and middle class into a crises state.It will take us through 2016 to eliminate them all and to gain back our equality along with a fair wage for a days work. VOTE!

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Mitt’s Disasterous Choice

Democrats must be high-fiving around America today over the disastrous choice of Mitt Romney for his Vice President. Mitt has clearly chosen wealth over humanity today in his choice for the VP.  We already knew that was the direction he was headed but the choice of Paul Ryan leaves us no doubt.

The Romney/Ryan plan is nothing more than a return to “Trickle Down Economics” on steroids or the Bush Economics moved to an increased sucking sound out of the pocket of Seniors,the working poor, and the middle class. I will present proof of those facts further down in this post, but first I want all of us to remember those days when American workers were being laid off at the rate of 750,000 workers per month as our jobs were being shipped overseas.

The Ryan plan takes wealth for the wealthy even further by doing away with taxes on all the investment income made by people like Mitt Romney, which will take the taxes that many Billionaires pay down to zero; but then again,we have not seen Mitt’s tax returns for the last 6 years, while he lived on that same kind of income, so which of us even knows if that is not what Mitt and his cronies pay with all their loopholes, already?

I urge Catholics not to be swayed by Paul Ryan’s claims of being Catholic as he may be in good standing with his Church but even Jesuits and Priests will claim privately that his own interpretation of Catholic doctrine are self-arrived and he arrives to those conclusions on his own, without benefit of Church views. The nuns are clearly out in protests as to what the Paul Ryan plan does against the poor and humanity in general.

In 2010 the Tea Party swept into our Government by pulling the wool over our eyes.  Too few people understood that they are even more extreme than the far right is because they believe that Our Constitution neither called for America to be a Democracy or for the formation of a middle class.  The Conservatives do not know yet that the Tea Party is not on their side.  The Tea Party does not believe in a government of the people, for the people, and by the people but instead they believe in self-rule by the political elitists and in promoting wealth.

Without government,police and our fire departments or public schools the poor would be protected and taught by them in,” for profit schools,”  and there would be no middle class in America. In this extreme direction there would be no elected officials  by “We the People” but instead they would be chosen  by the affiliation of Churches and the wealthy. To a great extent that direction has already been attempted by the far-right extremists that are following the Grover Norquist’s direction in the Republican Party. The Tea Party takes it another step further into self-rule by the elitists. This is the bold new plan of the Tea Party that they like to  talk about while holding the whole truth from the American People.  The John Birch Society of the 1960′s tried and failed the same attempt through the election of Barry Goldwater.

I offer you the following fact checks that show that Paul Ryan’s plan takes from the middle class and working poor and instead distributes it to the already,’ wealthy”

False claim:  Paul Ryan claims his recovery plan will improve the economy,keep promises for the retired,close tax loopholes, and even that it preserves current Medicare.

fact check;  In realty the Republican budget would do none of that. Ryan’s budget plan would end the Medicare guarantee and shift costs to Seniors according to the Independent Congressional Budget Office,while protecting tax breaks for the ultra wealthy and Big oil Companies.  The plan also threatens to destroy millions of jobs, while increasing the deficit.

False claim: Ryan writes, “The plan to Prosperity” which builds on reforms and bi-partisan solutions offered over the last year, provides a future of economic prosperity and opportunity….”

Fact check:  Ryan’s Plan threatens the economy and will cost  American’s jobs.

the Ryan plan will  cost the American people 1.3 million jobs in 2013.  The Ryan plan does not just slow job growth ,it aggressively slows growth.  Against the current policy baseline, the budget cuts discretionary programs by about $120 billion over the next two years and mandatory programs by 284 billion over the next two years sucking demand out of the economy when it is most needed and leads to job lost. In would lead to approximately 1.3 million jobs lost in 2013 and 2.8 millions jobs lost in 2014 or 4.2 million jobs lost through 2014.   This is according to the Economic Policy institute that is independent of Washington.

False claim:  Ryan’s plan ,”delivers on the promise to the American people”……and strengthens health and retirement security….

Fact check: Ryan’s plan ends Medicare and would force Seniors to pay more coverage out of their pockets.

According to the Congressional Budget Office:  Ryan’s plan would likely shrink medicare benefits and increase the numbers of the uninsured.  “Medicaid benefits under Ryan’s plan will fail to exist . The number of people uninsured  could be much higher because it would repeal President Obama’s affordable care program.  Ryan’s plan would switch some of the healthcare of those who are uninsured to government subsidies to private insurance companies. What Seniors cannot pay would be granted under subsidies to private insurance Companies.

(please note as this is my study and comments through the rest of this post)  What Seniors cannot pay would be shifted to the costs of the working poor and middle class in both insurance policies being increased with even higher deductibles as well as tax increases, while adding to the increase wealth of the Insurance companies and increase taxes to both the working poor and middle class workers.  Medicare under the current program keeps costs down because the Government Insurance Company is currently 6 times larger than all the Insurance companies combined and as such it can and does buy healthcare in a larger package while keeping cost down to Seniors and the tax payers.

Long term care patients from the brain-damaged,to Parkinson’s to Alzheimer will not have medical coverage,nor will our children who have already been dealt an unfair blow from diseases like autism,cerebral palsy,juvenile diabetes,rheumatoid arthritis,juvenile arthritis,and many brain injuries or diseases etc. will not be provided for in the Ryan plan, since it will do away with Medicaid and they plan on repealing Obama care on the first day they foolishly think they will be elected by those of us who share their greed over humanity.

I personally feel that the greater number of American voters will not watch our parents or children suffer endlessly or needlessly without medical care or by passing it on at even a larger cost to the next generations, so that the Republicans can increase Defense spending even further on weaponry without removing the obsolete weapons and technology that President Obama is requesting, while we become a Country without a conscious.  Our Defense spending  on weaponry doubled under the Bush Administration and Congress along with the Tea Party plan to increase it even further, even though we are no longer in Iraq and our troops are coming home from Afghanistan.  Is that the priority of “We the People”over the health needs of our loved ones and do any of us even think they care?

Even some Republicans have said the Ryan plan could spell disaster to their  political futures if the American Public ever truly understands to what a degree it does do away with healthcare to Seniors,the working poor and the middle class.  In my opinion along with many much brighter economists than I, the Ryan plan spells disaster to humanity while increasing the wealth of the ultra-wealthy. Currently this sector of the 1% already own 46% of the wealth in America and the Romney/Ryan plan backed by the Tea Party members and Conservatives will insure them another very large piece of that pie.

In my opinion Mitt Romney just committed political suicide knowing he did not have a prayer of winning so decided to further support the Tea Party Newcomer. A great deal of us do not know Paul Ryan who is a career politician in Washington going back through all of the Bush years, but what is familiar to all of us is the Ryan Plan that will mark both him and Mitt Romney as people who do not understand that 49% of all retirees do not have a supplemental program to Medicare and depend on their Social Security check that they paid for, some for as long as 50 years.  Seniors now feel that they are receiving  what they feel is truly no different from if their money was being taken from  a savings account that they paid into..

The Republicans sadly do see Social Security and Medicare as nothing different from just another entitlement the same as welfare and the Ryan Plan does throw that into the face of Seniors whether that is their intention or not.  The Romney/Ryan team can ill afford to offend Seniors in an election year as they are the generation that is most likely to smell Bull when they hear it and many have a long memory of when Roosevelt fought for their right to have the same.  When we realize that the money these same Seniors paid the government had been protected and did pay for our care through 2072 and the Bush Administration could not wait to get their hands on it and deplete it in its entirety and the current Congress continues to take from it, the Ryan Plan has more than just a sieve with holes in it to the Senior population whose livelihood depends on Social Security and medicare.

I repeat; the Tea Party are actually against Democracy along with government giving any American a helping hand or job, while they are strongly and closely allied to the NRA who promotes bigotry and hate groups in America against all equality for women, liberals,minorities,gays and transgender Americans and instead promotes the Superiority of the White heterosexual male. The Tea Party initiated “the right to work laws that decreases the pay of the middle class by 36%.  The Tea Party claims to be defenders of decreasing the budget but the Ryan Plan that is being adopted by Mitt Romney, if he wins, actually adds to the deficit another 4.6 trillion in costs to the poor and middle class while cutting the taxes paid by that amount to billionaires.  This has been fact checked and found to be true.

I can go much further on the way the American Public along with the Conservatives people have been deceived by the Tea Party both with lies and false claims but I am sure that the Obama Campaign along with the Democrats in our States will spell that out plainly in the near future. Never has it ever been made clearer in an election that this election is IF we believe in humanity in America or in Wealth.

There are many different ways that the deficit can be paid down in a Country where trade both speculative and real along with currency and retail averages 3 trillion dollars per day (Forex Index).  In comparison to what America trades even a 1.6% to a 2.3% growth that we currently have is the envy of Europe and speaks trillions for America.  This election is about preserving us, along with the humanity that makes America number one in a Democracy of the people, for the people, and by the people.

I urge you to listen carefully,check voting records. and then vote the Republicans out of office until their greed is corrected and they return back to ,”We The People”. The gap between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party is widening to the point that it should be a clear vote for those of us who do want to see Americans prosper and not just the rich.

If “We The People” do not stop the greed in the Republican Party it will continue to threaten the mere existence of the middle class until it does die of extinction. We the middle class and working poor must show them that “We The People” are not too stupid to understand that they will not win in their efforts to eliminate us, nor will we any longer buy into their lies.

It’s never been more important to Vote in November.  We all must make sure we have all the voting requirements necessary to vote, since it is “We the People,”who the Republicans are trying to block voting on in our States with the help of the lead of Tea Party elected Governors. Early voting in the Democrat Counties of Ohio has been cut by the Republicans of your State while leaving it open in the Republican Counties.  Pennsylvania and Michigan voters be aware of the cut in voting days in your States.The days following Church services in Michigan, when the African-American majority typically votes, have been cut in the State of Michigan, as well.  All others check out if the law has changed in your States on early voting by contacting your city or county legislature or the Democrat campaign headquarters closest to you.  Check also with the Motors Vehicle Dept. to see if your picture ID is current to meet the requirements of voting rammed through by the Republicans in you State. Vote!

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Do The Tea Party & Evangelicals Speak For Us?

If the Tea Party and Evangelicals speak for the majority of Americans in this election year then we can all be certain that we will hear neither the truth or anything based on reality.  The combination of both along with the Conservative media is destroying Democracy as we know it and understand it and yet even the mainstream media is giving more time to their views over that of the views of the majority held views, as Romney slips in the polls. It was said first by Thomas Jefferson:”When we force our Religion on to others then we run the risk of them forcing their’s on us.”

In fairness to the Evangelicals I do believe they are being used as lambs to the slaughter by the Carl Rove groups, the Tea Party, and Grover Norquist  as well as the conservative media to the point they will be the first to fall or be discarded if these groups do get what they want this election year.  When we are brainwashed with lies then we all begin to believe these lies; when we are fed with hate then we all begin to hate;when we are armed with weapons we become violent and the scenario continues throughout our lives.

With the introduction in the 17 States of “Stand Your ground laws”,with 1000 bills passed by the Tea Party led governors against women’s rights to their own procreation and health,with the lies spread that President OBama is not a citizen or a Christian,With the introduction of the “right to work laws” that strip away our protection from the Unions, with even the lunatic fringe calling for treason against President OBama and the list of lies continuing we the majority will not and cannot sit back and just assume that this election will be won on truth and common sense.

These groups were infiltrated in Church camps as young people and even in some of the more severe training camps they bragged about using the same techniques that were used by Ben Laden.  This is a severely brainwashed group of people in some cases that truly believe they are Christ’s soldiers and speaking for God. When they lie for the most part they have no reality of the fact that they are lying since they believe what they are told and hear by the limited views that they live.  Even when they lie they have no real contact with the morality of what they are doing as they believe that the more lies told is the way they win elections.The empathy that we feel for our fellow man is missing in many of these Tea Party members who believe they are the superior race and have a right to wrestle it back from those they felt stole it from them.  When we consider that they are being armed and fed this bunk from everyone from the NRA to every white Supremest group along with the Tea Party and the Carl Rove groups then we understand why common sense and truth will not win this election.

They deliberately concentrate on the strengths of President OBama and then attack it with lies.  President OBama and  his wife Michelle have done more for the Veterans than any other President since Roosevelt, and are only second to him in their efforts to help the military vets.  These groups therefore spread lies about how OBama is attacking the veterans and threatening their benefits in his effort to trim spending in the defense budget.  The truth is of course that President OBama has raised the benefits along with lowered taxes on their housing and are giving companies tax breaks to hire vets.  The only place President OBama is cutting back on spending on the defense budget is eliminating obsolete technology and equipment.

Another example of their campaign of lies has been to attack President OBama who has done more for the Jews than any other President in recent history by saying he is deserting the Jewish population. This is the old Carl Rove and Grover Norquist tactics that worked for them to defeat Senator Lugar of Tennessee because he dared to break the filibustering that the Republicans began on the first day of President OBama taking office.  These same tactics won the election for George W. Bush when they attacked the heroism of John Kerry to cover the fact that George W. Bush hid out in order to avoid going to Viet Nam while John Kerry volunteered for one of the most risky positions in the war.

Because their lies are so effective with these groups who have been brainwashed into believing their hate propaganda against President OBama they can literally guarantee these voters to their candidate of choice.  They only need to credit themselves with the strength of President OBama through lies as we see Mitt Romney doing with the automobile industry and the mainstream media along with 420 conservative outlets running the same lies,and they can guarantee the votes of the people brainwashed into believing the lies.

Any time we the majority,the working poor and the middle class become comfortable in thinking we will not need to vote because people know the truth and will vote with their common sense we will be the losers this election year.  It has never been more important for us to stop this infiltration of lies and the promotion of the lie that Mitt Romney will give us jobs as they only keep talking about jobs while doing nothing to pass bills that will give us jobs.  We can all bet that if the Republicans or Mitt Romney had a jobs bill that would guarantee the working poor or the middle class jobs that President OBama would have signed it into law.  It is just like their health care that denies health to the working poor and middle class while promoting welfare for Corporations when they do try something like the Ryan Plan.

“We the People” need to know and understand that neither the Evangelicals or the Tea Party speaks for us and vote for our jobs and our President who is working to save them along with our rights in November.  Vote for Barack OBama and a Congress that will work with him in November.

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Another Time In History

It was not that long ago, when we consider the amount of time than mankind has lived, when we or our family members were all on the list of the despised and hated.  The Republicans need to acknowledge that their time of discrimination has ended.  A new wave of acceptance has reached America.

Just as the Republican Party, the Churches, and the red necks of America fought against the acceptance of a Catholic President, a Black President,  and while other’s believed the Mormon Faith was a  cult, the last prejudice against an entire sector of people in America is falling.  Even though the Republican Party and those remaining Churches who still refuse to accept the gay population of America have many friends and colleagues that are gay, they still are denying the equality to them than no man has a right to deny any American who pays into our tax base,fights for our Country, and  is a citizen of America.

When we ourselves are victims of prejudice we have a full understanding of the ways in which we are discriminated against and the names and ways the bigots try to hide behind Christian values, as a more endearing or kinder excuse to gain acceptance of their views, over that of acknowledging prejudice.  The argument against marriage in the gay community sounds eerily the same as it did before Jews could marry into the white population or the reverse discrimination when Jews were not allowed to marry outside of their faith,before Catholics could marry Protestants or again the reverse discrimination when Protestants could not marry Catholics, and before inter-racial marriages were allowed. We all felt that discrimination or our family members did when we fell in love with someone outside of our religious convictions and were not allowed to marry them without threat of excommunication.  The very people who were discriminated against, not that many years ago and those who still are, have clearly forgotten what discrimination felt or feels like and looks like when they were denied the right to marry because discrimination has always been raised to a higher level behind the excuse of Christian values.

For those who argue that the beliefs of the Churches  is not mean-spirited, that may be true to those who do not deal with the situation on a personal level, but when I remember being a Catholic and marrying a Protestant during this period of time, I can assure you it felt like hate.  To be told that my husband as a non-Catholic could not go to Heaven or the reverse from a Protestant mother-in-law that the Catholic Church was storing guns in their basement to attack non-Catholics while she tried her damnest to break us up and to invoke her Preacher’s name; it still is very difficult for me to believe that hate did not feed into these views of prejudice. It did not even come close to the hate during that same time and the Bible being quoted against the sin of a”white woman laying down with a black man.”  The views out of the Christian communities in the past as well as against the gay population today, are very much fed on hate when we are the people who are involved with loving the person who the Churches deny us the right to marry.

The Republicans along with too many of the Churches are dead wrong on this issue.  Either we are a Country of equality for all or a few in this Nation, that call themselves Republicans, are the ruling class of America and have the right to tell the rest of American people what  their rights and place in America are.  The last I remember they were not given the power to discriminate against anyone in our Constitution but instead only in their Churches.Seperation of Church and State is the law in America.

For Romney to say,” that the gay people have rights as they can visit each other in the hospital when they are sick,” seems to be a generous concession on the part of the Republican Party who has appointed themselves as the ruling class.  Without marriage children will always be considered ill-legitimate in America.  Without marriage a committed couple remains single for life.  Without marriage siblings have a larger right in many States to the property and assets that  a committed couple spends their lifetime working together to earn.  To claim that marriage is just the right of heterosexuals and to hide behind Religion sounds a lot like it sounded when slaves were refused the right to marry on Religious convictions when inter-racial marriages were wrong because of religious convictions, and when Jews, Catholics and Mormons were burnt out of their homes for fear that one of their children would marry a white Protestant, because they were considered to be lesser than the white Protestant, by the religious convictions in the community of their day.

How far back do we have to fall or how much rule will we tolerate giving over to the Republican Party over all of us, who are ourselves or family members of discrimination,  before we all vote for equality and justice for all in America?  When the same Party denies that the gay population falls into the arena of hate crimes, while voting against it, and they have a History of yelling, “Religious Convictions,” for 200 years now, haven’t we who are or were one of those discriminated against, forgotten our own roots?  It is time to quiet that over-worn excuse that allows their hate to grow while dividing the civility of the American people. Vote for equality for all Americans in November.

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Separating Fact From Fiction

If you do not know yet what happened after the meeting with the Secret Service Agents and Ted Nugent, I think by now we do know better than to think that we will hear the real truth, but what appears to be the result of the meeting is that the NRA deleted the tape in which Ted Nugent made his threats in St. Lewis. Sadly, they only deleted the one That the NRA had, as it went virile and is still all over U-tube througout the internet.

To be certain, Mitt Romney’s claim that he did not seek out the endorsement of Ted Nugent is a lie. A reporter was nearby at the gun show that Ted Nugent was attending when he recieved the call directly from Mitt, himself. When Ted asked and was reassured that Mitt Romney would do nothing to change the gun laws then Ted Nugent said he would endorce Mitt Romney.

The reason the support of Ted Nugent and the NRA is so important to Mitt Romney is because the Conservatives will not support him if he does not get the support of the NRA. It was Mitt Romney who when thirsting for the office of Govenor of Massachusetts and campaigning for election as Govenor of the State, who said, “I support stiffer gun control laws.”

He had to make sure that tape could not be used against him in this campaign by seeking out the support of Ted Nugent as well as the NRA. It is the old,”I was for it before I was against it” Mitt Romney, who needs to cover his back from so many lies he has made in his campaigns, it is amazing the man hasn’t grown long fingernails and a wart on his chin, just trying to deny, deny, and deny and cover up. He also needs to have the polls show that he can beat President OBama if he is going to get campaign dollars and support from “We the People”, so now you know if you read my post yesterday, another reason I am suspicious of the polls. The thing about a liar is if they lie on small things they definitely will lie on important things.

Since Ted Nugent is such a low life, that in order to get out of the draft in the 60′s, he crapped and peed in his clothes for a month and refused to change or shower and then showed up at the draft board in order to get out of being drafted and going to Viet Nam. Romney on the other hand hid out in a Castle in France and behind his Mormonism in order to avoid the same draft. Some of us feel that the character of Mitt Romney and Ted Nugent may not be all that far apart. Truth has no basis in either of their lives when it comes to getting what works out best for their own interests, and the rest of America be damned, is the way some of us view both of them.

Let me make something very clear to the NRA and all people who have been told by them that President OBama would take their guns away from them: this is a total and out and out lie that has been spread through the NRA and Republicans. It got started by them in 2008 when President OBama was running for office and is still promoted heavilly by them.

At no time has Barack OBama said anything about changing the gun laws, nor has he even whispered the word gun in his campaigns or while in office. That is why you will never see the NRA,Conservatives, Republicans,or Tea Party running any kind of tape that shows that Barack OBama was going to do anything against your Constitutional rights. I repeat.”he has not even so much as whispered anything in regards to it or the word gun.”

You are the jerks who are attempting to take over the rights of the American people,and not just the women and minorities. This so called “might means power”mentality of the right wing erodes our individual rights to the freedom to live in a non-threatening Society. More guns and more ammo and “you don’t have to take that off of them,” ignorance stands in the direct way of all of our rights to feel safe in a Democracy, that we have all enjoyed.

It is that same mentality, “if he is bullying you then hit him back” of the playground that permeates the right-wing bullies who will deplete our freedoms as a Nation. When we all understand that serious crime does not come from understanding our differences but instead from striking back when sticken, then perhaps we will all enjoy a kinder and gentler Nation. To use the God given good sense given to most of us to communicate our differences is lost on these bullies.

I personally am amazed why people in America are having to ask themselves why there are so many more bullies today, and it never dawns on most, that it comes from the home and the attitudes of abuse. Words spoken in hate and anger to our children or about another group of Society in an effort to demean them, will always result in both rage and the acting out of violence against others. Until we learn to educate ourselves on the mentality that incites both, our children along with the rest of Society, will always be the victims of this ignorance. Ted Nugent calling people cockroaches and the NRA doing nothing to stop this language then must take responsibility for promoting it since it is their board he sits on and represents. Clearly Ted Nugent himself is so filled with talk of violence he is encapable of human decency.

Because the lies spread by The NRA and the likes of Ted Nugent have been able to increase power,prestige, and win over the arm of the Tea Party as well as the Conservatives by increasing the igorance of “take your stand”, that is acted out in these insane laws in 17 States of “Stand Your Ground Laws,” all of us, who live in those States or elsewhwere, are susceptible to the Zimmermans or Barnie Fifes on any given day.

People who are non aggressive and non-violent without a gun become morons and a threat to all of us with a gun in their hands. Typically, without the gun to make them feel like a Clint Eastwood or a John Wayne, they are non-violent individuals and it defeats the argument, “guns don’t kill people–people kill people.” A gun in the wrong hands will always be at fault in the “Take Your Stand laws’,where a person feels they have the lawful right and support of the law to settle a score while armed. Add alcohol or drugs to it and even the armed meek amongst us is a time bomb ready to go off.

The rights of people to have a registered gun in their home has never been at issue.Statistics show guns are more often used against a member of the immediate family, carried off to schools by children, and/or jobs and used against the innocent in far greater numbers than the gun is ever used against an intruder. It is and would still remain a sacred law of the land even with President OBama being re-elected, since no one in the Democratic PARTY has challenged anyone’s right to do so.

No one politician, much less President, in the history of our Nation has ever tried to remove the hunting guns from the hunter but the NRA always minipulates the hunters, who are their main source of income, into believing removing or controling assault rifles, which would blow game hunting to smithereens, is just the first step of the hunters losing their guns. They also protect the ammunition which only purpose is to penetrate the vests worn by law inforcement with the same lies.The main lie that has worked for the NRA since the beginning of the NRA orgainization, is that hunters are under attack by the Liberals.

To make a law that allows the ‘Barnie Fife’s of America’, to carry a gun should shake all of us who live in those States as well as we who do not, to the roots. There was a reason that Andy only allowed Barnie to have one bullet and kept it in the drawer and only let him have it if there was a real genuine criminal on the loose. Sadly fiction is sometimes wiser than the facts being told in America.

There simply are too many “want-to-be cops” and “would be criminals”, who will and do get a false sense of courage from a gun and do and will use the law against the innocent. Defense lawyers all over the Nation will use this law to get their clients who kill their wives or wives who kill their husbands off. They only need to claim they thought it was an intruder. It does not begin to tell the truth of what can and will happen to the innocents on our streets,in our schools, or workplace, as we have just seen in Florida.

For the Republicans who all allowed this bill to come to fruition and sponsored this bill, we should make sure none of them are ever re-elected in our States, and certainly never sit in an office in Washington. If this is the mentality who will appoint Supreme Court Justices of like mentality, then we may as well all kiss our Freedoms good-by. For them to say that was not their intention of the law is either a direct display of their stupidity or proof to what extent they are capable of lying. The NRA, if not the most powerful lobbyist in America, then they are close to it, was owed it’s debt by the Republican Party. In States where Republicans passed and moved forward laws not once but twice to receive more and bigger gifts from lobbyists we are seeing the pay off that the NRA expected to see in return. It is called “Stand Your Ground Laws.”

For anyone who does have these laws in place that brings back the Old West to your States, let me say,” you are seeing the prime example of your fine Republicans at work.” The Republican Party is not what it use to be and as voters you really need to wake up.

These laws would never have been passed if the Republicans had not agreed to upping the anti on the gifts they received from lobbyists and then lied to us about the need for such a law. The NRA inacted it’s pound of flesh for the gifts it gave. Your and our lives are not safe as there are many more deaths of the innocent ahead, if you do not demand change in your own States, by contacting both your legislatures and the NRA that you support directly, and by voting them all out in November. Failure to do so only means that you hold responsibility for Trayvon Martin”s death along with all the other children and innocents who will follow. This post is not a lie,scare tactic,bullying or anything other than fact, they however are guilty of all the above. Vote wisely in November.

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Ted Nugent Is A Coward And An Idiot

I try to remain out of the fray that gets into name calling but there are some times when the names fit the person so perfectly and when that happens then I am no different from the masses in that I find it necessary to speak the obvious.

I took interest in politics at a very young age and as a result I go back to the days of my Father’s interests and remember clearly the Adlai Stevenson and the Ike Eisenhauser race of the 1950′s. The Conservatives were angry then and talking the same rhetoric that they do today in how it is illegal to pay taxes and no one should have to pay any taxes. The same bunch who is always eager to send the young men and women, as long as it is not their children or grand children to war, do not feel they owe Our Country anything of a monetary value.

One escapes all of the hate and stupidity once we start out of the Bible Belt of America and instead they get into the gang wars of the cities. Armeggedon and Biblical wars seem to justify this mentality in some, in the more rural areas of America. With the National Rifle Association or better known as the NRA meeting in St. Louis this year they divided the difference between the redneck territory of America.

Mitt Romney, like every Repubican President before him, met with the NRA and spoke while asking for their support,and as such he does need to stand up and speak out in regards to the hate coming out of the mouth of board member of the NRA, Ted Nugent,whose words are clearly being said in an effort to incite violence against our President. It is a disgrace to all Americans that the Republicans have not seen it as their duty and responsibility and demanded that Ted Nugent cease and desist or they will withdraw from the membership of the NRA. Instead Mitt and the gang continue to curry the favor of Ted Nugent and the NRA that he represents. What Ted Nugent is saying is not a suicide threat as suicide patients go to hospitals and not jails, and to say so is only a cop out.

There has not been an election, in my memory, where the NRA has not stirred up the waters of hate or convinced a certain sector of America of believing that the Democrats or Liberals will take away their guns.

They gather together and nod their heads and agree that they will eliminate all Democrats and Liberals who protect the rights of gays,minorities,and women at the election polls, before they have their hunting rifles taken from them. Because of this insanity and bigotry fed into the Bible belt by the NRA they have been an important and intricate part of the Republican Party going back to the beginning of their roots. Typically every Republican running for the office of President, whether they have ever shot a gun or gone hunting, will meet with them for their support since they are one of their greatest indoctrination forces in the the Heartland and points South,North,East and West in America. Many Republican Presidential Candidates will put on the clothing of a hunter and go out and pose for a photo opp.

The truth is that the Democratic Party pretty much leaves the NRA alone. The Brady bill that led to pre-registration of guns, prior to buying a gun and was long over-due, was passed because it was President Ronald Reagan who was shot, and passed through by the support of Republican Party, itself.

All the stupidity and scare tactics are played out with words like Socialists and Communists and crude slang for African Americans,Latinos,American Arabs,Viet Namese and any minority in their area,and gays, being chatted by the skin heads and red necks of America, every election year. Each election year the Red necks gather around a beer and talk about the damn commies,gays and minorities infiltrating America and threatening to take away their guns. Because of the influence and often stupidity fed by the NRA into American Society the Red Necks truely believe that the Democrats are out to destroy their Constitutional right to bear arms. In some of the more red neck groups along with the hate groups there is more talk about hunkering down and arming themselves against the damn Liberals in their manmade bunkers. Ammunition and gun sales go up along with cammoflage and the NRA accomplishes it’s goal of making the paranoid amongst us just a little more paranoid.

What makes Ted Nugent both an idiot and a coward with his statement,”if President OBama is re-elected he, Ted Nugent, will either be dead or in jail next year.” is he is deliberately promoting that one of those paranoid rednecks around him, ends up dead or in jail by assassinating our President. It is the same lack of responsibility that the Pro Life members take when an abortion clinic is blown up and the people inside are all killed by one of their own who wants to become a infamous hero in their eyes. Unfortunately this type of rhetoric works in the mentally embalanced in any group or organization.It is a direct attempt to incite a threat of assasination by an man of questionable skill and intelligence.

If Ted Nugent was not the coward he is he would have made a direct threat and the Secret service would throw his butt in jail and pump him sunshine. By talking in the words that he did he sounds tough and ready to give his life to the cause when in truth he is much too big of a coward to do anything other than to threaten the life of an Honorable man who stands head and shoulders above the likes of Ted Nugent.

I will not give further credence to the words of an idiot other than to prove my point in that this Tea Party member has also said that “Sarah Palin is the most capable politician in America.” If that does not prove what an idiot he is, then I rest my case.

Sadly in America there is an arm of the Tea Party who does feed hate and advocate violence and keeps the Conservative base of the Republican Party stirred up and convinced that President OBama is a worse enemy of the people than what Hitler was to Germany.

The redneck community often feels as though they are victimized by government because everyone else around them, in their minds, do not work as hard as they do but has more than they do. When it is not their fault, which it never is in their minds, then it is the government’s fault and people who run it. They believe that all the jobs they are qualified for are being denied them and instead going to women, minorities, and gays. They in their misguided minds see the white male as being entitled to first choices as that has always been the norm in their experience. Women belong at home taking orders from the man just as do the minorities need to understand that the white male gives the orders, and do not compete with them in the work force. The only thing that separates them from the hate of the Ku Klux Klan is the different names they call themselves. They do not nor will they ever see government as the protector of the people.

The Tea Party ideology that feeds into this mentality only leads to the kind of hate that is coming out of the mouth of Ted Nugent. I have said for years and truly mean it, we are under a greater threat from these type of terrorists groups within our own Country than we are from the terrorists outside of our boundaries.

These cowards who spew hate are not just located in sections of the cities but are far greater in the rural areas of America. Each year their rhetoric becomes louder and more hateful and because of that it is important that the Republican Party takes a strong stand against this kind of hate that does come out of the mouth of a very hateful man such as Ted Nugent, and the groups that feed into it.

I believe we have seen the lack of leadership in the man who wants to be President in, Mitt Romney, in regards to his lack of handling this situation with Ted Nugent. If the best Mitt can do is to correct the language of a would be terrorist, who threatens the life of Our President, is “watch your language,” then just what kind of a leader will he make?

Is the same man who professes to be a great business leader and a protector of the people even capable of leading?A man who can only understand the needs of the weathy, is just another politician too many in the minds of many. I think at heart this is the real thing that concerns all of us about Mitt Romney. A man who has been a liberal, a moderate and now a conservative because it suits his needs to be elected is always capable of becoming whatever the “Powers that Be” want him to become. With Ted Nugent exposing the under belly of the Tea Party and the mentality of the Conservative, can any of us afford to have a President who will be easilly influenced by this hate and unable to pronounce that such hate will not be tolerated in America, as our leader? You decide 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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“Never Worked A Day In Her Life”

My message today is to you, Hilary Rosen, as I do know and understand that you have made three appearances on CNN to explain yourself and said you simply miss spoke. “You apologized to Ann Romney and have respect for her and all women who are fortunate enough to stay home but you were standing by your statement, that women who have the luxury of staying home do not face political problems that women who do work out of the home do face, so therefore they do not know the problems of working women,” or words to that effect. I do not doubt your sincerity.

Please allow me to explain to you, however, that we women who do not work out of the home,as a rule, have had many of the same experiences that women face who do need to work. Many of us held jobs and tried to climb that ladder previously to starting our families. Others of us held down jobs while trying to balance family and career.

Many times during recessions and lay offs of our own, we did find we could afford to stay home if we learned to fix meals from scratch. If we could stretch a roast into both a stew and beef and noodles we could save the money that was going out of the home while we worked, on prepared foods or fast food pickup. Eating out only happens on an anniversary and then only when we have a family member that will babysit. We found that we did not need to shop and buy clothing for the job or pay daycare and saved in the process the money we were spending in child care and clothing. We made do with what we had while we worked and spent our time instead picking up your child because you were going out for a drink with the girls.

We no longer could afford to meet for lunch or a drink,as “wine in a box”, became a luxury when we did find ourselves unable to find work. We are not women of luxury that made the choice to stay home in many cases. Most of us are not pleased with the sacrifices that we have to make just because our husbands are paid more than what we can make. Many of us dream of the day that the children are in school and we can go back to work.

Some of us who have disabled children cannot find the appropiate daycare services that will not neglect our child. If we did not have, Head Start, then we would have even less hope for the future of our child. Many of us run charitible groups in which we act as CEO’s,run in political fields such as school boards or city hall where our time and work is free,sit on hospital boards,do Red Cross blood mobiles,read at libraries, assist at schools or simply do the painting in your homes or help you decorate even when we cannot afford to do so in our own homes. We are the member of the family that inherits the elderly parent,drops everything when a family member gets sick, or if a neighbor requires help because we do not have the luxury of a paying job. We do know the real aggravation of promises made and not followed through on.

More than anything else we do know and do understand the problems of the workng moms because so many of you think we have nothing more to do than hold your hands while we listen to the problems working Moms face while you cry on our shoulders about the problems you are dealing with on the job or the guilt you face for leaving your child at home. When you take a sick day you can sometimes do little to nothing or even go shopping while your child is in daycare but we do not have that luxury as we neither have time or money to do so.

We are ever cognizant of the fact that our jobs last 24/7 and that we never get a sick day. We are expected to be here or there while you work 8 to 10 hours a day on the job. We all work in charitible organizations and in our community. Your child comes to our home when you are not going to be able to make it home. We head up the car pools and act as chaperones from speech to dance to sports. The things that you feel guilty that you cannot be home to do,we are worn out by doing them.

Weeks go by when the only companionship we have is the conversation of children. We long to have an adult conversation and when we do finally get to have one we listen to working women bitch about their jobs. Many times we have to ask if we will ever find time to read a good book and if we do,it is late at night to the point we stay up way too late reading and regret it the next day, no different from what you do. I won’t even begin trying to explain to you what it is like when we have disabilities and are trying to raise our family,help in the community, and take your turn to help out with your children’s school,errands you cannot run, and your children afterschool arrivals and parties, usually hosted in our homes.

The unfortunate part of the statement that you made about Ann Romney never having “worked a day in her life” is the same insane statement that many of us stay at home Moms have heard time and time again. I am a firm believer that the Freudian slip is real and those words do escape the mouths of way too many working Moms.

It is what helps destroy the mentality towards a woman’s right to choose. It brands us as women and seperates us from what should be the common goals of all women. Regardless of the circumstances of our lives, we do need to understand that we all need to stand together to stop the denial of our rights to choose for ourselves. We women when we get away from our own little catty groups
or cliques do understand women and the problems all of us face.

It is my sincere hope that you do let go of your insistence that the stay at home Mom has no idea of what women face in the work force. If you only knew how many times I held the hands of working women and offered advice because I had been there and done that, then you would get over this attitude of luxury and “stay at home moms.” The great majority of us are much more tuned into the strife of the” working Mom” than the working Mom is tuned into the “stay at home Mom.” If we bitch to you we may have to bitch about the slack we pick up because you work and women simply do not want to hear that.

Unless we women all understand these misconceptions amongst ourselves is what gives feminists a dirty name and divides us as women, along with giving Mitt Romney and the Republicans more fodder on which to base their lies, we will not be able to stop this insane drive enacted on us by both the Republican Conservatives and Tea Party. Their efforts to take all women back to the 1950′s before the Equal Rights Amendment was passed for each and all of us, is an affront to all women, regardless of our circumstances in life.

Who does what or knows what or understands what is what divides us as women. It is as petty as it sounds and we need to stop it now or we will all lose! Vote for the equal rights of all women in November. Re-elect our President Barack OBama, who really does care about women’s issues.

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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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It Is The Middle Class, Stupid!

By now, I am guessing anyone who will vote in America is tired of the news coverage on politics and eager instead to hear what the Republican Party really is willing to offer what use to be the middle class.

When the Republicans aren’t attacking each other they seem to scream interference with free enterprise and taking regulations off of corporations and drilling for oil and natural gas.

They like to pretend that fiscal capitalism is the same as straight capitalism where people are actually given jobs, that will last longer than a couple of years. Instead they operate from corporate welfare, where they move in and get all the government subsidies along with free land and warehouses they can to set up jobs and the minute they get all the public funding they can, they are gone. This is what contributed to Mitt Romneys 190 million dollars and gave him a 9.3 million dollar beach house, while the middle class paid for it and got laid off in the process.

Do not blame Mitt Romney alone folks, as this practice has gone on for years. Paper capitalism does not offer jobs and the Republicans along with Wall Street and the banks have become experts at it. Donald Trump and his bankers could put most to shame with paper capitalism. It is not something that Newt Gingrich is a stranger to either. Nor were the Democrats, Barnie Frank or Chris Dodd, in their dealings with Freddie Mack and Annie Mae.

Other than Barack OBama and the Democrats,who it is our business to know who they are in our own State Senate race by checking their voting records, who are fighting for the middle class, we the voters need to ask ourselves if there are any Republicans even aware that the middle class is impoverished? If we are going to allow hate,ignorance,or lies to influence our vote, then we are no different from what they are, if we wake up and find that nothing has changed. I repeat:”If we are not a part of the solution, then we are a part of the problem.”

Do the Republicans know and understand that it is the middle class who are living on food stamps? Will they ever address the reasons why they continue to fight against extending the middle class tax cuts for a year while they the tea party sponsored members fight on farm dust? Will they explain that they will fight until”hell freezes over” to not remove the Bush tax cuts on the 1% or the 40% of the population, who are not paying their fair share in order to balance the budget, but at the same time demand that tax cuts for the middle class has to be paid for?

Will they explain why they can not raise the tax cuts on those paying nothing in taxes, like Mitt Romney, so they can pay for Obama’s jobs bill for the middle class, instead of dismissing it and agreeing instead their only goal, as spoken by Mitch McConnell (minority house leader) is to defeat Obama, by just saying”NO”? Thats right, folks, even though Mitt Romney has blamed the OBama Administration and his Department, and gets a good laugh about there being dust in the Desert, it was the Tea Party freshmen in Dec. who were elected in 2010, in their own party, who held up extending the tax cuts to the middle class in Dec over farm dust. I wrote a post on it when it was happening in December.

OBama or the Democrats had nothing to do with it, but instead it was just another of Mitt’s lies. Every time he opens his own mouth, he gives Democrats more to use against him so don’t be too hard on Newt for pointing out his lies, as there are vaults full to use without Newt’s help.

I don’t disagree with the fact that Newt is angry and getting back at Mitt,even though Newt’s lies are just as large as Mitt’s, but so much of what is being written for Mitt is nothing but lies. He attacks the idea that people are fighting against free enterprise but apparently he is so isolated or his writers are, that he has no idea of what is even happening in America.

It is not that anyone is against free enterprise that hires workers at fair wages, but instead that Capitalism has either laid off the workers or is not hiring them. All of us who are not involved in our own self-righteous endeavors, need to tell all of the say “NO” Republicans and those running that,”It is about the middle class in poverty, Stupid!”

The candidates all running are no different from those in Congress. They are all exposing the truth about each other, and their nastiness is no different from what the current Republicans in the Congress are doing. None of them can get along with each other there either, or anyone for that matter,but that doesn’t stop them from blaming OBama for being a poor leader that cannot lead the bunch. Hell they can’t even lead their own Party. What more is it going to take before the middle class votes them out?

It appears that the entire Republican Party and those who support them have missed out on the facts of what is important to all other voters and that is, it is not the African-Americans in the inter-cities who are increasing food stamps, it is the previous owners of the Moms and Pops, the families who owned construction companies, previous owners of trucking companies, family owned stores and shops, middle class workers, who are on food stamps, and what the Republicans plan on doing about it, that we care about.

None of them are addressing the fact that the middle class Americans are on food stamps and in poverty, or that they have lost their homes, and in some cases their cars, and if they still have their cars they are not able to afford the gas to drive them. When they do address it they blame OBama for the fact that he won’t allow drilling or raise restrictions on corporations.

Give us a break! The gas prices are up because of what happened in the gulf and the costs that BP had to pay for their failure to better supervise their wells. While they give the appearance of paying millions for the accident, we,the American people are paying for it in our gas tanks. Also what is going on in Iran is raising it. None of us are so stupid that we do not know that when vacation time comes around every year even during Republican administrations, gas prices always go up and it is not OBama’s fault as much as the protection they get from the Republican Party that allows it to happen. We all know how the Republicans fight anyone who would change it. That does not stop Mitt Romney in his arrogance, from blaming OBama.

Instead of dealing with the middle class impoverishment, the Republicans are talking about the Democrats and OBama restricting drilling, forcing regulations on corporations and interfering with free enterprise. We all get it. Republicans represent Capitalism. No one is interfering with it but we all understand that when the banks were allowed to get too big and they failed, and when all the regulations were lifted slowly beginning in 1993 on the corporations and then more aggressively during the Bush years, due to their run away greed, we ended up in the mess we are in. None of us need or want to go back to that, do the Republicans even understand that?

America and Americans cannot go back to that ever again, and certainly not when the middle class Americans are fighting poverty while your Tea Party members in the States and Washington are holding up the middle class tax breaks along with shutting down Unions,with the Republican Party support.

Certainly you must know that the middle class is aware of the facts that both government and unions protect the middle class jobs from free enterprise’s greed when they refuse to pay a living wage for a good days work, in the States. We know instead that capitalism is doing very well on Wall Street and stock piling money into the trillions while they shut down jobs in America, and build in China and India, where they can offer slave labor wages,instead.

When you, the Republicans, refuse to listen to the dire needs of the middle class here in America, and instead continue fighting for what got us in this mess in the first place, you will have to learn on election day.” that frankly my dears, we do not give a damn about your issues, when you can care less about what you are doing to the impoverishment of the middle class.”

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