The Fiscal Cliff

Speaking as someone who has been the majority tax payer, and speaking for many others, it is a crime how low our taxes really are in America.  We have not paid as low of a tax rate as we are paying today since the 1950′s when a cup of coffee was a nickel and a Coke cost a dime.  We are paying the same taxes that we paid when a child could take a dime into a candy store and come out with a sack full of candy or a comic book. The cost of gasoline was 22 cents for a gallon of gas and a Ford automobile cost $1500.00.  A baby could be born in a hospital for $200 and a good quality dress cost $25.00 while we could buy dresses from stores like J.C. Penney for $5.00 each.

The average wage that was considered good pay was $1.06 per hour in the 1950′s, and was years prior to minimum wage going into effect.  When minimum wage went into effect in 1968 it started at $2.25. Companies said they would go broke and got around the law then by hiring two part time workers to replace the full-time worker.  If you were considered a service then you did not have to pay minimum wage.  There were no benefits from healthcare to 401ks. The taxes went up and climbed higher in the 1960′s,  over what we pay today.  If they and we could pay the taxes then or more than we do now, and it was long before the baby-boomers were retiring,  then something is terribly wrong when the Republicans dig in and refuse to let the taxes go higher to meet the needs of the people at today’s prices.

We do not want people going hungry in America or our children and the elderly unable to buy medicines just because a bunch of Tea Party members cheered when one of their own said that the poor in a coma should be left to die if they did not have the funds to pay their hospital bill.  The majority of us are not of the mentality of The Koch Brothers and are not the kind of people who the Republican Congress claims to be representing by not letting all of the Bush tax cuts run out.

The richest Nation on earth should be able to pay for the needs of its people without it being called socialism.  We are the only Nation  of the civilized world that currently refuses to pay for the total healthcare needs or to invest in the educational needs of its people, as a priority, because of the current Republican Party. When they put greed of Capitalism before the needs of  ”We the People”, and refuse to believe that the American people have given them a referendum to put us first, then it is time we all question their motives to do otherwise. We can no longer make excuses for them as they make excuses for themselves as well.  We are not against Capitalism but when its greed continues to be protected by the Republican Party over the needs of the people, then it is time that we tell the Congress we are watching your stall tactics and judging you accordingly.

To have a bunch of Congressmen who operate on the Grover Norquist tax pledge to continue to hold the middle class hostage in an effort to deny food stamps for the hungry or healthcare to our children or elderly is the same disgrace that is represented in the Republican Party and encouraged by the Tea Party.  The Congress has the misguided idea that they won a mandate instead of accepting the fact that they won a handful of people with the hope they would bring better clarity to their own Party in an effort to force the Congress majority into hearing the needs of the people over the greed of the Country.

Does the Republican Party believe that the middle class who have already been stuck with the fact that the Republicans spent the “lock box” on Social Security that provided for the future healthcare needs of the retirees through 2072 and were asked to bail out the greed of Wall Street, while the same Republicans refused to pay for two wars and stuck the middle class with all the same, that they can now convince the middle class that we have a Republican majority who are looking out for a balanced approach to the economic woes that we  face? Do they assume that the middle class is so out of touch as not to be aware of Republicans insistence to back the same programs that have failed us will be supported by us?

The real American majority re-elected President Obama in the hopes that the Republican Party would quit arguing amongst themselves and accept President Obama’s agenda for the middle class.  The Republican Congress do not have a leg to stand on. When people like myself, who truly do pay the highest tax rates in America, are saying we  pay too little in order to support the needs of the people and therefore we are willing to pay more in order to balance the budget in Washington, then how can the Republicans deny that they are dug in so far, in order to represent  American men such as Sam Adelson or Donald Trump, over “We the People”?.

When we add to that the  fact that Billionaires for tax increases have gone to Washington to lobby the Congress to increase their taxes then we realize the Republican Congress is operating on their own agenda and totally ignoring the mandate that they were given by “We the People.” We did not hear about the Billionaires lobbying because that was a little secret kept by many in the media in order for them to use their own fear tactics spread against the dangers of going over the fiscal cliff.  The truth is that it will cost little to nothing if we do because even the Republican Party are smart enough to know it will cost them elections for years to come, since they will be blamed for it and their own ideology is responsible for the same.  Most of what the media are reporting is just more of the Republican hype while they continue to stall.

As a Nation, none of us can any longer afford the Bush tax cuts and we are all willing to pay our fair share as long as it is fair and balanced for everyone.  If the only way we will get resolution and fairness or have the Republican Congress hear us, when we are telling them. “we are willing to pay more,”  is if we go over the fiscal cliff then I say,” let’s go over it.”  Hell lets even jump over it.  Does anyone have a  parachute or a bungee cord, they do not need? Its time we stop the bullies in Congress and if the only way we can do that is to go over the fiscal cliff, then let’s go!

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Denying Entitlements To The Wealthy

At a time when we hear Mitt Romney say, “he doesn’t care about the poor” while he says,” he is going to close down HUD” and the Ryan Plan is being proposed and forced into Republican policy in our States and Washington,by Grover Norquist, perhaps it is time that “We the people” write our Representatives and tell them if they want our vote then they must pledge to deny all entitlements to the wealthy.  We have become way too dependent on a group of thugs to make the right decisions for us for too long in the Republican Party, but too many still believe their lies and keep electing them.

At a time when Mitt Romney was a private citizen,no different from the rest of us, he was able to place 100 million dollars into an I.R.A. even though we are all restricted from putting anymore that $1250.00 per person or $2500.00 per couple in, and we can all be certain Mitt Romney,although he is 65, is not so old that he could be able to put that much in nor have I.R.A.’s been around that long.  He also got a tax deduction for $77,000.00 on a prancing horse.

The farmers and ranchers who feed us and the poor and have fought fires and the worse  drought in 50 years, to only lose their crops, herds,pastures and homes this summer, will not get that to help replenish their livelihoods because the Republican elitists are holding women issues and the comprehensive farm bill, devised by the Democrats, hostage over women’s equality and even more tax breaks or entitlements to the wealthy, in Congress. Instead they deny that they will move on denying women the right to make decisions on birth control and health issues and tried to jam through a patched up farm bill of their own that would not have helped the crises that agriculture is in, currently.

Mitt’s great wealth has not hired or fed any of us while he has remained unemployed for 6 years and claims to not know what his holdings are as they have been in blind trust, but he continues to get entitlements and welfare that we pay for. Mitt like all the other Billionaires are getting entitlements granted to them through loopholes and as a result of it, they are sucking off of the needs of  the working poor and middle class to feed our families. ”We the People” certainly did not feel any gain from his trickle down theories, while he was getting those entitlements and was unemployed,now were we?

The Republicans under the lead of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan like to talk about Social Security or medicare being entitlements that Government can no longer afford so Seniors will get vouchers,that will not keep up with the costs of healthcare, but we never do hear them talk about the entitlements that have been given to the wealthy being cut so that Government does not go broke. We keep hearing instead, how the Seniors who paid in are going to have to share the burden if they do not want to see our grandchildren strapped in insurmountable debt.

Never is there even so much as a whisper about the wealthy giving up their really long list of entitlements or welfare, from either Paul Ryan,Mitt Romney or any Republican candidates in the Republican campaigns and if anyone believes them when they say they will close loopholes then may, the Dear Lord, help you out of your denial.  The only loopholes that they plan on closing are the ones that allow us to get a tax break on our mortgage payments.

When we consider that the Billionaires in America are double dipping with government subsidies given to both their Wall Street Companies and Oil Companies that they own, and most of them pay less in taxes than what a family making $40,000.00 to $50,000.00 make per year, then why aren’t we hearing about the sacrifices or entitlements the wealthy are going to have to give up in order to help pay for the Senior population and our grandchildren as well, so that our government that hires us and protects us, remains solvent?  Haven’t you noticed that they never tell us which loopholes they will close but instead Mitt Romney says,”He will let us know after he is elected?”

Have we, or is it just the Republicans, forgotten that a Democracy runs on helping each other to better ourselves and that Our Founding Fathers did establish a government of the people,for the people, and by the people? I do understand that the Tea Party elected who do not believe Our Founding Fathers meant for America to be a Democracy,and instead refer to those who do think we bring everyone up together by helping those  less fortunate than ourselves, as being socialists and communists, but certainly we the voters are smarter and kinder than they are, aren’t we?

If we haven’t forgotten, then why do we keep voting for them?  Do we think unemployed private citizens such as Mitt Romney and his 5 married sons are, should not have to pay into America’s survival so that America remains solvent but instead are allowed to drain off more of America’s resources so the elderly have to pay out of their pockets, is what our Founding Fathers based Democracy on? I will explain why they deliberately want to bankrupt Social Security and government and instead turn it all over to the Insurance Companies in the interest of Capitalism, who will gouge us even worse, a little later down in this post

The biggest difference is that the entitlements the Republicans talk about are never their own but always ours’ even though we pay for our so-called entitlements because  it is taken out of all of our pay checks, just as we Seniors have paid for Social Security and medicare have done already, and unlike the wealthy who never pay for their welfare and entitlements, todays Republicans have the audacity to deny us food stamps,after the election, when we do lose our jobs and need help.

The entitlements that the Republican Party instead pledge to give to the Wealthy,in exchange for the costs of their campaigns, are the true welfare recipients that we can no  longer afford, in America.  When men like the Koch Brothers and Sheldon  Adelson (who is under indictment) combined with Citizens United and Americans for Prosperity along with the far right groups win election on wealth and lies we definitely can no longer afford today’s Republicans.

The Republicans have lied to us and told us for years now,” that the better business does or the wealthy do the better  we all do.”  The “trickle down economics”, of Grover Norquists while saying, “I don’t want to eliminate government, I just want to shrink it so that it is small enough that I can drown it in the bath tub,” is what it smells like and sounds like. Trickle down economics is not only a lie, but the attitudes of the Grover Norquist Republicans is also mean and inhumane.

When the middle class has discretionary spending, because the Republicans are not eliminating our Unions and replacing them with low paying jobs instead, then we all do better, is the real truth.  With every Republican being forced to sign a pledge not to raise taxes on the wealthy and adding another 4.6 trillion dollars to the deficit by giving even more tax cuts to the wealthy, it does not take either a liberal or what they tell you are lies of the progressives,as THEY  claim, to understand who it is that have lied to us for too long. The far-right hate the Roosevelt,Truman, and Lyndon Baines Johnson programs that developed the middle class following World War 2, with the GI Bill and with the protection of Unions and Civil Rights in the 1960′s, so under the control of Grover Norquist they will not quit until they end both, and send women back to the 1950′s.

All it takes is being a member of the working poor and middle class to know that we have been lied to by the Republican Party under the control of a man who goes back to the campaign of Barry Goldwater, when they were trying to force the ideology of the John Birch Society on to Americans in the 1960′s.

As members of the Baby-boomers and as members of The Great generations we recognized the danger of a man who had his own agenda along with the group, that called itself, “the John Birch Society”  interests at heart over our own while he campaigned in the office of Barry Goldwater.  The young man then was Grover Norquist and now it is the same man in the campaigns of all of the Republicans and Republican hopefuls that must take his pledge not to raise taxes on the wealthy.

Instead of it being called the John Birch Society,they now go by the name of”the Tea Party.”  They are no more grass-roots than the majority of we Seniors are;As Paul Ryan can testify to,but never will, after being a member of the same and in Congress for 14 years. Hi highschool teacher in Janestown, Ohio, who has said he had no doubts that Paul Ryan would go on in politics and has had many conversations with him has said,”He will never vote for Romney or Ryan because Ryan and he agree on nothing.  The teacher is a life long Democrat but even we Democrats will vote Republican if we know they are a better candidate for the needs of the people, and clearly today’s  Republicans could care less about the people or government other than to see both the middle class and government disappear.

Its time, we get back to what the youth who have not been steeped in lies and indoctrination of the Tea Party already know, and we vote the Tea Party and Conservative Republicans out of office before Grover Norquist drowns us all in that bath tub with our government that protects all of our rights to our own decisions and to improve ourselves, so we can have the American dream where we too can have power over our rights to our homes,health,laws,safety,schools,education,jobs,safety in flights and from terrorists,consumer goods, benefits,and investments.

Re-elect those who do and will fight for us as President Barack Obama and the Democrats will continue doing. Clinton’s policies were well on their way towards paying down another 5 trillion dollars of deficit when the Republican majority put an end to it and instead spent the money that paid for our healthcare through 2072. They spent the surplus and added another 7 trillion to the deficit by putting two wars on credit while refusing every thing that President Obama tried to do to help improve our economy and jobs.

Our so-called entitlements do not come close to what the Republican Party keeps taking out of our Government Treasury to hand to their own expense accounts,healthcare,pensions,and wages and to their Billionaire cronies who pay for their campaigns. We will not go bankrupt if we get them out-of-the-way as we are still a very wealthy Country as will our government be if we can eliminate those who stand in  way of the Democrats to balance a budget.

If Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and the rest of the Republicans are concerned about there not being enough money to give back to us, that which is rightfully our’s and want to call it entitlements, instead;then they can start taking away some of their own entitlements and welfare while ”We the People”, limit the size of the Republican Party, and do away with the welfare and entitlements that the Republicans have handed out to themselves along with the Wealthy and plan on continuing, just as they have for the last 30 years.   We won’t drown them in the proverbial Grover Norquist bath tub but we can vote them out of OUR GOVERNMENT and  take back our Country from them at the election polls. Vote in November!

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The Truth On Affordable Healthcare

If the Democrats had not behaved, as the cowards they were in the 2010 elections when it came to supporting Obama Affordable  health Care, we would not see the Republican lies making so much headway still, today.  Now that the Supreme Court has ruled Obama care is Constitutional, it is time for both parties to drop the politics and to be honest about just how the working poor and middle class as well as small businesses have gained an important step towards healthcare, especially, by todays’ Supreme Court decisions. ALL Americans in general have won, by today’s Supreme court decision!

In the past and currently, we all pay Insurance Companies higher premiums and larger deductibles because of the fact that Insurance Companies continue to drop all children and adults who suffer from anything from autism to diabetes to arthritis,MS., Parkinson’s and any other genetic disorder that is chronic.  By not insuring 30 million Americans ”We the People” have had to pay higher Insurance costs.  In cases where these families are dropped, their premiums if they do exist, is so cost prohibitive to companies that these people are often  fired from their jobs instead of the businesses or Corporations keeping them on.  This drives up unemployment since no other company will hire them either.  In the last 10 years we have seen a huge increase in people who reach medical care cost around the age of 45, receiving their pink slips.  This will all stop under the Obama health care since these Companies can return to affordable healthcare under the Obama Plan.  Regardless of health problems in either the worker or their children their costs will be the same to both them and the companies who hire them as it is for all Americans

What we as the Individual businesses as well as citizens have seen and paid out to the Insurance Companies has been the increased hospital charges of the chronically ill that has been charged to us through the Insurance Companies by jumping our premium  costs and raising our deductibles. Both the lack of care as well as the emergency services received by the above people not being able to get or buy healthcare  is charged to the Insurance Companies and medicare by the Hospitals across America.  The Insurance Companies have then been reimbursed through Corporate welfare  or subsidies, but we the policy holder as well as the tax payer have been paying double costs for the uninsured. This  will be lessened through government costs or in fewer costs increases that have not been kept in check by the Insurance Companies or the Medical supply companies who have been able to name their own prices while the costs have been passed on to us the consumer.

The government insurance Agency or better known as Medicare and Medicaid is 6 times larger than all of the Insurance companies combined in America.  They are able to buy healthcare costs in blocks much larger than the largest private Insurance Companies combined and therefore they keep down the costs across the board for any one who wishes to join the government incentive programs offered through private insurance instead of paying for the raising costs of premiums with higher deductibles that are offered through  private Insurance Companies currently. Affordable healthcare is a restructuring  of healthcare services and insurance companies and  will in the long run gain control over the exorbitant costs and the donut holes, that we are now seeing in healthcare, so both works more efficiently for those of us who have been paying for the sick who can not get insurance as well as the  free-loaders in America.

This is the exact reason that the Republicans are saying that the middle class and working poor will be denied their choice on Insurance Companies.  Insurance Companies will have to become competitive with the government programs in order to “stop the waste and costs in healthcare”, initially, but since the chronically ill will more than likely opt for the government programs instead of losing all they have worked for, eventually the Insurance companies will see their subsidies diminished at the same time their costs come down as well, and will be able to be more competitive.  “We the People” will all benefit through affordable health care over time, but not immediately unless we are under the age of 26, then we will be carried on our parent’s plan.

Although we can keep our own Insurance Companies as is as can Corporations, we would all be foolish to with Insurance Companies no longer being able to charge the healthy people for the cost of the chronically ill and  those who refuse to buy insurance when they can afford to. Our current Insurance companies will only increase their premiums now that they can no longer place a cap on the amount the chronically ill or those who suffer from cancer have been and are being charged and paid for in exuberant premium costs.

Since we have already seen the amount of money paid into the Mitt Romney campaign by Wall Street and billionaires, we then all know why so many lies have been told about Obama care and seen the spineless Democrats who have steered away from supporting the same, as about 20 to thirty of them are also supported by lobbyists for the Medical profession and supply companies who are amongst those whose real goal is to get rich through patient care, along with the Insurance companies.  They are all-powerful lobbyists.  Their claims that Doctors and hospitals have been absorbing the costs of the uninsured over, “ We the People”, simply rings false.

For all the unemployed and uninsured in 14 months time you will gain insurance through Medicaid and no one will fine you for not having healthcare as it will be provided for you according to need at 1% of your income.  Those who fall between Medicaid and affordable care will get tax subsidies that will place you on an Insurance program offered at cut rates through more competitive private insurance agencies. The fines do not go into effect before these programs are set up, guaranteeing you insurance coverage. the Republican lie that government is denying us our liberty or that IRS squads will be out making arrests is as stupid as it sounds.

The only people who will be fined will be those who can afford to get healthcare and refuse to. These are the people who show up in emergency wards instead of Doctors offices and raise the costs for everyone else in premiums and deductibles, currently. Preventive care such as mammograms and other screenings for prevention,and birth control will be free to everyone.

We currently pay taxes on all of our benefits received through our jobs, including insurance that is provided for us by our employers.  Instead of that income tax being distributed to the States it is going back to the Corporations and businesses that agree to keep us employed for a year.

By going on the affordable care insurance, both we and the companies that hire us, will save and the taxes currently going to Corporate will go back to the States as it was designed to do.  These Billions of dollars, that the Republicans and a few Democrats are forecasting  we will be paying out in taxes can be saved through Corporation reform by denying welfare to both the Oil Companies and Wall Street but the Republicans refuse to do so, while blaming the Democrats for not taking it on.

We will hear many more of their lies through “Prosperity for Americans”, ” Citizens United”  as well as any number of organizations sponsored by the Churches through the Billions of dollars being pumped into the Republican Party to make sure affordable healthcare is defeated, and in an effort to protect the lobbyists who own them.

Our taxes will be compensated for in the lost of cost that is currently being written off by hospitals and doctors as well as companies who have picked up the differences for those who do not have Insurance and often travel to America from Europe. and Asia or cross the border from Canada or Mexico to get the best healthcare , that “We the People” are already paying for. It will also be offset by all AMERICANS who can pay, paying for their own healthcare through reduced costs.

No doubt the Obama affordable  care program will come before the  Supreme Court again, filed by lawyers in our States and  by a number of cases that claim Obama care is”Unconstitutional.”  With today’s ruling these cases will be thrown out or sent back to the States.

Since the Catholic Church is claiming Religious Freedom to deny women health care coverages and approximately 20% of Americans believe they do not need healthcare because,” God will heal them when they get sick,” this will continue being a political battle for years to come. Many of these same people are  the people who we pay for through exorbitant healthcare costs when they are involved in accidents,pre-mature births, or become chronically ill due to complications of both child-birth and chronic health problems, as well as cancer.

In America we cannot deny health care to the suffering  by the claim  of” Religious Freedom.”The Church sponsored schools and hospitals cannot lure us into their employ by  selling us or giving us their own Insurance policies and then deny us coverage by declaring Religious Freedom.  Our Supreme Court has ruled a number of times, according to  our Constitution on the need to provide for health care to ALL Americans for all of their needs without moral objection.(this includes women and children as well)

It is only because of a Conservative majority in the Supreme Court that this outrage has reared its ugly head again.  The Conservatives feel that the Conservative judges will vote according to Party lines so are claiming the same argument that they have lost on in the past. The care of the sick in America cannot be denied on Religious grounds. This battle has been fought by the Churches in America many times,and each time the Churches have lost due to the way our Constitution was written and intended to be upheld by our Founding Fathers.  No one entity was given power of law over the Supreme Court Justices.

We can count on both the Conservatives and Tea Party to inflame this argument even though religious rights have never been granted power in our Constitution over government decisions when it pertains to the best welfare of “We the People.”(women included)  This was specifically spelled out in a letter to the Baptist Church by Thomas Jefferson and made official in the Constitution by our Founding Fathers.

Any Republican vote in November is a vote against affordable healthcare  for all of us regardless of where we work or who we work for. President Obama risked his political future for us by taking on healthcare when no President before him since Roosevelt and Harry Truman other than the Clintons did, because we the American people told him in 2008 that healthcare was our number 1 concern. The only people who stand to win with a vote against Obama care is Wall Street, Insurance Companies,Healthcare suppliers and providers,  and the Republican Party who will be awarded handsomely by their Billionaire friends and lobbyists who finance the Tea Party movement and their elections.

Obama care like Social Security is the basics just like Social Security was in its infancy.  It is going to take both parties working together to refine it for both the Insurance Companies to become competitive on an even playing field with government prices and for  ”We the People,” to have security in our lives and the lives of the next generations.  The only changes being made in Medicare by the Democratic Majority pertains to the obsolete and the waste that is currently happening across America. The Ryan Plan that the Republicans plan to substitute Obama care, Medicare, and Medicaid with takes away healthcare from the bottom up and rewards Insurance Companies by driving up the costs to the working poor, middle class and the elderly, while increasing our deficit through government subsidizing the Insurance Companies even further.

As long as the current Republican greed is to bankrupt government in order to take over The largest Insurance Company in America(Medicaid and Medicare) through greed and over charges and by filibustering every attempt made to work together for the middle class and working poor, then we need to replace those who do not work for us but instead works for the Billionaires in November.  Vote Democrat, with an eye on the person speaking and their voting record, and then re-elect President Obama who has risked it all for “We the People”.

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Truth About Corporate Tax And Drilling

Once more I watched Republican Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, spread the fallacy about Corporate taxes being the highest in America than anywhere else in the World, over the weekend, and the reporter do nothing to clarify that Statement.

The following is a direct quote taken from the Center of Budget and Policy Priorities as of 2005:”The U.S. corporate tax burden is smaller than average for developed countries(1)Corporations in 19 of the member States of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Developement paid 16.1 percent of their profits in taxes between 2000 and 2005,on average, while corporations in the United States paid 13.4 percent.

Neverless, some have argued that U.S. corporate tax rates unduly burden U.S. Companies by pointing to the Country’s top statutory rate which is 35%. For example a recent Wall Street Journal editorial calling for corporate tax cuts noted that this is the second highest top statutory tax rate amongst developed countries (2)While true this gives the false impression that corporate tax burden is greater here than in developed countries. Because the U.S. tax code offers so many deductions,credits, and other mechanisms by which corporations can reduce their taxes the actual percentages of profits that the U.S.corporations pay in taxes—or what analysts refer to as their effective tax rate——-is not high ,compared to other developed countries.

Because the average U.S. corporate tax burden is low,many economists believe a revenue corporate tax reform that reduces statutory corporate tax rates,while broadening the tax base by eliminating costly tax breaks could improve efficiency and likely benefit the U.S. economy."

Since the finding was published in 2005 the U.S. statutory tax rate has risen to 38% and is tied with Japan. The overall tax rates with the Bush tax cuts in place,have lowered the rates most corporations pay to even less that those of other developed Countries since this report was printed in 2005, however, with some Corporations paying 0% of their profits in taxes due to the welfare and entitlements given to Corporations by the Bush tax breaks. When the Republicans complain about high corporate taxes paid by American Corporations they or nor do reporters, that I have seen, ever point out that with the deductions they gain they pay 0 to very little in taxes along side of other developed Countries.

With the new slogan in the Republican Party being "Drill Baby Drill", when it comes to convincing the American public that gas prices will drop at the pumps, it is just another of the half truths coming out of the mouths of the Republican Party.

60% of all the increase we are paying is estimated to be as a direct result of speculators on Wall Street in the commonities market betting on if the price of oil will go up or if it will drop. Since all of our oil drilled is traded on the global market not an ounce
of it is guaranteed for U.S. consumption.

If America opened up all of our National Parks tomorrow, for Oil exploration and drilling, it would not make one drop of difference as to the price we pay at the pumps. We have so little oil in America along side of other oil producing Nations, even with totally ignoring carbons if it was all drilled tomorrow we would still need to buy on the global market. America uses 20% of all world production although that has fallen in the last 3 years by a percentage point or two. America has such little oil within the boundaries of America that Saudi Arabia would not lose sleep even with drilling both in California and Alaska. We stand to gain far more in both solar and wind power as that cannot be sold on a global market but instead can only be used within the continental United States boundaries. The Obama Administraation is pushing for more research and development of the same in order to make us energy independent from the global markets.

As it is,we are drilling for more oil and natural gas in America than at any time in our history and it has not made any difference at the gas pumps. The Republicans saying it did in 2008 are ignoring the fact that prices fell due to the drop of use during a recession. Since oil lobbyist pay an average of 8.8 billion dollars a year in contributions to legislatures, in Washington, it just pays for the Republicans who gain much of that to say, "drill baby drill." Another fallacy is the amount of jobs created by the drilling.With opened up drilling in the U.S. over the last four years only,70,000 jobs have been added.The exagerations in jobs created by both the Republicans and the billions paid in ads by the oil Companies is another one of those half truths. It has accounted for less than .01% of the drop in unemployment.

Once more the Republicans continue to play the American people for the fools that has always worked for them in the past. The Tea Party lies mixed in with their old worn out half truths in 2010,
won them a great deal of seats that none of us can any longer afford they hold in November. Vote their cronies out now and get them out in the following election so that we the American people can laugh again, and know,"We got the last laugh on them."

The Tea Party are still Republicans and instead of meaning what they say, they go the opposiite direction,no different from their other party members.Right now that is the only thing that we can count on in the Republican Party. It shouldn't be enough for any of us who go to the polls to vote on unless we are the gullible fools that they continue to play us for. Its in our hands with our votes at the polls in November. If we don't vote them out then we have no right to bitch. America needs to get back to happier times and the majority of us want you to step up to the plate and to vote for truth and Democracy for all of us.

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The Fastest Growing Wealth

Senators and Congressmen like to speak about how their salaries have been frozen at $174,000.00 a year for four years. When they tell the public that they do not tell us that they are amongst the fastest growing people in America when it comes to wealth accumulation.

When they mention their base pay they do not speak of the amounts they get in healthcare,pensions,compensation for travel expenses, housing allowances,their food allowances or entertainment costs.

They do not speak of the income they derive from insider trading on the stock market or what they gain in gifts from lobbyist. The Republicans voted not once but twice during the Bush years to allow for and to extend the gifts given to them by lobbyists.

While the middle class wages have remained stagnant or have flat lined over the past 20 years or so, the income of the Congress and Senate has grown at 150 times greater the rate of the normal American middle class citizen. The government that they are fighting to do away with has made them all wealthy.

The typical Congressman who comes into Congress with modest means, and stays for 10 to 15 years will be making on the average of $850,000.00 a year by the time they leave, once all their compensations, gifts,investments gained through the insider trading, and benefits are added up. They are amongst the largest group of those who receive entitlements in our Nation. They will leave with 5 to 6 million dollars on the average.

There perhaps are many reasons, not a few being their own wallets, as to why the Republicans refuse to lift the Bush Tax cuts that are draining our treasury and building our deficit to the point that it is bankrupting our government, of the people, for the people, and by the people. Both Parties are guilty of getting wealthy off of the middle class but only the Democrats, are fighting to save the middle class as we know it. Our government and “We the People” pay them very well.

Mitt Romney said.”He does not care about the poor who are protected by a safety net just those who fall between the holes.” How many of us think that Mitt even knows that the safety net is so pathetic that a child dies in the United States every 5 minutes due to starvation related diseases?

This is Republican speak for the constant words spoken in regards to the “haves” supporting the “have nots.” They either truly believe that the poor do not work and are dependent on the wealthy for welfare or it is politically popular to show disdain towards the poor in the current climate of “me first and only,” as represented by the Tea Party mentality. Could he be so out of touch that he truly believes the food on their table is so well provided for by the wealthy, that the safety net includes a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs,and that food stamps pay for the needs of the poor?

We can only hope that the man who believes he can represent the middle class is not that out of touch but instead, it was said to please the Tea Party as it has become so popular this year, because it plays well with the Tea Party who also believes this garbage.

If not, then it only reiterates what we all know about Mitt, and that is he does not have a clue that many of the middle class that he professes to want to help are these same poor that he says he is not concerned about.

It is not the truth and has never been the truth that the tax dollars of the “haves” pay for the “have nots” and provide them with a safety net. The truth is when the middle class and the poor do fall on hard times, because their wages keep getting cut by Corporations or they get laid off, it is the government in government subsidies that help feed the poor while the Churches or the schools, in most of the cases, distribute it free.

This has been paid for by the working poor and middle class from their taxes, while they were employed ,and it continues being paid for by the working poor and the middle class, who pay for the large percentage of the government subsidies and certainly not the wealthy. It simply is more of the bigotry that we are hearing in the Republican Party.

The wealthy do not support anyone, as they have lawyers and lobbyist that make certain that they do not pay their fair share in taxes. They have loopholes given to them by the Bush tax cuts and found for them by their lawyers, that gets them out of paying taxes that do not exist for the rest of us.

The average middle class and working poor Americans, who have raised their families, and own their home can deduct their house mortgage, a small percentage for charity,and that is all, providing they do not travel for a living. Those who do have children can deduct their children and day care. If we rent we have even less tax cuts. The wealthy have pages after pages of tax loop holes that do not exist for the rest of us, because they were not granted in the Bush tax cuts. In some cases, they pay no taxes at all. It is so common that none of us should be surprised to find that would be true if Mitt Romney was made to release his taxes back the 12 years that President Barack OBama has.

It is the working poor and the middle class who support the wealthys’ entitlements, with their loop holes and tax breaks and Corporate welfare, and yet they refuse to let go of the bigotry that they spread against the poor. Newt Gingrich is in an uproar over Mitt’s statement even though, Newt said, “The children of the poor should be taken away from their parents and placed into orphanages,” when he served in the House.

The fact that Mitt Romney has placed his wealth over seas in the Cayman Islands, and in the past in Swiss banks, and speaks in such a callous regard about the poor, who he really thinks that the wealthy are supporting, is the best indicator we all have that he will do nothing towards lifting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and it will be business as usual in the Republican Party, if he is elected.

Although the Republican candidates made their multi-millions outside of government, with the exception of Santorum and Newt, we can bet they will add to it and protect it over their claimed desire to find jobs for the middle class and working poor if elected. It is amazing just how many free entitlements the wealthy politicians feel they deserve for free, while they call the Social Security and Medicare that we paid for since the 1950′s out of each pay check we earned,at a much higher rate, than we are today, entitlements.

We can no longer afford to make politicians wealthy when they are looking out for their own best interests over our own and while bankrupting the government that employs them. It is time to throw them out and let them live a comfortable life, as Mitt has been doing for 10 years, off the interests their multi-millions make.

In passing, do we think Rick Santorum will show his taxes for 12 years? When people find out that he gained his millions off of government employ and as a lobbyist won’t that fly in the face of the idea he likes to project, and that is, he is just a regular “Joe”? Seems to me, if he does his own taxes and they are on his computer, all he has to do is load the printing carrier with paper, and press the print button.

Have a good day all and if it sucks instead, then take out time to smile at someone who has had a worse day than you have, or hug your kids, pet, or loved ones. It’s amazing the difference a smile and/ or a hug can make towards lifting our spirits. If that doesn’t work then have a dish of ice cream. It is o.k. as long as we do not make a continued habit of it.

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Why Truth In The White House Matters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Class Warfare Stupidity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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All Wind, No Action

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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follow up…..”What A Concept”

If my blog today is going to make any sense to you at all then you will first need to read yesterday’s blog entitled, ‘What A Concept.’

What I do not understand about people that attend their religion of choice is, “What is it that makes you feel obligated to vote according to the dictates of your priest, minister, or pastor?”

The same people that feel it is their choice to attend mass when Church law says it is a grievous sin not to attend each Sunday and Holy Day; the same people that tithe according to their choice when the Church Doctrine stands at 10%; the same people that use birth control when it is a grievous sin of their church; the same people that drink caffeine in Coca Cola when drinking caffeine in coffee is wrong; the same people that drink alcohol or go out dancing when it is wrong in the eyes of their churches; the same people that commit adultery;the same people that abuse wives or husbands (unfortunately for years churches actually backed and promoted child abuse); the same people that cheat on their income tax;the same people that file bankrupsty because they like to live better than they make; are the same people that feel morally obligated to vote Republican.

I just do not get that any person would think that any man or church would have a right to take away their constitutional right to vote and not see that they are doing nothing more than what the communist countries do to their people.

The Constitution clearly states that no Church in our Country can take tax exemptions, which every single one does, and then tell their congregation or parrish how they can vote. NO ONE in a Democracy is allowed to do so.

This is not government standing in the way of the churches right to practice religion this is religion denying you, your Constitutional right to vote. Religion is instead, interfering with government. With the Rush Limbaughs ranting about the far left taking away your freedom to exercise your religion and turning our Country into a communistic society: he in short is lieing to you as are any church officials that tell you this, are.

It ‘s the Churches that are denying you your Democracy. It is illegal for them to do so. This is not breaking man’s law in order to do God’s work this is out and out criminal. No different than stealing from the Church collections to live a better lifestyle, no different than pedophile priest, no less of a sin than adultery, stealing and lieing.

Your/our young men and women have shed blood, came home limbless often with their home life destroyed, died to give us this right. Do your churches just ignor that or is it you that have forgotten just how precious of a gift it is to vote your conscious without interference from your Church? Have you forgotten the struggles of these brave men and women?

It is DEAD wrong for any Church to tell anyone how they must vote and then receive both State and Federal aide and both State and Federal Tax exemptions. Morally it is never right to take money from the government and then break it’s laws anymore than it is to take your freedom of Democacy from you. To do so is to steal the most precious gifts in America and that is your freedom to express your selves and to vote. Didn’t your Mommy or Daddy ever tell you, “that two wrongs do not make a right?” Clearly your churches haven’t and that IS their job to do so, not the governments.

On the lighter side—When in the heck is Rush Limbaugh packing his bags to get out of here and to land in Costa Rica like he promised he would if healthcare passed? Apparently, promises to him are just another one of his truths gone bad.

Thanks everyone for proving that America still has a heart in government by passing the health care bill. It may indeed be more health insurance reform than healthcare reform but God Bless you , it is a start!

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Why Does the Bully appear to win

If you have read my previous blogs then you know that whenever life appears to be perfect is when the Bully swings into action behind their pulpit to first split and divide and then to lead. They are everywhere amongst all of us. We seem to accept special interests spending millions of millions of dollars with their ads saying, “Call Washington tell them that the OBama plan will bankrupt us and to start over on the healthcare plan.” Who does that benefit if not the Republicans? Most people would ask why are the special interests backing the Republicans, anyway, at least it appears to me that people with common sense would ask that. Instead the polls show that people believe them. There is only one reason they would be willing to spend that kind of money and it is because they stand to lose so much more than the millions they are willing to spend.

Why then do the polls show that the constant phone calls saying the same thing as well as the ads are believed rather than dismissed for the propaganda that they are. Currently the tax payers and policy holders across America are paying out 2.3 trillion dollars a year to carry people that are uninsured in America. Doesn’t it stand to reason then the insurance companies and special interests that profit as a result of this and stand to lose the most, if healthcare goes through, would most likely be the ones willing to spend millions in order to keep trillions? Economists that are not Republican are forcasting that it will actually save us 600 Billion a year. Isn’t it better to at least lay some ground work now rather than do nothing? We elected Barack OBama and Clinton both in order for them to do something about healthcare. I truly believe both are/were sincere in doing just that but they get defeated when they try by the same people that claim to want healthcare but do nothing about it once they get in office, mainly the Republicans.

Hitler and Stalin both led from Bully pulpits and many people lost their lives in the most atrocious ways imaginable. We now have religious groups dispelling the fact that it ever happened and people believe them because they lead from the pulpit. We all tell ourselves that they would have been believed it if we lived during that time. Yet we currently have the same propaganda leading our beliefs today. It is in our homes where family members that appear to be the most charismatic will split and divide our own families and they are believed to get through their own agendas.

It isn’t the person that gains nothing that is splitting the family but rather the person that has the most to lose, even when everyone believes the person that has gained their own success through asking nothing of the family, is at fault. “The good guy never wins syndrome” and the “squeeky wheel gets the most attention syndrome” operates everyday in our own households. What we fail to see is the ones we protect are usually the less successful and the the ones we reject are the ones that ask nothing of us.

Is there really any difference from that and in the way we believe the lies in the ads on healthcare? What kind of a record have the Republicans held when it has come to the government’s concern of the people versus their interest in the Oil Companies, tax breaks for the wealthy and big business, even when they ship jobs over-seas, and Churches that own massive wealth? They all but gutted education and that is now the reason so many of our stimulus dollars are going into keeping schools running as well as the jobs for teachers. No child left behind proved to be one of the biggest failures that this Nation has seen.

Mothers favor their weakest child and when Mothers are no longer going to be there to provide then other family members need to be duped in order to replace Mom’s position of fiscal provider. When a persons survival depends on it they are always more charismatic than the person that sees through the lies. If you are the family member that tries to wake up the family before they succumb to the manipulation you will always be the member under attack.

We all ask, “What is wrong with the bantered wife that does not get out?” even while we are being manipulated by family, politicians, and business. Who gains the most when we contribute our time and money to corporate America? Every State will offer free land and tax free exemptions to corporations that will sit up business in there States and offer jobs. Even when they do not hire nearly enough people to justify what the tax payers are paying out.

People bankrupt their own lives spending in the stores and blame the credit card company rather than the stores that run the attractive ads and sales that get them into the stores in the first place. The same is true about the companies that run the ads to inspire those late night trips to pick up food that is unhealthy for them. It is almost as though the television has become the new religion in their lives. If the ads say so then it must be true.

All of us pay out so much more of our dollars and time and actual lively hood to corporate America but we are so much more willing to believe that government is corrupt than we are to believe that big business is, so when we have companies that go broke, that held our pension plans, then we blame government rather than the management of our own companies that paid out way too much in CEO’s salaries and bonuses and just flat out stole both our working hours as well as our pension funds.

For years now when people get close to the point of collecting retirement benefits they are being laid off and still we blame government. What is it about the mentality of the American people that would rather have big business own our lakes and our parks and water rights than we would government? I think it all gets down to the fact that we hold government responsible for everything that is wrong in our lives because every year on the news and in the ads someone is running for election, our listening to what we know is the truth and the way that societies establish itself with the pecking order, that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer goes out the window when it comes to common sense, as it’s easier to blame government. Why wouldn’t big business be more interested in owning America than the government would be? I do believe that every thought process that runs through the brain of America that makes us accept things that our common sense would tell us is false, starts and ends in the Family. Just the same way we refuse to see the member of the family that holds us all hostage we fail to see what special interests and Big Business is doing to corrupt us.

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