When you have a major political party, one of only two in our "free and democratic system", whose major goal is the complete dismantling of government so that the "people" can rule, you have a major, major systemic flaw: in other words, we are all screwed.
The republican drive since the rise of the lunatic McCarthy which was followed by the more intelligent but just as dangerous Goldwater, and whose disciple went on to become president (Reagan), has been to empower the so-called "patriots" of America so they can fight for the "real freedom" of America. When they say "patriots" they mean people like Mr. "give me liberty or give me death" (Patrick Henry); or, they are referring to people like Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams (certainly not John Adams); Paul Revere and so many other rebels against the tyranny of the state; at the time, an English king who mocked our desire to be independent.
The lunatics who today are attacking both physically and verbally the democrats who voted for health care reform are jokes; they are hooligans; they are losers; they are in no way shape or form patriotic; yet, they are armed to the teeth thanks to the craziest and stupidest gun laws in the world's history. They are empowered by a "God" who truthfully wouldn't shake their filthy, murderous, hate-filled hands for fear He would be swayed to their heathen ways.
The GOP loves it when these nuts blow up abortion clinics; they love seeing the attacks which are going on now--isn't it nice to have the crazy on your side, right--for they are not condemning them but rather implicitly saying: "yes, we understand your anger." And so, the crazies continue their threats like the one a representative from New York received: "we will launch sniper attacks against your family." Sniper attacks!!!?? Why does this person have a sniper rifle to begin with? And, why does this white, bald loser feel so empowered to do say such a thing?
Because the modern day GOP is nothing more than a mob. An out of control bunch of America-haters whose sole raison d'etre (which sounds really funny using such a fine term like that for Neandrothals) is to ensure that soon, very soon there will be no government remaining. And, my question, and warning to those lily-white, "God fearing", sexually perverted and non-Christian Christians, is what do you plan to do when you mob turns on you? The day will come when that mob, having rid itself of the dems, of the institutions which regulate fair play and protect us from the murderous and greed-driven missions of big business are all gone, then those tooth-less, moonpie-eating, "my sister is my mother", white, losers with bad knees from their years of fatness and immobility, pose the question: "ok, congressmen from the GOP, now it's your turn to go."
Will they go? No, they won't go but by then they will have ensured that the courts, the military, the armed-to-the-teeth mobs and the "laws" will all guarantee their continued existence so as to protect the nation from "invading forces." All of the emotions needed for a fascist takeover of our nation are in place: xenophobia ("Golly, it's so hard being an American nowadays, er'one hates us."); anti-immigrant; non-stop propaganda by the likes of Limbaugh and Beck and so, so many others. One of our greatest freedoms, freedom of the press, is the one that will ultimately be seen from the mantle of the future as having been the one that destroyed us most soundly. Just like in Weimar Germany, freedom was granted to all to prostelytize their views and legally run for office and by 1929, the Nazis were a legally elected and powerful force in a democratic Germany.
Why are we so sure that cannot happen in America? If I walk into a town in Arkansas, Michigan and Ohio even, with a t-shirt saying "Thank God for Health Care Reform", I stand a good chance of being beaten up or even murdered. Is this normal?
In the way that big business threw its support behind Adolf Hitler from 1932 onward, they were certain that they could control the "raging little Austrian" and they knew his "revolution" would be great for business, so too is big business firmly backing the GOP and the mobs. With the Supreme Court's decision to permit corporations to become "people" and to contribute whatever they want to their causes, yet another seed of our destruction takes hold.
When the elections role around and the best advertising companies in the world are tasked with making creative and convincing ads--these are the same ones that make us think Coca-Cola is good for us and all-American--that say something like "fight for your freedom from Socalist take-over. Fight against the heatlh spending bill on November 4th." A lot of underemployed, uneducated white guys with guns are going fully understand the meaning of that word "fight" and blood will be shed.
The GOP is officially and completely against America. When, when, when, will this become as screamingly obvious to others as it is to me?
Time for us to fight, my friends!
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Love it or Leave It
As the glitter from celebration settles over our nation's capital, let's take a rational look at what has transpired.
Emotional Propagandizing
Yesterday, as I read about how the Grand Old Party would now devote all its energies to repealing this great health care reform bill for all of America, for the first time I asked myself the question. Putting aside all the emotions and rhetoric, I mumbled in the crowded tram: why are "they" so against this bill? The woman next to me thought I was nuts and this is what I think of those against it. But, I stray...
A recent study showed that people of the conservative affliction tend to be less evolved. This group of people, usually the majority, tend to be the ones not responsible for carrying humankind through to the next evolutionary stage; they prefer the status quo; they prefer to energize as opposed to dissipate social prejudices/injustices:
"Racial and homophobic epithets met the Democratic lawmakers as they entered the House on Sunday." (New York Times. "GOP faces drawbacks..." 23 March 2010.)
Congressman Randy Neugebauer, Republican of Texas, called Bart Stupak--a former priest--a "baby killer" on the floor of the House. It was another GOP congressman who called our president a liar during his State of the Union address; and, in 1859, Congressman Preston Brooks, a southern Democrat--the Party would effectively become the Republican Party after 1876--put Congressman Charles Sumner into a coma by beating him so severely with his walking stick.
Brooks supported slavery; Brooks would have been againt the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and he would have been against Health Care Reform on Sunday March 21, 2010. If the "Republicans" had had their way--please look up the historical switch that occurred in 1876--forget about health care reform, we would still be trading negroes today!
Evolution
Other fun and lies-filled terms put forth and manipulated by the GOP were ominous-sounding ones like "death panels", "government takeover", "socialism." It is here, on socialism, that I must stop. Honestly, most of the unevolved have simply no idea what socialism is. It's like when people say "irregardless." This word does not exist and socialism, what it truly is, is nowhere to be seen on the American horizon. Socialist nations, real ones, put the welfare of its citizens first. It looks at its people as being the greatest resource and it does all it can to protect them from injustice.
Granted, in deep socialist systems, there are problems (not the point of this article). The American government is not a socialist nation. The welfare of its people is not concern number one. Concern number one is the welfare of the super rich; and, more importantly, big business (corporations); and, its military might.
Everything our great nation originally stood for has been manipulated and prostituted to push forth an ever more canabalizing big business agenda. Protecting our nations environment became "communist." If you are against the invasion of Iraq, you are a traitor; if you are against the "right to bear arms," you are a traitor; if you want to reform the predatory lending of credit card companies and banks, you are a socialist; if you want to give a woman the right to choose, you are a "baby killer." In all instances, big business benefits each time the lumpen, unevolved right goes to the mattresses for these causes. Board rooms are giggling with delight at the "impassioned pleas" of the Stepford armies chanting and even murdering dems and blowing up abortion clinics.
Middle Class Loses
The final big lie which had been and will continue to be manipulated for years to come is how the health care reform will bankrupt our nation. All I have to say to this, and I really don't know where these nuts on the right get their balls from, largest unpaid for tax cuts in the history of the world--$1.6 trillion; two wars and both were launched when taxes were being cut; $500 billion and more for the prescription drug reform and completely unpaid for. That was the largest gift to corporate America in US history: real life, not lies or rhetoric, wealth redistribution.
Comments by the hysterical yesterday in the aftermath March 21, 2010 often revolved around how the middle class would be forced to carry this burden. Obama was a "true socialist" because he was stealing from the middle class so as to help the "poor and wetbacks Mexicans." The reform bill is for the middle class! Secondly, there is a little, seldom heard term in all of these debates and it is called "opportunity cost." When Bush chose to cut taxes, invade two nations and reward big pharma with $500 billion, who is footing that bill? Not the rich, their taxes were just cut! Yes, the middle class and this reform will save the middle class $131 billion over the first 10 years and over a trillion dollars in the second ten years. (Where was the republican proposal? How much did they want to save?)
Thanks to the above acts of treachery against our nation, many US states are on the brink of bankruptcy: who is to blame for this, according the hysterical and their drug-addicted demigods? Yes, President Obama caused this pain. Thanks to their incompetence New Orleans is still barely a second world city. The city that had the most effect on the culture of the world over the past 150 years, was left to drown and rot because the President at the time saw no political or commercial gains to be had. Is this normal?
Thanks to their "government is the problem" mumbo-jumbo, our banking system collapsed and the world economy nearly went with it. President Obama saved this banking system and now he will reform it and guess who is against this? Yes, the unevolved GOP. And why, because it is not in the interests of big business; but, it is certainly good for the American people.
Where does this all take us? It takes us to today, March 23, 2010. Despite their best and most treacherous efforts health care reform has been passed; the government-backed college loan program has been passed (it will save us $51 billion over the first 10 years, and what is wrong with that?) and of course they were against it because their big biz buddies would lose profits; banking reform will be passed and perhaps we can avoid future economic meltdowns; and, we will fight with China to protect American business--again, they are against the American worker, also, but they will hide behind some outdated precepts of "open and free trade."
The rhetoric and violence will only increase between now and November. The neo-fascist revolution the Tea Party freaks are trying to ignite is more against the principles of our nation than anything I have seen in my life time; and, sadly many of those people are getting violent and for the first time in our lives we may see actual bloodshed; the unevolved are taking things too far and this cannot be good for our nation.
I will now borrow a conservative mantra of the late '60's: love it or leave it! Got it?
Emotional Propagandizing
Yesterday, as I read about how the Grand Old Party would now devote all its energies to repealing this great health care reform bill for all of America, for the first time I asked myself the question. Putting aside all the emotions and rhetoric, I mumbled in the crowded tram: why are "they" so against this bill? The woman next to me thought I was nuts and this is what I think of those against it. But, I stray...
A recent study showed that people of the conservative affliction tend to be less evolved. This group of people, usually the majority, tend to be the ones not responsible for carrying humankind through to the next evolutionary stage; they prefer the status quo; they prefer to energize as opposed to dissipate social prejudices/injustices:
"Racial and homophobic epithets met the Democratic lawmakers as they entered the House on Sunday." (New York Times. "GOP faces drawbacks..." 23 March 2010.)
Congressman Randy Neugebauer, Republican of Texas, called Bart Stupak--a former priest--a "baby killer" on the floor of the House. It was another GOP congressman who called our president a liar during his State of the Union address; and, in 1859, Congressman Preston Brooks, a southern Democrat--the Party would effectively become the Republican Party after 1876--put Congressman Charles Sumner into a coma by beating him so severely with his walking stick.
Brooks supported slavery; Brooks would have been againt the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and he would have been against Health Care Reform on Sunday March 21, 2010. If the "Republicans" had had their way--please look up the historical switch that occurred in 1876--forget about health care reform, we would still be trading negroes today!
Evolution
Other fun and lies-filled terms put forth and manipulated by the GOP were ominous-sounding ones like "death panels", "government takeover", "socialism." It is here, on socialism, that I must stop. Honestly, most of the unevolved have simply no idea what socialism is. It's like when people say "irregardless." This word does not exist and socialism, what it truly is, is nowhere to be seen on the American horizon. Socialist nations, real ones, put the welfare of its citizens first. It looks at its people as being the greatest resource and it does all it can to protect them from injustice.
Granted, in deep socialist systems, there are problems (not the point of this article). The American government is not a socialist nation. The welfare of its people is not concern number one. Concern number one is the welfare of the super rich; and, more importantly, big business (corporations); and, its military might.
Everything our great nation originally stood for has been manipulated and prostituted to push forth an ever more canabalizing big business agenda. Protecting our nations environment became "communist." If you are against the invasion of Iraq, you are a traitor; if you are against the "right to bear arms," you are a traitor; if you want to reform the predatory lending of credit card companies and banks, you are a socialist; if you want to give a woman the right to choose, you are a "baby killer." In all instances, big business benefits each time the lumpen, unevolved right goes to the mattresses for these causes. Board rooms are giggling with delight at the "impassioned pleas" of the Stepford armies chanting and even murdering dems and blowing up abortion clinics.
Middle Class Loses
The final big lie which had been and will continue to be manipulated for years to come is how the health care reform will bankrupt our nation. All I have to say to this, and I really don't know where these nuts on the right get their balls from, largest unpaid for tax cuts in the history of the world--$1.6 trillion; two wars and both were launched when taxes were being cut; $500 billion and more for the prescription drug reform and completely unpaid for. That was the largest gift to corporate America in US history: real life, not lies or rhetoric, wealth redistribution.
Comments by the hysterical yesterday in the aftermath March 21, 2010 often revolved around how the middle class would be forced to carry this burden. Obama was a "true socialist" because he was stealing from the middle class so as to help the "poor and wetbacks Mexicans." The reform bill is for the middle class! Secondly, there is a little, seldom heard term in all of these debates and it is called "opportunity cost." When Bush chose to cut taxes, invade two nations and reward big pharma with $500 billion, who is footing that bill? Not the rich, their taxes were just cut! Yes, the middle class and this reform will save the middle class $131 billion over the first 10 years and over a trillion dollars in the second ten years. (Where was the republican proposal? How much did they want to save?)
Thanks to the above acts of treachery against our nation, many US states are on the brink of bankruptcy: who is to blame for this, according the hysterical and their drug-addicted demigods? Yes, President Obama caused this pain. Thanks to their incompetence New Orleans is still barely a second world city. The city that had the most effect on the culture of the world over the past 150 years, was left to drown and rot because the President at the time saw no political or commercial gains to be had. Is this normal?
Thanks to their "government is the problem" mumbo-jumbo, our banking system collapsed and the world economy nearly went with it. President Obama saved this banking system and now he will reform it and guess who is against this? Yes, the unevolved GOP. And why, because it is not in the interests of big business; but, it is certainly good for the American people.
Where does this all take us? It takes us to today, March 23, 2010. Despite their best and most treacherous efforts health care reform has been passed; the government-backed college loan program has been passed (it will save us $51 billion over the first 10 years, and what is wrong with that?) and of course they were against it because their big biz buddies would lose profits; banking reform will be passed and perhaps we can avoid future economic meltdowns; and, we will fight with China to protect American business--again, they are against the American worker, also, but they will hide behind some outdated precepts of "open and free trade."
The rhetoric and violence will only increase between now and November. The neo-fascist revolution the Tea Party freaks are trying to ignite is more against the principles of our nation than anything I have seen in my life time; and, sadly many of those people are getting violent and for the first time in our lives we may see actual bloodshed; the unevolved are taking things too far and this cannot be good for our nation.
I will now borrow a conservative mantra of the late '60's: love it or leave it! Got it?
Monday, January 26, 2009
Who do they thing they are?
Having actively supported the failed and bankrupted policies of the last 8 years, the Republicans in Congress have simply gone too far. They are, it seems, the sleeper-cell we have been searching for and my only suggestion to President Obama is: wait before you close that illegal prison down in Cuba, we may have a lot of people vying for those soon-to-be-vacant cells.
While our government was on vacation from 2000 to 2009--where were Bush and the Republicans between the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the inauguration?--the nation has been weakened from head to toe and back again. What the Soviet Union could not do, what Al Qaeda could not do, what Ronald Reagan could not do, W. and his team of mini-me's did. Despite being the sole remaining superpower in the world, we are the weakest we have ever been.
All aspects of our nation's infrastructure--and I don't mean just roads and bridges but also our financial system, military, health care, ability to regulate ourselves--have suffered the neglect of the prodigal son--whose return to the fold was certainly one of biblical proportions.
As our newly-elected and "mandated" president seeks to repair our nation, the Republicans are again calling for the uncreative and so-predictable "tax cuts"; like tossing a 5-yard screen pass when it is 3rd and 20 from your own 5 yard-line, maybe the first two times you can catch the defense off-gaurd, and even still, it is very unlikely you will get the first down (you are really only trying to get better field position for your punter), repeat this same uncreative play time and after time and very quickly the defense catches on.
Are we really ready to punt again? Isn't that what we have been doing for the past 8 years? Trickle-down economics does not work in our modern, American society. We are a greedy nation. How else can we explain the scorched earth business tactics of companies like Wal-Mart? Decimate small business, give it all over to China-China really only earns about .03 cents on every dollar of goods made there--for the sole reason of ensuring that your profits are increased from $8 billion to $14 billion (for example). And then, is that money reinvested in the employee? Are health benefits expanded? Hell no! It is divied up amongst the share-holders and the politicians who support the company; oh, and lest we forget, that $14 billion, becomes even more thanks to tax-cuts!
Tax-cuts only make the rich richer and thanks to the above-stated business development strategies, they end up employing the Chinese. This is all done so that Americans can buy cheaper crap from Wal-Mart and Target; which is really not cheaper because these Americans are now working at lower-paying jobs thanks to the fact that they lost their job at the "bicycle factory" which was no longer able to provide Wal-Mart with such low prices (see my November 13, 2008 blog).
Our bicycle needs repairs; it needs oil put on the chain, a new seat, perhaps new tires. By painting it fire-engine red, putting some baseball cards in the spokes and a cool light on the handle bars, it will not become a faster or better bike; it will just draw more attention to us as we struggle to pedal down the street before ultimately the tires give out, the seat falls off and the chain breaks!
President Obama has come to the White House with energy, vision, a mandate, youth and vitality. It is simply disgusting to listen to the likes of the walking-corpse John McCain, the "Newt-wanna-be" John Boehner and others as they again try to manipulate the facts (lie) and make these lies reality.
America has had enough of this kind of governing. We are lost. Our nation is staggering. The world is waiting for us to stop being so selfish, so greedy, so short-sighted and to make the right decisions for the right reasons. The rich do not deserve to get richer at this time in our history. The nation must refocus and President Obama's critique of the greed that has taken hold of the Republican party and its leaders is spot on.
As we united on inauguration day, so too should all Americans unite to say enough of the tax cuts and failed policies of the Republican Party. Today is the day to rebuild our nation and that requires investment in our infrastructure, making our nation more green-friendly, making the hard choices today for a better and stronger tomorrow.
This is our last chance on the world's stage. The world needs America to lead. Living abroad, I can say that I have not seen this kind of support for America since shortly after 9/11. The world is so happy we are back and they want us to succeed.
Why do the Republicans so want us to fail?
While our government was on vacation from 2000 to 2009--where were Bush and the Republicans between the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the inauguration?--the nation has been weakened from head to toe and back again. What the Soviet Union could not do, what Al Qaeda could not do, what Ronald Reagan could not do, W. and his team of mini-me's did. Despite being the sole remaining superpower in the world, we are the weakest we have ever been.
All aspects of our nation's infrastructure--and I don't mean just roads and bridges but also our financial system, military, health care, ability to regulate ourselves--have suffered the neglect of the prodigal son--whose return to the fold was certainly one of biblical proportions.
As our newly-elected and "mandated" president seeks to repair our nation, the Republicans are again calling for the uncreative and so-predictable "tax cuts"; like tossing a 5-yard screen pass when it is 3rd and 20 from your own 5 yard-line, maybe the first two times you can catch the defense off-gaurd, and even still, it is very unlikely you will get the first down (you are really only trying to get better field position for your punter), repeat this same uncreative play time and after time and very quickly the defense catches on.
Are we really ready to punt again? Isn't that what we have been doing for the past 8 years? Trickle-down economics does not work in our modern, American society. We are a greedy nation. How else can we explain the scorched earth business tactics of companies like Wal-Mart? Decimate small business, give it all over to China-China really only earns about .03 cents on every dollar of goods made there--for the sole reason of ensuring that your profits are increased from $8 billion to $14 billion (for example). And then, is that money reinvested in the employee? Are health benefits expanded? Hell no! It is divied up amongst the share-holders and the politicians who support the company; oh, and lest we forget, that $14 billion, becomes even more thanks to tax-cuts!
Tax-cuts only make the rich richer and thanks to the above-stated business development strategies, they end up employing the Chinese. This is all done so that Americans can buy cheaper crap from Wal-Mart and Target; which is really not cheaper because these Americans are now working at lower-paying jobs thanks to the fact that they lost their job at the "bicycle factory" which was no longer able to provide Wal-Mart with such low prices (see my November 13, 2008 blog).
Our bicycle needs repairs; it needs oil put on the chain, a new seat, perhaps new tires. By painting it fire-engine red, putting some baseball cards in the spokes and a cool light on the handle bars, it will not become a faster or better bike; it will just draw more attention to us as we struggle to pedal down the street before ultimately the tires give out, the seat falls off and the chain breaks!
President Obama has come to the White House with energy, vision, a mandate, youth and vitality. It is simply disgusting to listen to the likes of the walking-corpse John McCain, the "Newt-wanna-be" John Boehner and others as they again try to manipulate the facts (lie) and make these lies reality.
America has had enough of this kind of governing. We are lost. Our nation is staggering. The world is waiting for us to stop being so selfish, so greedy, so short-sighted and to make the right decisions for the right reasons. The rich do not deserve to get richer at this time in our history. The nation must refocus and President Obama's critique of the greed that has taken hold of the Republican party and its leaders is spot on.
As we united on inauguration day, so too should all Americans unite to say enough of the tax cuts and failed policies of the Republican Party. Today is the day to rebuild our nation and that requires investment in our infrastructure, making our nation more green-friendly, making the hard choices today for a better and stronger tomorrow.
This is our last chance on the world's stage. The world needs America to lead. Living abroad, I can say that I have not seen this kind of support for America since shortly after 9/11. The world is so happy we are back and they want us to succeed.
Why do the Republicans so want us to fail?
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