Pipeline - Pipedream

How does building a pipeline across some our most vulnerable areas in the USA, carrying some of the dirtiest oil, to the refineries and selling it on the global market to the highest bidder improve our energy independence?

How can there be any justification of putting our watershed at risk to these companies whom have proven over and over they are irresponsible and incapable of safely providing oil on land or on the oceans?

Why would we even desire to stay with the 100+ year old energy system when we have so many alternatives?
Even Ex-Pres Bill Clinton will tell you, and HAS told you that just wind power from North Dakota would provide twenty-five percent of our nations energy needs. Why in the world would we want to destroy our world for the profit of a few gas compainies?
If you say this is a job creator, you could be right. It probably would create around 5,000 temporary jobs.
Maybe more with the security it would require to keep sabotuers at bay, and cleanup crews to try to contain the ineventable spills and leakage which will nevertheless pollute our groundwater. Leaving millions of people without clean water to drink, irrigate Your food crops, and water livestock that is also food.

In whose universe does this make sense?

In the same universe that improving our infrastructure, creating an energy grid to carry the vast untapped natural, renewable resources through out our nation to power the homes, businesses and vehicles that we all ready have the technology for?
Who is in favor of this destroying form of energy? Who will profit from it? Who wants the pipeline?
Who is trying to destroy our earth, home of all of us?
Anyone say Big Oil, Big Gas, Drill, baby Drill -- Spill, baby,Spill??
Who are your representatives voting for? Whom do they represent?
Not ME.

Held Hostage

America is being held hostage by the very people we allowed to get into office.
Why are they here?
Democrats did not vote in the midterm elections.
This has been the norm, so the media has assured us. The mid term elections are not important.
All politicians are the same.

Why vote?

Does what has happened so far since midterms answer that?
Do you want to lose the rights that we have fought so hard for the last hundreds + years?

Do you agree with the legislation that is being passed across the country against women, against poor people, against our children.

Did you realize, when you couldn't be bothered to vote, that you would lose Social Security, Medicare,education, research, medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance - those programs which you support your whole working life.
Now if you cannot work, those are the very programs the Republicans and T party wants to ruin, destroy, end. The ones that are supposed to be the Americans safety net. The net they want to cut/slash/destroy.

Whose fault is this?
Who did not vote in the last election?
Do You hear us now?

YOU Boggle the mind Boehner

Unbelievably, John Boehner wants to raid Social Security.

This should not really surprise anyone. The Republicans have been whining about Social Security every since it was put in. Unfortunately for them, it has been fairly well off limits.

Fortunately for those of us who are counting on SS for future retirement benefits, it has been protected fairly well by the Democrats.

One of the main reasons Social Security is protected is because it is in the black.

WHAT! In the BLACK?

Then what is all this malarkey about trying to 'fix' it?

Why all the fol-de-rol about how much it is costing the Gov?

Shuck and Jive.

Social Security is funded by the taxpayers for the taxpayers and is currently in the black to the tune of about 2 billion or so.

Then why is it we hear so much about 'reforming' social security?

Because it is the one program that the Republicans have not been able to get at. I am not saying that all of the savings we have put in over the years, even upped it a bit to take care of the baby boomers, for awhile.

I am sure there are a healthy amount of IOU's in with the savings. Hopefully that is not all that is there.

A few years ago, the Republicans were all set to privatize social security, so 'it could make more money' by investing in the stock market instead of safe bonds.

Aren't you glad the Democrats defeated that little scheme?

Now, with unemployment rampet, the Republicans, in their child-like wisdom, want to raise the retirement age. What a STUPID, STUPID thing to even THINK about, let alone allow someone else to know you are thinking it.

It seems that if we raise the retirement age, we won't have to pay retirement benefits so soon.

Never mind it would throw millions of people who are ready to retire back on the workforce when we do not have enough employment for the young people who are coming out of colleges and high schools. Don;t worry about them, they can shovel snow off the walks....

No, wait...that is what we have the illegals for. To do the jobs that only the young, old and middle aged Americans would do if they could get anywhere near a decent paycheck.

Oh, wait a minute again... we can't have the older Americans keep their jobs, they do not have the skills the younger people just out of college do....and the kids work cheaper. So, lets fire the older Americans who were ready for retirement, they have worked long and hard, it will be easier for them to get unemployment and businesses can save money.

OH OH....that's right , there is no more unemployment. The Republicans said it costs to much to feed and take care of you, after all, you only worked 40 years.

No unemployment = No money

No money = No home

No home = Homeless

We do not provide for the homeless. That is your problem. You shouldn't have been so lazy in the last 60 or 70 years. Then you wouldn't be homeless.

Homeless are not welcome in any town.

In other words... nice to have had you spend your life working and paying into the system,

Now, DIE.