Post Office

Something else to boggle your mind. The government set up a scenario to dismantle the Post Office by forcing them to fund pensions for over 70 years into the future.
Want to know more?
http://postalnews.com/postalnewsblog/2011/09/01/darrell-issa-uses-taxpayer-dollars-to-attack-postal-workers-usps/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/going-postal-what-would-a_n_1677892.html#slide=730889

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?

Evangelical Christians

So disgusting, that it is difficult to write about.
Who are these so called evangelical Christians? What would Jesus say about them?
When would he have backed the ideology that the Republicans endorse?

Would our Lord have said that taking the food out of the mouths of babes is a good idea? Wasn’t it Him who said harm not one hair on a child’s head? Guess he wasn’t talking about feeding, clothing or educating them. Not to mention any kind of health care.
Still, the Republicans claim to be Christian.
Lets see.. Would a true Christian take money from the poor and give it to the rich? What is all this bellyaching from the wealthy right about giving up some of their wealth to the people whose backs they made their wealth from? Would that not more closely follow the Lords word? If he asks you for his cloak give him also your coat? was that just meant for the poor people to give their last rags to the rich?

I kind of doubt it.
If you would read the Bible instead of going to some Palin Tea Party do dad, or a Republican bull shitter where they spout they are the Christian right, the Moral Majority. Excuse me, I see nothing at all moral about condemning people to death so you can have a bigger CPAC. What is moral about subsidizing the oil and gas companies and cutting the food we give to our children. What is moral about building a bridge to nowhere and cutting school funding so drastically that we must close some of them. What is moral about renting yourself your own house for ten thousand dollars a month and charging it to the taxpayers? What is moral about taking off to south America to see your mistress instead of running the state you were elected to run. Just what is it that is moral about the Republicans?

They do not even stand for real people. They stand for big businesses. They are not people. You cannot put a corporation in jail. Corporations do not get cancer. Corporations do not take vacations. Why, why why would people ever, ever vote Republican, or even think about it? Unless, of course, they are not a Christian.

The Republicans take the Lords name in vain when they use it for propaganda.

#Wisconsin #Union vs. #GOP?

As it turns out, this is not really about Wisconsin, not especially about the Unions, either. This is about the control of the working population in the United States of America.
The land of the free…it appears is only free when you are very rich.
A lot of people look down on the union, blaming unions for making prices higher, for the manufacturing to move overseas to seek cheaper workers. It would seem that many people do not understand that if someone doesn’t stand up for the working people, especially unions, all people who work and earn any wage at all are at risk. The reason you have a living wage now is not because of the companies good heart, not because management saw that you and your children had to work sixteen hours a day for food and shelter, not because they did not know.
The companies do not care. The company is only in business to make profit, if it comes at the expense of your life, too bad, so sad, there are more starving people where you come from.
The company does not even care if it is making profit. It want to make more, companies are greedy by their very nature. If they can make a penny more off you, they do not care if you go without heat. Companies have no conscience.

The only way to keep companies and corporations from exploiting all peoples is to be united. The only way to fight money is to overpower it with people. The only way to secure your rights, what few we have left, is to protest, to strike, to stop work. If you want that to be successful, you must get more than one person or two involved. You must have thousands. Hence, a union to protect peoples rights.

Why have we let the powers that be in power? How could have so many so-called sane people voted for them? I know in our case, we did not. But the voting machines say we do. The machines were proven to be rigged before, what would make Americans believe it hasn’t been so again.. What they got by with once, they will attempt to do so again. These are the people that are running and ruining our lives.
What is absolutely amazing is that so many people are still so stupid that they believe what these paid mercenaries are telling them. Rather like the old adage, if you tell someone something long enough, and with enough emphasis, they will believe you, even when it is patently obvious it is against their own best interests.

Well, we had traitors in the Revolutionary war that sided with England. Now, we have traitors in the civil war with the Rich Autocrats, would be dictators who are well on their way.
It started with Reagan, and continues to this day.
When are Americans going to wise up and say no more?

Balanced Budget

We seem to have a bit of a problem with our national bookkeeping.

They tell us that we owe way to much money, and we are getting in deeper. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that what the register on the checkbook is for?

Why is it that lawmakers always want to balance the budget on the backs of the poor? Could it be that they believe the poor people have no voice?

In Texas they are almost through taking away as much as they can in social services. Now it is time to start closing schools.

In Austin they are looking at a dozen schools to close.

The odd part is, some of the schools are excellent schools. Some of them are poo schools, some not.

It is outrageous that the politicians who run our state cannot think of any place else to cut.

Like the billions of dollars we spend keeping people locked in prisons for non-violent crimes.

That is right, Texas is cutting spending on prisons. Yes, they are going to cut out the medical care, after all, why would you need any kind of medicine in a prison? And, they are talking of taking away a meal a day on the weekends.

Why don't they just give it up?

You cannot jail 2/3rds of the people, and have the other third guard them. This is ridiculous.

We should have the politicians in jail. Then it would become a much nicer place. We should have the politicians going to school also. That would make it a much nicer place.

That is what they are up to. They are going to move the schools to the jails!

That way when your child is cited for bad behavior, they are already in the jail to learn how to show good behavior. Isn't that what jails, eer or schools for?

This is what your tax dollars are used for.

Cut What ?

So you want to cut spending.

You don't want to raise taxes on the rich, who have been paying the lowest taxes probably in history. So be it.

Where would you cut spending first?

How about starting with the Congress and Senate, as they are a large part of the reason we are in this mess?
Lets cut their salaries to a dollar a year, and they really do not need the Cadillac health plans the tax payers spring for. Why do they have luxury cars? They should be in electric zip-cars. They don't need all that much space for a Blackberry and, perhaps a briefcase.

They are provided with room and board. What do they need with mansions??? How many Senators and Congressmen hold government 'dos' at their house? Why would they? An apartment should be adequate for these mis-users of our moneys.

Why in the world are we paying for their massages, their Fancy lunches, their chefs and servants.

Who decided if you got elected for Congress or the Senate, that you have automatically hit the jackpot?

This may not go to far in helping our deficit....or would it?

Let's see... there are 100 Senators and 435 members of Congress. That's a lot of people. Plus their pages, aides, speech writers, and all the other ensembles they believe they need.

I think that the Senators and Congressmen (I include Congresswomen) don't need to be out dining and wineing...they do not have the time, especially at our expense.

When Congressmen and Senators simply do not have time to read a 1,000 page, triple spaced, large print document in over a year, they have no time to party, fly to visit other countries, go to strip clubs, be entertained by lobbyists, or any of that good stuff we end up paying for.

The complaints about having to read the Health care bill just boggled my mind.

Do the people we elect to our government have reading impediments? are the just literately challenged? Can they read? Where did they graduate? did they not have to read there? Was it just an Honorary graduation?

When the people we send to Congress and the Senate cannot manage to read what really amounts to a 250 page report, we need to fire a bunch of them.

That's what happened last election, problem was, we fired the wrong ones.

We fired a lot of the ones that actually read the health care bill, the ones that actually did do their homework, that did do the job (or tried to) that we sent them to Washington for.

But the media didn't like those people, so they told the people of America ( so they wouldn't have to read the actual bill online) what was in the health care bill. Unfortunately, they are hired by the very people that do not want the status quo upset by reality. They don't mind upsetting you with their lies, tho.

What is also mind boggling is that the media believes Americans are so stupid that they will believe anything that is on Cable News. Even after it is proven, proven....yes PROVEN that they lie.

When are we going to demand that Congress and the Senate get their act together and do what is right for the regular people of America. All this talk about The American People want this or that...I am an American person, they never asked me what I wanted...How about you?

Actually, most of the Congressmen and Senators could probably bunk in the White House. Looks to me like they have plenty of rooms. Why, they have rooms there that no one has been in in over a hundred years. It would do them good to be dusted out, and as it seems Congress and Senate are setting there dusting, good place for them.

But I digress...Back to the cuts.

Ok...now, subsidies.

We subsidize oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, mega farmers, tobacco farmers, Countries all over the world, including ones who absolutely do not like us.

There are some savings there.

How about the prisons..we could cut some costs there by letting out all the non violent criminals who are there for smoking a joint, or carrying a little bit of pot on them. Or dead-beat dads that are taking up jail space.

That would save several billions of dollars.

I do believe we have forgotten about windfall taxes, also. With companies making record profits from our pain, these should be subject to a windfall tax, these extraordinary profits amount to price gouging of the public.

Speaking of windfalls.... How about AIG, Goldman Sachs and the rest of them that are giving out huge million dollar bonuses? Why would that not be considered a windfall? I would think it a windfall if I got a million dollar bonus for doing my job.

I expect that these items alone could drastically reduce a goodly part of our deficit without touching the entitlement programs that people just scraping by are depending on.

How many people have to starve?

How many have to die?

When will the Congress and Senate do the job we sent them to Washington to do?