I know I wrote an entry about this before, but now this is just getting nuts. The general election is coming up and Republicans along with their Tea Party allies and corporate buddies are throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the Democrats, incumbants and newcomers to their races, and Democrats are simply turning the other cheek hoping that their records speak for themselves. Unfortunately it's not working and here in Pennsylvania the three key races in my district are all looking like we're going Red again. Where was that fiery passion that got you into office in the first place. We have seen however a few brave Democrats who want to run on their record and what their opponents want to do to further put our country in a hole. For example:
But this isn't enough. The Republicans have united against the President, so the Democrats need to unite behind the President and against the real radical agenda coming from the right. The Republican and Tea Party candidates have given you so much material to work with it's not even funny. You could run on how the Republicans only care about their interests in big business, big oil, big pharm, and Wall Street. You could run on how their policies help put the country in the current economic state we're in. You could run on how every attempt you made to fix this country, the Republicans blocked in an attempt to make it look like the lack of progress is your fault. You could appeal to senior citizens about how the Republicans still want to privatize Social Security, despite the collapse of Wall Street in 2008. In theory, you should be able to take every seat that is up for election, and maintain or increase your current majorities. Instead you sit on the sidelines taking every hit the Right is giving you. You need to stand up and shout like Representative Anthony Weiner of New York, Alan Grayson of Florida, Barney Frank of Massachusetts, and Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, the ones who are not afraid to stand up and tell it like it is. If you continue to stand idle while the Right sweeps in, it will only spell disaster for the remainder of President Obama's first term. Don't do this for, do it for the country.
actually, it was bill clinton who repealed the glass/steagall act of 1933, which ultimately led to the mortgage crisis. he also gave us "dont ask, dont tell", NAFTA, and increased trade with china. so i think you need to check your facts before you go vaguely blaming republicans for everything. the bush tax cuts of 2001 led to 52 straight months of job growth... that is, until democrats took congress in 2006. unemployment was right around 4.4% at that time, and has since skyrocketed. obama's stimulus did not prevent unemployment from going up, and if you look into it, its is full of wasteful spending. i suppose you could blame republicans for bush's deficit spending (alot of which your democrat congress authorized), but then again Obama has tripled the deficit in less than 2 years, so there goes that lil baby arugment. Social Security is a ponzi scheme- the government is essentially doing to us the exact same thing bernie madoff did to his clients. oh, and Obama works for wall street himself- Goldman Sachs was Obama's top campaign contributor. further, you might begin to wonder why the democrats backed off of the whole auditing the federal reserve thing? oh, and obama's health reform is going to cut into senior citizens care. btw- health care and education are neither a right nor a privilege-- they are services. to say you have a right to health care is saying that you have a right to someone else's time/skills/property, which you do not.
ReplyDeleteHealth care is a privelage? The right to live is a privelage? Education is a privelage? The right to learn is a privelage? So I assume then we should abolish public education and make it only for those who can afford it? You do that, we move drastically backward.
ReplyDeleteAs for the defecit spending, you have to do that to get out of a recession, it's simple economics. You stop spending, the recession would only get worse.
negative. kindly re-read for clarification. i was merely debunking the "health care is a right, not a privilege" fallacy so often used to coerce the lightweight minds in academia. humorously, you missed my point entirely and thus attempted to use said erroneous argument against my very refutation of same! OMG!
ReplyDeleteRM, He's saying that these things are services, not rights or privileges. No matter what your stance is, it is a service you receive and it has to get payed somehow.
ReplyDeleteI understand it needs to be paid, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it's a basic service we all deserve. That's how public education came about, out of a need to education the masses who couldn't afford private schools.
ReplyDeletei agree that education, health care, shelter and food are things we should strive to provide all legal americans. HOWEVER, we can only provide these services to the degree that our country is productive. when you over-tax and over-regulate business, when you present an unpredictable economic environment (as Obama has so happily done), you discourage business activity and growth. the result is less and less resources being available to "redistribute". if you continue far enough along this path, eventually everyone is left with nothing. call it "trickle-up poverty", if you will. therefore, in "wealth redistribution", a fine line certainly exists, one which we have crossed well over, rendering our present course highly undesirable.
ReplyDeleteDo yourself a favor and use the internets to look up all of the campaign contributions given to each Democrat and Republican nominee since Regan (and before that, actually) and check to see who the top 5 contributors are. Here, I’ll I do you a favor and just tell you: Chase, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citi Group etc. The next question you SHOULD ask yourself is, “Why are all of these financial Institutions giving all that money to BOTH Democrat AND Republican nominees.” Once you figure that one out, then ask yourself the following questions: “What is the Federal Reserve?” “Is it Federal or Private?” “If it’s private, which institutions make up the Fed?” “Why doesn’t congress or the president have a ‘right’ to audit the Fed?” “What is ‘Quantitative Easing’?” “How much money has the Fed printed in the last 2 years?” “Who got all of this new money and who authorized its allocation?” Then once you’ve discovered the answers to these questions, you will most likely ask yourself the default question, “So who’s the real man in charge?” Then you might find out why presidential candidates NEVER keep their promises, but almost always make extremely f@#ed up financial decisions like the repeal the Glass Stiegel Act (Clinton), Tarp (Bush), or authorizing certain cabinet members to push trillions in allocated federal funding to private organizations (Obama), with a swift stroke of a pen. Here’s an idea: stop voting for Democrats and Republicans. In fact, you might as well stop voting all together, because if you don’t vote either Democrat or Republican your vote is essentially useless, because the America voting system doesn’t allow for proportional representation. But at least you won’t be a sucker.
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