 I'm 70 years old, work two jobs at $10 per hr (no benes) to pay the living expenses. I have diabetes and cardiovascular problems along with fighting depression almost every week. $100 is taken from my monthly $803.00 and $100 is taken from Mr's 940 social security. Rent is $890.00 and we live with broken windows,rotting tile,rotting deck. The city of Puyallup charges us $100 per month for its services, garbage $80 and electricity varies from $100 to $400 in the winter. You brilliant conservative jerks are perfectly happy with cutting heating assistance. Mr is ill with heart problems and freezes in the winter. I do not know how I'm going to pay for the heat/electricity this winter. Now why in the hell do you think I would become depressed? Must be a chemical imbalance right? Last year the mattress sprung a spring. We slept on it until it was totally unbearable. I bought a used matteress and had a neighbor deliver it to the house. Guess what, it had bed bugs! there is not enough money to have someone come and haul it away nor is there enough money to buy a new mattress that would be sure not to have bed bugs. That is only one reason I detest this country. Mr. crawled under houses doing plumbing work most of his life at low wages with no retirement. Why didn't we save for retirement you say? Just how clueless are you. After paying the rent,utilities, car repairs, food, doctor bills you REALLY think there is some left over for the luxury of saving for retirement? Much less doctor and dentist bills! Just how clueless can you get? Two years ago my daughter died from a condition that is preventable from death by proper medical attention. Do you have any idea how I resent having to work with and pay rent/utilites to those who have medical care? What makes you more valuable than her life? Money? Oh I see you had money or health insurance for which you got a tax deduction. I get a tax deduction for nothing and yes I so pay taxes. My land lord gets the tax deduction while I pay for it. I kindest thing the poor can do for its children is not to have any. That way their soul and spirit would not be damaged. You anti abortionist are damned liars, you think life is so precious, you're not kidding the poor. The well to do can go to Canada or Europe and get an abortion, but not the poor. I think it is because you asshats need cannon fodder for your wars. We know the well to do and powerful do not put their children on the front line to die, but you put our children in the front lines to die protecting your damned corporations. Do I sound a little angry? Geeze I wonder why. I'm sick of this country, especially when I see the medical needs of developed Europe do not let people needlessly die. doctors and dentist will not let the government train others in these skills in our government to serve the low income people because they might not get every nickel out of those needing their services. Don't give me this crap about emergency rooms and state dental care. After the emergency room gets through taking you to a collection agency and the state is willing to pull your teeth but not repair the damage done by years of dental damage. Wonderful choices! Capitalism works? For who? just like slavery worked fine except for the slaves. The poor are one of the most hated groups in this country. Pledge of Allegiance? Forget it, its your country not mine, I just live here. Wait until more jobs are lost. I guess that is what its going to take before we start looking like England and of course we know only the "criminally minded" riot? Just how stupid, compassionless and ignorant can a nation get? . . |
Monday, August 15, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Welcome To Election Hell
In 2008, Obama made history by raising over $500 million. In 2012, $500 million will be chump change. Much more will be spent by Super Pacs. The money will come from the world’s billionaires, all of whom stand to make even more billions if they can get the right guy installed as a chairman of the FCC, FDA, FERC etc. For instance, the richest man in the world right now is Carlos Slim Helu from Mexico, whose business is telecom. He is going to be willing a pay a fortune in order to select the next FCC Chair. China will have several Super-Pacs, all with ultra American sounding names, all committed to raiding the Social Security trust fund in order to repay the U.S. debt to China. Saudi Arabia will have a few, too. When you see an ad denouncing global warming as “junk science that kills jobs” you won’t know if it is funded by one of the Koch Brothers or some guy in Dubai. Billions of dollars will flow through these anonymous, unregulated slush funds. Presidential candidates will have to sell their souls----and every single cabinet position---well in advance of the general election if they are going to stay solvent.
And that is just the start.
We may see a Democratic primary challenger---or two or three---who are supported (anonymously) by special interests who want to soften Obama up for the general election. And there will almost certainly be a left wing splitter candidate in the general election who will receive lots of help in the form of TV ads paid for by groups like “Free Weed!” or “Liberals R Us!”. Any potential right wing splitters will be hauled before the Republican House to be grilled until they repent their evil ways. Any attempt by the DOJ to regulate Super-Pacs that break the law will be denounced by the corporate media as “Nixonian style abuse of power”.
In Congressional elections, expect to see some surprising results in Democratic primaries as black horse candidates come out of nowhere, thanks to a last minute blitz of anonymous advertising. There is literally no limit to the amount of money that the GOP can (secretly) funnel to these candidates. They can throw a monkey wrench into every race in the country. No matter how safe your Democratic Representative or Senator may seem in your true blue state, he may lose out to some loser with a criminal record.
And it gets worse. There will probably be at least one phony Super-Pac whose real job will be to solicit contributions from North Korea, Iran etc. and then pretend to spend it “helping” Obama and other Democrats. When Politico breaks the story Hamas caught funding Obama Republicans will be shocked! Shocked I tell you! Oh, and while the banksters are secretly funneling billions of their bailout money to the GOP, they will publicly spend a few million on Obama, so that the so called progressive media can complain how about the president has been bought by Wall Street.
They say $5 billion was spent in 2008 altogether. I expect four times that amount to be spent in 2012. We are talking guys who have so much extra cash lying around they could not spend it in a million lifetimes. And the U.S. elections will be like one big flea market, with all those rich guys looking for bargains.
I would say "I hope I am wrong" but I don't have a lot of hope at this point. Anyone want to try to cheer me up?
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
The President Who Wasnt There
I remember a moon lit night in early November of 2008. There were crowds of young and old, white and black and all the shades in between. The people cheered until the downtown Chicago streets reverberated with their enthusiasm. Jesse Jackson cried, and when the cameras panned over his face, collectively, the nation breathed a sigh of relief. We had done what no one in the USA had expected was possible, certainly not in the fifties to the eighties, and certainly not in the nineties, but now in 2008, it was done. The United States of America had elected a black person to assume the nation's highest office.
And the people cheering had one unifying factor - a well spoken, intelligent man, who spoke to Progressives about Progressive issues, who had just torn the nation away from eight years of Republican rule and he did it with:
A SIXTY TWO PERCENT MANDATE
Expectations were high, and most of us who had been around the block a few times certainly understood that Barack Obama couldn't suddenly turn the problems into solutions overnight.
We eagerly awaited the inauguration. And while watching our 44th President take the oath of office and deliver his address to the nation, we heard these words:
"That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly, our schools fail too many -- and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet."
"The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works -- whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account, to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government."
"Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched. But this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control. The nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity, on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart -- not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good." (Applause.)
"As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers -- (applause) -- our Founding Fathers, faced with perils that we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man -- a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience sake." (Applause.)
President Obama went on to end his speech with these words, an important reminder from days past:
"At the moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words to be read to the people:
"Let it be told to the future world...that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive... that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet ."
Everything that the President needed to do was in that speech. Note one word that did not come up, the word that the WH spokesperson stated last Thursday as being the most important guiding principle of the Administration: Compromise.
No on the day that he was elected, President Obama acted Presidential. He laid it out:
1) The nation faces a terrorist threat from outside
2) The economy is weak, because of GREED and IRRESPONSIBILITY
3) He says that: "Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered." So we have an expectation that something will be done about this.
4) In terms of health care reform, his emphasized point is this one: "Our health care is too costly"
But somewhere along the way, President Obama has neglected this fine outline of what needed to be done. Where his speech implies that Greed and Irresponsibility would be put in check by regulations, where it says that the people are suffering a great loss of homes, and jobs, and their businesses too, an expectation is put in place that his policies will protect those interests. Yes, somewhere along the line, in the last thirty months, he decided that colluding with the forces that We The People had tried to place in the dustbin of history was more important.
That compromise with a group of people whose members number less than 18% is more important than holding to the ideals he had run on., That making the progressive base happy was less important than upsetting the Tea Party members, the Republicans, Big Pharma and Big Insurers, Monsanto, and Wall Street and MIC interests.
I will end on this note, his other rather buried statement that is exceptionally important:
"The nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous."
It is time for President Obama to understand what he has done to this nation by forgetting the excellent concepts he had put forth in this speech. He still has another eighteen months in office. Maybe someone who reads this has the ability to wake him up.Otherwise, the People themselves, armed with the same manner of weapons that they used to obliterate first Old School Candidate Hillary Clinton, and then John McCain, will continue to use Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to continue the message now raging at "Primary Obama." (Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/357529270668/ )
And no one who understands Obama's betrayal can blame them.
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