We Americans have a saying we use when we are attempting to describe the most corrupt individuals around -- "He's the kind who would steal from his own mother." Yep, we have some of those around. They are in all walks of life and all races, creeds and levels of society. They are rich, poor, tall, short, male, female, whatever.
They are prevalent at the car repair level. I reach a state of despair over them even finding supposedly diagnosable things wrong that the diagnostic tests do not uncover. I realize they may not be quite the most amoral individuals around. They are certainly near the top. The American politician, though, may be just a little worse than even the mechanics and the home repair individuals.
We've had cheating, thieving liars among politicians for so long that movies portray country, porky, cigar smokin', small-town southern hicks as a typical front runner in elections or even as managers of small towns. We've been trained to think they are funny and to view them with an "aw shucks, aren't they cute?" attitude. They are not limited to a small-town mayor or sheriff level. Such individuals are rife at the federal level as well. But they are in disguise, wearing three-piece suits and acting all sophisticated and respectable. "The better to take advantage of you that way, my dears."
What America needs is to recognize liars, cheats and a mother's bad sons for what they really are -- liars, cheats and bad sons (or daughters). In fact, it is imperative that the American public learn what these people are to the core of themselves. They are the bad apples that spoil the whole bunch and we need to throw out the bad ones so we can save whatever goodness of our country still exists. That good is becoming sparse.
Will the media please do this for the good of everybody before America becomes completely reprehensible? Will you please sideline all partisan politics? Will you start pointing out all of our liars , cheats and thieves, instead of presenting our news in a he said/she said bipartisan manner. Please show us what they say and compare it with what they do. There are dishonest politicians (and dishonest people who put them into office) on both sides of the aisle and in all the branches of government. Please expose them all to our voting public before our next election. If you don't do this soon, we have only our country to lose.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Monday, February 23, 2015
Twenty-one Christians
There is a posting going around Facebook which lists the twenty-one people of the mass group killed by ISIS or ISIL terrorists. The names are given for twenty of them (one is listed as worker), so that we can pray for them by name. I have done this, though I'm sure I mangled their names. But nice thing about it, God, as the trinity, will recognize them anyway.
I would like to add an extra element to that prayer which I hope Christian after Christian will add to their petitions to the Almighty.
I pray that each of the individual twenty-one people who participated in the deaths of these Christians be caught and brought to justice for this. May any individual who kills Christians anywhere be brought to this same kind of justice.
Father, I thank you in advance for your help in this matter.
I would like to add an extra element to that prayer which I hope Christian after Christian will add to their petitions to the Almighty.
I pray that each of the individual twenty-one people who participated in the deaths of these Christians be caught and brought to justice for this. May any individual who kills Christians anywhere be brought to this same kind of justice.
Father, I thank you in advance for your help in this matter.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Myopic Byopics
(And Black Racist Directors)
I thought I had exhausted what needed to be written about racism now being more from the African American community than the white community. This week, several things came together that taught me more needs to be addressed. For instance, a friend in a nursing home was talking of dealing with aides who sat around doing as little as possible to earn their paychecks, but having energy to demonstrate racist attitudes.
Then, the director of the recently released movie, Selma, a biopic about Martin Luther King, was interviewed by the press. She told them that she had not expected an Oscar nomination for her part in the movie so was not disappointed. When asked about the furor that she caused by portraying President Lyndon Johnson as a racist akin to Governor George Wallace of Alabama, she expressed denial that he had had any part in the success of the Civil Rights movement. She angrily expressed that they hadn't had any white savior to help them with their cause -- in fact, they didn't need any knight on a white horse. She said they could do this all by themselves.
Sorry President Johnson, I guess you and the Kennedy clan and Congress were irrelevant to the passing of the Civil Rights Bill that changed the lives of blacks in this country forever. Those black folk just did the whole thing themselves.
Well Ms. Ava DuVernay, lend me your attention, because you are about to get the education you should have gotten before you were ever allowed to direct a movie about history. To direct a movie about history, or write one, or produce one, you have to first know history. You don't. I've never been a fan of President Lyndon B. Johnson, but I'm not so ignorant that I don't know that he was the key factor in the passing of that Civil Rights Bill. The Kennedy family, especially President John F. Kennedy, had worked throughout the years he was in office to get the bill passed, but they didn't have sufficient knowledge about how to work the two houses of the branch to get it done. In fact, other presidents had failed at getting changes made for your cause. Then Vice-President Johnson is said to have notified President Kennedy that he should hold back on introducing the Civil Rights Bill until after the rest of his agenda had been passed because the Rights Bill would hang everything up. Well that President ignored the advice and, lo and behold, everything in his agenda was hung up because of the civil rights issues.
When President Johnson was sworn in after the assassination of President Kennedy, he made the decision to see that the Kennedy agenda made it through Congress. President Johnson had spent years learning the ins and outs of that branch of government and knew how to make things happen. If he had not put his shoulder behind the Civil Rights Bill, there is a good chance it would never have come into being. You would not have the advantages you have today if it were not for the sympathetic support of these two presidents, a handful of Congressmen, key entertainers and regular people you and your kind are treating so badly today.
You see, as you seem to have forgotten, there were no black presidents and few black congressmen back then. With no black majority in Congress, the Civil Rights Bill would not have been just difficult to get passed, it would have been dead in the water. So no, lady, you could not do it yourselves. You had to have help.
Yes, key people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King were effective in calling attention to injustices, but those same injustices would still be prevalent were it not for Caucasian Americans who cared. So get your nose out of the air before you drown in your own self love.
I know that arrogance is said to come from a poor self concept, but that doesn't make your inflated opinion correct or even easier to deal with in the here and now. If you plan to direct any more historical biopics, you need to read up on the history of the time -- all of the history -- not just the part that tends to reinforce your overinflated egotistical opinions about the matter. In fact, to learn more about President Johnson, you might behoove yourself to read The Passage of Power by Robert Caro. That book was an eye opener for a lot of people.
I haven't seen your film yet, so I can't say for sure, but your lack of knowledge and denial of the truth may just be the reason you failed to get the Best Director Oscar nomination. I'm sure you'll probably nurse more racist grudges and tell yourself that you didn't get it because you are black and a woman to boot. But take the blinders off lady.
There are a lot of us still alive that actually lived through those days. I actually stood outside a restaurant on the outskirts of Selma, Alabama, in 1965. I saw the three outhouses labeled His, Hers and Theirs. Have you in your short life actually had to use a separate restroom? In 1956 I actually sat in a front seat of a bus next to a young black male riding from the north right into the south. That man risked a lot by doing so, but so did I when I chose to sit next to him. Do you still have to sit at the back of the bus? During those years when the Reverend Martin Luther King was walking those streets with blacks, whites, rich, poor, commoner and celebrity alike, I was sitting and playing gin rummy over lunch with people of both races. Do you not mix with whites all the time now? Well, maybe with your bad attitude, you are not welcome to do so.
You see, a definition of the word myopic is lacking knowledge, tolerance and foresight. Your lack of true knowledge shows in your work and your press interviews. Your lack of tolerance is apparent in your arrogant attitude. And your lack of foresight concerning your work no doubt cost you your nomination.
The African American cause may not have reached the level you would hold dear, but it sure as heck has come a long way thanks to the white community, especially President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
These very naïve and racist myopic biopics that are being produced these days are fueling more hard feelings than they are good. The furor building at the grass roots is threatening to set race relations back, not forward. You are flirting with a backlash. Just keep whooping up the anger, the hate, the riots, and you will find yourself facing a ton of trouble. And above all, if you are going to tell history, you need to actually know and understand history. You don't have a clue!
I thought I had exhausted what needed to be written about racism now being more from the African American community than the white community. This week, several things came together that taught me more needs to be addressed. For instance, a friend in a nursing home was talking of dealing with aides who sat around doing as little as possible to earn their paychecks, but having energy to demonstrate racist attitudes.
Then, the director of the recently released movie, Selma, a biopic about Martin Luther King, was interviewed by the press. She told them that she had not expected an Oscar nomination for her part in the movie so was not disappointed. When asked about the furor that she caused by portraying President Lyndon Johnson as a racist akin to Governor George Wallace of Alabama, she expressed denial that he had had any part in the success of the Civil Rights movement. She angrily expressed that they hadn't had any white savior to help them with their cause -- in fact, they didn't need any knight on a white horse. She said they could do this all by themselves.
Sorry President Johnson, I guess you and the Kennedy clan and Congress were irrelevant to the passing of the Civil Rights Bill that changed the lives of blacks in this country forever. Those black folk just did the whole thing themselves.
Well Ms. Ava DuVernay, lend me your attention, because you are about to get the education you should have gotten before you were ever allowed to direct a movie about history. To direct a movie about history, or write one, or produce one, you have to first know history. You don't. I've never been a fan of President Lyndon B. Johnson, but I'm not so ignorant that I don't know that he was the key factor in the passing of that Civil Rights Bill. The Kennedy family, especially President John F. Kennedy, had worked throughout the years he was in office to get the bill passed, but they didn't have sufficient knowledge about how to work the two houses of the branch to get it done. In fact, other presidents had failed at getting changes made for your cause. Then Vice-President Johnson is said to have notified President Kennedy that he should hold back on introducing the Civil Rights Bill until after the rest of his agenda had been passed because the Rights Bill would hang everything up. Well that President ignored the advice and, lo and behold, everything in his agenda was hung up because of the civil rights issues.
When President Johnson was sworn in after the assassination of President Kennedy, he made the decision to see that the Kennedy agenda made it through Congress. President Johnson had spent years learning the ins and outs of that branch of government and knew how to make things happen. If he had not put his shoulder behind the Civil Rights Bill, there is a good chance it would never have come into being. You would not have the advantages you have today if it were not for the sympathetic support of these two presidents, a handful of Congressmen, key entertainers and regular people you and your kind are treating so badly today.
You see, as you seem to have forgotten, there were no black presidents and few black congressmen back then. With no black majority in Congress, the Civil Rights Bill would not have been just difficult to get passed, it would have been dead in the water. So no, lady, you could not do it yourselves. You had to have help.
Yes, key people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King were effective in calling attention to injustices, but those same injustices would still be prevalent were it not for Caucasian Americans who cared. So get your nose out of the air before you drown in your own self love.
I know that arrogance is said to come from a poor self concept, but that doesn't make your inflated opinion correct or even easier to deal with in the here and now. If you plan to direct any more historical biopics, you need to read up on the history of the time -- all of the history -- not just the part that tends to reinforce your overinflated egotistical opinions about the matter. In fact, to learn more about President Johnson, you might behoove yourself to read The Passage of Power by Robert Caro. That book was an eye opener for a lot of people.
I haven't seen your film yet, so I can't say for sure, but your lack of knowledge and denial of the truth may just be the reason you failed to get the Best Director Oscar nomination. I'm sure you'll probably nurse more racist grudges and tell yourself that you didn't get it because you are black and a woman to boot. But take the blinders off lady.
There are a lot of us still alive that actually lived through those days. I actually stood outside a restaurant on the outskirts of Selma, Alabama, in 1965. I saw the three outhouses labeled His, Hers and Theirs. Have you in your short life actually had to use a separate restroom? In 1956 I actually sat in a front seat of a bus next to a young black male riding from the north right into the south. That man risked a lot by doing so, but so did I when I chose to sit next to him. Do you still have to sit at the back of the bus? During those years when the Reverend Martin Luther King was walking those streets with blacks, whites, rich, poor, commoner and celebrity alike, I was sitting and playing gin rummy over lunch with people of both races. Do you not mix with whites all the time now? Well, maybe with your bad attitude, you are not welcome to do so.
You see, a definition of the word myopic is lacking knowledge, tolerance and foresight. Your lack of true knowledge shows in your work and your press interviews. Your lack of tolerance is apparent in your arrogant attitude. And your lack of foresight concerning your work no doubt cost you your nomination.
The African American cause may not have reached the level you would hold dear, but it sure as heck has come a long way thanks to the white community, especially President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
These very naïve and racist myopic biopics that are being produced these days are fueling more hard feelings than they are good. The furor building at the grass roots is threatening to set race relations back, not forward. You are flirting with a backlash. Just keep whooping up the anger, the hate, the riots, and you will find yourself facing a ton of trouble. And above all, if you are going to tell history, you need to actually know and understand history. You don't have a clue!
Sunday, February 1, 2015
A Cut-Throat Perspective
Deflate-gate, physically hurting our competitors, using steroids and other drugs -- all in the name of winning -- is downright disgusting! "Well, others are doing it, so I will, too." Well, others didn't get caught. You did.
The human soul is becoming totally corrupt. Everywhere we turn, sociopaths prevail. Is it in our DNA now? Has it always been? Or, has people's abuse of alcohol and other drugs spun a mutation of sorts, an error in the human genome?
Whatever the cause, the spin is out of control beginning with what we value and what we respect. However in this world did we get to the point that athletics and sports became centermost in our lives? They override Broadway, movies, television, family, church and home. Today, as "ninety-nine and forty-four one hundredths percent" of American citizens stop to view the big game, we find the sociopathic efforts to win hanging a veil of shame over the activities.
It is said that more than half the footballs used by the playoff winners were deflated, which gave them an advantage. Was it an accident? Odds are it was not, considering the number in question. Will we ever know who did it? The why is easy. To win. The how -- yes, how in this world could someone carry out such a thing after the balls were inspected? And why don't the teams use the same balls anyway?
In this never ending age of the "media pounce", it is insane to think such a thing would go unnoticed and unspoken.
Now, the team that won the playoffs will never know for sure that they really earned the right to go to the Super Bowl. Neither will the fans. Odds are they would have won without cheating, but nobody will ever know conclusively. Likewise, if they win the Super Bowl, nobody will ever know if they should have.
But the most basic question of all is, in this day of injuring our opponents to get them out of the game, what has happened to our basic value system that athletics, sports, or anything else should have become so worshipped that we would risk our very moral fiber just to win?
An underlying theme the first Rocky movie portrayed (long past forgotten), second best can sometimes feel very good. So, let's forget this everlasting cut-throat perspective and return sports to their proper place in this world. They are but a source of entertainment. It is not a basic need of mankind to win, win, win. Tainting athletics is not going to put food and water on the table or a roof over the head. It is just going to bring shame to all.
The human soul is becoming totally corrupt. Everywhere we turn, sociopaths prevail. Is it in our DNA now? Has it always been? Or, has people's abuse of alcohol and other drugs spun a mutation of sorts, an error in the human genome?
Whatever the cause, the spin is out of control beginning with what we value and what we respect. However in this world did we get to the point that athletics and sports became centermost in our lives? They override Broadway, movies, television, family, church and home. Today, as "ninety-nine and forty-four one hundredths percent" of American citizens stop to view the big game, we find the sociopathic efforts to win hanging a veil of shame over the activities.
It is said that more than half the footballs used by the playoff winners were deflated, which gave them an advantage. Was it an accident? Odds are it was not, considering the number in question. Will we ever know who did it? The why is easy. To win. The how -- yes, how in this world could someone carry out such a thing after the balls were inspected? And why don't the teams use the same balls anyway?
In this never ending age of the "media pounce", it is insane to think such a thing would go unnoticed and unspoken.
Now, the team that won the playoffs will never know for sure that they really earned the right to go to the Super Bowl. Neither will the fans. Odds are they would have won without cheating, but nobody will ever know conclusively. Likewise, if they win the Super Bowl, nobody will ever know if they should have.
But the most basic question of all is, in this day of injuring our opponents to get them out of the game, what has happened to our basic value system that athletics, sports, or anything else should have become so worshipped that we would risk our very moral fiber just to win?
An underlying theme the first Rocky movie portrayed (long past forgotten), second best can sometimes feel very good. So, let's forget this everlasting cut-throat perspective and return sports to their proper place in this world. They are but a source of entertainment. It is not a basic need of mankind to win, win, win. Tainting athletics is not going to put food and water on the table or a roof over the head. It is just going to bring shame to all.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Basic Human Rights Revisited
According to "Encore in Iowa" by Mike Sherer, Time Magazine, January 26, 2015, Mike Huckabee is running for President again. Per Sherer, he recently compared Americans with the Nazis -- the ones who abort their babies with the ones who caused the Holocaust. He stated that fifty-five million babies have been murdered in their mother's own wombs.
First, I've not had a lot of exposure to Mr. Huckabee, but up until this time, I've always been rather fond of him.
Second, I've no idea whether his figures are correct and don't intend to research it. Fifty-five million?
Third, find a new platform! I just read and heard today that Republican women are taking a stand against the Republican position on abortion. I don't know why Americans persist in telling each other what to do. It is an invasion of privacy, none of your business and extremely archaic. It's almost as radical as Muslim extremists who stone each other for adultery.
Let me go on record once more! I have never had an unwanted pregnancy. I have never had an abortion. I don't believe that any woman in my family has ever had one. I know for a fact that we would welcome any children that God gifted to us and be grateful for them. I am not a proponent of abortion, per se. I am a proponent of a woman's - a couple's -- right to choose!
You do not have the right to decide whether the Catholic couple next door to you has to keep the tenth or twelfth baby just because the rhythm method failed them. You do not have the right to tell the Baptist couple next door that they have to feed an extra mouth when they already work four jobs between them and still have to use food stamps.
The federal government has no right to tell our citizens how they should behave concerning such personal and private matters. As long as what one citizen chooses is not going to negatively impact the lives of her neighbors, nobody has a right to make his/her decisions for her.
Women do not plan on going back to the forties and fifties where unwanted pregnancies were aborted in back allies with dirty coat hangers. They will not go back to an age where parents forced their daughters to give up their children to adoption. You have no right to tell a woman she has to see a pregnancy to the end so that someone else can rear the child. She should not have the health risks, the shortened energy, the financial and physical expense because of a mistake or failed birth control. Most especially, no man on earth has a right to tell a woman she has to have a baby she does not want. And no baby should have to enter this world to a parent who does not want it. When men start carrying the kids, then they can decide.
Over and over, power hungry individuals reach out their tentacles in an attempt to control everything and everyone within their vision. Greed for power over others is their main sin. How dare they accuse another of sin before they cast the sin from their own lives.
And no man who likens a U. S. citizen to the Nazis of World War II should ever have the right to hold the highest office in this land. Whatever are you thinking? It certainly cost you any chance you ever had at getting my vote.
This issue is not just an abortion issue. It is about who gets to be in charge of our lives and our choices. Get it yet? Duh!!!
First, I've not had a lot of exposure to Mr. Huckabee, but up until this time, I've always been rather fond of him.
Second, I've no idea whether his figures are correct and don't intend to research it. Fifty-five million?
Third, find a new platform! I just read and heard today that Republican women are taking a stand against the Republican position on abortion. I don't know why Americans persist in telling each other what to do. It is an invasion of privacy, none of your business and extremely archaic. It's almost as radical as Muslim extremists who stone each other for adultery.
Let me go on record once more! I have never had an unwanted pregnancy. I have never had an abortion. I don't believe that any woman in my family has ever had one. I know for a fact that we would welcome any children that God gifted to us and be grateful for them. I am not a proponent of abortion, per se. I am a proponent of a woman's - a couple's -- right to choose!
You do not have the right to decide whether the Catholic couple next door to you has to keep the tenth or twelfth baby just because the rhythm method failed them. You do not have the right to tell the Baptist couple next door that they have to feed an extra mouth when they already work four jobs between them and still have to use food stamps.
The federal government has no right to tell our citizens how they should behave concerning such personal and private matters. As long as what one citizen chooses is not going to negatively impact the lives of her neighbors, nobody has a right to make his/her decisions for her.
Women do not plan on going back to the forties and fifties where unwanted pregnancies were aborted in back allies with dirty coat hangers. They will not go back to an age where parents forced their daughters to give up their children to adoption. You have no right to tell a woman she has to see a pregnancy to the end so that someone else can rear the child. She should not have the health risks, the shortened energy, the financial and physical expense because of a mistake or failed birth control. Most especially, no man on earth has a right to tell a woman she has to have a baby she does not want. And no baby should have to enter this world to a parent who does not want it. When men start carrying the kids, then they can decide.
Over and over, power hungry individuals reach out their tentacles in an attempt to control everything and everyone within their vision. Greed for power over others is their main sin. How dare they accuse another of sin before they cast the sin from their own lives.
And no man who likens a U. S. citizen to the Nazis of World War II should ever have the right to hold the highest office in this land. Whatever are you thinking? It certainly cost you any chance you ever had at getting my vote.
This issue is not just an abortion issue. It is about who gets to be in charge of our lives and our choices. Get it yet? Duh!!!
The Politics Of Putting ALL CHILDREN FIRST
It isn't surprising when people who have lived under the thumbs of dictators and repressive regimes rebel against society. We can understand that once they get a taste of power they would turn to controlling others and inflicting pain and destruction. What is hard to understand is how someone who has experienced freedom of speech, press and religion, like we have in this country, could turn to a faith and calling that oppresses these freedoms.
What is it that pulls our citizens into lives of crime against humanity? How can people who have had so much opportunity throw it all away? Is it the attraction of the religion? If so, why don't they join the groups of peace-loving Muslims across the world? Most people who are Muslim claim that Allah and Mohammad spoke of a religion that did not support violence.
Is it the offer of many virgins once they have sacrificed themselves for the cause? Have they asked themselves what good a thousand virgins would be once they have sacrificed their bodies for the spirit world? With no bodies, how can they enjoy those virgins?
Or, is it just our failure as parents, teachers and citizens to include all of our children in activities appropriate to their ages, skills and interests?
Perhaps our failures occur, in part, because of our predilection for honoring sports figures and people who excel in the performing arts. Maybe celebrity worship rather than the worship of God has pushed our teens and young adults off track. Maybe our problems with the economy have exacerbated the rift between us and some of our young people. If they can't even find jobs after school, at what can they succeed?
It is probably the same feelings of not belonging anywhere that creates both the religious extremists and the school shooters. People, young and old, need to feel warmth and acceptance somewhere. When they don't find it through usual channels, they strike out in defiance and violence. They are saying to their fellow Americans, so, now you will notice me. Take that and like or lump it.
People out there who teach or coach or lead church activities, reach out to all of our young people. Offer participation to the shy and quiet. Give love to the somewhat unlovable. What you do for these young people can evoke change in their performance, their skills and their personalities. Help them to relate. Eliminate their needs to act out by giving them a chance to perform in group activities. Think not we should win the game. Think not what will people think of me. Think what the child, the teen and the young adult needs to survive this world. Help them to become fulfilled citizens and perhaps they will quit searching for notoriety in inappropriate ways.
What is it that pulls our citizens into lives of crime against humanity? How can people who have had so much opportunity throw it all away? Is it the attraction of the religion? If so, why don't they join the groups of peace-loving Muslims across the world? Most people who are Muslim claim that Allah and Mohammad spoke of a religion that did not support violence.
Is it the offer of many virgins once they have sacrificed themselves for the cause? Have they asked themselves what good a thousand virgins would be once they have sacrificed their bodies for the spirit world? With no bodies, how can they enjoy those virgins?
Or, is it just our failure as parents, teachers and citizens to include all of our children in activities appropriate to their ages, skills and interests?
Perhaps our failures occur, in part, because of our predilection for honoring sports figures and people who excel in the performing arts. Maybe celebrity worship rather than the worship of God has pushed our teens and young adults off track. Maybe our problems with the economy have exacerbated the rift between us and some of our young people. If they can't even find jobs after school, at what can they succeed?
It is probably the same feelings of not belonging anywhere that creates both the religious extremists and the school shooters. People, young and old, need to feel warmth and acceptance somewhere. When they don't find it through usual channels, they strike out in defiance and violence. They are saying to their fellow Americans, so, now you will notice me. Take that and like or lump it.
People out there who teach or coach or lead church activities, reach out to all of our young people. Offer participation to the shy and quiet. Give love to the somewhat unlovable. What you do for these young people can evoke change in their performance, their skills and their personalities. Help them to relate. Eliminate their needs to act out by giving them a chance to perform in group activities. Think not we should win the game. Think not what will people think of me. Think what the child, the teen and the young adult needs to survive this world. Help them to become fulfilled citizens and perhaps they will quit searching for notoriety in inappropriate ways.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
So You Voted The Republicans In
Congratulations to the Republicans. They once again have control of the House and the Senate. If you give them the presidency, as well, in 2016, they will assume you have given them permission to do whatever they want to you.
You voted Republican? Do you own your own business? Good vote! Are you one of the upper one per cent? Good vote!
Did you vote Republican because that's what Mommy or Daddy taught you to do? Shame upon you for not using the mind that the Good Lord gave you. Here is what you gave the Republican Congress permission to do with that less than discerning vote.
1. To leave the minimum wage at less than half what you need to support your family.
2. To tax the middle class to pay for farm supplements for rich farmers.
3. To chain CPI. You know what CPI is. It's the Consumer Price Index. It's the figure used to determine how much increase you will get for Social Security. Unchained CPI causes your Social Security income to rise at the rate of inflation. Chained CPI does not rise at the rate of this increase -- you know, the increase in how much everything costs. Chained CPI forces you to buy the cheapest meats, fruits, vegetables. So you will get to figure out what meats are cheaper than the hamburger that has been your mainstay since retiring. (And it will affect all future generations because it will constantly keep the base of our Social Security payments lower than the rate of inflation). In other words, we will have to have huge retirement packages just to survive.
4. To raise the cost of heating, cooling and traveling fuels.
5. To run oil pipelines through our beautiful land so that Canada can ship oil to foreign countries. How many permanent jobs will this create? Fifty, per the oil company's representative, himself.
6. To favor big business over you.
7. To favor farm conglomerates over the small farm owner.
8. To give insurance companies free license to continue unethical practices which The Affordable Care Act eliminates.
9. To cut taxes for everything concerning the upper middle and upper classes while taxing the middle, middle at will. Oh, yes, so they can receive their lifetime retirement package even for working only a handful of years.
10. And most of all, you rewarded them for all their attack ads, their lies and their fraudulent advertising.
You voted Republican? Do you own your own business? Good vote! Are you one of the upper one per cent? Good vote!
Did you vote Republican because that's what Mommy or Daddy taught you to do? Shame upon you for not using the mind that the Good Lord gave you. Here is what you gave the Republican Congress permission to do with that less than discerning vote.
1. To leave the minimum wage at less than half what you need to support your family.
2. To tax the middle class to pay for farm supplements for rich farmers.
3. To chain CPI. You know what CPI is. It's the Consumer Price Index. It's the figure used to determine how much increase you will get for Social Security. Unchained CPI causes your Social Security income to rise at the rate of inflation. Chained CPI does not rise at the rate of this increase -- you know, the increase in how much everything costs. Chained CPI forces you to buy the cheapest meats, fruits, vegetables. So you will get to figure out what meats are cheaper than the hamburger that has been your mainstay since retiring. (And it will affect all future generations because it will constantly keep the base of our Social Security payments lower than the rate of inflation). In other words, we will have to have huge retirement packages just to survive.
4. To raise the cost of heating, cooling and traveling fuels.
5. To run oil pipelines through our beautiful land so that Canada can ship oil to foreign countries. How many permanent jobs will this create? Fifty, per the oil company's representative, himself.
6. To favor big business over you.
7. To favor farm conglomerates over the small farm owner.
8. To give insurance companies free license to continue unethical practices which The Affordable Care Act eliminates.
9. To cut taxes for everything concerning the upper middle and upper classes while taxing the middle, middle at will. Oh, yes, so they can receive their lifetime retirement package even for working only a handful of years.
10. And most of all, you rewarded them for all their attack ads, their lies and their fraudulent advertising.
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