Showing posts with label Socialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Socialism. Show all posts

Friday, March 1, 2019

REPUBS ARE - H Y P O C R I T E S


Hate mongering:
While claiming to pray for civility in America the GOP loves to stoke the fires of hate. In order to divide and conquer America they have gone back to their tried and tested tactic of pointing to scape goats to blame them for whatever is wrong in our lives or the country. With the current racist in charge immigrants are the goat du jour even though the jerk in the White House hired them by the hundreds to work in his putrid country clubs.

Yuletide:
The party of family values – NOT – is always talking about a war on Christmas. But while there is not any such thing as a war on the holy holiday nor has there ever been such a war in America, they are the ones that constantly go against the teachings of the religion most closely associated with Christmas! If anyone debases the spirit of the season it is the repugnant Repub party!

Puppet:
The current flag bearer of the Repub Party famously called Hillary Clinton a puppet after she pointed out how the man-child was doing the bidding of Putin. It has now become clear that the misogynist’s mouth may have been moving and his arms waving but the strings were definitely being controlled in Moscow.

Others:
Republican constantly point to the others claiming they are doing illegal things. But whenever they do it seems they are the ones perpetrating the evil deed. Their constant claim that Dems are committing voter fraud was laughably contradicted when the documented case of voter fraud in a North Carolina congressional race came to light this past November. How come no Repub yelled and screamed about it? Could it be because the fraud was perpetrated by Repubs on behalf of a Repub candidate?

Climate change:
Repubs claim to care about our lives and the lives of our children but refuse to do anything about fossil fuels ruining the environment. It does not take a PhD to figure this one out, THEY ARE PAID BY THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY TO DENY GLOBAL WARMING EXISTS. Of course, they don’t care since most of them are old white guys who will be dead before the Earth kills the rest of us.

Red Lining:
Since they are a minority party in America redistricting or gerrymandering is the only way Repubs can get elected. Then they keep control over areas where the constituents would normally vote for Democratic candidates by tweaking the districts even further as needed. They say they are doing it to keep things fair. Even the courts, which have been stacked by the GOP have disagreed and told them to re-map the areas more correctly. We shall see if they comply.

Infidelity:
The most notable members of the GOP have cheated on their then current wives constantly and so many end up with 2 or 3 wives in the long run. I’m talking about you Newt, and you Rudy, and of course you dt! Many Repub voters have fallen for the ‘Family Values’ bull shit and therefore think that Dems are out to kill the family and abort every child they can. But most Dems in the public eye seem to raise wonderful families with just one husband and wife in the picture, such as the Obama family.  GOP = Family values, my ass!

Taxes:
Ever since the days of the GOP God Reagan Repubs have been telling Americans the lie of trickle down economics and the reason so-called job creators must be given tax breaks. They also claim they are giving the middle-class huge tax breaks. It’s funny how after 50 years of tax breaks from the GOP the Middle-Class has almost been taxed out of existence! After viewing what the Repub Party has been doing to nearly 98% of the country their catch phrase should be altered to Tinkle Down!

Environment:
Many Presidents in the past helped create the wonderful system of National Parks. In fact after becoming president in 1901, Republican Teddy Roosevelt used his authority to protect wildlife and public lands. He started the US Forest Svc, 150 national forests, 51 bird reserves, 4 national game preserves, 5 national parks & 18 national monuments totaling around 230 million acres of public land!  These treasures are continually under attack by the GOP as wastes of money when it is actually the GOP that is a waste of money. So in order to get rid of the wonderful places they insidiously change regulations to allow oil drilling in them or pipelines to go through them or just plain defunding them.

Social Services:
Many years ago the Repub party created the fear of Socialism among the citizens of America. They made the word synonymous with all things that are bad and anti-Democratic. Then they pivoted to vilify all things that help society but naturally cost tax dollars. And since they would rather keep those tax dollars for themselves and their wealthy donors, they used false statistics to show our huge national debt was cause by these social safety nets. The final straw came when they gave those donors and themselves an indefensible humongous tax break that caused the National Debt to soar past $21 TRILLION!! The phony fiscally conservative GOP who claimed they cared about the rising cost of government is now campaigning to do away with Social Security and Medicare in order to pay down the National Debt and fix the catastrophe they caused!


Put all the above together and ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Repub Party: HYPOCRITES!

Friday, December 31, 2010

Balance the Budget!

Balance the Budget or ‘BtB’ sounds like the acronym for Business to Business, a term used when one going concern sells its wares to another for eventual final mark-up and sale to the end consumer.
But this BtB leaves out all the middle men and silly end product or service thingies and makes the consumer PAY FOR NOTHING!
Literally!
You will get nothing but you will pay!
Let’s face it when politicians, and especially the so-called fiscally responsible yet hypocritically phony Republicans say they wish to balance the budget what they are really saying is screw the poor and middle classes.
Now some may feel that I am merely using hyperbole (I use words like hyperbole to confuse the likes of Sarah Palin and her friends who’ve never seen the inside of a book.)
But when I say the Republicans are out to get the middle class just look at the facts.
Tax cuts for people who do not need tax cuts, aka the filthy rich is about to cause a record and unsustainable increase in the deficit.
If the deficit rises too far in order to keep the Nation afloat we will have to float loans at dangerously high interest levels and borrow money from wonderfully friendly places like China.
And this will merely kick the can down the road to our children and their children.
As a result of this strategy cuts in services become necessary.
And on whose backs will those cuts fall?
Well we've just given the wealthy a tax gift or rather continued the gift from 'W' so they won’t be involved.  And that leaves, uh, er, um who exactly?
Well by process of elimination we’re about to eliminate the middle class.
But first we must appease that group of eunuchs with a ‘Trojan Horse’ type of gift in the form of a tiny tax cut of their own.
When you are making $50,000 per year a 3% tax cut is nice but it won’t get you a new car.
However 3% for one of those wonderful hedge fund managers who took in over one billion dollars last year and add so much to society allows them to buy a dealership and have enough left over for a nice year long vacation.
Of course the extra walking around money for these pillars of mankind might allow them to hire one or two workers but at minimum wage only and possibly just part time.  After all there is always that ‘uncertainty’ thing hanging around in the future somewhere.
Next we lower the Social Security payroll deduction from 6.2 % to 4.2%.  This means the average worker, assuming he or she is still employed will receive an extra pittance in their post deduction take home pay pocket.
But before you go out and book the Plaza for your next affair you should know that our leaders have just removed millions of dollars from an already hurting fund meant to cushion our ‘golden years.’
In other words they are starting to chip away at that most socialistic program of all, Social Security.
And who will be hurt most when Social Security is gone, the wealthy?
Give me a break!
I happen to love the guy but does anyone think Warren Buffet will be relying on his Social Security payments to get him through his retirement?
Next on the agenda for the new majority in the House but thankfully not the Senate will be the dismantling of another program meant to help the eunuchs in the middle class, health care reform.
Why should the wealthy corporations have to take care of the little guy?  After all the more money they spend on those ragamuffins the less bribe dollars there are to go around from “K Street.”
So what’s the solution?
Should we just forget about the budget?
No indeed!
Balancing the budget is a good thing.  And it’s been done before, under Democratic Presidents with the help of a Congress that had the greater good in mind.
Unfortunately these days the only thing these hypocrites have on their minds is who will be in charge after the next election and then the one after that.
The heat of summer had not yet passed and all we heard on the news was who is running for President in 2012!
So as far as our government is concerned damn the middle class, full speed ahead.
Perhaps it is time for the little people to understand what is going on in DC and the board rooms of the corporations that own that town.
Perhaps WE should start threatening second amendment rights!
Of course that's just as absurd a notion now as it was when that idiot from Nevada first said it but...
When the government does not listen or worse, does not care about WE THE PEOPLE it may be time for WE THE PEOPLE to speak a little louder!

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Upon Further Review

The following is a partial list of positive acts pushed for by Liberal groups in America.  It was compiled by an intelligent blogger known as Shoq.

The list is followed by what I believe would be an honest after the fact appraisal of each item by our Republic leaders and their Tea Party affiliates today.


Achievements of Liberalism in the U.S.

All or most strenuously resisted by conservatives & many Republicans.
  1. Interstate Highway System 
    It wasn't Ike's idea. It was a liberal initiative begun in the '30s. Ike was a liberal.
  2. Almost all of our Labor Laws (and All Child Labor laws)
  3. The Marshall Plan
  4. Environmental Laws
  5. Freedom of Information Act
  6. Workplace safety laws
  7. Social Security
  8. The Space Program
  9. Securities Act of 1933 & Most banking Regulations
  10. The Peace Corps
  11. Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
  12. The Civil rights movement
  13. Fight against Nazis, Fascism and Totalitarianism 
    Wilson, FDR ,Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy. All liberals
  14. The Development and Deployment for the Internet (DARPA/HPCA)
  15. The Tennessee Valley project
  16. Women's right to vote
  17. Universal Public Education
  18. National Weather Service
  19. National Science Foundation/Basic Scientific Research
  20. Product Labeling/Truth in Advertising Laws
  21. Public Health Service and CDC
  22. Morrill Land Grant Act (land for State public Universities)
  23. Rural Electrification
  24. Public Universities
  25. Bank Deposit Insurance
  26. Earned Income Tax Credit
  27. Family and Medical Leave Act
  28. Consumer Product Safety Commission
  29. Public Broadcasting
  30. Hoover Dam
  31. Pell Grants
  32. Americans With Disabilities Act
  33. State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
  34. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 – New (March 25th, 2010)
Now the Republic Rebuttal:
  1.  It's okay but we prefer to fly around in our private jets
  2.  Hate it!
  3.  That has something to do with war? LOVE IT!
  4.  Bad for business! Stupid laws. Hurts job creation.
  5.  Jury is out on this one.
  6.  Ditto "4."
  7.  Hated it then, hate it now! Privatize the damn thing!
  8.  If it could be used for defense okay otherwise scrap it!
  9.  Stifling crap! Should have been repealed long ago.
10.  Lilly livered do-gooders wasting money on aliens!
11.  Depends on the service but mostly a waste.
12.  Hate it! Just look at the White House for GOD sake!
13.  War is Hell & good for business! Especially ongoing ones.
14.  Now that we figured out how to use it, it's okay
15.  Ditto "4." Government growing too large!
16.  AAAHHHH!! Only 1 group worse! (Was that out loud?)
17.  Another wasteful government program.
18.  Okay, we'll give you that one.
19.  Just don't touch GOD's stem cells!
20.  Hurts business, kills free enterprise! Caveat Emptor!
21.  Public health?  Enough already! Wasteful spending.
22.  I reckon it worked out but still don't cotton to it!
23.  Give you this one as long as we control the energy sales.
24.  Hate it! Government controls too much! It's hard work!
25.  Free insurance? What's this country coming to? Hate it.
26.  Only good if it includes billionaires otherwise dump it.
27.  This screws the hard working business owner - HATE IT!
28.  ARE YOU KIDDING? OMG MY HEAD'S EXPLODING!
29.  Hate it! Why the Hell do we need more than Fox News?
30.  Okay I'll give you that one. But don't push it.
31.  Socialism! Killing the government & wasting tax dollars.
32.  Hate it! My chauffeur has to park too far away now!
33.  Government interfering with parents! Pure & simple.
34.  REPEAL OBAMACARE! REPEAL OBAMACARE! REPEAL!!

Somewhere along the way to a modern society we seem to have lost sight of a simple fact.
The greatness of a nation must be measured by how it treats and takes care of it's citizens.
Together we the citizens make up our society, the social order of our country.
We, the citizens elect officials to become our representatives working for the greater good.
Society comes from groups working together, helping one another toward common goals. We have already seen that a nation divided against itself cannot survive.
Socialism in and of itself is not bad nor should the word have the stigma that has been placed on it by the greedy self-serving few among us who have lost sight of our Nation's original and common goal.
They should reread the Constitution.
The original aim of our founding fathers was, among other things to create a more perfect union and promote the general welfare.
Those words form the foundation of socialism.
They are words to live by and we must not forget them.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Words Can Hurt

In order to get our points across we all use certain words or phrases or even mannerisms. For example if someone calls you a genius it certainly could be taken as a compliment unless of course that person rolled his eyes while saying so. Also nothing is cut and dried so even if someone says something that you might find offensive it would help to know how they meant it and from whom it is coming.

A perfect example is the use of the offensive "N" word. While it
has long been a taboo for White people Blacks continue to use the term freely among themselves.

Many years ago I worked in a small company and had the great pleasure of meeting David, a young boy with a working knowledge of "street language." I asked him one day how come he called another kid who worked there, "money." He told me, "It's because he don't have any. You know, you say the opposite of what it is."
David would teach me "street talk" and I would try to get him to use more accepted business language.

One day I needed David to do something for me and as he passed my office I called out to him. "Yo brains can I see for a second?" David almost fell on the floor laughing at the obvious intent of my words.

We both benefited although when last I saw him he would still say bof (bow-f) instead of both.

Unfortunately not everyone is as intuitively smart as David and most other people know this. They intentionally say things to provoke and incite and then cleverly hide behind some vail of innocence as though to say, "If you took my words the wrong way then it's your problem, not mine."

It is no secret that our economy is in the dumps and we need help to get back on track. Right or wrong the current administration is trying many ways to start things moving again. Naturally until and unless it works there will be nay-sayers but the fact that they are allowed to do so is what makes America great.

However the words that are being used and used and used are starting to show a theme. It is a coincidence when two people choose the same words to describe a complex situation but when an entire wing of the Government, as in the Republican Party uses the same words on every show and every in every paper and
every chance they get it is a concerted effort bordering on conspiracy.

The stimulus package that was started back in the Bush administration was implemented because it seemed that it was needed. The country had wasted billions
of dollars and thousands of lives and lost millions of jobs due to the misguided path they had taken. The Obama administration is continuing the stimulus and believing that it has a chance to avert total disaster has actually expanded it in some ways.

The Republican Party to a man (and woman) is calling it a
"Spending Binge" and they are doing it constantly and squeezing it into sentences where ever possible. They are hoping for the same effect that advertisers get when they repeat the 800 number at least three times in every commercial that needs you to call them.

The term Binge has a detrimental conotation and is being used on purpose.

The Republicans have also taken another term out of moth balls that was last used when Hillary Clinton tried to help the middle and lower classes of America get affordable health care. That term is "Socialized Medicine." They are calling any change to the status quo where big insurance companies are able to reap huge fortunes while raping our citizens "Socialism."

The word conjures up bad times and tends to make people worry and yet even though there is no such proposal on the table and they
know full well it is not socialism they continue to spout the word every chance they get.

But why do it?
Why use key words and phrases to hurt the very same people who elected you to do the job that you say you wish to do?
It's simple really, you have to keep the status quo because your job is part of it!

Republicans have become so adept at not going too far with their "hate speak" that they have started to actually go nowhere! When they use the hateful words they offer nothing in return.

But they continue to use them since we have become a sound-bite society. We generally listen to one or two words before turning the channel or
the page to see what else is going on. With so much information out there and so many ways to get it can we really be blamed for not reading to the end of an article or watching an entire political show?
And if we do then isn't it certain that we will not have enough time to hear a different view?
The beauty of the Republican method of
obfuscation that they have used since before many of our children were born is that you don't have to listen to the end of their speech or read their entire article. What you get from one is the same as what the other will tell you so in the long run you will get their message no matter what.

The Republicans are known as the "Party of Family Values."
By whom?
Certainly not by themselves or their families!
So how did this come about?
They called themselves that and continue to do so to this day although the families of Mr. Vitter, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Gingrich, Mr Foley (I could go on and on but will stop here) would beg to differ. And while Republican and Conservative pundits visit every talk show and spout that the Democrats have also had their share of famous discretions the answer must surely be that, "Unlike you guys, we never said we were perfect."

What America needs now is quite simply for the politicians on both sides of the aisle to shut the Hell up and get to work.
Our need for the sound-bite will still be there when they fix the economy.
We will still believe the ads trashing their opponents in the upcoming election even after we get affordable health care.
We will still fall for the use of certain key words and phrases after our 401Ks are back on track and our retirement is a bit more secure.
We will all take sides and vote for the politician with the catchiest catch phrase even after we have lowered unemployment down to a manageable number.

Republicans and most politicians see Americans as sheep because we have acted with brainless herd mentality for too long. We must see through the use of hate speech and sound-bite phrases and demand the governance we deserve.

Let's stop binging on key words and become a bit more social in our attitude.

We all want health, wealth and happiness because a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.