Okay, has the world gone insane?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/generic-republican-holds-eight-point-lead-over-obama-134254588.html
As in my last post, a Democrat left an 8 year term with a surplus of several billion dollars. The Republican who came after spent all that money and then an additional several... wait for it... trillion dollars!!! The president who is in office now has not been able to fix that mess in 3 years so we want another Republican in office?
Some say he is ineffective at trying to fix this situation even with all the evidence that the Republicans are holding up the budget talks on purpose to make him look bad. Republicans have even said, in interviews, that they are trying to make him a one-term president. How? By holding up the budget talks and being unwilling to compromise! And how is this the presidents fault? It's not. The Republicans are willing to hurt the American public and cause an even greater budget crisis to try to get rid of the president. The senior citizens, the poor, the disabled, the soldiers and veterans; are the ones who are going to pay for this stand but the Republicans don't care as long as they make the president look bad and save some money for corporations and already rich people who don't need any help from the government.
How can we not see this? How can we think that a Republican president who will have the same mentality as the last one, fix the problem caused by the last one?
How can we not see that the Republicans' unwillingness to compromise is harming those who voted them in to office and the ones they are supposed to be protecting? I think politicians have forgotten that they are public servants!! They are supposed to be serving us!! Not using us as pawns in some tug of war, give me what I want or I'm going to take my ball and go home, garbage!!!
The president has shown a willingness to go outside of party lines to compromise while the Republicans have maintained an increasingly hard line stance that is completely unrealistic, insane and childish; yet there are those that would put another Republican in office as president?
ARE YOU ALL INSANE?!?!?!?!?!
And that's My 25 cents...
Friday, July 15, 2011
I'm not alone!!
Oh my goodness I'm not alone!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/opinion/15krugman.html?hp
I thought I was the only one who saw that the GOP is being completely irrational and that the Dem's have always been willing to compromise when there is a GOP president but the GOP has never been willing to compromise with a Dem president.
When Clinton left office, we had a surplus budget. Eight years later, after eight years of a GOP president, we not only don't have a surplus we are in debt by several trillion...let me say that again...trillion dollars. The Dem president we have in office now has been willing to even go against his own party in a compromise for the budget but the children that are masquerading as GOP reps want it all their own way or they will take their ball and go home and screw the rest of the country. Who cares if the old, the young, the poor are going to be screwed as long as all their corporate, rich ceo pals get to continue to basically not pay taxes at all.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/opinion/15krugman.html?hp
I thought I was the only one who saw that the GOP is being completely irrational and that the Dem's have always been willing to compromise when there is a GOP president but the GOP has never been willing to compromise with a Dem president.
When Clinton left office, we had a surplus budget. Eight years later, after eight years of a GOP president, we not only don't have a surplus we are in debt by several trillion...let me say that again...trillion dollars. The Dem president we have in office now has been willing to even go against his own party in a compromise for the budget but the children that are masquerading as GOP reps want it all their own way or they will take their ball and go home and screw the rest of the country. Who cares if the old, the young, the poor are going to be screwed as long as all their corporate, rich ceo pals get to continue to basically not pay taxes at all.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
NY killing of young boy...
That poor little boy killed in NY.
This is why I think it's imperative to start teaching our children self-defense. In school as PE would be perfect, starting in kindergarten even. We need to stop coddling and insulating our children because they will not know how to protect themselves. And lets face it, we cannot be with them 24/7 always. Even if you are a pacifist and do not believe in violence, having the ability to protect yourself and others is important. The act of learning self-defense in any of its manifestations can lead to greater self-respect and self-image and may even see a drop in bullying as it teaches discipline, plus if the kids can protect themselves they won't be afraid of the bullies and the children prone to bullying will not have any victims to pick on.
If that child had been more self-aware and aware of his surroundings, which is also what self-defense teaches, he may not have gotten lost and would have known more who was appropriate to ask when he did get lost.
I am in no way blaming his parents, absolutely not!! It sounds like they were very good parents and were trying to teach self-reliance. I just think there was much left out.
Instead of trying to make all the bad stuff in the world go away and try to live in some type of Utopia, which is a vain hope and just plain blindfolding and acting like an ostrich with your head in the sand; we need to start teaching our children the skills to live in the world that we have and how they can try to make it better.
And that's My 25 cents...
This is why I think it's imperative to start teaching our children self-defense. In school as PE would be perfect, starting in kindergarten even. We need to stop coddling and insulating our children because they will not know how to protect themselves. And lets face it, we cannot be with them 24/7 always. Even if you are a pacifist and do not believe in violence, having the ability to protect yourself and others is important. The act of learning self-defense in any of its manifestations can lead to greater self-respect and self-image and may even see a drop in bullying as it teaches discipline, plus if the kids can protect themselves they won't be afraid of the bullies and the children prone to bullying will not have any victims to pick on.
If that child had been more self-aware and aware of his surroundings, which is also what self-defense teaches, he may not have gotten lost and would have known more who was appropriate to ask when he did get lost.
I am in no way blaming his parents, absolutely not!! It sounds like they were very good parents and were trying to teach self-reliance. I just think there was much left out.
Instead of trying to make all the bad stuff in the world go away and try to live in some type of Utopia, which is a vain hope and just plain blindfolding and acting like an ostrich with your head in the sand; we need to start teaching our children the skills to live in the world that we have and how they can try to make it better.
And that's My 25 cents...
Monday, July 11, 2011
The Budget...
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-tells-republicans-time-pull-off-band-aid-162849457.html
Quit protecting the corporations and the greedy few who leeched off of them!! Close the loopholes and quit giving tax breaks to those who don't even need them and trying to cover the shortfall by squeezing money out of those who can't afford it and can't afford to protect themselves from it!!!
I pay 30% of my income which is about $12,000 a year!!! Those people make more than that in an hour and yet you are trying to protect them?!?!?!?
Quit trying to cut programs for the elderly and poor and make the rich actually pay the taxes they owe!!! I doubt very few of them pay anywhere near 30% with all of their tax shelters and dodges and write-offs and loopholes!!!
And that's My 25 cents...
Quit protecting the corporations and the greedy few who leeched off of them!! Close the loopholes and quit giving tax breaks to those who don't even need them and trying to cover the shortfall by squeezing money out of those who can't afford it and can't afford to protect themselves from it!!!
I pay 30% of my income which is about $12,000 a year!!! Those people make more than that in an hour and yet you are trying to protect them?!?!?!?
Quit trying to cut programs for the elderly and poor and make the rich actually pay the taxes they owe!!! I doubt very few of them pay anywhere near 30% with all of their tax shelters and dodges and write-offs and loopholes!!!
And that's My 25 cents...
Seriously?!?!?!?!?!? Aaaarrrggghhhh
I am getting really tired of church groups trying to get laws passed following the tenets of their faith!!
If they want their religious beliefs to be law then they need to give up their non-profit, tax-exempt status too!! They can't have it both ways!!!
This is coming after I read this article
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/slavery-language-removed-group-marriage-pledge-candidates-160133885.html
about a group called "The Family Leader" and have the GOP candidates sign "The Marriage Vow--A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family" contract in order to have their support in the election!!
Marriage has to be between a man and a woman apparently in complete disregard for the love that two people regardless of gender can have for each other and for any children they decide to raise. And considering the fact that most same sex couples have to go through quite a lot to have kids and often adopt, as compared to man/woman relationships where kids are often accidents and not always wanted!! And also, what about the divorce rate of man/woman couples going over 50%? That doesn't show that that type of marriage is working either!! I don't think that making same sex marriages legal has anything to do with the decline in man/woman marriages either!!
And that's My 25 cents...
If they want their religious beliefs to be law then they need to give up their non-profit, tax-exempt status too!! They can't have it both ways!!!
This is coming after I read this article
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/slavery-language-removed-group-marriage-pledge-candidates-160133885.html
about a group called "The Family Leader" and have the GOP candidates sign "The Marriage Vow--A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family" contract in order to have their support in the election!!
Marriage has to be between a man and a woman apparently in complete disregard for the love that two people regardless of gender can have for each other and for any children they decide to raise. And considering the fact that most same sex couples have to go through quite a lot to have kids and often adopt, as compared to man/woman relationships where kids are often accidents and not always wanted!! And also, what about the divorce rate of man/woman couples going over 50%? That doesn't show that that type of marriage is working either!! I don't think that making same sex marriages legal has anything to do with the decline in man/woman marriages either!!
And that's My 25 cents...
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Casey Anthony and the Caley Bill
Okay, Okay I get that we are all very upset about the verdict but to make another set of laws impinging on the lives and rights of the citizens of this country is just wrong. Making up new laws based on an emotional upheaval is just asking for trouble. I understand wanting to feel safe and to protect children, I have one myself and have been in a state of worry and panic since she was born. That hasn't made me want to wrap her in foam and bubble wrap though. On the contrary, I want her to take a many bumps and bruises as she can so that life isn't a big shock for her when she goes out there on her own. I'm going to paraphrase a line from one of my favorite comics here; Christopher Titus remarked in one of his specials that when s%#& really hits the fan you want someone around who's been through stuff already because they won't panic, they'll deal and help others get through too. What we really need is to quit swaddling our kids. Hard times, discipline, responsibility, unfairness, bumps and bruises; all these make a strong person able to handle anything. Just like germs, the more antigerm/antimicrobial crap we use the stronger they get and the weaker our immune systems get; like George Carlin said in one of his standups, when he was young they swam in the river and he'd never been sick because his immune system had been built up. If we all lived in an absolutely germ free, dirt free, sterile environment with rounded foam corners we would become weak, ineffectual and I sincerely believe we would be extinct soon after. We need hardships, crises, disasters, catastrophes; to build us up and make us stronger and better as a species. And yes, if my daughter were to have something happen to her I would be devastated, but I wouldn't go out and try to make a law to stop grass from growing or cars from being made or toy cars to have bright lights and sirens to know they are there or whatever. Stop dumbing down and coddling our kids, they are stronger than we think and they'll learn; if we let them.
And that's My 25 cents...
And that's My 25 cents...
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Taxes, Spending and Government
When will this end?
Some in the government want to cut spending on the poor in our country even further by chopping spending on health care, welfare and the medical programs for the poor while continuing tax breaks and other such programs for rich people who own jets and such. Really? Really? and again I say Really?
Yes, I think that government should be smaller not bigger. But I think that means stop nosing into our business and trying to enact laws to run our lives. Unless what a person does directly affects the physical well-being of another person, F off!! Stop this 'War on Drugs' crap it's just wasting money. Tax it, regulate it, turn it into a money maker. Same for prostitution. How is it the governments business what I do with my body? Sounds like a religious moral turned into law to me. But as for this budget crap; the rich already have enough tax dodges and can pay someone to find all the loopholes so that they are already paying less in taxes than I am so why not try to close a few of those holes and actually make rich people start paying their rightful taxes already. DUH.
And that's My 25 cents...
Some in the government want to cut spending on the poor in our country even further by chopping spending on health care, welfare and the medical programs for the poor while continuing tax breaks and other such programs for rich people who own jets and such. Really? Really? and again I say Really?
Yes, I think that government should be smaller not bigger. But I think that means stop nosing into our business and trying to enact laws to run our lives. Unless what a person does directly affects the physical well-being of another person, F off!! Stop this 'War on Drugs' crap it's just wasting money. Tax it, regulate it, turn it into a money maker. Same for prostitution. How is it the governments business what I do with my body? Sounds like a religious moral turned into law to me. But as for this budget crap; the rich already have enough tax dodges and can pay someone to find all the loopholes so that they are already paying less in taxes than I am so why not try to close a few of those holes and actually make rich people start paying their rightful taxes already. DUH.
And that's My 25 cents...
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