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Monday, August 15, 2011

Democrats lose working class

One of the serious problems faced by Americans is the choice between two political parties, each with its list of “beliefs.”

For the GOP, anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-gay, pro-Israel, etc.

For the Dems, the opposite, etc.

If you oppose any of the tenets of either party, you are not a believer. I see this in the vast majority of comments that are totally one sided, both in GOP and Democratic blogs.

The middle ground promoted by the politicians after they are elected is some corporate-controlled swamp of ideas related to cutting taxes, ruining unions, praising Bill Clinton and kissing Pete Peterson.

For the Democratic Party to succeed, it needs to not lose the blue collar vote again and again, imply because it presents itself as an exclusive club of Third Way social issue maniacs, instead of a party that accepts gun lovers, who are against most abortions, but who also belong to unions, who also support equal rights, and want to retire in dignity and think universal healthcare is a good idea.

The tent is growing smaller for both parties, because too many conditions lead to too few members. Polticial parties should not be “religions,” which excommunicate anyone who do not follow the “edicts” of its leaders.

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Duck and cover, the rich are coming!

The answer is in our history books, which we neglect to read.

When the rich rape the poor too much, the poor revolt, or threaten to revolt.

The rich are cowards by nature, and the threat of danger makes them tone down their lousy treatment of the masses.

Notice, I said revolt, not faxes. Revolt, not emails. Revolt, not voting for whomever is the second richest bastard and expecting things to change.

Civil rights came from revolt. Gay rights came from marches that included some scary looking people that probably frightened many a rich prude.

Union rights came from revolt, and months of pickets, and dead workers killed by Pinkertons and other agencies, and even the police and national guard.

We managed to defeat the greatest armies of the 20th Century – Germany and Japan, and yet everyone has a reason to not even try to scare twerps like Paul ”The Hair” Ryan, Orange Boner or ”Old” McConnell, (69, and never has to worry about Social Security or Medicare.)

Is the solution to train a cadre of potential lunatics, like the Teabaggers did with coporate bucks, or just to finally, finally, finally realize that we have to stand up and scare the Hell out of these nasty, self-centered, isolated, elite, educated morons.

House Democrats will commit suicide because Obama needs dozens of them to vote to pass the Catfood/Cash for Bankers bill, while dozens and dozens of Republicans will vote against it.

The Republicans and Teabaggers can then campaign on voting AGAINST cuts to SS and Medicare, while their Democratic assponents voted to CUT these vital programs.

Democrats will be told to fall on their sword and the GOP will be protected from bad publicity.

Obama knows this is coming. He's probably planning to run in both the GOP and Dem primaries, win them both, and do a Bloomberg by changing the Constitution to allow Presidents for life.

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Monday, August 1, 2011

Democratic Party priorities stink

The American working class has abandoned the Democratic Party because it appears to be run by elites, who have no concept of what ordinary people face in their lives.

For example, most Americans are truly religious. In fact, we are the most religious country in the world by church attendance and affilliation. The unceasing left liberal focus on some social issues - to the exclusion of war, poverty and the destruction of the American dream - is a turn off and affront for many of these people, who would otherwise go Democratic - thus the success of the GOP appeal of family values (code for no gay marriage, etc.)

Instead of presenting the reason for values, the Democratic party imposes a litmus test of social mores, like rules for entry into some Harvard fraternity. The Gop does the same, although their code is religious.

While Democrats should espouse fairness and decency, they should not also do a Clinton and push for trade agreements (Korea, Columbia) that will destroy jobs here and move even more money overseas, and then offer Americans some pretense of "shared values" that it will help these other countries.

American workers see a portrayal of the Democratic Party as maintaining a consistent stance against controlling immigration, which has become a way for the rich to cut wages in construction and other industries, wages which once supported a middle class lifestyle.

American workers want a Democratic Party that fights for unions, and doesn't appoint labor haters in almost every sphere of government.

And American workers are very tired of a Democratic Party that talks down its nose to the working class, as though pushing a pencil requires more skill than building a house, a car, a bridge or computer.

If the Democratic Party wants worker support it has to make its leaders stop trying to distract us, brainwash us and bullshit us. The leadership perception of its own intelligence is grotesque, and that arrogance is the biggest contributor to the party's ignorance and denial of common sense solutions.

A third party would be successful if it just simply stood up for the middle class - not the rich, the banks and the paid off intelectuals - those geniuses who have convinced politicians that inheriting millions is achievement, and getting back your taxes from Social Security is entitlement.

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Sunday, July 31, 2011

We need a third party for our financial future

The elite think we are like them - rich enough to absorb $3.75 a gallon gas, wage cuts of ten percent, end of food stamps and unemployment benefits, and no paying job after months upon months.

When faced like the problems noted above, the trust fund buddies tell their accountant to transfer some bucks from A to B. They chuckle at plans to rape Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid - those "giveaways" for the unwashed multitude of lazy and uninspired. It is so much fun to be on top of the ladder, such entitlement to inherit without effort, except attendance at your own birth.

We, on the other hand, have to decide which hell hole is best for our mother's final days, while looking a year or two for a job to pay the just increased electric bill and rent.

We are the "lesser people", but we are sucking on air, not government largesse, and we are gasping, blue, afraid, so tired, hopeless souls wandering outside the gated clubhouse villas.

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Friday, July 29, 2011

What 14th amendment?

Obama won’t use the 14th. Then, he might have to drop the Catfood Lovers Commission II.

That’s the proposed group of six GOP congressperkies – who oppose all tax increases and want to reduce Social Security benefits and have the sick wait until 67 before they can get a heart operation – and six Democratic congressjerks – who will agree to oppose all tax increases and want to reduce Social Security benefits and have the sick wait until 67 before they can get a heart operation.

Did you ever wish you were entitled by accident of birth to be rich enough to not worry about the stuff that concerns “lesser people?”

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Friday, April 15, 2011

Robbing Hoods

Any plan that shifts from a federal program (Medicare) that operates at 2% administrative expense to a private plan (Paul Ryan) that operates with 20% expenses obviously costs everyone more money, and that money goes to private investors and execs at insurance companies.

It’s called weath redistribution. Republicans just steal from the poor and give to the rich – Robbing Hoods.

The big joke is this gang of six in the Senate that is self-appointed - a bunch of dweebs like Kent Conrad, pretending they care about something besides keeping taxes low for them and their rich friends.

The scum in the press, including Mourning Jockstrap, are praising this flagrant abuse of process as the two parties cartel to screw Americans.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Save Social Security

An important message from the Strengthen Social Security coalition: A bipartisan group of Senators continues to threaten needless Social Security cuts. But we can stop them. Today, we need you to call your Senators and demand that they vote for the Sanders-Reid Social Security Protection Amendment. Call your Senators at 1-866-251-4044 
TODAY! Tell them to oppose Social Security cuts and support the Sanders-Reid Social Security Protection Amendment. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senator Bernie Sanders are taking the lead to protect Social Security from drastic cuts. Their amendment simply says: "Social Security benefits for current and future beneficiaries should not be cut and Social Security should not be privatized as part of any legislation to reduce the Federal deficit." You can help pass this amendment by picking up the phone RIGHT NOW! Call your Senators at 1-866-251-4044 
TODAY! Tell them to oppose Social Security cuts and support the Sanders-Reid Social Security Protection Amendment. Tell the person who answers the phone: I am a voter/constituent living in [your state]. I am calling to ask the Senator: To oppose all cuts to Social Security. Vote "Yes" on the Sanders-Reid Social Security Protection Amendment. Thank you. The Strengthen Social Security coalition – made up of over 270 national and state organizations, including Campaign for America's Future is leading today's Social Security Call Congress Day. Please take the time today to call 1-866-251-4044 in support of this critical effort and protect Social Security for everyone. This is for you, your children and your grandchildren.

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