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Talk about emulation! You and a few others out here sound like us at the dinner table. Well also at the gas pump, the checkout lanes, on the phone with the gas co., the phone co. insurance office the assesser's office, mr IRS man and so on. You obviously realize that we are up "dookie creek" and unless ALL of America, the 299,999,000 (there abouts) that are not in federal service, get tough with these losers and insist upon term limits. We might just as well surrender furhter. Oh by gosh and golly, this family whole heartedly agree with you. I don't want this to sound like a surrender, but still we only have a small window here to at least try to go back into the right direction. I'll be damned if I can tell what exactly that is..........though I can tell you that from a perspective of my own suffering of the major wrongs we all are suffering, and have since the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush assaults on the constitution, there comes now the choice, painfully so, that we really have no choice but to make.
My gut tells me that Mighty Mac will only rekindle the Bush tango with corporate America, keep taxes for them where they are, for the most part, and lead us right into another Iraq with little to no diplomacy. It's like the "Surge" I tell you I was ready to toss my lunch when I heard for the billionth time how well the "surge" has worked. Like my husband said, who by the way usually voted Conservative. "By God!" As he yelled at the screen: "Look you idiots, if the FRICKING "surge" worked, our boys and girls fighting and dieing over there would be home with thier families INSTEAD!" "So who gives a *$@T if the "surge" worked, will work or won't!!? It's a tactic to cover the fact that they didn't do it right in the first place!" End of quote. Oh he gets so mad and usually gets into roaring arguments with anyone who says otherwise. It's why noone reads what he has to say on here, he'd be looking for addresses by the end of the day. Oh he just hates washington's stupidity and greed no matter what party there stands. But I have always respected Mac's service and usual passion for America. But, as you point out, he's another cog in the gear of this SO SCREWED UP MESS.
Obama might be just as bad in the long run, but he does seem to espouse the notion that corporate America is "evil" and that if you are going to fix any of this mess you must bring our jobs back, re-establish fairness in our tax system and re-regulate the things that Reagan started spinning outta control and is even worse today. All those ridiculous free trade agreements need repealed! and TAX the corporations who left our country retroactively. Shove the illegals out the door (it's a pandering tactic for votes) by those elites who will NEVER have to suffer the desires of those who would rather take than work once they sneak accross our borders as they watch from their ivory towers. Most do not realize how much Bush must actually hate this country. That man signed another corporate give-away of our jobs right here within our borders. By signing into law, the raising of the visa worker program, a cap from 67,000 to over 200,000 and another increase was passed. "They" say that Americans are not skilled enough to adaquately perform the tech jobs these foriegners are taking. Right here no less. Well okay, I might give them that one. But! let's understand why if that is the case. For the past several years this administration has defunded schools, colleges, and tech-centers all across America. The No Child Left Behind law was nothing but a scam to cut funding for education in this country, and has been a horrible assault on our tech driven future. So we close schools at super speed and blame Americans for being too dumb to work anywhere but Wal Mart or any of the other 3.5 million fast food jobs GW is so proud of creating.
I tried to give Bush some room, I tried to understand his perspective, but with a 2/3 repub congress for the majority of his terms, he has signed the most devastating laws and trade agreements ANYONE could have imagined. Yes I know this makes me sound like a lefty, but NO! I am not! I am simply not a retard leming who will follow a leader off a cliff while that leader has a "golden parachute" to save his ass.(scuze my french) It makes me mad as hell at the fake righty in the whitehouse. He failed to serve this country as per his oath. I have wanted this man's impeachment since before the Irqa scam. I was an educator, we had students who didn't get the best scores and had personal problems or just didn't learn easily. It had nothing to do with our teaching menthods, so you betcha, I had issues with this clown from an educator's perspective immediately. It was easy to see what they were pulling from that whitehouse. Not even considering the war in Iraq, that's another issue entirely.
But I need to calm a second here..........................Oh my............oh my..............I'm starting to sound like my husband here. Okay Rosy calm down..........alright now, I feel you're points into my bones absolutely. I have a placard that my dad gave me while Reagan was in office. It's from a speach he gave while running for his first term that really says it all. It surprises me that at least one of the candidates hasn't used it especially the just.......... inexscuseable shape our manufacturing base is in.
It's about Jobs and how important they are, but the reason I have it and he gave it to me, is to show what a lying scumm he actually was. It was Reagan who did the most damage to our employment infrastructure at least until GW came along. Those GPC workers sitting outside those property lines can actually thank Mr. Reagan, GHW Bush, Clinton to a point, and especially today, GW. The right of collective barganing hasn't been this weakened since before Reagan. Economics 101 tells you that you're business (country)WILL go broke if you stop stocking your shelves(workers),quit paying bills(trade defecit), stop training(educate the people),refuse to pay a fair wage(outsource) and important still,offer a good product(China poisenous junk). GW doesn't love America, he hates America. We have a friend who thinks that the Reagan years were by far the best. He and his wife just love those lesser tax burdens they don't have to worry about. He, we'll call him Clif, loves the fact that they actually pay less per dollar than my family does while earning a couple brackets more than us. We live about the same way. No New York strip or even ribeyes every other night. But they spend much more going out than we do or ever did. We made a couple insignificant investments in collectible assets and they made several investments in small stocks and annuities. He closed his shop a couple years ago and let go his helpers. He sold a portion of land and then reinvested that in another building and started back up with no workers. Claimed several losses and ducked capital gains and hid a few G's. Okay fine. They now have a little more money and havn't spread a extra cent more to the rest of us nor the economy, because the new venture is basically self serving. Profits are kept hidden or just calimed in depreciation. Trickle Down Fails again. So.......we argue that point and since they do well under that principlal, they espouse that principal and will vote for whom ever maintains that flawed thinking from the oval office. This is so simple and we here are in total agreemenet with you. If you want a good crop and therefore, a profitable harvest, you feed the roots from the bottom up, not the top down. If you sprinkle at the top you will lose some of that precious sustinance. I hope our electeds get that finally.
But all said and done, we only have as it stands now..... a couple options, don't vote or go ahead and vote for the one's again, that will likely hit you, but probably not below the belt. Or Bugs Bunny! I enjoyed this chat.
God bless
