What Do You want for America?

Did you know that the tax rate on the rich has actually been cut to less than half of what is was in 1950?  It has actually been cut by almost 2/3rds.   The Democrats compromised with Republicans and extended the lower tax rate on the rich even though most Americans didn't want that.  Do you really want health care repealed when it just got started?  Why not improve it especially since they GOP has NO replacement plan.  None!  Even though many Americans are already being helped by it.  Do you want to wait until you're 70 to get your Social Security?  Did you know that anyone making over $110K only pays up to that amount on SS?  We all pay taxes for schools even though many people do not have children in school.  Do you really want good programs cut while the military wastes millions?
             Now that the GOP has power again in the House they have changed their message.  The message is they will focus on spending cuts, not jobs.  When the GOP starts making big spending cuts to programs that also means cutting jobs.  The president put in new protections for our food.  Now since these Tea Party People got elected our food is not safe because they cut all the money out that would pay for the jobs that would protect our food!  Do you really want unsafe food?  They want to make cuts in education.  I find it hard to believe that this is what most Americans want.  Please let me know if how you feel?    

"Lets Do IT! " America!

I can hear Ty Pennington screaming it out, "Lets do it!"  Then the action begins, a house destroyed and a new home built in a week.  We need an extreme makeover American addition!  Remember when we actually did build cool stuff?  We were first on the moon.  We built the interstate freeway system, bridges like the Golden Gate, Dams like the Boulder, buildings like The Empire State Building and icons like The Seattle Space Needle.  We have just been through the worst Recession since the Great Depression!  I am not sure people get what that means.   Right here in the USA 1931there were people starving to death in the streets of America, "Food riots start in various pockets of the United States. Grocery shops get looted by people.  It was bad, really bad.  Fortunately we as a country didn't have to watch people starving and dying on the streets because President Obama, Democrats and even some Republicans knew we could end up there and did Tarp and the Stimulus to try and save us from what did happen back in the thirties.  The Stimulus did work but not fast enough for the American public.  The Republicans did not seem to care what regular Americans were going through since they were against TARP.  Mr. Paulson's proposal, labeled the Troubled Asset Relief Program, was backed by President George W. Bush, both presidential candidates and the Democratic leadership in Congress, but opposed by most Republicans. Passed on a second attempt, it led to a series of enormous loans to banks that inflamed widespread public anger but were later widely credited as being one of the crucial factors in helping to avert a global depression.  The Democrats were not able to go far enough in helping Americans in these most difficult days.  The GOP Tea Party Republicans stopped them at every turn.  They used the filibuster more than anytime in history to block legislation that would have brought many more jobs and improvements in our weak infrastructure.  Now the the GOP Tea Party Republicans want to hurt Americans even more.  Their intention is to make sure that there is as little to no job growth from now until 2012.  They want all the power and if you, the regular working American, have to suffer a little longer so they can get all the power again, that's what they will do.  They plan to STOP ANY legislation that will create jobs so that they can blame Obama for it and take the presidency in 2012.  If you want to help do something about this then please pay attention to what the Republican Congress is doing NOT what they tell you.  They have messages that sound impressive.  Messages like "We want to cut taxes", "Stop the JOB Killing Health Care", and so on.  Those messages sound good to the average American but those messages have nothing to do with the facts of where we are as a country.  We do not need to cut taxes when we have a huge deficit.  We don't need to raise taxes.  Taxes can stay right where they are.  What we need are jobs and tax paying citizens that can afford to pay the taxes we currently have.  The GOP Tea Party uses the same messages over and over again because they sound good to people that need every dime they have.  The GOP Tea Party Republicans will stop at nothing and say anything to get all the power and to make sure your wages are kept low and tax burden is higher.  Vote for Democrats in 2012 that want to help you.  They want to create jobs for the middle class and protect us with regulations from the Wall street banksters that want to gamble with your mortgage money, improve the health insurance bill to lower costs by spreading the cost of insurance and buying medicine in large quantities using the power of our US government which will lower the deficit.  Do not listen to the GOP Tea Party Republicans but watch what they actually do and pay attention to what it means to average working Americans.

The Truth Republicans Don't Want You To Know

What are the Death Panels.  Well to start with there is no such thing.  Republicans are really good at making up scary sounding stuff that is NOT true.  What they call "Death Panels" are actually Voluntary conversations that have NOTHING to do with the government.  They are FREEDOM.  THEY ARE YOUR FREEDOM!  Don't you want to make your own decisions of what happens when you are leaving this world and make sure your family and doctor are clear about them?  If you are sick and dying and loose your ability to make decisions about how to handle your death, do you want to make that decision in advance or do you want everyone to guess at it?  Issues like this are why I quit the Republican party and became a Democrat.  I actually voted for Regan.  I didn't realize until years later that he destroyed the American worker by killing the Air Traffic Controller union.  That began the slow spiral down to fewer good jobs, lower wages and fewer benefits for workers.  At the same time the Right wing propagandist really began to pump out the message that unions are BAD and get paid way too much.  Too bad most Americans have bought into it.  For the last thirty years Americans have been getting the shaft without even realizing it.  Here are a few examples:  "We want to cut taxes" (what they don't tell you is they aren't talking about the taxes of the average working person.  They are talking about taxes for huge corporations and the ultra rich),  "Obama Care is Socialism" (It is no more socialism than Social Security or Medicare).  If it had been "Socialism" that would be a GOOD thing because everyone would pay into the healthcare system and lowered the cost for ALL Americans.  Why is that a Bad thing?  Someone please tell me.    There are many more examples of Republicans propaganda but this blog would be way too long.  2011 could be a very tough year.  I hope Americans start to realize that Democrats are on the side of average workers and that the Republicans are NOT.  Republicans only want to help the rich.

Politicians: "We are not a witch". "We are you."

Our leadership, our government, our congress, our senate, are saying, "We are you.", "we care about you", Republicans say we want to give you "less government", "a lower deficit", "lower taxes."  At the same time Democrats say, "you have national health care."  Nice, I like insurance but I already had Kaiser.  What does our government want for us?  What are they going to do for you?  I guess to answer that we have to ask which "YOU", are we talking about?  The "You" that is working a job making about $10k, $20k, or $30k per year or, the "You" that is making over $250k per year?  The "You" that makes over $250k already has tax cuts, STOPS paying into SS after about $108k.  Why, I don't know.  The "You" that makes over $250k can afford accountants and lawyers to insure they pay as little taxes as possible.  They also get tax cuts for shipping jobs out of the country, while the "You" that make less than $108k pay every cent of the SS tax, has lower and lower wages with less safe work places, gets kicked out of their home while the banks won't help with the bad loans.  What do the Republicans mean when they say less government in your life?  Does that mean I won't have to go to the DMV anymore and be there all day to get a drivers license, or spend hours getting my car through emissions, or maybe I won't have to renew my tabs or, maybe I won't have to bother with filling out confusing tax forms every year.  Maybe they will stop SPAM in my INBOX or my mailbox from being flooded with ads I don't want.  That would be nice.  But no, what they mean by less government means .....  hmmm,  well I don't know what it means.  Does it mean they will stop fixing roads and bridges?  Nope it can't mean that, they stopped doing that a long time ago.  Maybe it means they will stop going to wars all over the world.  Probably not.  Ok, so were not to sure about less government.  What about a lower deficit?  Well they want to extend tax cuts to the richest Americans which will add to the deficit so, I haven't heard too many other things that will lower the deficit.  They say they will cut spending but, over the last ten years they spent like there was no tomorrow.  OK, so we are not quite sure how they plan to lower the deficit except they did say they want to take away working peoples retirement money (pensions) to do it.  I must say I am not down with that.  Maybe the rich bankers that got all those big bonuses should pitch in a little something to lower the deficit instead of taking away the retirement money from middle class hard working Americans.  They say they want to lower taxes.  Cool,  who doesn't want lower taxes.  I wonder how they will do that?  They could extend the tax cuts that we currently have but that is not really lowering taxes that is keeping it the same as it is.  Do we start to see a pattern here?  Not really doing much of anything are they.  Just sayin.  Now lets look at the Democrats and what they want to do for "You" under $250k a year.  Well so far they have already cut taxes for 98% of Americans that make less than $250k a year.  I bet you didn't even know that.  They actually did get a healthcare bill that really does help "You".  Did you know that right now your insurance company cannot drop you because of a preexisting condition?  Did you know that your children can stay on your insurance plan until they are twenty six?  There are some other things in it that are good for "You", but it would make my blog way to long.  They want to make it even better by having more choice and more competition.  The Democrats want to have prescription drugs prices lowered by buying from the drug makers directly in bulk like Walmart, Kroger, and Target do to get the lowest prices for their products.  For some unknown reason Republicans are against this.  Democrats want to create jobs by investing in our country building fast rail, new bridges, better roads, and new schools and new government buildings.  Think of how many jobs could be created with just the hight speed rail project alone.  Construction, cement, steel, wood, and a whole lot more will be needed for this project creating lots and lots of jobs and a high speed train would be really cool.  But Republicans are against this too.  They say it is wasteful spending.  How is a high speed train across the country a waste?  The skys are already really overcrowded and not everyone likes to fly.  I don't understand why they stand in the way of what you would think they would want to do to help regular middle class hard working Americans.  Well folks I hope you start to watch what the Republicans are doing to "You" and not for "You".  You still have a chance to fix it though. Next election vote for the people that really do want to help you.