TruthyNess

Forty years of the same old lines.  Here is a glossary of terms that the GOP uses that is important for the independent voter to understand.
1: Entitlements-  When they say they want to do away with "entitlements" that means that they want to end, destroy, eliminate Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Planned Parenthood, The Environmental Protection Agency, The ATF, The Financial Protection Agency, The Food and Drug Administration, (They inspect our food and drugs for safety and since the Tea Party came in their funding has been cut, which means fewer inspectors and fewer inspections.) Head Start, WIC (Women, Infants, and Children (a government program to ensure proper nutrition for poor mothers and their children).   So when they talk about eliminating "Entitlements" make sure you understand they want to destroy government programs that many elderly and poor really depend on.
2: Tax Reform:  When a republican says "Tax Reform" it doesn't necessarily mean they want to improve the tax code for everyone.  It definitely means they want to improve it for anyone making over 1 million a year. it almost always means they want more tax cuts for anyone making over a million.  They do not want taxes raised for any reason even a good one like deficit reduction.  Almost every Republican has signed a pledge to Grover Norquist not to raise taxes under any circumstances including to reduce the deficit.
3:  Job Creation.  When a republicans says they will focus on "Job Creation" they don't necessarily mean jobs here in the USA.  Most of the jobs they create are jobs in Asia, Mexico, Canada or some other place outside the USA.

4:  Bi-Partisanship:  Normally in a world that is not the Tea Party world Bi-Partisanship is where each side compromises on a bill and the come to an agreement that neither is totally happy with but usually ends up being pretty good for the American people.  In the GOP Tea Party Republican world we have right now it means that the Republicans get everything they want and anyone else gets NOTHING and I do mean nothing they want.  

There are other terms that you should know about but for now during this election season this will be a good start in helping you to understand and make a more informed decision as to the most important offices in the land. 

Until next time,

Good Truthyness to all.

Why are the liberals doing what they're doing?

You mean why do liberals fight for middle class working Americans and why do GOP Tea Party Republicans hold the American people hostage (Debt Ceiling)?  It is because the people that follow the GOP Tea Party Republicans feel that if you are not able to stand on your own two feet, build a business, get rich and pay for everything yourself then too bad for you.  They believe in a fairy tale world that everyone should be perfect and if you are not then go live under a bridge.  Liberal Democrats believe that the government should actually help ALL of the American people and not punish them for their imperfections.  Liberals Know that the top 2% of America (the rich) are the only people that GOP Tea Party Republicans are fighting for.  When you them talk about tax reduction they only mean tax reduction for the rich folk.  The reason we don't get cheap health care (The Affordable Care Act) is because if We (All Americans) paid into the health care system it would be Cheap.  The GOP Tea Party Republicans wouldn't get HUGE checks from big Pharmaceutical companies anymore and big campaign checks from Corporate Health Care for big profit companies.  Liberals want Jobs, Health Care, and Education Free for All Americans.  GOP Tea Party Republicans Want Health Care for profit, Jobs in China, For profit education, no regulations, and they want Americans to keep working up until they are 70 so that they can keep wages as low as possible and keep profits high.  In other words the GOP could care less about you and hates our own Government.  They say it right out loud.  "Government is the problem".  So if you want no jobs, no benefits, lowest pay, no health care, education that is not affordable and unattainable, roads, bridges, and buildings that are falling down, food that makes you ill, bad air and water, and a government that will say though luck when your state has a huge catastrophic event, then the GOP Tea Party Republicans are your choice.

My Response To Bill

Bill Said This on the Meet the Press Forum. "These people are just collecting a check instead of taking anything that pays beneath $15 an hour and actually working. Yes, there are a lot of people having problems locating work but when your sights are set at $40K a year plus, sorry those jobs are just tough to come by. Times are tough but at what point do we say enough is enough for the unemployed"  
 How come it's OK with you that the richest 2% get 80% of every dollar?  How come it's OK with you to hand out $850 Billion with a B to rich people, many of whom don't even want it and Your OK with that, but your fellow Americans that are just trying to keep their house, pay their bills, and feed their kids right before Christmas you don't think deserve enough money to get by?  They should just go live in their cars I guess.  It's OK with you to give $850 Billion to the Rich but NOT to help out your fellow man with 1/3rd of that amount of money.  Shame on you!  There are very few jobs out there, even low paying jobs.  How about we ask our government to stop giving a tax breaks for businesses that are outsourcing all our jobs.  There should be a tax penalty for shipping jobs out just for cheaper labor.  You are so short sighted it's unbelievable.  Your side won't be happy until we are all working for $2.00 a DAY!  How about we stop crucifying anyone that makes a decent wage and ask our government and Corporate America to give us ALL a decent wage?  Are you kidding me?  If we all had good paying jobs think about how that would spur the economy.  If people have money they buy stuff.  How about giving the big corporations some incentive to bring jobs back home and helping out Americans.  How about we tie the amount a job pays to the amount the highest paid person in the company makes including all their perks?  Employees should get 5% of what the highest paid CEO is getting.  Now that would be patriotic,  that would make America great again.

Welcome To The Real Wonderland

Everything is upside down in the land of the White house.  Even Alice would be dizzy.  Republicans who are not the majority (yet) are the leaders of the country calling all the shots.  They are the party of family values but do NOT want to extend unemployment benefits for people who cannot find work.  So I guess these families don't count and they should just live in their cars.  Which family value is that?  I'm not quite sure.  The Government is supposed to be we the people, helping protect our freedoms.  To worship God , as long as that God is Jesus, liberty as long as you are not queer, and the pursuit of happiness as long as you don't expect bankers that were given billions to actually do what they were supposed to do and adjust your mortgage so you can keep your home.  Apparently  a patriot is someone who waves the American flag, sings God Bless America and then says to the guy living in his car, "screw you, you lazy bum.  Pull yourself up by your boot straps" not noticing the guy has no boots.  The Tea Party Republican patriot believes that if we just cut more taxes everything will be fine.  This is the definition of crazy when you keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.  The tax cuts that were in place for ten years did not create jobs or we wouldn't be in the worst recession since the Great Depression,  when you give a millionaire a tax cut they just have more money.  Unless that millionaire is forced to use the tax cut to create jobs they have no reason to.  If on the other hand you raise taxes on that same millionaire but give tax incentives to invest in new technology or other business opportunities that millionaire is more likely to spend it on a new investment opportunity than give it to uncle Sam. Yep everything is upside down, wacky, crazy, but I still believe we have hope.  We will get threw these hard times and maybe see that the crazy rules that lets a Senator invisibly put a hold on good legislation is a bad idea, and that the filibuster rules need to change, and we need to raise the cap on social security, so it will be their for our children and grand children.  Maybe we will pass a bill to put a two million dollar cap on all election spending.  Maybe we will stop billions of dollars coming into our elections from who knows where, and we will require any candidate in any national election to participate in ten debates that are paid for by our government and televised around the world.  Maybe we will invest in our country, rebuilding our roads and bridges, build new high speed trains, build a modern electric grid for solar, wind, and other energies to be used and have more energy efficient cars that won't pollute and will get us off oil.  That will be the Wondrous land I look forward to seeing.  And maybe just maybe you could even be a Muslim, Hindu, Christian, or any other faith in America and not feel oppressed.

Some Times The Right Thing To Do Is Hard To Swallow

I hate that Black Mailers sometimes get their Black Mail.  I think this compromise is the right thing to do as much as I hate it.  There are Americans that will truly be hurt if it does not pass.  I Love that we have a president that can see this and is willing to do the dirty work to help regular working Americans.  My hope is that this will finally wake up Americans to the fact that the Republican party is Not the party of family values unless the family is the MOB.  My hope is that this will finally make people take notice that the Republicans are only concerned about the deficit when it comes to cutting helpful programs and education for regular Americans but are totally willing to ignore the deficit in order to fill the pockets of the rich and powerful.
Nordite

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.