DON'T KNOW WHO TO VOTE FOR?

If you don't know who to vote for maybe this will help.  If you dislike tax cut for 98% of Americans (the middle class), If you dislike 22 straight months of job growth, If you dislike having health care for all Americans, If you dislike that he got Bin Laden, If you dislike that 911 fire fighters and police now have health care coverage, If you dislike the PAID FOR payroll tax cuts for the middle class, then you probably want to vote for Obama.  If on the other hand you LIKE UNPAID FOR tax cuts for the rich, tax increases on the middle class, if you like wars, if you like spending our tax dallors in the middle east and 0 investment in our country, if you like a GOP party that holds the country hostage, if you like a party that when in power went into two wars and didn't want to lose the next election so they funded it with emergency funding, and let the debt grow and grow and grow, if you like the party that signed a pledge to Grover Norquist and ignored their pledge to their country, Then the Republicon party is for you. 

Take Our Country Back!

"We need to take this country back".  You have probably heard that a lot lately.  Especially with the Republican Primary season in full swing.  Well, I agree.  Hard to believe you say, since you know I am a Liberal Democrat.  But again I say, I agree.  I would like to return to a time where dad could go to work and mom could stay home and take care of the kids.  What kind of a world would we have if we could get back to that.  A world where parents don't have to send their children off to strangers to take care of during the day.  A world where mom or dad could work a five day week, have week ends off, and a two week vacation in summer.  A world where if you are really good with your money you could afford a home and a new car.  A world where children had a stable home, and a feeling of safety.  Why did all these things disappear.  How did we get to a place where both partners MUST work just for the basics of an apartment, food, clothing, a car, and utilities.  My belief is the  message from a certain group telling the 99% that their work is not valued, and how lucky they are to have a job for the last forty years is a huge problem.  That same group continually putting out the constant message that workers wages were too high and needed to be lowered.  A message that benefits were too good and that pensions were too expensive.  All the while profits grew and grew, and the pay of the top echelons of the corporate ladder were paid at higher and higher levels.  Where perks, bonuses, and stock packages, worth millions and millions became the norm.  At the same time there was the constant drone of how evil unions and workers are that stand up to corporations for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.  Since the union came into existence there has been a continuous war to end them.  Imagine if we could get back to a time where one spouse could make enough at one job for the other to stay home and raise children to be outstanding and upstanding members of society.  I believe this is what the 99% is all about.  A return to a more just society, where profits are NOT the ONLY end game.  Where all of society is raised up when business is successful.  The view of people like Mitt Romney who said in the debates last night that big dreams of attaining goals like space exploration or a space station on the moon were just wrong.  I disagree; the thing that makes this country great IS dreams.  Dreams for a society where profits and work are tied together for the benefit of all.  Where profitable companies produce goods that their employees can afford to purchase.  This kind of world would mean MORE business not less.  Henry Ford had it right when he paid his employees enough to buy the cars Ford was building and look what happened.  Detroit became a powerhouse of economic growth.  That would be a goal and a dream to aspire to again.  Multinational corporations have NO allegiance to America or Americans anymore.  Their allegiance is to bigger and bigger profits.  The trickle up,(actually gusher) of wealth to the 1% has degraded America not made her stronger and it is time to "TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK:.

The New Tea Party Aristocracy

If anyone remembers history they will remember the French Revolution and the French Aristocracy where the disparity between the rich and the working class reached a pinnacle and the rebellion of the people was a blood-lust where the world learned of a new device called the guillotine.  The French people overthrew their ancient government in 1789. They took as their slogan the famous phrase"Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite"--Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Equality, or doing away with privilege, was the most important part of the slogan to the French revolutionists.  What is happening in America right now has some frightening similarities.  The rich have become ultra rich and now the United States Supreme court and created the most frightening new Aristocrat of all called Corporate Person-hood.  This new Aristocrat called MR, Corporate Person-hood has been embraced by the GOP Tea Party Republicans with a passion.  They want to make Mr.Corporate Person-hood their very best friend.  In the past the GOP Republicans have had other friends like the Mr.Middle Class and Mr.Upper Middle Class but they have been left behind.  Now they have their best friend who treats them really, really well. MR, Corporate Person-hood give them a lot of money and power which they do not want to loose.  They have for the last forty years wages war on the very people they are supposed to be representing.  The most recent attacks have been by GOP Tea Party Republican governors who have taken away the rights of workers in order to serve their new best friend MR, Corporate Person-hood.  The new GOP Tea Party Republicans have now begun their attacks on the elderly and poorest Americans by destroying Social Security and Medicare as we know it.  Some states have had devastating storms, floods, and fires and the GOP Tea Party Republicans have chosen not to help but to harm by holding the American people hostage once again.  They have held up funds to FEMA unless cuts are made to fund programs that create much needed jobs.  The new GOP Tea Party Republicans continue to enrich themselves and build their power with their friend MR, Corporate Person-hood while Americans continue to suffer.  How long will it be until America has a new revolution?  My hope is that in 2012 these new Tea Party Aristocrats are swept away and a wave of Progressive Democrats come in.  America needs Progressives that can stand up against the new Tea Party Aristocracy and their new friend MR, Corporate Person-hood.  In this Progressive Democrats opinion MR. Corporate Person-hood needs to face the guillotine.  America needs jobs not more cuts to anything and everything just so the GOP Tea Party Republicons can beat Obama.  I was talking to a friend of mine and sadly it became clear he was one that was on the Tea Party side.  He said he hated Obama and all the problems were Obama's fault.  As we talked and I started asking him questions and going through problems and policies one at a time he agreed with me on almost every one.  The Policies of Obama and the Democrats were the right way to go but, in the end said basically, too bad Obama isn't white.  I believe unfortunately even in 2011 that color can trump all, even sanity in the minds of some racist Americans.
http://history-world.org/french_revolution.htm

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.

The Rand Paul Radical Deficit Cuts!

Rand Paul is asking for big donations from middle class Americans while at the same time cutting their throats.

Look at the list of cuts below and ask yourself where is the sacrifice from the rich and powerful?  Where is the help from the Wall Street brokers that are getting the big Bonuses?  Just today Eric Cantor walked out of the "Bi-Partisan" talks to cut the deficit because Biden said OK we are giving some, Now it's your turn.  But Nope, GOP Tea Party Republicans are saying NO to any shared sacrifice.  The middle class has to bear ALL the burden that the GOP Tea Party Republicans are going to heap upon the American middle class.  They won't even consider closing loopholes to big oil.  Let's walk through his cuts.

Rand Paul: "Specifically, my Cut Federal Spending Act reduces funding for the:"

*  Department of Agriculture by over $42 billion.

OK maybe there are reasonable subsidies that can be cut.  I bet this also cuts Food Safety Inspectors.

*  Department of Transportation by over $42 billion.

Red Flag here.  Cuts to DOT means cuts directly to safety.  This means fewer weigh station inspections.  More overweight and illeagle trucks on the highways and freeways deteriorating them faster.  This means fewer State Troopers to check for tired or drugged truck drivers.  

*  Department of Energy by over $27 billion.

He wants to cut the very thing that will bring about new prosperity.  We need to INVEST in Energy NOT cut it.

*  Department of Health and Human Services by over $26 billion.

Yes lets cut where it will hurt the middle class and the poor the most.  All those people that have been forclosed on and lost jobs will now have even fewer options to get by.  What happens to them.  All just so the rich can keep those Bush tax cuts that were supposed to create jobs but didn't

*  TSA by almost $1 billion.

What happened to Home Land Security?  Who will be inspecting Airports, Trains, and Ports of entry.  These ideas are really scary.

*  Housing and Urban Development entirely, excluding veteran housing programs.

We can afford to pay Wall Street Bankers, and the rich but not the middle class and the poor.  We have to attack them and take away the only tool there is to keep decent wages (Collective Barganing) 

*  Department of Justice by over $9 billion.

How does that work?

*  Department of State by over $20 billion.

You might want to read what they do here and then decide about this:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/dos/436.htm

*  Additional departments and programs bringing the total to $500 billion.

HMMMM?  Seems a little vague but I bet NPR is in here somewhere.

My proposal is accomplished entirely without touching Social Security or Medicare, and believe it or not, still leaves 85% of government funding in place.

Not a word about creating jobs that would bring IN revenue (tax dollars).

It is the same old story over and over from the GOP Tea Party Republicans,  Yes we made mistakes that drove the country into this horrible situation and now you should trust us.  You can trust them alright.  You can trust that  they will give the rich that bought them the tax breaks and YOU will pay for ALL of it.

Just my opinion.

How to Grow Our Economy.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt  brought us through the first Great Depression he created jobs by investing in OUR country. He created thousands of jobs by building bridges, roads, dams, buildings, and much more. We invested in our country which put money in the pockets of the middle class. When the middle class has money they buy things. They buy cars, boats, homes, and much more. the Trickle down economics of Regan did not work and will never work because the rich don't invest because of a tax cut they invest because of an opportunity. They invest because they have people who want to buy something that they make. When you have a middle class that can Afford to buy things it creates opportunities for not only the middle class but the investor as well. We need to once again invest in the middle class and invest in our countries infrastructure, by fixing our bridges, roads, and education. Tax cuts for the rich does nothing to improve our economy. The economy was actually the strongest in the 1950 when the rich paid taxes at a rate above 90% and everything was regulated. Trucking, banking, airlines, Wall street were all regulated heavily and all of America was prospering. The results of all the deregulation since Regan has been catastrophic to our country and needs to be reversed.

What The Past Tells Us All About GOP Leadership

There was a time that Republicans had the ability to lead this country.  That time has past.  History of the last twelve years proves they cannot lead.  They took this country into two wars but didn't include them in the budget  while at the same time cutting taxes for the rich and large corporations.  They spent like we had money to spend.  Has there ever been a more irresponsible governing body in American history?  They cut regulations the allowed banks to becomes casinos and brought us the biggest crash to the economy since the Great Depression.  The elections of 2010 brought in a new wave of extremism from the Tea Party.  Americans frustration with unemployment, housing foreclosures, and watching the government bail out the Banksters and Wall Street who's corruption brought us the worst recession since the Great Depression.  This frustration culminated in the most radical group in history taking over the House of Representatives.  The GOP knew that they had to use their power to change the message of that election.  What the American public wanted was a change in the partisanship in congress.  The real message from the American people was Work Together for the betterment of the American people.  Stop all of the filibusters and get something done for the middle class.  But the GOP decided to take over the message to say it is all about the debt and the deficit.  Wrong!  They have stuck with this message hoping it would stick and that Americans would not pay attention to what they really want to do.  They want to slow down the improvement of the economy as much as possible before 2012.  How do they do that?  They do it by cutting as much as possible to the budget so there is little job growth.  More cuts to programs mean fewer jobs.  It's that simple.  The GOP Tea Party Republican attacks on middle class workers is another sign of how radical they right has become.  Does anyone other than Tea Party members really believe all of our deficit problems will be solved if American workers have lower pay, no benefits or a retirement?  Anyone that seriously looks at our problems knows that is NOT the answer.  Good paying jobs, benefits and a retirement is what makes America great.  Middle class Americans with money in their pockets to buy an new home, car, boat, and take a vacation is what will power the economy.  The idea that anyone and everyone can pull themselves up by there bootstraps and start a business is just simply far from reality.  Just look around you at all the people you know.  You know that there are many of them that are really not capable of such things.  In a perfect world everyone would do everything just right and put enough away to cover their own health care and retirement.  We do not live in such a world.  The GOP Tea Party Republicans have used over and over again very offensive, hostile, and inflammatory language in talking about the President and the Democrats.  They use words like leftist, socialist, and radicals to describe Democrats, even though their actions have been the most radical in history.  They have used the filibuster more than any time in history, they have attacked and taken away bargaining rights of American middle class workers, they have held the congress, country, and middle class Americans hostage over and over again and are willing to shut down the country in order to push policies that will hurt middle class Americans while protecting the Bush tax cuts for the ultra rich and corporations.
      Now lets look at Obama and the Democrats.
Obama was handed the worst economy since the Great Depression.  He along with the Democratic congress implemented the stimulus package and in less than two years the economy is showing real improvement even with the GOP Tea Party Republicans using the filibuster and holding the middle class hostage.  The GOP has used the filibuster more than any congressional body in history to try to block anything that would help the middle class.  The Affordable Care Act in it's original form put forward by the House Democrats would have given most Americans Health Care coverage in a much less expensive way than what the GOP Tea Party Republicans have inflicted upon us in the name of corporate profits.  Obama also has shifted the military actions in Afghanistan from more boots on the ground to less and increased the use of the predator drones to keep an eye on where the terrorist elements are.  This new approach has given much better results overall with many more terrorist killed and fewer American soldiers killed or wounded.  President Obama also gave the order to get Osama Bin laden which was very risky but should what a great leader he is under difficult conditions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/31/barack-obama-approval-ratings-reelection_n_868952.html
    The GOP Tea Party Republicans will ask Americans for the opportunity to lead this country again in 2012.  They have proven that they cannot lead and Americans have no reason to believe that they will be able to do so at any time in the future.  Putting America in the hands of the GOP Tea Party Republicans would be devastating for America as they work toward low paying jobs, no health benefits, foreign policy that will hurt America and make the rest of the world hate us.  They had ten years to do something positive and really show their ability to reduce spending and be responsible with tax payers money.  They were the worst governing body in history.  Why would anyone want to do it all again.  When Americans go to the polls in 2012 they will vote for progressive candidates that have policies that help middle class Americans and promote America's ideals all over the world.  Americans will vote to put people before profits and provide a government for the people by electing Progressive Democrats that really care about middle class Americans.