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What Do The Afghans And The Republican Party Have In Common?

What do the Afghans and the Republican Party have in Common? Both are populated by misogynists actively engaged in a war on women. The tactics, intensity, and outcomes are different, of course, but the intent is the same--to suppress the rights of all women to be protected from  controlling and predatory men, to take from women the right to be in control of their own bodies, and to deny women the right to equal pay for the same work as men.

The Republican Party would angrily and vigorously deny this assertion, but the facts contract any denial or disbelief. For example, what Men in Congress, men who represent all American women and who are opposed to the repression of women, would vote against the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011? Well, to be sure, 31 Republican men in the Senate voted against the Violence Against Women Act.

The Senate passed the Violence Against Women Act, but these 31 Republican men voted against it.  John Barrasso (R-WY), Roy Blount (R-MO), John Boozman (R-AR), Richard Burr (R-NC), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Thad Cochran (R-MS), John Corryn (R-TX), Jim DeMint (R-SC), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Orin Hatch (R-UT),  Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Mike Johanns (R-NE), Rob Johnson (R-WI), John Kyle (R-AZ), Mike Lee
(R-UT), Dick Luger (R-IN), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Rand Paul (R-KY), Jim Risch (R-ID), Pat Roberts (R-KS), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Jim Thune (R-SD), Pat Toomey (R-PA) Roger Wicker (R-MS). Take a close look at the state these 31 Senators represent, with few exceptions, what do they have in common?

All of these Republican Senators claim to have a reason for voting against the Violence Against Women Act. Marco Rubio, Senator from the State of Florida, apparently hating non-sexual assault and battery more than he hates rape, claims he voted against the Violence Against Women Act because it diverts money earmarked for domestic violence to a fund dealing with sexual assault. How Absurd! Does Mr Rubio really want us to believe that rape is not a violent act against women? Does Marco Rubio believe that rape is not violence against women. This line of reasoning reeks of the absurd. And this from a man the Republican Party considers to be one of their shining examples and bright future.

There are many more examples of the GOP war on women, too many to offer here, but available in many other places. Most examples are individual acts and statements made by Republican leaders--which by the way are not gaffe but true sentiments and beliefs of the persons making them. But here is one that comes from the party itself.

The Republican Party Platform, written for all to see, contains this line: "Congress--the Senate through its ratifying power and the House through its appropriating power--shall reject agreements whose long-range impact on the American family is ominous or unclear. These include the U.N. Convention on Women's Rights (and) the convention on the rights of the Child."  (Italics, Mine).

Seriously, how can women's rights and the rights of children have an ominous or ulnclear effect on the American family? Surely the Republican Party isn't suggesting that the American family is a patriarcial unit and any attempt to protect women's rights and the rights of their children would be ominous for the patriarch and his control over His family. Or could they?

Is this the America that women want for themselves and their children? Say it isn't so.

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Lottery Games And The Republican Party are Bad For America But The Lottery Is Better

Lottery Games and the Republican Party are bad for the United States of America. But at least with the lottery you have an equal shot of winning. And for that reason, we say that the lottery is better.  It doesn't matter whether you are black or white, rich or poor, Christian, Jew or Muslim, democrat or republican, liberal or right wing conservative, sophisticated urbanite or trailer park redneck; the  odds are the same for everyone. Not so with the Republican Party.

Here's the up side of the lottery. The odds of winning PowerBall, the national lottery, is 175, 223,510 to 1--that's 175+ Million to one. But when the jockpot increases, someone eventually wins. The reason for it is fairly simple. When the jackpot is large, more people play, increasing the chance that someone will choose the lucky number. For example, if 40 Million people play an average of 5 plays on PowerBall, that's a total of 200 million plays, thereby increasing the chance of one of the selection being one of the 175 million possibilities.

The down side of the lottery is that in this immediate gratification and get rich quick culture of reality television and the lottery, where even people with no talent can receive fame and money, winning the lottery has become the economic plan of too many people. And that is not good for America. Still, when someone in this group wins the lottery, bad decisions notwithstanding, that money is quickly put back into the economy; and that is good for America.

We are still looking for the upside of the Republican Party for 99% of America. The middleclass has been especially decimated by their policies and their tactics. Sure they talk a good game, but how can you hear what they say when what they are keeps ringing in your ear. Mitt Romney, for example , gives us a lots of glitzly platitudes He says: "I believe in American. I believe in the American Dream. I aim to restore the promise of America." But it's nothing but nice sounding noise. What does it mean? Marco Rubio, Senator from the state of Florida, says he wants to save Social Security for his 81 year old mother, because she depends on it. But what about you, your mother, and your children? Rubio, says it must change and be different for you.

Romney-Ryan is running on a GOP platform which claims that they want to make government smaller--except for when it comes to controlling women's sexual health, what women do with their bodies, who can marry, and with whom consenting adults can have sexual relationships in the privacy of their own homes. The GOP is for smaller government only when it comes to government regulations that protect the American public from abuses of all kinds by all kinds of corporations and industries.  In the past two year, the Republican led House of Representatives have voted over 100 times to subsidize the oil and gas industry. During that same period they sought to weaken government agencies that protect the environment, protect public health, and provide safety restrictions. The GOP and Romney-Ryan wants you to believe in an America that, under their leadership, doesn't exist for the Average American. Lest you don't consider yourself an average american, remember that Mitt Romney says that the middleclass are people who make at least $250,000 per year.

Does Romney-Ryan and the Republican Party really aim to restore the promise of America? The view from here is no. Their words are hollow and obvious fabrications. With The Lottery, average Americans have an equal shot at winning. With the Republican Party, average americans have No Shot at winning. Consider the area of jobs and the economy.

1. The GOP filibustered a bill (S. 3816) to stop tax breaks for corporations and companies that sent jobs overseas to China and other nations--thereby keeping more jobs in the United States of America.
2. As head of the investment company, Bain Capital, Mitt Romney laid off thousands of American workers and sent jobs to China.
3. The GOP filibustered the Rebuild America Jobs Act which would have put two to three million Americans back to work. 
4. The GOP filibustered a bill to put thousands of public school teachers, police, and firefighters back to work.
5. Republicans filibustered the Paycheck Fairness Act which would allow women to be paid the same salary as men for doing the same work.

Is this the behavior of a party that believes in America? If you believe it is, and vote to keep Republicans in office, you better hope you win the lottery. You're going to need it.

 

Does Mitt Romney Really Believe In America

Recently I received a letter from Mitt Romney saying he was running for President of the United States because he believed in America. Unfortunately the letter is full of emotional platitudes, patriotic slogans, and gleaming generalities that contradict everything we have heard him say in real time an what what we have seen caught on camera. And it is fairly obvious to anyone willing to pay attention that Mr Romney isn't running for president because he believes in America. He is running for president simply because he wants to be president.

Many of the Facts About Mitt Romney are disturbing and detrimental to America and the American people. Click on the link above to read 99 facts you may not know about Mitt Romney.

His comments are especially damning and in opposition to the well-being of most Americans when he thinks only his rich friends and wealthy donors are listening. By his own admission, caught on camera for all to see, he has absolute disdain for 47% of the American public. He said he doesn't care about 47% of the American public because they don't pay federal income taxes, conveniently ignoring the fact that most of these same people pay payroll taxes and sales taxes. Many of the rest are on active duty in the military and by law don't have to pay federal taxes. Mitt Romney thinks that is wrong and that, even though they risk their lives to serve and protect America, these military men and women are moochers because they don't pay federal taxes.

How can Mr Mitt Romney really "believe in America" when he is the face of a Republican Party that has done and propose to do so much that is detrimental to America and to Americans? This includes but is not limited to...

I. A Republican party that blocked the American Jobs Act--an act proposed by President Barack Obama that would 1. Create at least 2 million new jobs, including police, firefighters, teachers, construction, and high tech. 2. Offer tax credits to businesses hiring veterans. 3 Provide a $1500 tax cut for the average American family. 4. Modernize public schools. 5. Raise capital for small businesses. 

II. A Republican party that blocked and killed the Veteran's Job Bill in the Senate that would have provided funds over five years to help veterans find work in their communities. Republicans were all too willing to spend billions to fight Bush's war against unfounded WMDs in Iraq but are vehemently opposed to providing jobs and assistance to those military men and women who fought that war and who fought and are fighting in the Afghan war.

III. A Republican Party that became obstructionist in their attempt to "make sure" that President Obama failed "even if it means America fails". As a result, the GOP, used obstructionist rules and strategy to create a  gridlock that disabled both federal and state governments where neither could perform their congressional duties and moral obligations which is to provide for the civil rights, protection, and empowerment of all American--men, women, and children--equally without regard to income, sex, ethnicity, or any other profile.

IV. A Republican platform that defines conservation as a process where our beautiful pristine National Parks and public land "could be better used for ranching, mining, or forestry through private ownership". This the very opposite of conservation and gives away public owership to the corporate and private ownership of greedy individuals and greedy corporations--while they let the  American public be damned.

V. A Republican plan to kill medicare and replace it with a voucher system, a system that does not guarantee coverage. Corporations will decide what is to be covered under their health care option.

VI. A Republican plan to dismantle Social Security or to privatize Social Security--the latter designed to reward Wall Street Brokers to the detriment of senior citizens.

VII. A Romney-Ryan plan to eliminate Pell Grants for more that 1 million low income students, thereby robbing America of some of its brightest talents and future contributors to the best of America.

VIII. A Republican plan to privatize public schools, both public elementary and secondary schools--where teachers will be paid less salary with fewer benefits and corporations will make enormous profits to the detriment of our children.

IX. A Romney-Ryan plan to cut taxes for the rich while increasing them on working class Americans.

X. Romney claims he wants to eliminate big government because it spends too much. But Romney-Ryan is willing to give $40 Billion in subsidies to BiG OiL.

Mitt Romney doesn't believe in America. He believes in Rich America, the so-called 1%. Mitt Romney is running for president because he likes the idea of being president just as he like the idea of greed and consumption by the wealthy. And if "you people" don't get that, then "you people" and your children will suffer the consequences.

What You Ignore About Romney-Ryan Can Hurt You And Kill Your Children.

If you don't know who Ayn Rand is perhaps you should find out. Paul Ryan is a big devotee of Rand's philosophy that selfishness is a virtue. Paul Ryan, like Ayn Rand, believes in a philosophy that justifies privilege of the wealthy and demonizing the working middle class as well as the poor working class.

Romney and Ryan works off a morality system that says, I've got mine, if you don't have yours that tough. This is consistent with the strategy of right wing conservatives who have taken over the  Republicans party and who believes that Americans should be affluent enough to take care of their own or die and get their parasitic lives out of the way of the wealthy and the privileged.

Romney and Ryan are not dedicated to improving the quality of life for all Americans, only for the privileged few. This is clearly represented by the positions they have taken about Americans and the policies they support.

The Romney-Ryan budget would cost America more than 1 million jobs in the first year alone. This position is made worse by the fact that Romney and Ryan will raise taxes on the working middle class. Further Romney-Ryan propose giving even bigger tax breaks to Filthy Rich Corporations that outsource jobs to china, India, Korea and other countries. This will kill more jobs and tank the American Economy. But they don't care. They and their children have theirs. If you and your children don't have yours and are not okay, that's tough. From their point of view the welfare and the quality of life of American Citizens are not in any way the responsibility of the govenrment--except where it deprive some Americans of their rights or benefits the wealthy.

Paul Ryan will make it very tough for retirees by killing medicare and replacing it with a voucher system that will profit corporations but will not guarantee coverage for retired senior citizens. However, many senior citizens will not be able to retire at a level that maintains a reasonable quality of life, because Ryan will also dismantle Social Security and deprive retired senior citizens of much needed income.

Needing income, some senior citizens will try to find jobs to supplement their other "retirement" income--that is, if corporations they have worked for haven't already reduced or stolen their pension plans, their 401-Ks have not dried up, and their savings have not been reduced to rubble. Of course, they won't be able to find jobs, because most jobs, even those that senior citizens will work for at low wages, will have been outsourced to China, India, Korea, Mexico, Thailand, Philipines and other countries.

One wonders one demonic possession makes a man believe that depriving retirees of Social Security, a system that has worked well and benefitted American Citizens as well as America, is better for the United States of America. One also wonders what demonic possessions makes a man oppose policies that protect American citizens and other citizens of Planet Earth.

Mitt romney opposes regulations that protect our environment from corporate abuses that compromise our social security and our physical health as well as our physical and mental well-being. Romney opposes regulating carbon dioxide and other gasses that are linked to climate change. He believes that liquid coal is a clean technology, even though the science show that it emits more greenhouse gasses than does oil. Romney is also on record for saying that the Clean Air Act doesn't apply to carbon emission.

As bad as these poisitions and policies are for retirees and for working adults, they will be worse for your children and grandchildren. At the same time that Romney-Ryan will destroy Social Security, steal from the middle class and give to the rich, they will eliminate Pell Grants for more than 1 million potential college students. Mitt Romney is on record for telling students that if they need money for college that they should get a loan from their parents. And he wasn't smiling when he said it. In the meantime, Romney-Ryan would give $40 Billion in subsidies to Big Oil.

 Enter Romney-Ryan at your own risk. But don't embrace Romney-Ryan at the risk of your children and grandchildren, not if you love them. They deserve better. They deserve a President and Vice-President that cares about them even if they are not children of the filthy rich.

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