Listen to the rhetoric
It's probably a good thing I work nights. I used to get wrapped up in the evening political shows and I think it's important to listen to the rhetoric and how things are covered in the media. Fair and balanced went out the window a long time ago. If you listen long and hard enough, though, you can sometimes get though a commentator's agenda long enough to find some useful facts.
Just a for instance. I was flipping between baseball, football, and the commentator shows last night, and as much as I hate to admit it, some of the commentary shows were more interesting than the football or baseball games. There's a lot of rotten stuff going on in our country right now, at a state and national level.
Out of all of it, though, voter suppression and people who claim to love this country hiding behind the flag and trying to coordinate any effort to register voters and allow them to vote really makes me upset. We are starting to hear a lot about the 1% in the context of who has all the money and power, but what about the other 1%; those who serve in the military. How dare anyone try to deny any citizen of this country (and members of the military!) their right to vote. This happened in Pueblo county, Colorado. The clerk there was instructed not to automatically mail out absentee ballots to military personnel.
Shameful. But I'll bet those who gave those instructions are all patriotic Americans. Support the troops, just don't let them vote?
It's interesting to listen to the comments about the various protests going on across the country. I heard parallels being drawn to the protests in the late '60s. I was very young then, but if memory serves me, it was mostly about Vietnam. It seems to me that what a lot of these folks are protesting now is about the greed in corporate America and the lack of jobs in this country that pay a living wage.
I actually heard this from Herman Cain, who is running for President of the United States, and it's not a quote directly, just a summary of what he said: It's un-American to protest against bad banking policies and corporate greed because if you do you're anti-capitalist. Wow! Protesting against the "big bad Government" is the right thing to do if you're a Tea Party supporter, but protest against the "big bad banks" and you're un-American? Really?
REALLY?
That's just some of what's going on. There's a growing movement folks to get the money out of our politics and I think we really have to start looking at what kind of government money buys for those that have it, at the expense of those that don't.
The mayor of New York City is a wise man. He's rich. Uber-rich. And he's smart enough not to rock the boat with the protesters. In fact, he predicted that if something didn't change, and soon, from the job creators, there were going to be riots in the streets. That hasn't happened.
Yet.
And I think I have finally figured out the answer. Rich folks: Create the jobs. Bring 'em back from overseas. Start building stuff here again. Pay a little more in taxes, and this all goes away. Y'all have the power to open the factories, buy the raw materials, create the jobs, and put that money you spend on politicians into a huge buy-American campaign. Spend some of that money, job creators!
Start educating yourselves now. Primary season is shortly upon us and it's going to be one of the most critical elections in 2012 that this country has ever had.
Just a for instance. I was flipping between baseball, football, and the commentator shows last night, and as much as I hate to admit it, some of the commentary shows were more interesting than the football or baseball games. There's a lot of rotten stuff going on in our country right now, at a state and national level.
Out of all of it, though, voter suppression and people who claim to love this country hiding behind the flag and trying to coordinate any effort to register voters and allow them to vote really makes me upset. We are starting to hear a lot about the 1% in the context of who has all the money and power, but what about the other 1%; those who serve in the military. How dare anyone try to deny any citizen of this country (and members of the military!) their right to vote. This happened in Pueblo county, Colorado. The clerk there was instructed not to automatically mail out absentee ballots to military personnel.
Shameful. But I'll bet those who gave those instructions are all patriotic Americans. Support the troops, just don't let them vote?
It's interesting to listen to the comments about the various protests going on across the country. I heard parallels being drawn to the protests in the late '60s. I was very young then, but if memory serves me, it was mostly about Vietnam. It seems to me that what a lot of these folks are protesting now is about the greed in corporate America and the lack of jobs in this country that pay a living wage.
I actually heard this from Herman Cain, who is running for President of the United States, and it's not a quote directly, just a summary of what he said: It's un-American to protest against bad banking policies and corporate greed because if you do you're anti-capitalist. Wow! Protesting against the "big bad Government" is the right thing to do if you're a Tea Party supporter, but protest against the "big bad banks" and you're un-American? Really?
REALLY?
That's just some of what's going on. There's a growing movement folks to get the money out of our politics and I think we really have to start looking at what kind of government money buys for those that have it, at the expense of those that don't.
The mayor of New York City is a wise man. He's rich. Uber-rich. And he's smart enough not to rock the boat with the protesters. In fact, he predicted that if something didn't change, and soon, from the job creators, there were going to be riots in the streets. That hasn't happened.
Yet.
And I think I have finally figured out the answer. Rich folks: Create the jobs. Bring 'em back from overseas. Start building stuff here again. Pay a little more in taxes, and this all goes away. Y'all have the power to open the factories, buy the raw materials, create the jobs, and put that money you spend on politicians into a huge buy-American campaign. Spend some of that money, job creators!
Start educating yourselves now. Primary season is shortly upon us and it's going to be one of the most critical elections in 2012 that this country has ever had.
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