President Obama has proposed raising the taxes on Wealthy Americans to help trim the nation's deficit.....Republicans are yelling "Class Warfare"...Oh really? Haven't they been at war with the Middle and Working Class for close to twenty years??
It's good to know that according to an MSNBC poll , 69 percent of Americans don't believe that this is class warfare...or unfair..,.They feel as I do that wealthy Americans have weathered the storm okay and that they will not be hurt by higher taxes at all.
28 percent are delusional folks who believe that President Obama is "attacking well-off Americans in order to spare the rest of the country from budget cuts." I imagine the people saying that are probably wealthy Americans..but it could also be someone who is not wealthy at all, but is following that line of thinking because, well, If President Obama is doing this, it just has to be evil, un american and wrong right? I mean...That's what Rush Limbaugh said right?
Then of course you have the two percent who aren't sure...They are never sure of anything! These people and the 28 percent listed in the last paragraph live in a bubble..I'm convinced...The entire world of facts is floating around them ,but they just can't seem to grasp it!
The truth of the matter is ,He's ending the tax breaks these fat cats no longer deserve. No jobs, no tax breaks. Creating jobs was the deal, According to every Republican since the great communicator, Ronald Reagon.. They broke the contract.
So In the end...Is this class warfare as the Tea Party talking heads are yelling? I think not...It's more like tallying up!
1. Republicans are still telling that twenty year old lie about tax cuts to the filthy rich and huge multi-national corporations creating jobs!
2.A large percentage ofallegedly, reasonably intelligent people still believe this lie.
3. American's memories sure are short....A Republican President and his administration trashed our economy and yet, This party is still getting votes and getting candidates elected!!!!! It's amazing that anybody is listening to a word any of them say...and yet they are!
4.Did you ever think there would come a day when you'd see Cops, Firemen and Teachers getting laid off? Those used to be considered ''Safe" jobs.
5. Nobody's job is "safe"
6.The human race is amazing... We are the only animals (yeah humans are animals, some more than others.) that can consciously pretend to like somebody when we really don't & just go on like life is fine. Now let a lion not like another Lion....I don't have to tell you what will happen next!
7.Ever Notice that the most self absorbed and conceited people always turn out to be those with the least reason to be that way?
8.Ever Notice how Your employer can spend millions of dollars building new hospital wings and buildings and acquiring land to develop more wings and buildings and when it comes time for a raise...give you that old spiel about -"We don't have unlimited funding."
9.How is it that people constantly complain, bitch and moan about Facebook and Twitter and yet still continue to write status updates and tweets on the daily?
10. In case you were wondering....I am not one of those people!
A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.
"House" for instance, is feminine: "la casa."
"Pencil," however, is masculine: "el lapiz."
A student asked, "So What gender is 'computer'?"
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun.
Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation. The men's group decided that "computer" should definitely be of the feminine gender ("la computadora") because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and (drum roll please!)
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
(THIS Of course Gets Better!)
The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine ("el computador") because:
1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on.
2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves.
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time, they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.
Maybe I'm writing about this because I feel bad that President Barack Obama is taking a beating in the polls lately...It is said that his approval rating is at it's lowest and that because of voter reaction to him , the Democrats lost two important races yesterday...One in New York...and another in Nevada...
I'm hearing that only 49 percent of Americans believe that his jobs bill will get passed by congress and even less believe that if it does get passed it will put significant numbers of people back to work!.. It's not easy being a Democrat or Barack Obama this week...
So when I heard about this news story involving Sarah Palin...I decided , it being near the end of the week and all....to write about this...Is it true? The poster girl of the Tea Party and the queen of neo-conservatives everywhere had jungle fever once??
A new biography titled "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin" written by Joe McGinniss, (the crime writer who wrote ''Fatal Vision" back in the 70's about Army Doctor, Jeffrey McDonald, who slaughtered his family Charles Manson style. The Book was a best seller and a movie.) claims that former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin not only had an affair with her husband's business partner, but , drum roll please...also snorted cocaine and had a one-night stand with former NBA star Glen Rice in 1987, a year before marrying her husband.
Apparently Palin had a fling with former Heat/Hornet/Laker Glen Rice while he was in college and while she was a sports reporter in Alaska, all the way back in 1987. He was 20, She was 23. A lot of this can be taken with a grain of salt...The excerpt did appear in the National Enquirer.....Also, a lot of this could also be filed under the "so what?" category too....It all alledgedly occurred years ago...but the Holier than thou crowd ,who just happen to vote Republican and feel that the Tea Party is the way to go had a field day with Former Represenative Anthony Weiner and with Former President Bill Clinton and their indescretions...I just kind of like to give it back to them when it's one of their own.
In the book, which will be published on September 20th,(Next Week)Joe McGinnis claims Sarah had a steamy interracial hookup with basketball stud Glen Rice less than a year before she eloped with her husband Todd. Why are all inter-racial hookups steamy?
Sarah Palin supposedly hooked up with the NBA great, then a 6-foot-8 junior at the University of Michigan when he was playing in a college basketball tournament in Alaska in 1987, the book says. At the time, Sarah, just out of college, was working as a sports reporter for the Anchorage TV station KTUU.
A publishing source told The ENQUIRER that McGinnis claims Sarah had a "fetish" for black men at the time and he quotes a friend as saying Sarah had "hauled (Rice's) ass down."
This is all really funny, but again....You have to take it all with a grain of salt considering the sources...
Republicans believe that if you tell the same lie over and over and over....eventually it becomes the truth! Let's see...They've been telling the lie that if you give the wealthiest two percent of the country and the big corporations tax breaks and tax cuts and in some cases, not even bother about collecting taxes from them at all....They will then have enough money and freedom to create jobs...
This is a lie....Last week, I read that Bank of America is getting ready to cut 40,000 jobs in order to make it more profitable! In most of these cases...These corporations don't create any jobs...At least not in the United States...They pocket the money and create jobs in India, Burma, Mexico, anywhere but here, where they don't have to pay benefits, deal with unions, etc, etc. If you don't believe me...Next time your computer goes on the fritz and you call the help line...Check the accent of the person on the other end of the line....Chances are you'll be talking to someone from Burma or India or Guam....Used to be an American on the other end of the line. Where is the so called American patriotism that the Republicans always talk about in that?
I'm just breaking it down so that the average fifth grade mentality can understand this. I read all of the little racist and snide comments made by mostly white people who read all of the political news stories on MSN.com and I just shake my head...I ask myself...If the President weren't a Black man....Could they possibly look at the facts and see what is happening to them? It gets no plainer than that.
Look Last week President Obama laid out a specific and detailed jobs bill, the American Jobs Act . A proposal that won't add a dime...do you hear me??...not a dime to the national debt and would immediately help the unemployed, the poor and the middle class. This bill is probably doomed because of four key words that will halt even the most modest approval for these damn Republican and Tea Party people.
It asks large corporations and the most wealthy of us to "Pay Your Fair Share"
This is just unheard of....They would rather tell you another lie..Tell you that this is more of the President's "Socialist" jibe....Half of the Tea Party idiots and their supporters can't spell "socialism". Everytime you get one of them isolated on a talk show or a newscast and you ask them why they are supporting rich people getting tax cuts,while many of them are not rich and will be paying the bulk of those taxes, they smile and they get confused and they come up with some asinine slogan or they just bash the President , but they never give you an answer..Never....
When you listen to any of the Republican candidates talk about their solution for job creation and growth, they have none....I didn't watch that debate last week...Like I said...I've read enough fiction for awhile...but they talked about the Death Penalty in Texas (This got the loudest applause.....What has the death penalty in Texas got to do with creating jobs? I'm just asking!) and everything under the sun except job creation....For those who watched this circus, did you come out of this meeting with any new sense of hope? Did you really??
Yet these guys ,Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are actually gaining ground...People are actually listening to these two...Neither one , nor any of the others has said anything to me that gives me any faith in their ability to lead anything!
It comes down to four words, folks....Pay your fair share...Yes...I'm saying it....Forget the Obama boogie man that scares you so much....Tax the rich...tax the wealthy corporations....They can afford it...They are making huge profits......Tax them accordingly and you will reduce your deficit and make the way clear for new jobs... If that is a lie...Well, at least it's a different lie than what the Republicans have been feeding us for a generation!
Two drunken men , Jamal and Kareem were driving home. Jamal started screaming: -" Kareem, watch the road, what are you doing? Watch where you're goin... Oh LAWD JESUS...LOOKOUT!!!!
Baaaaam! Their SUV crashed into a parked car and ran up on the sidewalk. The next day in the hospital Jamal said to Kareem - "You old drunk bastard , I was hollering and screaming for you to watch out, why didn't you?
Kareem answered him: - Hell man, IT WAS YOU DRIVING!!!
There was a debate last night between the perspective Republican candidates for the Presidency of the United States. I started to watch it , but I declined...I've read enough fiction for the time being.
Funny how public taste changes. Today stories were posted on the MSN website that said that President Obama's approval ratings were at an all time low...They posted a poll which asked "Would you vote for President Obama today? Of course, right over this poll is the caption -"President Obama no longer the favorite to win re-election...democratic pollster says." So this poll feels like the old bait and switch carnival trick....or more akin to the Vulcan mind meld.
60 percent voted "No, he's one and done." , Myself and 34 percent voted "Yes..he deserves more time in office." and 6 percent said that they weren't sure. Somewhere George W. Bush is on his ranch laughing. Those were his numbers in 2008 around this time...when his administration and his party was tanking the economy.
I listen to these stupid conservative radio hosts and I read these often mean spirited posts that people write in response to anything about President Obama sometimes... Most of the writers are racists..All of them are cowards who hide behind a keyboard. I read one posting in which the writer said that if a , get this qualified Democrat agreed to run against Obama...He would vote for him.
What he really meant was a whitemale Democrat...But he'd never admit it...(Or maybe he would. His Black co-workers wouldn't have to know..He'd be safely hidden in his anonyminity on his computer in his mother's basement.) You know what's funny...Despite President Obama's low numbers...He is still ahead of ALL of the Republican candidates that are running right now..So what does that tell you? What they also don't mention is that the public is even angrier at Congress now too...Democratic and Republican..
Why is anyone angry? You voted (or did not vote) for every single one of these people and you didn't hold them accountable. The President asked everyone to come out and vote in November, so that he could have a united congress and house that could get things done....but noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
It was raining, you had to get beer, The Housewives of Atlanta was on...Donald Trump was on TV talking about the President's real birth place....You just didn't give a damn about that election.
So now you have a congress that is full of loons from the Tea Party and Republicans that are willing to play with your future to destroy this President...and you're mad..Now you're upset???Why?/ You don't give a damn, you believe everything you're told in a sound bite?You're not going to do research on your own. After all, you don't have the time to do that..You're too busy being unemployed and bitter and racist. You know that goofy Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin have the right answer right? You know that Rush Limbaugh ,Rick Perry,Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney can get us out of this mess right?? Maybe even that black guy that owns the pizza parlor named Herman Cain right. Nah...he's blacker than President Obama.
RIGHT?
Yeah right. Just shut up, drink your beer, watch mindless television and don't worry about it...Isn't that what you always do anyway America? Well dont you??
When President Barack Obama was first elected , I thought he might be the second coming of Franklin Roosevelt. Unless he can jump start the economy within the next year...He may sadly be the second coming of Jimmy Carter...A nice enough guy, but only a one term President.
President Obama said yesterday that congressional Republicans must put their country ahead of their party and vote to create new jobs (Good Luck with that!) as he used a boisterous rally to aim a partisan barb at the opposition.
In a preview of the jobs speech he will deliver on Thursday to Congress,President Obama said there are numerous roads and bridges that need rebuilding in the U.S., and over 1 million unemployed construction workers who are available to build them. President Obama spoke on Labor Day, a holiday that celebrates the American worker and marks the traditional end of summer.
Citing massive federal budget deficits, Republicans have expressed opposition to spending vast new sums on jobs programs. But President Obama said that with widespread suffering, "the time for Washington games is over" and lawmakers must move quickly to create jobs.
We have always known this....The truth of the matter is...Most Republicans know this,but their mission has always been to make this president, a one term president and they will gamble with the future of the nation to do it. They won't admit that, but it is the truth!
"The time for Washington games is over..."But we're not going wait for them," he said. "We're going to see if we've got some straight shooters in Congress. We're going to see if congressional Republicans will put country before party."
The President's remarks came as he has been under heavy criticism from Republicans (The party that wrecked the economy in the first place) for presiding over a persistently weak economy and high unemployment. Last Friday's dismal jobs report showed that employers added no jobs in August, the first time since 1945 that the government reported a net job change of zero. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, held steady at 9.1 percent.
Congress returns from its summer recess this week, with the faltering economy and job market promising to be a dominant theme of the session. The economy is all but certain to also be the top issue of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections.
Throughout the speech, the pro union crowd kept chanting "four more years." The President also said lawmakers should extend the temporary reduction in the payroll tax that workers pay, a cut that will otherwise expire on Jan. 1. Many Republicans have opposed renewing the payroll tax cut, saying it would increase federal red ink and do little to create jobs.
"You say you're the party of tax cuts," President Obama said of the Republicans argument. "Well, then prove you'll fight just as hard for tax cuts for middle class families as you do oil companies and the most affluent Americans. Show us what you've got."
Way to go Mr. President...Keep pounding that message home to your base and to the American public in general...force the republicans and the tea party to explain why they are voting against putting people back to work and giving middle class and working class families a tax break...then we'll see as you say if we have any straight shooters in that bunch or if they are what I think they are...just shootin off their mouths.
