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The election is tomorrow and I have been negligent in getting in here and talking about the issues so will try to do a few points in one blog this morning. I am very concerned about this election for several reasons , primarily because half the candidates in this years election seem to want to throw science and knowledge about the world out the window and go back to something akin to burning witches at the stake and the days when we thought the earth was flat. It is a shift in the Republican Party that is disturbing and backward thinking. On the other hand the Dem's seem to think government knows better than we do...about everything. So for an independent like me it is very difficult to decide who to toss and who to support. Here are a few things I am thinking about.....
The Tea Party movement in the Republican Party, the idea that life is simple and government should have no part in it is ridiculous and overly simplistic. The proponents are big corporations who are out sourcing jobs to China, India and god knows where else, who are supporting candidates who say we need jobs!!! Hypocritcal??? You bet. The US Chamber of Commerce is putting hundreds of millions in ads supporting these ishort sighted people and also supported legislation to outsource jobs ...so obviously elitist business owners ( the Chamber) with no concern for the jobless rate. Great!! Sharon Engle, Tea Party Republican Senate candidate in Neveda, like so many others around the country that share her limited view of the world, says that they know better than we do what to do about the right of a woman to have an abortion...even if it involves a father raping his daughter and getting her pregnant something that happens all to frequently. Yet they want government out of our lives. They have come up with nothing that tells me what they will do other than they are all opposed to Social Security which I guess means if you are not smart enough or make enough money to take care of yourself till retirement ( which they want to change to age 70 by the way) then you should just die and get out of the way. They all hate Obamacare ( I do too in some ways) but have nothing to offer as to how they would help those who are disabled through no fault of their own or sick and can't afford the $400 premiums each monthy ( or more) to carry health insurance. I have been listening carefully and they have no solutions for that...cause everything is simplistic!!! Idiotic!
The Republican leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, a disgraceful old windbag from Kentucky, says his only agenda is to see Obama fail...You never heard a Democrat say that while Bush was in office. Not when it came to the good of the cvountry and survfival for millions of people. Meanwhile he supported spending trillions on wars and cutting services to people here who are sick and poor, while voting to outsource jobs overseas for cheap labor. That is where your jobless rate comes from folks. Quit blaming Obama. This started long before Obama was elected. Lets not even start with the deregulation of Wall Street and the abuse we saw there. They about ran us in a ditch...in fact did.
The on thing I know is that the American people are basically good but very impatient. They do not pay close attention to this stuff because they are busy trying to make a living. Then they hear little sound bites on the news or on the internet and make judgements without a huge amount of thought. They would rather spend time buying worthless shiny cute blings to stick on their page to feed their ego than pay attention to what is really going on. In my opinion, as a moderate independent, if the Republicans take over one or both Houses of Congress in the election tomorrow it will set us back 50 years cause many of the folks who will win just want to get rid of any spending, let people in wheelchairs find their way down the path of life cause it is just "their own fault that they are sick" as Ran Paul, Tea Party Repub Senate candidate in Kentuckyt put it. Certainly we need to be cautious in our spending but we sure don't need to kick old people and sick folks. They never talk about the bail out of GM that saved many jobs in this country and the loans which are PAID OFF...l Not my words folks..on the record with the government accounting office. Of course bail outs are a big thing this year and those opposed to the present President cause he is a Muslim terrorist and doesn't look like he came from a white affluent neighborhood. Idiots....
I am not a fan of the Democrats....but I do know it has nothing to do with the President. It has to do with their policies in some cases. The health care bill should have been more carefully constructed but the reason it was not was because the REPUBLICANS kept throwing road blocks in it because of their big corporate donors. Same with many Democrats. I do know it took 8 years of deregulation under Republicans to get in this mess we are in ...actually it started under Bill Clinton as our economy shifted from manufacturing to information and jobs began leaving for China etc...and to expect someone to solve this in two years is ridiculous. And stupid. I am willing to wait another couple years and see how things go....but I know I do not like people who have no care for the poor who shine their shoes and clean their houses and want to lower the minimum wage...which is what Republicans want to do...and then cut Social Security. Guess it is better to die and get out of the way right Rann??
More later...either way make sure you vote tomorrow ...and think before you do it please....
