If you thought the real final straw was the second stolen election in 2004 where an estimated2-4 million votes were stolen, you were wrong.
If you thought the horrible response on 9/11, the way bush didnt do anything about warnings in the weeks leading up to the attack, sat in a classroom for how many minutes before responding, ended up invading afghanistan, while letting the Saudi's fly back home, was the last straw, wrong again.
If you thought that lying FREAKING LYING to the public about WMD and then bombing the crap out of another country, killing hundreds of thousands of people while spending billions and billions of money was the last straw, sorry!
If you thought pushing through Leave No Child Behind would do it, Nope!
If you thought illegally leaking Vallerie Plane's name...
If you thought illegal torturing.....
If you thought the ridiculous and deadly response to Hurrican Katrina...
The continue failed war in Iraq..
The ignored warning signs of global warning.....
If you thought almost daily for the past 8 years that all the huge mistakes the bush administration has been making, crimes they have been committing, and true issues ignoring, would be enough for EVERYONE to understand....the liberal way.....
providing health care that is affordable for people like me
protecting the polar bears, and environment
small class size with appropriate resources to teach
correct labeling on GMOs
trusting women to know what to do with their own bodies
ending prejudice and bad treatment of all of our lesbian and gay brothers and sisters
getting out of an unjust war
But no. I think we have the one last fuck up of the bush administration, and as scary as it is, as much as I worry for everyone who will be affected, I can't help but smile a little, I told you so smile.
Republicans are notorious for the free market, right? They are all about deregulation. Infact this is what the Mccain/Palin ticket wants to do, privatize our health care...social security.
Hmm that isnt looking like such a great idea lately, is it?
So A (cant write full name) what do you think about this republican proposal, the nearly 1 trillion dollar bailout to the phat cats or the corporate world. Pretty socialist don't ya think. Not so much about scaling down the government is it now?
Maybe continued privatization of our prisons, schools, deregulation of our banking system,deregulation of our health care, and privatizing our social security isn't in the best interest of the average american.
Maybe this is the last straw, the last big fuck up that will allow those with thick blinders on to see that the conservative republican agenda doesn't have your best interests in mind, unless you are filthy rich.
So yes these are my thoughts. So much to chew on and for me this election has become a major line in the sand for me personally.
I just can't wrap my brain around the thought of voting for Mccain. ...and if you truly believe that Mccain is going take this country in the right direction after 8 years of war, a struggling economy....all the while Mccain voting right along side of Bush....then all I can do is shake my head and think, if we do elect mccain, then you and your family will get what you deserve. Unfortunately, the rest of us will suffer as well.
Check this out, like the old Metallica song : SAD BUT TRUE
www.imvotingrepublican.com
2 comments:
One correction. Health care is already privatized, McCain wants to DEREGULATE IT.
Deregulation has been a disaster wherever it has been tried. Remember Enron?
These same greedy fat bastard that rail against the government and say they can do everything better with no government in the way are liars. What they really mean to say is that they want to privatize profits but socialize the risks and losses so that they can have their cake and then eat ours too.
They are the first ones in line at the government trough when things go bad. There was a reason that we busted up all the monopolies like Standard Oil back at the turn of the century, because when a company like AIG gets too big that its failure alone could sink the entire country, that is a problem.
Time is far past to governing for the benefit of the people, not the corporations. Ain't gonna happen in my lifetime, but perhaps another Great Depression will give us to wits and political will to actually do something. It gave us the New Deal, right?
All I can hope for is that Obama is another Roosevelt and will have the courage to stand up and tell the truth and get some real things accomplished. Doubt it, but we'll see.
I fear that we will just continue to bail out these industries as they fail one by one and never fix the underlying philosophies and problems. It is utter fact that deregulation and the whole conservative "free market" approach to governance and the economy is a total fucked up failure. Trillion dollar band aid after trillion dollar band aid is going to do nothing but destroy our country's future.
So next time someone tells you we don't have the resources for schools, universal health care, infrastructure or alternative energy investments you can just look them in the eyes and laugh. When we want to we can come up with all sorts of cash.
We just spend it on all the wrong priorities.
Rant over!
We're home! Hope to see you guys soon. Maybe a Friday happy hour/playdate again?
And I'm with you on all this. I watched part of the debate with my conservative parents and had to walk out a few times. Ugh.
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