Romney is a Liar and Should Get out of Politics
Romney and his crony religionists and capitalists need to get out of politics and do what they do best: genealogy and a choir.
Archive for October, 2012
Separation of Church and State
Separation of church and state works better than any theocratic government. It is the responsibility of the people to learn to discern and pass ideas of responsibility to their children. Only lazy people who refuse to take responsibility for their own actions (or lack of training their children) would scapegoat a free secular society where everyone can learn to live together and savor the diversity of such a culture.
“Men [and women] never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” — Blaise Pascal.
“Teach your children well.” — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. But recognize that human beings are not perfect.
Church Bishop involved in Politics?
Whatever church bishop told his congregants they would “go to hell, if they vote for President Obama” needs to consider something called a tax-exempt status. Better yet, this person needs to consider how he blasphemes God by attacking “Caesar.” It’s written in the Bible, so it must be true, don’t you know? The bishop might be the one going to hell.
Republicans are Nazi Fascists
Republicans appeal to people who wish to legislate morality. From ages past, it has been proven that legislating morality never works. In the 20th Century, legislating morality by way of alcohol Prohibition did not work. Legislating morality by denying alcohol to kids who give their lives for their country has done very little to eliminate drunk driving. A good public transit system does a better job, but the same narrow-focused people who wish to legislate morality also have fantasy heroes of Taggart and Galt and others, so they legislate against good public transportation – which could be used to send the drunk home after a night of drinking. Public transit would be a positive solution AND, at the same time, could provide more free market capitalist competition to the auto and energy industries.
Positive solutions to end the negativity spewing from the mouths of Rush Limbaugh and others, but such solutions get buried by loudmouths who shut down good positive solutions. The putrid fish which comes from the mouths of some of these people stink very badly.
There is NOT one way to define a family. Only Nazi fascists and platforms in such a political party would endorse such one-sided ideas. One way = fascism. The Roman Empire was a fascist militaristic one. That is what the Republicans wish to model our government.
Republicans are fascists endorsing a centralized oligarchy of business which destroys small businesses much more than the perceived threats of ObamaCare. ONLY PERCEIVED threats, not proven.
Those who MIGHT stumble across my words of positive wisdom on this website because they are LOOKING for a fight, probably lack humility and would refuse to consider these words. Their stubborn ignorance will ultimately destroy America – as they scapegoat the wrong people. No one will know the difference, don’t you know?
Republicans do not Represent Success, but Represent Swindlers
The advertisement last night (10.23.12) on CNN really bothers me. Some guy claims Republicans represent “success.” The implication is that Democrats represent “failure?” May this guy go to hell in his negativity.
Once there were advertisements from an investment firm which spoke about investing the old-fashioned way: “we earn it.”
Republicans do not know how to earn money. They might be present, but I have yet to meet a Boomer Democrat who has refused to pay back his/her student loan. They have all been Republicans. That is called swindling the people who have given the money.
There are claims the Republican who thinks he is the legitimate governor of Florida swindled Medicare. He pleaded the fifth so we will never know the truth, will we?
It is Republicans who encourage people to do something wrong, as long as you get away with it. Never heard a Democrat encouraging people to take such actions.
It is Republicans who bite the hand that feeds them. They gain money from government grants, become successful, then turn around and deny the same to others.
Republicans do not EARN their money, they take it from others. CEOs, primarily Republican, are lazy. They make so much money by taking from others. The CEO / lowest worker salary gap is about 70 times what it was in the 1970s when “we the people” were a happier bunch in this nation. CEOs take money from those who make their corporations hum along. They STEAL the money. They are swindlers.
Men and women work hard to raise families, working from paycheck to paycheck. When such people finally get to the point of finding more discretionary income on hand (it’s called profits and it’s a good thing), why the lazy CEOs wish to take that away from them – and pocket the money in the pockets of lazy executives. Their corporate entities make excessive profits while denying the people who TRULY fuel the economy the right to make a profit – these lazy people deny “we the people” to attain more of the piece of the American pie. The money from excessive corporate profits is funneled into lazy men and women’s pockets – at the top of the corporation, as it does to the top of some churches, too.
This is called crony capitalism and monopolistic capitalism, not free market capitalism. Crony capitalism is designed to destroy competition rather than compete on a level playing field. And one of the competitors these lazy CEOs wish to destroy are the very workers who SHOULD NOT be their competitors, but all should be working together as a team – and rewarded together as a TEAM. I am talking about the CEO attitude today that workers are nothing but slaves to do their bidding, rather than continue the great American way of negotiating equally on a level playing field.
This stuff of CEOs today is a negative approach to life. “We the people…” want a positive approach to life which recognizes what a very wealthy man once said: “Wealth is not created by individuals, but by society.” (Andrew Carnegie).
So, CNN, don’t put that advertisement about some guy find only Republicans as representative of success. Oh, but now I am being negative and calling for censorship. But is that not what the Nazi fascist Republicans wish to do? Silly me for being so confrontational to such negativity. I am SOOOOOO negative, don’t you know? What was the words used by Lee Iacocca to describe some of the crap from greedy Boomers who don’t lead very well in this nation today? Dare I say it?
Income or Profit?
Wealthy Republicans divide the Middle Class. They withhold jobs and opportunities, then stir up the mud of jealousy due to income of everyone except career politicians, and accountants hired by the wealthy to cook the books – in order to sabotage good positive events and things in our lives.
Big corporations have been given a lease on life as “equals” to individuals, while individuals are restricted in their political contributions.
In all this envy and jealousy directed at people who work hard and struggle to make it in life – the ones who never make the “big bucks” of putrid-face angry radio commentators, but one would think so when listening to the lies – there exists a double standard. Consider this. Those big corporations are never measured by their INCOME, but by their PROFITS. In the tiny little family budget of people who struggle and work hard, there is seldom a chance to have “discretionary income” – otherwise known as “profits.” Yet, hard-working laboring people are compared with regard to income. And if we make too much, when compared to others in the Middle Class – even if no where close to the astronomical salaries and bonuses of the guys who head these bib corporations – we are condemned. We don’t make the six-, seven-, eight-, nine, or ten- (or more) figure salaries. But we are considered bad people as we gain value over many years of work. When we finally get to the point of “turning a profit” – lingo used by the greedy pigs of business – we are told we are no longer needed. Imagine a corporation being told, once turning a profit, they could no longer be successful.
Yet, listen to the stupidity of an advertisement on CNN tonight (10.23.12). This guy is voting for Republicans because they exemplify “success.” Look around you, you dumb jerk in the Middle Class (who also shoots himself and others in our class in the foot by voting Republican), and observe the truly smart-working, hard-working employees. They are not Republicans who lazily sit at the top of many corporations.
Here I am. A successful gay man who works in education – whom Romney, Ryan, Scott, and others wish to destroy, using greedy Republicans and horrible right-wing religious jerks. All these years, I have paid off my student loans to the state of NY, worked extra jobs in order to feed a family, and usually had little in the form of discretionary income – the stuff left over after expenses which rip me dry from business entrepreneurs (not governments) in energy (gasoline) and insurance, among others.
I have faithfully paid my expenses, including a huge amount into insurance which very often never gets returned to me in the form of claims. I have NEVER been paid a claim on homeowners’ insurance, but figure out how much I have paid into that black hole all these years. But I could be age-discriminated against when it comes to MY income, but Rick Scott and others never do one thing to control the income of big insurance, as these companies make excessive profits.
Which is it? Which is most important? Income or profits? And why does the little guy who finally gets to the point of turning a profit never respected as much as an inanimate thing called a … CORPORATION.
Yes, those of us from Main Street USA – the peons of America – we the people… are “economic units,” not human beings. As with the business man who tosses away low quality blueberries when making his ice cream, we get tossed away. “Economic units,” as described by a character who admired Maggie Thatcher in a Britcom called Waiting For God (Harvey Bains… name sound familiar?), … yes! that’s what we are!
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Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand, and Socialism
As portrayed in the fantasy world of a fictional character named John Galt (and others – “where is John Galt?”), public transportation is a communist and socialist plot to destroy the world. Republicans like Paul Ryan take this “socialist plot” seriously. Same with Sid Dinnerstein in Palm Beach County, as he derides any attempt to improve public transit systems. And Rick Scott who turned back money from the stimulus package to build a high-speed rail system.
I see this issue of public transit in a different light. I see public transit as a healthy competitive force in the transportation and energy industries, competing against corporate monopolies. There are some metropolitan areas which are able to break even and sometimes make a profit on public transit.
If it is run correctly, public, or mass, transit is as capitalist as Mom, apple pie and baseball are American ideals.
After World War II, a Republican general named Douglas MacArthur became Supreme Commander of Japan. We TRAINED the Japanese and changed their culture from one of an ancient feudal landlord system to a modern-day economic giant. The Japanese auto industry came here and ate our lunches. But all the same, the Japanese HAVE invested in high-speed rail. Detractors would look for the negative in those investments, but consider how well that society and culture has competed in the world markets?
Republicans who worship Ayn Rand would turn back the clocks to the days of the feudal landlords, rather than moving America forward. Paul Ryan would do the same. Yet it was a REPUBLICAN – Gen. Douglas MacArthur – who molded the Japanese nation into the competitive force it has become. Due to his effective leadership in Japan, this has enabled that nation to think in long-term strategic investment strategies and have been very successful. In contrast, powerful Americans stupidly embrace short-term investment more aggressively than ever before. “Me first and I want it now” is the evil words in America today, contrary to what truly works.
Only President Obama has provided a long-term vision for America, through investments in industries which can help us become energy independent, including public transit systems, which use less energy.
Despite the fantasy world created by Ayn Rand, there are also side benefits to public transportation. One of those is the ability to solve our drunk driving problems and reduce the punitive nature proposed by iron-fisted law and order jerks. In nations where public transit is more prevalent, a person who drinks too much is not allowed to get behind the wheel of a car, but has an option to take public transportation instead. Long-term, perhaps this can be a more efficient solution, too. But of course, silly me – American wealthy ones refuse to think in terms of long-term efficiencies, don’t you know?
Paul Ryan may flip-flop and say what people want him to say. But in the end, he does wish to invoke policies based on the greed of Ayn Rand, reducing programs like Medicare, Social Security, and public transportation, despite the case some of us can make that these systems CAN better stimulate a capitalist free market – competing with the big corporate monopolies. That is the hidden agenda – the big corporate monopolies which act like a Soviet politburo, but pretend they are not by pointing false fingers at those who wish to invoke free market capitalism.
I would argue that the former Soviet Union was a form of crony capitalism. But Paul Ryan and other Ayn Rand worshipers are so caught up in the Atlas Shrugged fantasy world that they miss this point.
President Obama has a better sense of what it takes to get this nation running again. But he needs our cooperation, not a knife in the back by people who are suckered into the negativity of Fox Noise and other Media outlets – and refuse to consider there might just be a positive side which is not being fully presented.
Go ahead. Attack what I say. Stubbornly ignorant ones intent on holding on to what they believe will ALWAYS find something wrong with any solution which does not quite fit into their narrow line of vision.
“Seek wisdom, not certainty.” — Diana Butler Bass.
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