Two Years Ago Today

Two years ago today, heftyinfo was launched with the initial blog post "Shut Up", which suggested that former Vice President Dick Cheney simply shut up regarding his lambasting of President Barack Obama.

A lot has happened in the last two years since then...

How about the gestapo-style tactics being utilized by the Republicans in control in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Arizona and many other states throughout our nation?
They just LOVE TO STRIP AWAY FREEDOMS OF THE PEOPLE.
Even here in Illinois, in fact just in the last 24 hours, the Democratic controlled state legislature passed a "Union busting" bill that pretty much strips away the rights of school teachers in Illinois. And that is a damn shame because those people work a profession that educates the youth that will one day be out future.
It's really pretty amazing that the war taking place on middle income and lower income people in this nation by our leaders, who are in the back pockets of the mega corporations that could give a rat's ass about the United States of America, continues to go pretty much unchecked in the media.

Of course, the media is also corporate controlled and thus cannot really report the truth on the story regarding the dismantling of our country.
It's a slow and meticulous process that most people just don't see.
America (the middle class in particular) has been under attack for the past 40 to 50 years by the ultra conservative right wing movement.
In fact, even Lou Dobbs (former conservative CNN news show host), along with Thom Hartmann, wrote a book about the "War on the Middle Class." Hartmann's book was titled "SCREWED: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class."

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz do the most to tell the real story (with actual facts backing them up) of what is going on these days. Hartmann, who is mostly heard on the radio with his syndicated progressive talk show, is also a stickler for detail and facts when reporting a story.
Point is people have to start taking action against the onslaught and this blog site will continue, as we have done for the last two years, to inform people (with strong opinions of course) of the situations surrounding them.
What has happened to this country?
Wouldn't it be good to get back to having good paying jobs for people with real benefits?
That is what built this country and ever since the greed factor of "Reaganomics" kicked in during the 1980's, it's been a slow, but steady downhill slide for most Americans as the corporations have done all they can to line their own pockets, the United States be damned!

What will it take?
For Congress to grow a spine and tell the corporate moguls (Koch Industries, Exxon Mobil, etc.) to get screwed and start making them pay their fair share of taxes. Not taking donations from said corporations would also be a good thing for our country because then they are not under their collective thumbs regarding legislation that eventually becomes law.
The citizens of the United States also MUST GET ACTIVE and not just listen to the right wing corporate shills like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, etc. and TURN OFF FOX "NEWS" CHANNEL.
Here's hoping the people will continue to wake up as some signs have indicated in the recent past. There are a lot of angry citizens (NOT TEA BAGGERS) showing up at town hall meetings letting the GOP (the ruling party in our House of Representatives) know they are NOT happy with the proposal of gutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
In the meantime, we will be watching and blogging.