Well Said

The other day when President Barack Obama spoke at George Washington University about the so called budget plan that republican representative Paul Ryan came up with, it was a breath of fresh air to hear him go after the greedy people that have brought this country to the brink of ruin.
The big banks and multi-national corporations haven't been paying their fair share of taxes like the rest of the American people over the years and Ryan expects the tab for the national debt to be picked up by old people and working people while the wealthiest Americans get a free ride.
Obama called the plan just what it is.
"That's not right," Obama said regarding where the burden would be placed with Ryan's plan.
Well said!
The ultra rich and the mega multi-national corporations need to pay their fair share as well while the real people who pump money into our economy should get a break for a change.
That is what needs to happen in the United States of America.
We live in the 21st century and the old ways of "Reaganomics" are passe'.
Out with the old and in with the new is what should happen if America is to rebound and give everyone a fair shake in life.
This is the 21st century, NOT the late 1800's when the robber barons were ruling with an iron fist and suppressing the American people in much the same manner as terrorist regimes do in other countries.
The people that actually support Ryan's ideology are a joke and need a heavy dose of reality of what the United States of America is all about.
Make the rich people pay their fair share (as Obama said) and tax the multi-national corporations as well and see what happens to the debt.
And that is what the facts are.
If the people on the top don't want to pay their fair share in America, then get the hell out of here.
Good riddance!
Go live over in a foreign land and see how that goes for them.
Pay up is what I say and do your part to help this country of ours prosper once again.
Former judge Oliver Wendell Holmes once was quoted regarding taxes... "Paying taxes are what we do in a civilized society."
Those are the facts.
Make the people who have the moolah pay up as well as the rest of us working folk in this country.
And one more thing... God Bless the unions and the hard working people and God Bless America!

May We Never Forget

It's sad, but a little over a year ago, Massey Energy was in the news because of a coal mining tragedy in West Virginia that killed 29 coal miners.
The Massey Energy Company had over 600 safety violations in less than two years prior to the methane gas explosion that occurred just over a year ago and company president Don Blankenship (pictured upper right) has been given a free pass it seems by our corporate media ever since this story went away.
The BP (Amoco) oil spill happened just a few weeks later and DOMINATED the news for weeks and the men killed in the mining accident and Blankenship faded away from the public view.
May we never forget what happened and hope that the EPA and OSHA regulations will ALWAYS remain funded and left in place, despite efforts by Republicans in our U.S. Congress to do away with such funding, to protect America's workers.
May We Never Forget!

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's Budget Plan: Take A Good Look

It's Okay To Get Angry

Let's Make A Deal

They did it!
For now anyway.
The Republican and Democratic parties came together in the United States Congress and hammered out an eleventh hour deal to keep the federal government afloat for a few more days as they look to the future, thus avoiding a government shutdown for the first time in fifteen years.
Hallelujah and Amen!
But... stay tuned, there is more squabbling to follow.

Friday Night Funk

The Tea Party Will Be The Death Of America

If the tea party has it's collective way, the United States will be six foot under and pushing up daises as the uber rich get everything and the corporations (deemed as persons by our insane Supreme Court of the United States) continue to be tax free.
Screw the rest of us Americans living here.
The tea party is made up of nothing more than simpletons who do not know any better and simply parrot right wing political talking points and do the bidding of the huge corporations that have slow but sure, taken over our country.
As a real American, I want my country back from these thieves.
Yes- thieves!
That is precisely what all of this crap is and continues to be with the corporate controlled media shilling for their masters by constantly giving these idiots exposure on the nightly newscasts. And by the way, add Donald Trump to the list of useless idiots as well with all of his inane babbling about the 'birther' conspiracy theory.
The tea party is formed by and controlled by lobbyists such as Dick Armey (Freedom Works) and the infamous bastards known as the Koch brothers, who inherited their wealth and run Koch Industries.
Why do we suddenly see all these goofy Republican governors and legislatures in various states across the USA coming up with radical right wing legislation that seeks to strip rights from the American people all in the name of "freedom?"
Freedom my ass!
These morons want nothing to do with freedom as we know it in this country.
They (tea party) talk about freedom and big government over reaching and intruding into people's lives.
HAH!
Look at what they are doing... take a real good and HONEST look at what it is these clowns masquerading as "tea party" politicians are doing.
They want to control everything.
For example, Michigan's REPUBLICAN governor wants to be able to have the power to declare "financial martial law" and fire mayors of towns all across the state as well as town boards and committees (that were elected by the American people by the way) and replace them with corporate type executive "financial experts" as the would be dictators for said communities.
What in the world is going on here?
Are we living in a Banana Republic? Or worse, Nazi Germany in the 1930's?
Who the hell do these clowns think they are anyway?
Banish them to a place far, far away so they may never be heard from again in the political arena.
Of course, nationally, the tea party republicans in D.C. are pushing to shut down the government and make millions of people suffer needlessly, including the men and women of the military because THESE PEOPLE WILL NOT BE PAID BECAUSE OF THE SELFISHNESS OF THE TEA PARTY.
This country we live in and call the United States of America is of the people, by the people and for the people... not the corporate agenda!
These whack jobs don't even know (or probably don't even care to know) that the original tea party in Boston in 1773 was a REVOLT AGAINST CORPORATIONS, NOT THE GOVERNMENT.
The people who dumped the tea over board in the harbor of Boston were protesting the East India Tea Company, the Exxon Mobil of that day.
Take a lesson from history if you consider yourself to be a "patriotic" tea party American and get a clue as to what is really happening.
The people who think they are battling the government are only doing the bidding of their corporate masters and are cutting their own throats from ear to ear and they do not even realize it.
What a pity.
This country of ours deserves better than the mess the tea party is serving up.
America, get out and vote in 2012 and send the tea party over board.