This will never happen...RIGHT??

I'm reading this for the first time, am I shocked?? Kinda, but it just sickens me and makes me want to fight harder than ever to rid our government of the evil that is trying to ruin our country!

Mar 31, 2011

Republican Leader Eric Cantor Says He Opposes Keeping Social Security Around

In an incredibly revealing moment that exposed the radical House Republican agenda, Republican Leader Eric Cantor (VA-07) said that “we have to come to grips” with the fact that Social Security “cannot exist” any longer. House Republicans have begun pushing forward on budget proposals that include privatization of Social Security on Wall Street and cuts to benefits for senior citizens. Recently, House Speaker John Boehner called for cuts to benefits.
 

• Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor Opposes Continuing Social Security: “We're going to have to come to grips with the fact that these programs cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be.” [NPR, 3/29/11]

• Republican Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and House Speaker John Boehner have made clear they intend to push forward a plan that privatizes Social Security and dismantles Medicare. [AP, 3/11/11; Wall Street Journal, 3/4/11]

• Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Paul Ryan’s roadmap and the plan to privatize Social Security and dismantle Medicare is “something we need to embrace.” [The Hill, 1/23/11]

Do you take this talk seriously? Do you believe if we had a Republican controlled Congress and White House that this shit would not come to light? They want to fundamentally CHANGE this country! The righties will say oh come on, this won't happen, well , we never thought the GOP would come back so soon after Bush did we??  If you liberals don't start paying attention and get every single person you know registered to vote and to the voting booth, we are fucked.....

Rand Paul lies to Fox viewers..

Teabagger Rand Paul is a M Effin liar.



On March 1, the United States Senate passed - by unanimous consent, no less, so that would include Sen. Rand Paul - Senate Resolution 85 which, among other things:

... urges the United Nations Security Council to take such further action as may be necessary to protect civilians in Libya from attack, including the possible imposition of a no-fly zone over Libyan territory...

 Fox Noise watchers get NO factual news. It's where all Republicans can go to lie to the people and get away with it. Until WE highlight them, that is...

The teabagger minority wants to shut down OUR government

Republicans are threatening a shutdown of the government on April 8th unless Democrats cave to their demands....
Pressure is coming from teabagger republiscums, they want MUCH BIGGER cuts than has been considered by moderate Republicans and Democrats, but this minority of teabaggers refuse to compromise. WELL, then let this minority of  GOP baggers go ahead with their plans of a shutdown. Should be interesting to see how the country retaliates!

It's scary actually when a minority can threaten our leaders, forcefully shove their agenda down the throats of our Congressmen and women and the American people. These teabaggers are a MINORITY, so why are they getting away with these threats?

This talk of less spending and smaller government is coming from a group who knows not what they are talking about, yet demand the country listen. This group of teabagger rightwingers are focusing their anger on the wrong people. They are indeed conservative republicans, even if they deny it, they are indeed blaming our countries debt on the evil liberals. When in fact it is the Republican Party, who 30 yrs ago convinced Americans tax cuts would be a good thing and they could have these tax cuts without losing any services they have come to expect in this great nation.  So because of Republican policies our public debt jumped from $997 billion when Reagan took office to over 14 times that number today. Without those tax cuts we could be enjoying a thriving economy today. In 2008 we ranked 26th out of the 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in terms of our total tax burden, coming in almost 9 percentage points below the average of the group of wealthy nations.

NEW POLL OUT... 71% of teabaggers think President Obama is destroying the USA, while just 6% of non-teabagger Republicans think Obama is destroying America...

here are a few facts about our national debt...

We've always been in debt, the last time the public debt decreased was in the mid-1950s, so every year since we've hit a “record high” debt in dollar terms. But a better measure is how much debt we have in relation to our economic output, and that number peaked at around 120 percent of GDP during World War II. So why now are these teabagger patriots furious about our spending and debt?? We know, we know...

The Right fearmongers about China and our debt. The Chinese are not our bankers.  The reality is that, as of last year, China held 9.5 percent of our outstanding debt. The largest lender to the U.S. government is the people of the United States – we own 42.1 percent of the national debt in the form of Treasury bills held in our pension funds, 401(K)s, etc.

And 4.6 trillion – about a third – is held by the government itself. Almost 18 percent of the T-bills outstanding are sitting in the Social Security trust fund, earning interest and making the retirement program incredibly secure despite all the claims to the contrary.

We know Republicans leave more debt than Democrats. Between 1960 and 2010, federal spending as a share of the economy has bounced around within a fairly narrow range of between 17.7 percent (under Eisenhower) and 21.8 percent (during the first George Bush's term in office). Republicans are just as happy to spend, but they run on tax cuts, and the result is that since the middle of the last century, contrary to the “tax-and-spend” label, it's been Democrats who are far more conservative when it comes to keeping deficits under control than their Republican counterparts.

 When the Republicans talk about our national debt they always blame "entitlements" like Social Security (which hasn't added a penny to the national debt).When in fact much of our national debt payments are from past military spending.  Economist Robert Higgs calculated it like this:

I added up all past deficits (minus surpluses) since 1916 (when the debt was nearly zero), prorated according to each year's ratio of narrowly defined national security spending--military, veterans, and international affairs--to total federal spending, expressing everything in dollars of constant purchasing power. This sum is equal to 91.2 percent of the value of the national debt held by the public at the end of 2006. Therefore, I attribute that same percentage of the government's net interest outlays in that year to past debt-financed defense spending.

In 2007, when Higgs did that analysis, he came up with a figure of $206.7 billion just in interest payments on our past military adventures.

The Religious Right, the teabaggers, the Uber Conservative Republicans, are all fearmongering about our debt problem. They believe they can win elections by claiming to be fiscal conservatives, but what we are seeing out of Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio etc.  is these teabagger politicians are overstepping with the spending cuts that are harming the middle class and the poor among us. The country is not falling for the lies and deceptions, we are not afraid of their threats to shut down the government, we won't fall lockstep with this minority who are trying to take our country back to the middle ages. They are fearmongers, they don't speak for the MAJORITY of Americans.

Palin in India, for WHAT???

I stole this youtube clip of Sarah Palin from Immoral Minority. Gryphen said it best, "I am amazed that this young woman continues to smile thorough this train wreck of an interview, and does not once turn to the camera to mouth the words, "What the fuck?"  In my opinion that shows almost super human restraint on her part."

You got that right Gryphen! Palin interviews worse than an 8 yr old! She can't answer a simple question asked of her like what sights have you seen in India? And Linda would vote Palin over Obama?? This shows the mentality of our wingnut citizens.  Linda, do you cringe when you watch that woman?



"However", Gryphen said, "Palin actually avoided the Indian people like the plague, or like they HAD the plague. Remember, " Sources confirmed that the Palins had no direct interaction even with room service and that for two whole days (the entire duration of her visit) Sarah Palin confined herself to her room." Clearly Palin was only in India for a paycheck, and hoped to have to interact with as few brown people as possible while she was tossing her word salad."

Palin/Bachmann 2012..... How much fun is this gonna be!!

Donald Trump wants to be OUR next President! LOL

If you are a member of the Republican Party, are you embarrassed yet? Are you humiliated, disgusted, down right MAD as hell and you're not gonna take it anymore??

 Donald Trump is gonna take a stab at the presidency, he thinks he can win the GOP nomination, And he thinks he can beat Barack Obama! He said this on the highly informative, non-biased "news" and entertainment show Fox and Friends (ugh, I hated typing those words!!)"

"I think I probably have more experience of anybody [in the GOP field] — whether I sell them real estate for tremendous amounts of money. I mean, I’ve dealt with everybody. And by the way, I can tell you something else. I dealt with Gaddafi. I rented him a piece of land. He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn’t let him use the land. That’s what we should be doing. I don’t want to use the word ‘screwed’, but I screwed him. That’s what we should be doing."

PLUS.. he's going all out to secure the looney tunes base of the rethug party by claiming to be a BIRTHER!! He is "just not convinced Obama's birth certificate is legit, he is not convinced Barack Obama was born in Hawaii"!  This supposedly "smart" man is saying President Obama and the state of Hawaii fabricated Obama's birth certificate, and the Honolulu newspapers fabricated his birth announcement in 1961, in order to help elect Obama by fraudulent means 47 years later!
Eeeegads, how embarrassing is THAT??

Now Michele Bachmann has decided she will form an exploratory committee because she's thinking of putting her name in the hat for Prez. of the USA. Accomplishments please Michele?? Got any?? I mean besides forming a teabagger caucus and studying the Constitution and American History 101 (LOL!). Yikes, super embarrassing for sane moderate republicans....

Actually I believe Bachmann is trying to fill Sahara Palin's red patent leather high heels. Palin has been kinda quiet lately, 'course she has been on a whirlwind trip around the globe. Hmmmm, maybe she is running and needs to bone up on her world leaders.

Seriously people, the list of potential GOP candidates for POTUS is the worst I have seen in all my years of voting. If liberals are asking what the hell happened to the republican party, you gotta believe the common folk righties are asking the same thing.

Trump??? Bachmann??? Paw...Paw...Lenty???   ick..... Christie, Huckabee.....Jindal...Gingrich...Cain...

Who will care about our dying citizens

When asked, "what are we doing in Libya?", most commentators will say we are trying to save the Libyan people from slaughter at the hands of dicktator Muammar Qaddafi,  OKAY, that's good, Americans should be proud right? Yes dicktators do slaughter their own people and it's open for all to see, they don't hide it or pretend it's not happening. Well what about us, what about Americans who die by the thousands at the hands of our countries leaders, not by gunshot or missile fire, but by legislation and laws that are passed without regard for human life.

Our lack of good affordable health insurance for ALL Americans results in thousands dying every year. Leaders will say nobody is turned away, they can get care in the emergency room of your local hospital. Sure that's fine if you have the flu, or a sprained ankle, but what about those with cancer who need chemo and surgery? What about those who need a kidney transplant or open heart surgery? Yes we have death panels but not the ones Palin and Angle were talking about. Thousands will die for lack of preventative care. Thousands will die because states are claiming they can't AFFORD to keep citizens alive.

When you have government defunding organizations like Planned Parenthood it takes away health screenings for low income women and children. Thousands will die without the care they get from such organizations.

When you have government stripping away laws that protect our water and air and food chain from pollution, the results are environmental health issues like cancer clusters, and childhood cancers.  Thousands do die from lack of environmental protections.

Besides the thousands who die for health reasons, there are the innocent citizens who die for lack of gun control laws. We are the only nation on earth where guns are in almost every citizens homes. What is our obsession with guns? Gun shows, gun shops, guns on the web, guns on the streets, guns that shoot 31 rounds, machine guns... gun lovers say guns don't kill, people kill. Yea, that makes it ok. Americans murder Americans, and I for one think this can be controlled if our gun laws were adequate.

Without your health you have nothing. The homeless, the uninsured, the ignored veterans and mentally ill sleeping on the street, the poverty stricken poor, the babies, the elderly, thousands are dying every day. Our government needs to pay attention to us, WE should be top priority.

Who wants to defend the rich?? Anyone?? I can't hear you......

I don't believe I had one conservative come and defend the evil-doings of Rick Snyder in my last post. Proof they can not come to the defense of these teabagger governors and their agendas to eliminate the middle class. If they could defend the acts wouldn't you think they'd want to share? We're open to hearing from them. For the record my brother did comment on FB, his defense of Snyder was "the state is bankrupt and Snyder is trying to fix it". OKAY nuff said...

First was Walker, then Snyder, now we have 12 states that have plans to shift the tax burden onto the middle class while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy. In 3 states conservatives are proposing massive estate tax cuts for millionaires as income equality is at its worse since the 1920's. Here are the details as documented by Think Progress:

MAINE: Tea Party Gov. Paul LePage’s (I) tax reform package would raise the state’s estate tax exemption from $1 million to $2 million — allowing four hundred of the state’s wealthiest estates to escape taxation. At the same time, the tax plan would raise property taxes on middle class Mainers while freezing health care funding for working parents, cutting money for schools, and raising the retirement age for public workers. Republican legislators want to go even further, and are currently considering eliminating the estate tax altogether. 

OHIO: In January, House Speaker William Batchelder (R) called Gov. John Kasich’s (R) proposal to completely eliminate the estate tax one of the Republican-controlled legislature’s “top priorities.” But already, the bill has garnered strong opposition from local governments, who depend on estate tax revenue and are already concerned state spending cuts. Even while finding room for estate tax reductions, Kasich’s proposed budget cuts 25 percent of funding for local schools, $427 million for nursing homes, $1 million for food banks, $12 million from children’s hospitals, and $15.9 million from an adoption program for children with special needs.

NEW JERSEY: In his 2011 budget proposal, Gov. Chris Christie called for raising the state’s estate tax exemption from $675,000 to $1 million even while proposing cuts to the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit and homestead rebates for working poor families. And last year Christie vetoed a bill passed by the Legislature that would have raised taxes on the state’s millionaires to help fund property tax relief for Main Street.
Last December, the federal government set the precedent for estate tax cuts when the bi-partisan tax deal signed by President Obama cut the estate tax rate to its second lowest level since 1931.


 Nothing makes my blood boil more than to read this crap. These conservatives (I will hold my tongue) don't even try to hide their evil plans any more, they are wide open for all of us to read about and enjoy. How can anyone defend these teabagger governors? They are arrogantly throwing into the faces of working middle class citizens, telling them they need to do more to save the states from bankruptcy! What are people like Linda and silverfish thinking when they(I'm assuming they are middle class, but maybe not, maybe they are a part of the elite class) have to pay more in taxes while their governors are handing the fat cat rich fuckers more and more loot to line the pockets of their silk smoking jackets.

I want someone to prove to us little folks this giving of more and more to the rich will one day benefit us. It's been over 2 yrs and we are still hearing the same old worn out "we're just not convinced yet, .... we're just not comfortable investing in America, .....Obama hasn't shown us the economy is improving enough for us to get up off our billions and help out a wee bit"  Baaaa Boooo Hooo!  Oh cry me a river you sick bastards who hate our country.....

You don't have to point out the part where Obama signed the tax deal which cut estate tax rate to it's second  lowest level since 1931. I have typed it twice, I know and I'm not happy about it. I can criticize my president when he deserves it, can conservatives criticize their party when their elected put forth legislation that hurts the majority of Americans? No, I never hear it, never...