Well...for me I am pretty pissed. I know it is the holiday season and joy and all that crap is going on...however I just need to put my frustrations out there. Here is where I am coming from.
I think the Bush years took us so far backwards that we as a nation have battered spouse syndrome. So...now when anything positive comes out of the government we act as if it is a great win. I don't see it that way.
I will give you that Obama/Pelosi have accomplished a good amount of stuff given the political environment being so polluted. However...the health care bill...not even a half measure compared to what the nation needs. The Don't Ask Don't Tell....OK...call it a victory...I call it the way it should of been the entire time. The Tax bill...compromise, compromise, compromise. Why? When the Republicans gain power it is not like they are suddenly going to find a soul and do the right thing just because it is the right thing to do.
The Republicans are going to investigate everything they can on Obama. They will continue to tie up legislation that is crucial to forward progress. They will push through horrible legislation that the democrats will probably cave on and in that great world of compromise we will end up with half measures at best to address our country's needs.
I hope I am wrong. I hope something good comes out of the next congress...but as you can see I am not planning on it. I am so tired of stupid, tea bag idiots, and crazy candidates getting so much media coverage and the opinions, ideas, and protests of the Majority of Americans are ignored.
How many people where killed in Afghanistan last week? You have to go to a foreign news source to find out. Same with Iraq, additionally....where is the outrage, why are Americans so willing to sit on their ass and let this ridiculous policy continue. How about Daniel Elsberg's and a veterans lead protest at the White House last week against the war was nowhere to be found...even though dozens where arrested and hundreds of veterans protested.
I don't understand how people can just go about their business of a repetitious day after day without so much as contacting their congress person, senator...representative about the outrage about our country spending all our money on war and killing while telling us as a country we have no money for basic services for the USA.
I am worried that in today's world organizing protests and putting on protests are almost impossible. The ones I attend have at maximum a couple hundred people...where is everyone else?
I think they are all working their second job, because they can no longer live on the salary of one job. So busy just trying to keep up they don't even have time to slow down to understand the big picture.
Capitalism has devoured our manufacturing base, shipped everything they can over seas. So...this century will be the Asian/Indian century. That's fine...but I am not to excited about our country becoming the place where "cheap labor" can be found in abundance.
There is a shift going on, it's a big one...you can go with the flow...or fight the machine....I choose to fight.
Jezabel
Monday, December 20, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Tax Compromise
Well folks, first let me apologize for posting this from my phone from the karaoke bar on Tuesday....but hey...slow night.
I have very mixed feelings about this tax compromise that is working it's way through the labrynth known as the legislature.
In some ways I can see that in today's political environment it may have been the best deal the president could make just before the republicans take over. I am sure it would be much worse after the next congress is sworn in. There are extensions for unemployment benefits and other good things for Dems.
I just can't believe our country is so jacked that extending tax breaks for people who dint need them has got to be part of the deal. How much is enough. How much poverty and suffering do we have to go through before collectively we unite and stop the powers that be.
I was exstacted about Bernie Saunders and his "real" filibuster over it. This is what the democrats should have required the republicans to do for everything the blocked in the senate.
There were over 400 pieces of legislation that passed the house and went to the senate to die. As far as I am concerned Nancy Pelosim has been the most effective speaker in the history of congress.
It's just a shame that the republicans only agenda is to see Obama fail even if it means the country and millions of people suffer and die. That is just shameful. However the republicans can not be shamed. They just can't.
So now that we as a society did not do our part and gave the president what he needed which was more democrats not less in our last election, we have to take a long look in the mirror and ask ourselves why we are so he'll bent on self
Destruction.'
I keep coming back tomthe media, the messaging and people just not understanding that elections have consequences.
However I tfeel it is a reflection of how deep the reality of racism and small
Mindeness come together with money, media & fringe groups that hog the news and are given far much credit then they deserve.
I am truly worried about the future of this country. I hope I am wrong...but there seems to be doom and gloom ahead. Although sometimes split governments can produce results. Piece out.
I have very mixed feelings about this tax compromise that is working it's way through the labrynth known as the legislature.
In some ways I can see that in today's political environment it may have been the best deal the president could make just before the republicans take over. I am sure it would be much worse after the next congress is sworn in. There are extensions for unemployment benefits and other good things for Dems.
I just can't believe our country is so jacked that extending tax breaks for people who dint need them has got to be part of the deal. How much is enough. How much poverty and suffering do we have to go through before collectively we unite and stop the powers that be.
I was exstacted about Bernie Saunders and his "real" filibuster over it. This is what the democrats should have required the republicans to do for everything the blocked in the senate.
There were over 400 pieces of legislation that passed the house and went to the senate to die. As far as I am concerned Nancy Pelosim has been the most effective speaker in the history of congress.
It's just a shame that the republicans only agenda is to see Obama fail even if it means the country and millions of people suffer and die. That is just shameful. However the republicans can not be shamed. They just can't.
So now that we as a society did not do our part and gave the president what he needed which was more democrats not less in our last election, we have to take a long look in the mirror and ask ourselves why we are so he'll bent on self
Destruction.'
I keep coming back tomthe media, the messaging and people just not understanding that elections have consequences.
However I tfeel it is a reflection of how deep the reality of racism and small
Mindeness come together with money, media & fringe groups that hog the news and are given far much credit then they deserve.
I am truly worried about the future of this country. I hope I am wrong...but there seems to be doom and gloom ahead. Although sometimes split governments can produce results. Piece out.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Tax policy...I am so confused
So...when I get time, I am going to have to read the text of what all this hub bub about taxes & tax cuts going to this and that. Some folks say it is a kin to making the tax cuts to the rich permanent. Others are saying it was brilliant setting up the conservatives for a Waterloo type moment come 2012. (now you can see why I need to read it).
Of course there is no guarantee that what is on the table is what will be the final version of tax reform. I do know this. There are people in America who are really, really, really suffering. I am sure some more folks will end up homeless simply from the hold up or inaction up to this point.
I also believe that the ultra wealthy were to not receive a tax break of 700 billion, over the next few years. I do know that one could buy a Mercedes SL500 (I think that is the model) which is $83k (could be a different model, but you get the point). The ultra wealthy could also by another one every year for the next ten years. Now really....wouldn't that money be better spent to fix the roads that we all currently drive on and encounter potholes and other obstacles that could take down a hummer,
Well....until I educate myself on this one that is really all I have to say, I don't like to go on and on about stuff I have not vetted first.
So Merry Xmas, to those that got a check from the government ...you have achieved a few more days on this earth with something to eat. That's something.
Jezebel
Of course there is no guarantee that what is on the table is what will be the final version of tax reform. I do know this. There are people in America who are really, really, really suffering. I am sure some more folks will end up homeless simply from the hold up or inaction up to this point.
I also believe that the ultra wealthy were to not receive a tax break of 700 billion, over the next few years. I do know that one could buy a Mercedes SL500 (I think that is the model) which is $83k (could be a different model, but you get the point). The ultra wealthy could also by another one every year for the next ten years. Now really....wouldn't that money be better spent to fix the roads that we all currently drive on and encounter potholes and other obstacles that could take down a hummer,
Well....until I educate myself on this one that is really all I have to say, I don't like to go on and on about stuff I have not vetted first.
So Merry Xmas, to those that got a check from the government ...you have achieved a few more days on this earth with something to eat. That's something.
Jezebel
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