I listened to two would be voters discuss their criteria for their vote for President this year and I had to step in and tell them that there is only one criteria that matters, their jobs. They bandied about over health care, education, civil programs, and the mortgage mess and I ended up explaining to [...]
Obama’s Inflated Health “Savings” — June 16, 2008: Obama says his health care plan will garner large savings - $120 billion a year, or $2,500 per family - with more than half coming from the use of electronic health records. And he says he’ll make that happen in his first term. We find his statements [...]
Is this what humanity has become? Have we lost our minds in the pursuit of the almighty dollar? Doesn’t anyone believe that when they hit the pearly white gates they will have to atone for their deeds? Making deals with Asian countries that force abortion and sterilization, will that be accepted? Will buying oil from [...]
Severe weather is pounding the Midwest and our country as a whole is not doing too much to help the Midwesterners affected by the problem. I don’t see the Army being assigned to help, or the Navy, or even the National Guards of the states affected. American Government is quick to help India, Indonesia, China, [...]
Listening to reports the past week it is becoming increasingly popular to say that the Republicans support big business and tax breaks for the rich while democrats support permanent fixes to the energy problems and putting actual American workers back to work in manufacturing and building industries. It appears that even foreign dignitaries are more [...]
This morning the Democratic Party sent a strong message regarding the type of White House they plan to run come November. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean sent this message to party members:
Dear Friend,
I wanted to drop you a quick note about a major policy change here at the Democratic Party.
As we move toward the [...]
Get this right American voters, you cannot blame all of the politicians for the bad economy when it is greedy so-called American companies who are eliminating your jobs and sending them overseas. We can blame politicians for making tax legislation which makes it easier for companies to do this but we cannot blame them only [...]
Just in case you are wondering, the next President regardless of whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican will have to raise taxes. Why you ask? Because tax losses based on outsourced jobs has caused a lack of revenue for most states so in order to address the shortfalls the country will have to accept [...]
Is Senator Hillary Clinton more like President Bush than John McCain is? Read on and you tell me. Senator Hillary Clinton is battling on in the race for the presidency but is she taking a long shot at a win or shooting long into the wind? The Clinton campaign would have you believe that Clinton [...]
Who runs your life? Is it politicians or big business? Who really controls your living environment? Is it the ones we elect or the ones we work for? And who is destroying the Earth? Is it our failed politicians or the globalization and internationalization of business? Has anyone ever stopped to ask themselves how we [...]
Gas prices are high based on the perceived value of the American dollar and the American dollar is low because of the sluggish American economy. However, if the economy rebounds and the value of the dollar goes up the price of gas also rises because the commodities traders say that a more energetic economy results [...]
Are we liberating a country in Iraq or are we destroying our homeland which is the United States of America? Since the start of the Iraq war we have turned a federal surplus into the largest federal deficit ever, we have turned education into a joke as seen by growing dropout rates which the city [...]
If taxation without representation was not fair then why is representation without taxation not equally as illegal and wrong? Why are my tax dollars going to Iraq and for reconstruction efforts in Iraq all the while my roads are in disrepair, my cost of living is skyrocketing, and the price of a gallon of gas [...]
How low can you go, it used to be a mamba line but not it has become a way of life. Poison toothpaste; lead tainted toys, faulty pipes, and now the Chinese are again being accused of killing Americans. Chinese officials voiced doubts that an impurity identified in a blood thinner called heparin was the [...]
Clean coal is the answer to Americans’ energy issues and if you think any different you may be the exact type of idiot that is leading to the demise of America. We must do all we can to keep energy clean and clean coal is the key to this initiative and the only ones saying [...]
Free Trade for America has a price, its our prosperity and jobs. Let me get this straight, we want to have free trade with Columbia, which is a country who suppresses any unionization and which has an economy which is run in a more communistic fashion than is Soviet Russia or Communist China. Is this [...]
If Corporate America is so concerned with keeping the world environmentally safe then why are they so intent on getting into China who is now the worlds worst polluter? Hypocracy at its finest.
When the starving and poor come looking for money and food who do you think they will look for, not their poor or struggling neighbors, they will hit the heights and upper class suburbs, so if the rich think they are safe from the poor and struggling middle class they better think again. Globalization [...]