Category Archives: voters

Obama as a witch doctor…

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…but I’m not racist.  Of course, Faux news is right there to defend this guy in saying there were death threats.  Was anyone arrested?  No?  Then I would question the validity of the person claiming there were death threats.  I mean, really, the guy is trying to play the victim here?  With someone who is in such denial about being a racist, I would question his claim of people threatening his life.
I just don’t see it.

 

Now here is a debate

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DN! has a great segment that actually has a robust debate.  If this had been carried by the radio stations, I just might have stayed up to listen to it.  But with the lackluster “debate” with just Obama and Romney….meh.  The hype surrounding the debate is just that–hype.  Nothing to see here folks, move along.

So…I was glad to see a lively debate with the other two candidates and their raising of issues that the Repubs and Dems would just as soon not bring up–livable wages, for one, and the ceiling on the $100k for Social Security.  Unfortunately, I’m out of time and can’t listen to the whole debate.

Krugman deconstructs Christie and Ryan

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Paul Krugman has this up on Chris Christie…*fiscally conservative* towards the 99%…but a whole ‘nother view towards the one percenters…

….and this on Paul Ryan...

You just can’t make this stuff up:

In March, explaining his cuts in aid for the unfortunate, he declared, “We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into lives of dependency and complacency, that drains them of their will and their incentive to make the most of their lives.”

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…while ignoring that most people who are dependent on not only food stamps but are dependent on disability/social security are there because of a health issue?

So if someone is on disability from a stroke, how is that person a moocher?  Or someone who is on oxygen and cannot work?  I see a building full of people with  health issues…so tell me again how we can get these damn moochers off of welfare/disability and working until they freaking drop?! /snark

I personally got a college degree so I would not be in the situation I’m in now…I got mercury poisoning and had undiagnosed Celiac that caused my health to deteriorate, which had a domino effect on the disaster that is my life.  I drove up and down a two lane highway for three and a half years, through wind and rain and dark of night so I could get my degree.  I studied every night for two to three hours after taking my kids to baseball, softball, ballet, etc., and fixing dinner and whatever else needed to be done…so don’t tell me that I’m lazy or unmotivated.

LG said it best:

  • LG  NYC

I always wondered why people always become “dependent and complacent” and lose “their will and their incentive to make the most of their lives” right after a financial crises…

Romneyville

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Back in the day, when the government actually called a Depression– a Depression — the homeless lived in “Hoovervilles”.  A group in Tampa, Florida has dubbed an encampment “Romneyville”.   A funny “Bad Lip Reading” video on the site.

In all accuracy, though, they should be dubbed “Congressvilles”…because they are the ones responsible for not raising the minimum wage to a livable wage, for not raising taxes on the 1%,  for allowing banks to consolidate, for gutting banking regulations, for passing NAFTA and every other Free Trade agreement…I could go on and on…