Tax cuts for the rich? They pay no taxes already.

It is becoming most apparent that the rich, want to live in America but without paying the rent. Not wanting to pay taxes for services rendered. Sort of Representation without taxation. Wanting something for nothing. A mantra reversed and used against their own customers to justify paying for what expensive items or services they sell to others. “Pay up or get out,” they tell their clients.

Never the less, Facilities and services are going unpaid. Going unrepaired. Going neglected and becoming run down. All because the wealthy and well to do refuse to pay taxes. Paying for facility and services obtained from the federal government. The rich being billed but not paid.

So, the rent is due. It’s time to pay up or move on somewhere else. Meaning leaving the country. Far away from the protection and safety of the military and public safety organizations. You either need to pay the fire and police departments or leave right away. Go get your own security forces. Maybe Halliburton can help you out for a stiff fee.

Otherwise, the rent is due and you need to pay your taxes. Paraphrasing Will Rogers, you can’t live in the United States without paying the rent and upkeep.

So, either join us in this great responsibility or buzz off! Go live in Mexico or Haiti where there is little taxes to be paid and very little government to put up with. And, if you leave your businesses here, we suggest it be sold at a tax auction. Good luck.

Power to the people. And to the manufacturers as well.

Before manufacturers send jobs over to India and China, the companies should check out the power grid. What is the reliability of electricity. Will the power grid work today? Will it work two weeks from now? Will our business have water and power to manufacture our electronic widgets?

Not only that but, will there be enough electricity to power the homes, appliances, traffic control lights, road lighting, phones, trains, airports, seaports, and all the necessary infrastructure needed to run a city of millions? Is India’s power infrastructure dependable? Is it technologically up to date? Can it bare the load placed on it on a daily basis?

Obviously not. It failed yesterday. Failing in a big time way. Over 370-million customers were without electricity. An amount equal t the population of the US and Canada. Shutting down thousands of businesses. Bringing to a halt progress. Showing that India and possibly China has its limits.

All of this ignoring the fact that here in America, we have a more reliable system. A system with some miner weak spots but mostly reliable none the less.

So why risk send manufacturing and its jobs far far away to a system questionable at best.

Electricity. Power made in America. Depend on it. Appreciate it. The United States needs to stop giving huge tax breaks to companies sending jobs to India and China. It’s anti-American. Its investors are anti-American.

Where is the patriotism? Where is the American loyalty? Where is the American spirit of “Can Do?” Let’s just stay here in our neighborhood and get things done. God bless America. India will take care of itself. China couldn’t give a flip.

Global warming may or may not be a hoax. Who really cares.

Let’s Set aside the controversial argument of global warming for the moment. Never the less, wouldn’t it still be better for all inhabitants on Earth to reduce carbon dioxide from the air? Isn’t there still harmful heavy metal properties in CO2 that cause many harmful respiratory conditions? Yes, indeed.

For sure CO2 is bad. Bad for people and their environment. Causing lung cancer, asthma, heart disease, emphysema, and a number of other carcinogenic causing disorders from mercury poisoning.

And this is not to mention harmful and killing effects on plants and animals. Animals that fly. Animals that live in oceans, lakes, and rivers. Most of all plants and animals we humans eat.

Again, forget the global warming effects. Let’s just reduce the carbon dioxide that is released in the air by cars, trucks, planes, trains, and coal fired power plants. Never mind “Cap and Trade.” Just use less carbon fuels. Walk instead of driving to the grocery store. Share rides to work or take a bus. Ride your bike to school. Turn off all the lights in the house or place of business that are not needed. Open the windows instead of turning on the air conditioning. Conserve. Save electricity. Use alternative forms of electrical power. Wind. Solar. Just get CO2 out of the air. Never Global warming. Pretend it doesn’t exist. Just believe carbon dioxide kills. CO2 is real as death.

So, when we get rid of all public school teachers, then what?

It really doesn’t take a University doctorial candidate to understand that Republicans want to get rid of public education. And not only K through twelve but community college level and beyond. They hate teachers and their unions. Unions are often a voting block against unscrupulous Republican policies. But, not always. None the less, Republicans certain hate taxes that goes to public education. So, why not block teachers and their pesky unions?

But anyway, too many kids with high school degrees or above are out on the streets as a result of too much public education. Too many educated kids must certainly create road blocks for Republican legislation and/or Republican public policies.

Educated people often want to block policies like requiring photo ID for older or minority voters. It doesn’t take a genius to know what is going on here. Plus Republican are forever creating policies to shut down public worker unions. America, by the way, was mostly built on public worker unions. Smart voters want to stop Republican Policies. Policies cutting back on police workers, fire fighters, teachers, librarians, public health workers, and the list is endless.

Most of all, Republicans do not want to pay taxes. All the while wanting the middle class to pay for roads, bridges, and any public works projects. “You can’t tax the banking and financial class.” They say they are the job makers. Oh really? Where’s the jobs?

In the mean time it is up to the working class to see this Republican smoke and mirror trick. Tell your congressman no more tax cuts for the rich. Trickle down has never worked. Tax cuts for the rich has yielded very few jobs. “Jobs jobs jobs” is just Republican campaign bloviation and empty promises. Any congressman supporting more tax cuts for the rich are bought and paid for by the high rolling deep pocketed corporate lobbyist. This kind of congressman is not the friend of the poor or the working class. He or she is just a monkey on a string collecting your hard earned cash for the very wealthy and privileged.

Tell your congress guy or gal to increase money for education and public safety workers. Tell them this or you will vote for someone who will support education and your local police and fire department. In the mean time stop listening to radio and TV ads with hate filled ugly talk against honest
people-oriented congressional candidates. Candidates wanting to help the middle class. Vote smart. Know your congressional candidate.

The big time waster.

I’m tired of keeping up a lawn. Mowing, trimming, weeding, and bla bla bla. It’s time to re-think the whole concept of lawns. Re-thinking the expense of upkeep, equipment, and most of all the water needed to sustain a lawn.

Water is becoming more expensive. Water is becoming more scarce. Global warming or not. The fact remains, water is going away fast. And lawns consume millions of gallons each summer.

We should be looking at lawn alternatives. Let’s get creative and include water conservation in our home landscape repertoire. More wood decking or some decorative rock, sand, or pebblized concrete.

The so-called lawn in front of our house is just a collecting field of acorns and prickly sweet gumballs. An endless semiannual laborious raking and bagging exercise. An effort producing very little result. We re-seed it year after year gaining nothing in return. In the meantime wasting thousands of gallons of precious water and all for naught. Water which could be used for drinking or agriculture.

But anyway, some enterprising landscaper should develop the waterless front and back yard. I would almost be happy with a nice spread of flat concrete so I could easily hose off the front yard tree droppings into the gutter. Making it easy to broom and shovel up into a lovely 96-gallon trash dumpster. I know my wife would love it, maybe.

This might be a good reason to write down what you had said.

I am just totally surprised. Surprised a so-called religious man allows himself to prevaricate in the name of truth and justice. Lying is what they call it. Covering up misdeeds. Twisting lie in to make believe truth. Actually untruth.

And in this case lying regardless of what he had represented before. Speaking out of both sides of his mouth. Telling one group one thing and telling another, the opposite. A proverbial Deckle and Hyde. Just saying what is convenient at the time. Almost forgetting what he had said previous. “I’m not sure what I said but I mean what I had said. So I stick with I didn’t remember I said before. Whatever I said.” Thus had said Mit Romney. And not too long ago.

Proving one thing he is not a very good liar. Mainly because he doesn’t remember what he had said. Breaking the liars first rule of thumb. “If you’re going to lie, you must remember what you said before on the same subject. Indicating Romney is a very stupid man.

The difference between Romney and George W Bush is, Bush remember what he lied about before. At least turning a previous lie into a hokey Texas joke. Remember?

Never the less, I just cannot believe this man, Romney, is allowed to speak in public. Conveniently forgetting the past and just yammering on and on just for the convenience of the present. Indicating a pathological and persisting urge to misrepresent his past. Only to reinvent himself for the moment. Almost indicating he is suffering either from dementia or Alzheimer’s.

I really think he is a sick man. Needing serious therapy and possible hospitalization. Where are the men in white coats with the big butterfly net. Gettem boys! W-o-o-o-o-o-osh!

The only valid question is, why?

If you were to ask me, what the Colorado mass murder James Holmes did was just a symptom of a larger condition he is experiencing. There is cause. And there is effect. The cause of this horrific act is where the authorities, psychologists, and investigators should be looking.

They should be looking at what was he watching on TV. What video games was he playing? What Books, magazines, movies, and music was he exposed to? Was he listening to extremist talk radio? How about Right wing cable TV? Possibly even reading Left wing internet media?

He is 24 and still a bit impressionable. Something outside of him caused. We should find out before he is tried and executed.

The same goes for Jared Lee Loughner and George Zimmerman. All seemingly driven by some greater demonic influence. Hating, distrusting, lacking in conscience, no self worth, possibly bullied and reviled by peers, and on and on. Who knows what.

As much as I dislike guns, guns is not the issue here. Finding out why is. James could have done the same thing with knives, bows, and arrows. But not to the degree as semi automatic weapons and body armor. Just the death tools of choice.

So, why? Why did this happen? What is in James Holmes head. There lies the answer. Your job is to find out why and stop this from happening again and again.

Keep your guns. Keep your ammo. Keep your cool.

As I had written before, the NRA has misrepresented President Obama’s position on guns. Go to factcheck.org and read the truth. Obama wants you to keep your guns. The NRA says he wants to take them away. Not so.

However, President Obama and millions of others have issues with purchasing and owning multiple large caliber assault rifles. Especially if you buy thousands of rounds of ammo and sell it to drug cartels south of the border. And again, millions of American citizens have issue with this kind of gun purchasing.

But if the NRA said Obama wants regulation and limitation on purchasing dozens of AK-47s and thousands of rounds of ammo, most people would have no complaint about that. But what the NRA has promoted is just Obama wants your guns period. Which is most misleading. A broad and vague statement. Leaving the reader or viewer of such adds a bit worried. Possibly worried Obama wants ALL your guns that you own. Giving dries to the proliferation of T-shirts and bumper stickers that say, “Obama wants your guns.” But to rile the troops the NRA wants everybody to think all guns should be taken back. Leaving the gun owner without his or her hand gun or hunting rifle. And let me repeat. This is not true. Keep your hand guns and hunting rifle. Keep your bows and arrows. Keep your hunting knives. Keep your scopes. Keep your night visions goggles. Keep it all. The NRA is lying. Misleading. Misrepresenting what Obama has said or believes in.

Editorial from USA Today

Why is Congress trying to take away my insurance? By Emily Schlichting When I was 17, I started experiencing a lot of seemingly unrelated symptoms. None of my doctors could figure out what was causing them. Finally, after two years of undergoing MRIs and CAT scans, visiting specialists and a week-long stay in a hospital my freshman year of college, I was diagnosed with Behcet's Disease, a very rare auto-immune condition. This was a lot to deal with at 19. But I was one of the lucky ones. My parents have good health insurance, and thanks to that coverage, I received the care I needed. I didn't have to worry about where my care was coming from while trying to cope with a disease that was quickly changing my life. As my doctors got my symptoms under control, I was able to start planning for my future. But I soon realized that even though I had great health insurance coverage through my parents, I might not always have access to the care that I need. When you are chronically ill like me, good health insurance is the difference between living life with a disease or your disease leading your life. Political gamesmanship When House Republicans recently voted to take away my health care, I got angry. In fact, this was the 33rd time Republicans had voted to repeal or defund the Affordable Care Act. Fortunately, the Senate has no plans to go along with the House. Even so, I used to think that if I could just talk with those lawmakers opposed to the law, I could tell my story and make them understand what the Affordable Care Act means for me. And then Republicans would move on. But people are so mired in the political game that my personal story -- and those of millions like me -- don't get told. That needs to change. With health insurance coverage tied to the job, career opportunities can become limited. I had planned to work at a non-profit for a couple of years before I went back to school. But that was no longer an option because I would have dropped off my parents' insurance plan. And it hit me. For the rest of my life, I would have to be careful not to ever drop off an insurance plan. If I did, an insurance company would classify my disease as a pre-existing condition and could deny me coverage. Unnecessary worry No one should have to live with that sort of uncertainty and fear. No one should have her career options limited because she can't afford to risk being without heath insurance. Because ObamaCare provided me the option to stay on my parent's insurance until I was 26 -- as it has for 3.1 million other young people -- it gave me the time and flexibility to choose a career path I love rather than one that offers me insurance. You cannot overstate the importance of such freedom. Although I might have a unique disease, I am not alone. There are millions like me who are struggling with a pre-existing condition, or who are right out of college and trying to find a good job -- or both. Some might think that because I'm only 22, I'm young or naive. And I understand that fighting, and refighting battles, is what politics is all about. Nevertheless, I refuse to believe that fighting to take away people's health care is the best we can do as a country. I will continue to tell my story until every member of Congress understands that health care isn't about politics. It's about people's lives. It's about MY life. Emily Schlichting is a Truman-Albright Fellow through the Truman Foundation, a one-year program aimed at public service leadership.

It would be like giving the controls to The Great Gatsby.

It is hard for me as it might be for many others, to determine what Mit Romney’s proposed economic policies are. All his policies seem vague. Mostly because he is always prattling on and on about President Obama. Instead of promoting good economic policies of his own. Which there ain’t. And since he has no positive plan to offer the American people, he instead tosses out a smoke screen of rhetoric. Mostly bloviating on how President Obama is “not American” and Obama being a “foreigner.” Which is code talk for “he’s not like us.” If you know what I mean. More like he’s not White like us.

So the bluster goes on. Romney says he is right for America and President Obama is not. Empty statements with no valid or meaningful back-up. Hmm? What does that mean? His generalities and hollow statements say nothing. Empty words. Just bash and kick Obama. All he knows is bash and blame. If you can’t beat them, lie a lot.

In the mean time he seems to alienate just about every segment in our American society. He appears before the NAACP and never really speaks to them. Looking over their heads and straight at the TV cameras. Just to show the liberal media he’s attempting to appeal to all. Yeah, right.

And it doesn’t end there. He does the same with Latinos. And to other minorities, women and on and on. Speaking only to the cameras and reporters.

However, I can only guess by what he has previously said and what he has written, he hates the common worker. He for sure hates public workers. Public worker unions to be specific. Almost any worker who requires a living wage is on his enemies list. Policemen, firemen, teachers, librarians, health clinic workers and on and on. Romney does not like you. I’m sure of that. If he could he would send all federal, state and municipal workers to China.

How do I know this? This is evident by how he ran his so-called former business. Bain Capital. Which I think he still has a major interest in. None the less, he has sent and still is sending jobs overseas. Outsourcing to China and India. It’s true. It’s all there in the business pages. He must really hate American middle class workers because they require a reasonable living wage. Again, bringing proof that he will do the same as President.

However, he won’t be given the chance. He’s dead meat in the presidential race. Even Republicans dislike his vagary and flipity-flopityness. Forever changing his mind. He’s Mr. Waffle. Just a walking talking bait and switch game. Senor Wishie Washie. “Get out of my way or I’ll change my mind again.”

American cannot afford a Bozo like Romney. His true intent is to end the American lifestyle as we know it. Truth, justice, and the American way would come to an end under a Romney administration. It would more like changing to a Plantation society. We all will be picking cotton and singing the blues. Is this what we want?

I don't mind paying a bit more for comfortable American made clothes. Even from a re-sail shop.

In my closet I have several short sleeve polo shirts. Most of which fits like potato sacks. Heavy, formless, and with scratching irritating nylon labels sown in at the waist.

All purchased from some big box store. Some of which cost only less than ten bucks. What a deal. It would be a deal if I had skin like an armadillo and a body shape like a water heater. Unfortunately I have sensitive skin and am shaped like a Granny Smith Apple. Well, almost. But, that’s without the stem and barcode label.

None the less, the point here to make is the clothes we buy these is pure crap. Worthless China made stuff. Synthetic, one size fits all, and with irritating labels sewn in the wrong places. I’d rather ware body armor with staples sticking me in the waist. It’s that bad or worse.

Tell me, what is wrong with American made clothes made of cotton. Soft, pliable and comfortable to wear. May cost a bit more but it would be worth it. Buy American and buy Cotton.

Bring back the textile factories. Bring back good American jobs. Tell the venture capitalists to stuff it.

Congress is being watched through a one-way mirror. If only they knew.

The single most people I disdain in America is, self-important Politicians. People wrapped in a shroud of smugness and pomposity. Politicians walking about with noses in the air, shoulders tossed back, and posturing in a pretense as if wearing a Superman cape. However, all brought to their knees in an instant by a derogatory Tweet if caught straying from the official party orthodoxy. Easy come. Easy go…down.

All of this aided and abetted by the so called liberal media. Only if there was such a thing. Fox and talk radio are not liberal. Much less media.

Never the less, politicians, for the most part, are subhuman and prey on innocent gullible people. People who have not the articulation to speak their own mind. Uneducated, shallow, and mostly dogma fearing evangelicals.

But anyway, I am speaking of politicians such as: John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Erick Cantor, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Lindsey Graham, Dick Cheney, Jim Inhofe, Tom Delay, Carl Rove, and the list is endless. Enough demigod bloviators to fill a smelly waste slue three times on any industrial hog farm.

If only there were some Fairy Dust or pesticide spray that could neutralize their plaster-of-Paris statuary on a pedestal personalities. Melting them down like wax feet held to the fire. Better yet, toss them all into the blazing oven of Congressional purgatory.

Anyway, the faster they go away, the better off we all shall be. America needs leadership. Not blood sucking politicians. Good night and good riddance.

Hard headedness is our worst enemy. Just save your breath.

How do you reason with someone who is caught up in hysteria and paranoia? What truths or logic can be used to get your point across? Especially when no fact or positive proof works with them. They almost seem mentally and physically deaf and in the irreversible grip of insanity. Sometimes you just have to walk away and let them stew in their own venom. Hopefully a good slap in the face might bring them back to consciousness. But, don’t hold your breath.

None the less, the above condition seems to exist in some people when discussing politics or religion. No matter what reasoning you use, some folks appear to be possessed by a hyper dogma that defies any proof or set of facts. It’s like talking to a chicken with its head cut off. Just flutter and flailing. Just get out of the way. They are headed for self-destruction.

So, just do as Jesus suggested, don’t cast your pearls before swine. Shake the dust off your shoes and leave. You’ve done what you can say or do.

The whole scenario describes people who resist trusting the knowledge of wise council. “I know what I know and no one else will ever change my mind.” This is the thinking of people caught up in suspicion and fear. Paranoia. Hysteria. People not wanting to know the truth or other’s perspectives. Absolute willful ignorance. Education is evil and it takes too much time away from blustering and bloviation.

So, just step away from trouble. Do what you got to do and enjoy life. God bless America.

Annie! Grab your gun. Obama wants it.

The bottom line is, the NRA just want to sell more guns. Never mind an organization promoting hunting and gun safety. Never mind “Open Carry or Stand your ground laws.” It’s not just the few individuals joining the membership but the real lobby money comes from gun and ammo manufacturers, Gun and ammo stores, and the loosely regulated gun and ammo shows.

Certainly an organization protecting the right to sell as many guns one person could carry away in his van. Perhaps even by the truck load. Never mind protecting the Second Amendment. It’s all about Sell baby Sell.

So, in order to sell unlimited guns to anyone on this earth, the NRA must attack the President by making the false claim, “Obama wants to take away your guns.” Which is absolutely a flat out lie. A smoke screen to keep regulation at bay and allow unlimited sells to anybody. Go to Fact Check dot Org and read the truth for yourself.

However, to give many congressmen hot button talking points and rally the gun toting membership, a lie or two helps. And the more outrageous the better. Get the troops rallied and up in arms(pardon the pun).

But, where the NRA shoots itself in the foot is when they sell unlimited guns and ammo to “gun runners” in Arizona who sell to Mexican cartel clients. Resulting in thousands of innocent victims murdered. Thank you NRA. Partners in crime. But hey, it’s easy big money. Gatta love it.

Link to Fact check dot org:

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/09/nra-targets-obama/

The US Constitution protects your gun collection

Link to factcheck.org
Obama does not want your guns. However, the NRA has misrepresented Obama’s policy on guns. Why? I guess to recruit politicians. So, keep your guns. The only meaningful gun legislation was back in 1994 when the Republican controlled congress banned machine guns. Click on link below and read what Fact Check Org discovered about President Obama and the NRA:

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/09/nra-targets-obama/

I'm sorry. I wasn't paying attention, as usual.

Yes, there are all kinds of issues concerning Mit Romney’s candidacy. But the fact remains and forever will. That he is absolutely clueless and unaware of what America wants and needs from a president. He is totally blinded by ambition and fame. Just a want-to-be but never a can do person. Absolutely and willfully tuned out. Out of the real life loop. A gadfly. The essences of the Great Gatsby. Rich and stupid. Another Frat boy profligate like G W Bush. Remember?

How do I know this? It’s in Romney’s voice and what he says. However, he never remembers what he has previously said. Maybe suffering from dementia or senility. The absent minded professor. Never knowing where he is or who he is. “Just give me the title and the money and I’ll be alright.” That’s all he wants. “Just get out of my way.”

This is not leadership ability. He has not the skills to lead a nation of million. Millions in need of work. His skills are centered around fix and flip businesses. Take the money and run. Kill jobs or send them to China.

The bottom line is, Romney had no idea what is needed to put America back to work. His intent is more like what Herbert Hoover and George W Bush had perpetrated against America. Transfer the middle class wealth to the very few and rich. So, take the money and run. Run to a Swiss bank and pay no taxes. Bail out his Wall Street banking friends. Just a nare do well wanting to be President.

NO THANKS!! Not this time. Not ever.

Hey! Can we all send our savings to the Cayman Islands?

It was back in the early 1980s when Ronald Reagan required all savings banks to report interest made on personal savings accounts. Reporting it to the Federal Government and requiring all accounts to show the savers social security number. Making all accounts accountable and responsible for taxing purposes.

Prior to that time, savings and interest that was garnered was largely reported voluntarily. Leaving the tax payer to file taxes on a honor system. A system not regulated before Ronald Reagan took office in 1981.

Since then all savings account had to be attached to a savers SSN number and all savings banks had to report all interest made on personal and business accounts that would be reported on the savers Social Security Number.

So, the Internal Revenue Service would already know what interest you and others made on your bank accounts. So if your interest numbers didn’t show the same as the IRS’s, you had answers to give to the IRS agent.

Now, to the very rich, this was problematic. How was the wealthy saver to save money without paying large sums of money? Thus was born the “Off-shore” savings and investment account. Swiss bank accounts, investment accounts in the Cayman Islands, and other hidden off-shore accounts. All there to hide and savers money and thwart any tax paying requirement. Resisting paying American taxes. And, unfortunately for the United States, losing much needed tax revenue. Thus shorting the operating budget of the United States.

So, if you are rich and need to hide your money legally, send your American made money to an Off-shore account. It’s secret. It costs the investor very little to hide the money. And money stashed away in an off-shore account avoids paying American taxes.

It’s nice to be rich and avoid paying taxes but it takes money that is otherwise used to protect and secure the rich investor. Money used to train and field an American Army, firemen, policemen, coast guardsmen, and others that make the rich investor safe and secure. Thus realizing how good it is to live in the United States. Therefore, most rich live in a safe land on a free ticket to ride. Just make your money and send it to a secret place. Kind of like Hobos riding on a freight train. Riding free and clear. Just don’t get caught.

Aah! This is the life, I think.

Global warming? Not here in Santa Fe. If you don’t mind mild temps and low humidity, this is the place to live.

Right now we are in our afternoon showers mode. Low 80’s and occasional showers by four or five PM. Yes, I know it’s hard to work with. No sweat. Just wet now and then.

Open all the windows and just sit at the kitchen table in the afternoon with a tall glass of something. Something tall and frosty along with a full bowl of spicy hummus and pita chips and listen to the rain splat and drip. What more could a guy ask for. Don’t answer that! I already have an iPhone.

God save us all from Hot Buttons.

Once again, it’s the single issue voter that holds the rest of us hostage. Our economic future is put on hold because of blind religious fervor. It’s all Hot Button or nothing at all.

Many of us want and need jobs but that notion is squelched by one or two emotional issues. Issues which should be resolved in churches and not in congress. Did Jesus go to the Roman Forum or the Jewish high council to influence his own covenants or beatitudes? No! He prayed to his Father in Heaven instead.

But anyway, we are talking about Mostly people voting for issues which may never be resolved. But in the meantime, legislation to create jobs, good education, provide health benefit for the poor; all are passed over in favor of the Hot Button. And you know what they are. Cultural issues and not economic. Pushing Americans further and further into debt, bankruptcy, and homelessness. All to just support a congressional candidate who loves controversy as a smoke screen. Smoke screening the real issues troubling most Americans. Congress members thwarting real life day to day issues in favor of exchanging votes from unsuspecting religious organizations. Organizations unaware of the hidden agenda of the Congress Person. Congress people using duplicity and misrepresentation for personal gain. That and further the agenda of the congress member’s secret donors. Mostly donors with ill intent. Tax cuts for the rich, unlimited use of air and water as their own pollution dumping ground.

Hot Button people, wake up! See what is happening to you and the rest of America. We are suffering because of your blind faith. And the bottom line is, you are voting against your own interests and the interest of 99-percent of Americans. Have mercy on us. Please vote for health, education, and jobs for all Americans. God help us all and save us from these Hot Button congressmen and women.

You gotta do your homework. The test is coming soon.

I blame my fellow voters for not paying attention. It’s we the People who go or more like sometimes go to the polling place and mark our preferential ‘X.’ We step in to the voting booth or up to a kiosk with bias campaign brochures or with TV attack ads swirling in our heads. Often not really knowing the facts and not aware of candidates with hidden agendas and secret donors.

“Hmm, what to do? Who to vote for?
Rush says, trust me, vote for…
Big Ed insists I must vote for…”

Since we have about four months to go before the November 6 election, now is the time to read. Read? Yes, read.

Turn off the blizzard of bloviation on talk radio and cable TV. It just adds to the confusion. Take away the contrived emotion by reading a respected newspaper. Chicago Tribune, New York Times, USA Today, Time Magazine, and if you have to, watch C-SPAN. Do your homework. Know the issues you are interested in. Health care, education, jobs, environment, etc.

Vote with your head. Not with boiling emotions. Vote smart most of all, vote for the people. Not only do you owe it to yourself to vote smart but to vote smart for all Americans. Not for special “Hot button” interests. You’ll be glad you did. God Bless America and its 300-million plus people.

One man? One vote? What happened?

Here’s my opinion:
The biggest threat to the United States Constitution is the “Citizen’s United” decisions from our Supreme Court. Not only giving corporations “People Status” as voters but allowing unlimited money contribution to be made anonymously. Corporations or rich individuals to pour in campaign money without I.D. A grave injustice to constitutional law and threatens the “one man one vote guarantee. But, I am not the only one to make this horrific discovery.

However, here is just one ramification of this ill-conceived court decision. Where does the money come from? What one entity or corporation wishes to press its will on the general electorate? Even scarier, what foreign person or government wants to invoke its hidden agenda on the American electorate? Perhaps China? Russia? North Korea? Venezuela, Iran? Money filtering into the election process without accountability or discloser. Money indiscriminately pouring into the general media influence mix without a voters I.D. Voting without registration. Voting with a big “X” and negating the general wishes of the American voting people.

In the meantime, many American Citizens are shut out of the voting process because of not having a voting I.D. Older voters without a valid birth certificate but had voted legitimately in dozens of previous elections. People denied because of expired drivers licenses. Voters whose names were stricken from the voter registration for no apparent reason. There are hundreds of newspaper stories supporting this claim.

None the less, if you have cash and plenty of it and wish to remain anonymous, you get to vote. Money talks. Money votes big. However, Money trumps legitimate voting American citizens.

The Citizen’s United Supreme Court decision has been by far the worse decision ever handed down to the American people. Making unidentified bundles of money the biggest decision factor in current elections and elections to come. Mostly demeaning and discouraging the One Man (woman) one vote American system.