It's that awful season again - pre-election time. Think of all the money being spent on advertising, campaigning - then imagine it spent on fresh veggies and fruit for people with meager incomes.
Wish we had the European method - not allowing campaigning until a week or so before the election...but then the networks and media would lose a bundle of cash....so depressing.
Has anyone heard how the the R&R ticket plans to provide jobs? Did I miss something?
And the lies (misleading info - same thing) about taking money from medicare for the Health Care plan that covers everyone? Notice how the specifics are omitted - did the kid mention that no money is taken from medicare beneficiaries?
And the Ryan kid wants to issue vouchers for medicare....so you get $6000 for the year in vouchers and your illness comes to three times that; (try 100 times that - considering the way medical costs escalate because we don't know how to educate people why/where/what medical procedures are necessary); what are you supposed to do - chuck it all and say: "Oh, well, guess I'll stay sick or die - since I used up my vouchers!"
"We'll take care of our elders", the kid promises; sure he will - his mother and a few friends. After that, pure, smarmy hypocrisy in action.
A good example of R&R thinking: I live in a 75 home community that decided parts of its road system needed repair. The road in front of my house is fine. But all of us who live in this community are paying (taxed!!!) for the new road - because, the "board" of the community told us: "New paving will help keep up the value of our community." (oops - shades of socialism!!!) So why is it so hard to understand the benefits of health care - healthy citizens are necessary to "keep up the value of our country"!
The R&R ticket takes women back to the middle ages. Family planning? Fageddaboutit. Republicans (read: tea partyniks) still think women are second class citizens - on this earth to breed and look pretty. They let a few sneak in with brains (always need a few token women) but not too many please. Result: we can inundate the country with unwanted kids - who might very well become burdens of society - requiring more health care, reform care, whatever.
Does the R&R gang really think abortions will disappear? They occurred in ancient times and will never stop. Only problem is we'll have more women dying because of back-door botched abortions.
The Ryan kid says we're not better off than we were 4 years ago; hmmm - 90+ percent of our citizens are employed - and there would be even more jobs if the Republican congress hadn't blocked every bit of legislation put forward to accomplish this. Let's face it - they stated early on that their only goal was to make sure Obama had one term - forget about doing anything for the citizens/country that elected them.
This has been a very kvetchy morning - I just read a Rolling Stones article explaining how Romney made soooo much money and got rid of jobs. (Read about KB toys if you want to cry.) Compassion, caring? What I fear most - if the R&R ticket should win - god forbid - we'll be looking at a wider gap between rich and poor. Anyone study history? That's how revolutions start. Remember the 1920's in Europe - when conditions were so bad? One needed a suitcase of paper money to buy a cup of coffee in Germany. The public was ready for the promises of a mad dictator.
Something to kvell about: Love that Elizabeth Warren running for office in Massachusetts. Go, girl go!
Wish we had the European method - not allowing campaigning until a week or so before the election...but then the networks and media would lose a bundle of cash....so depressing.
Has anyone heard how the the R&R ticket plans to provide jobs? Did I miss something?
And the lies (misleading info - same thing) about taking money from medicare for the Health Care plan that covers everyone? Notice how the specifics are omitted - did the kid mention that no money is taken from medicare beneficiaries?
And the Ryan kid wants to issue vouchers for medicare....so you get $6000 for the year in vouchers and your illness comes to three times that; (try 100 times that - considering the way medical costs escalate because we don't know how to educate people why/where/what medical procedures are necessary); what are you supposed to do - chuck it all and say: "Oh, well, guess I'll stay sick or die - since I used up my vouchers!"
"We'll take care of our elders", the kid promises; sure he will - his mother and a few friends. After that, pure, smarmy hypocrisy in action.
A good example of R&R thinking: I live in a 75 home community that decided parts of its road system needed repair. The road in front of my house is fine. But all of us who live in this community are paying (taxed!!!) for the new road - because, the "board" of the community told us: "New paving will help keep up the value of our community." (oops - shades of socialism!!!) So why is it so hard to understand the benefits of health care - healthy citizens are necessary to "keep up the value of our country"!
The R&R ticket takes women back to the middle ages. Family planning? Fageddaboutit. Republicans (read: tea partyniks) still think women are second class citizens - on this earth to breed and look pretty. They let a few sneak in with brains (always need a few token women) but not too many please. Result: we can inundate the country with unwanted kids - who might very well become burdens of society - requiring more health care, reform care, whatever.
Does the R&R gang really think abortions will disappear? They occurred in ancient times and will never stop. Only problem is we'll have more women dying because of back-door botched abortions.
The Ryan kid says we're not better off than we were 4 years ago; hmmm - 90+ percent of our citizens are employed - and there would be even more jobs if the Republican congress hadn't blocked every bit of legislation put forward to accomplish this. Let's face it - they stated early on that their only goal was to make sure Obama had one term - forget about doing anything for the citizens/country that elected them.
This has been a very kvetchy morning - I just read a Rolling Stones article explaining how Romney made soooo much money and got rid of jobs. (Read about KB toys if you want to cry.) Compassion, caring? What I fear most - if the R&R ticket should win - god forbid - we'll be looking at a wider gap between rich and poor. Anyone study history? That's how revolutions start. Remember the 1920's in Europe - when conditions were so bad? One needed a suitcase of paper money to buy a cup of coffee in Germany. The public was ready for the promises of a mad dictator.
Something to kvell about: Love that Elizabeth Warren running for office in Massachusetts. Go, girl go!
