21-50 to all voters: About Voting Republican

John McCain said, "Americans don't hate the rich. They want to be like them". That's how the Republicans operate - by telling the average working chump that if they support Republican policy they too will enjoy great prosperity.

Oh, yeah. That voting Republican thing really worked well, didn't it? Their promise of "you can share in the wealth" with the caveat of "just vote for us and do what we say without question" paid off - for the wealthiest Americans and corporations. The poor working chump fell for the lie more than once and got the shaft as usual.

Wealthy people don't want to share; it's against their nature. Rather they live to gain as much wealth as possible and they really don't care if someone's “grandmother freezes in the dark” (to quote an Enron minion) if they can find a way to take her last cent to throw on their huge pile. Corporations don't care about their worker drones. All they care about is profit at anyone's expense below the standard top three at their helms. Corporations get “attractively profitable" to investors by finding ways to squeeze every cent out of workers. No more living wages, medical insurance, pensions nor anything else that workers once enjoyed. Those who complain can watch as their job is outsourced to some third-world toilet and the company for which they once worked is rewarded for it with a tax break. And, should a CEO run a company into the ground, they are rewarded for it with millions of dollars over and above their salaries of countless millions when they leave.

The only welfare programs that this administration and the Republican Party support are the ones for the wealthy and corporations. If that weren't the case, they wouldn't allow them to run wild for more riches with their "creative" mortgage products that preyed on the American Dream while creating a new generation of homeless or selling out the American worker to cheap labor illegally pouring over the border to which they give a nod, nudge and wink or shipping living-wage jobs overseas to the detriment of the American worker for greater profit and then rewarding such treason with tax incentives.

And let's not forget that little foray into Iraq with no justification under the orders of the draft- evading, drill-missing, idiot-in-chief. All that that has done is make the Blackwaters, Halliburton’s and other countless corporations that are buddy-buddy with the administration richer as it siphons trillions of dollars from programs to help those most in need at home while allowing our infrastructure to crumble and creating a deficit of unimaginable proportions that our kids will have to pay off.

Also keep in mind that the 4,000 American lives lost in, and the new generation of disabled veterans coming home from, “The War on Terror”, from which there was none until we invaded Iraq, are the children of what's left of middle and working class Americans. Of course this little "expedition" paid off without a draft; when the economy is on the skids who needs a draft when the employment picture is so bleak that military service seems the only viable option, especially with fat bonuses for signing up for direct combat specialties? To further bring up the numbers of the ranks of the military to do the bidding of the top 5% with all of the wealth is to destroy the economy for the other 95%, raise the enlistment age, reduce the educational requirements to the third-grade level and open the door for felons and illegal aliens. This assures that only the children of the bottom 95% will do the bidding of the wealthy, connected power-elite so that they or their prodigy will never shed a tear nor a drop of blood.

There's lots of money for Bush’s war but next to nothing for the broken veterans it created. Does anyone remember the shame of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center scandal or the other cold, heartless examples such as abandoned, homeless veterans living under bridges thanks to Republican "compassionate conservatism"?

Every day the ranks of the American “have- nots” grow thanks to this administration and its enablers. Those ranks are turning into an angry mob that will get its revenge come the November elections.

Note to Wally Herger (another draft-evading, chicken hawk, Republican COWARD who sends everyone else's kids to war as his stay behind while he wraps himself in a flag, clutches his Bible and holds his plastic sword on high as he votes against the veterans whom he USED for photo-ops): "Count this angry, service-disabled veteran of twenty-two years from a family with service dating back 100-years (unlike yours) among the vengeful in YOUR district whom are building the machine to remove you and your ilk from office".

Remember, Wally, as a REAL patriot, Samuel Jackson said,"PATRIOTISM IS THE LAST REFUGE OF A SCOUNDRAL".