Here is the classic example of dirty politics; using the anonymity of the internet “win at any cost groups” post outrageous lies in the Joseph Goebbels tradition that if it’s repeated often enough it will be taken as truth. When a close friend gets it from another close friend who got it from another close friend et al with no-one being able to quote the source it spreads like the flu only with greater intensity because of its deliberate intent by playing on ignorance, fear and peer trust. Republicans are desperate and the evidence is mounting daily.
The Republican lie machine, thankfully, cannot overcome those who think critically and independently, weighing all sources in making their choices as facts cannot be extinguished with propaganda. The numbers of the lock-step, mindless who listen intently to Rush, Sean, Bill, etc for their cues is shifting with the demographic changes influenced by a new generation of thinking veterans.
I’m one of that group on the cusp that skews the demographics. I come from a military family in which we all served and I made a career of the military as did my father. I clearly see through John McCain as do those who recently served and serve now. McCain has proven to be no friend to the military and veterans by voting against increased benefits and funding at every opportunity. Clinging to the party playbook he claims to embrace service but fails to recognize sacrifice with endless war funding yet none for the new generation of service-disabled veterans created in Iraq.
Worse, he stated he would keep us in Iraq for one-hundred years or more shortly before we learned that the big western oil companies were to be granted no bid contracts by the Iraqi Oil Ministry on the heels of a contrived oil shortage from which they, his supporters/contributors, would benefit only further at our continuing expense at the pump and from every article made from petrol-chemicals while food prices rise as crops are diverted to bio-fuels for nothing but increased profit. Simply those serving now and for a generation or more would spill more blood for a war that was for oil, no matter what Bush, Cheney, McCain, Herger and their party claim.
This I find reprehensible from a career Navy officer who was a POW but I suspect that his attitude is the result of wealth (through marriage) and too many years in the senate both of which have disconnected him from his constituents as has his adherence to the party line to maintain a base of support that is not representative of the average American that pays more for everything while seeing their real income decrease daily through corporate greed. This is further evidenced by the “mortgage meltdown” that McCain’s party created by allowing the banking/lending industry to run wild without regulation or simple oversight.
A vote foe McCain is a vote for total ruin – period.
21-50. Out
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Slam as you will...
… the fact remains that under eight-years of the GWB Administration with its excessive veto powers gained under a previously Republican controlled Congress and its slant toward profit over people everything has gone to hell in a hand basket.
The military in which I served for twenty-two years, as my father for twenty-seven, has been stretched, stripped, demoralized and filled with all BUT the best and brightest to meet recruiting goals while the broken veterans it has created from the “Iraqi Expedition” have been ignored and cast aside as a financial burden in the name of “fiscal conservatism”. There is no limit to war funding but a bottom to be found for those who’ve served – right, Wally Herger?
Here we are in the most oil rich region in the world with promises of discounted oil in exchange for liberation yet fuel prices have gone through the ceiling with no end in sight and NO discounted oil. Every product delivered that we consume daily increases in price daily due to the rising cost of fuel only furthering to hurt the average working American. Meanwhile $170M in domestic fuel is, bluntly, pissed away in the “sand boxes” to our detriment at home compounding the problem further. Futures traders buy and horde oil / fuel to obscenely increase profits by creating a greater shortage than the “war on terror” has as they create a self-fulfilling prophesy of prediction of price to demand for which they are responsible. Diesel, which costs less than gas before the war and fuels tactical vehicles now costs far more than gas and our economy suffers because diesel fuels both the rail and trucking industries that deliver the goods we need.
Corn, a staple for both people and livestock, has become more valuable for bio-fuels than food and the “agri-industry” has diverted it for greater profit. This has only added to the cost of our groceries further hurting us. No doubt Archer-Daniels-Midland, a Texas agri-company, has their hands soiled as does the oil industry in a secret quid pro quo with this administration.
The banking / mortgage industries were allowed to run wild with “creative financial products” so that they could sell bundled, bad paper to investors, many vested retirees, so that they could get their money in the front and leave grandma and grandpa holding the bag and eating Alpo in the dark having to forgo their medications and energy to simply live. Meanwhile our homes are worth less than we paid thanks to a house of cards under a fan of manipulation.
“Free trade” has created a new class of working poor as living-wage paying jobs are eliminated for cheap foreign labor and large corporations are rewarded for destroying the middle-class with tax breaks for moving to foreign shores. Further foreign companies are buying our infrastructure one brick at a time under “privatization” while providing less service for more income.
The list of destruction to our country, our economy and our people under GWB, his cronies and the “new” Republican Party is endless. No doubt Barry Goldwater is rolling in his grave at what has been done to his party, its values, its goals and its ideals. A “true” Republican would have fought the selling out of our nation with everything he or she could muster. “New Republicans” now ask, “What’s in it for ME”?
I’ve respected the Republican Party of the past, although I’m a life-long Democrat, but my disgust for Republicans now has no bounds as they have blindly followed a self-serving president and his cabal of profiteers as they turned a blind eye and deaf ear in unfounded belief to a party in which they trusted that excludes all but the richest few at the expense of everyone else.
Unless you can discreetly hand-off a check to a Republican candidate at a $25K per plate fundraising event you’re just another fool believing that you will share in a system that makes the disgustingly wealthy only wealthier at your expense - PERIOD.
21-50. Out.
The military in which I served for twenty-two years, as my father for twenty-seven, has been stretched, stripped, demoralized and filled with all BUT the best and brightest to meet recruiting goals while the broken veterans it has created from the “Iraqi Expedition” have been ignored and cast aside as a financial burden in the name of “fiscal conservatism”. There is no limit to war funding but a bottom to be found for those who’ve served – right, Wally Herger?
Here we are in the most oil rich region in the world with promises of discounted oil in exchange for liberation yet fuel prices have gone through the ceiling with no end in sight and NO discounted oil. Every product delivered that we consume daily increases in price daily due to the rising cost of fuel only furthering to hurt the average working American. Meanwhile $170M in domestic fuel is, bluntly, pissed away in the “sand boxes” to our detriment at home compounding the problem further. Futures traders buy and horde oil / fuel to obscenely increase profits by creating a greater shortage than the “war on terror” has as they create a self-fulfilling prophesy of prediction of price to demand for which they are responsible. Diesel, which costs less than gas before the war and fuels tactical vehicles now costs far more than gas and our economy suffers because diesel fuels both the rail and trucking industries that deliver the goods we need.
Corn, a staple for both people and livestock, has become more valuable for bio-fuels than food and the “agri-industry” has diverted it for greater profit. This has only added to the cost of our groceries further hurting us. No doubt Archer-Daniels-Midland, a Texas agri-company, has their hands soiled as does the oil industry in a secret quid pro quo with this administration.
The banking / mortgage industries were allowed to run wild with “creative financial products” so that they could sell bundled, bad paper to investors, many vested retirees, so that they could get their money in the front and leave grandma and grandpa holding the bag and eating Alpo in the dark having to forgo their medications and energy to simply live. Meanwhile our homes are worth less than we paid thanks to a house of cards under a fan of manipulation.
“Free trade” has created a new class of working poor as living-wage paying jobs are eliminated for cheap foreign labor and large corporations are rewarded for destroying the middle-class with tax breaks for moving to foreign shores. Further foreign companies are buying our infrastructure one brick at a time under “privatization” while providing less service for more income.
The list of destruction to our country, our economy and our people under GWB, his cronies and the “new” Republican Party is endless. No doubt Barry Goldwater is rolling in his grave at what has been done to his party, its values, its goals and its ideals. A “true” Republican would have fought the selling out of our nation with everything he or she could muster. “New Republicans” now ask, “What’s in it for ME”?
I’ve respected the Republican Party of the past, although I’m a life-long Democrat, but my disgust for Republicans now has no bounds as they have blindly followed a self-serving president and his cabal of profiteers as they turned a blind eye and deaf ear in unfounded belief to a party in which they trusted that excludes all but the richest few at the expense of everyone else.
Unless you can discreetly hand-off a check to a Republican candidate at a $25K per plate fundraising event you’re just another fool believing that you will share in a system that makes the disgustingly wealthy only wealthier at your expense - PERIOD.
21-50. Out.
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