Friday, August 31, 2012

Janesville- Are We Missing The Point?

Can anything be done to help those who lost their GM jobs at that plant?  How is Janesville doing
today, and what do the workers have to say? Romney seemed to think American Motors plant
closings in Wisconsin were a big yuk-em-up earlier in his campaign.
I hope those people in Janesville are recovering, because all of us have the job of trying to find out
what, if anything, can be done toward rehabilitation of those communities. After all
taxpayer money did save a lot of GM plants and dealerships.  We should be told a little more about that plant than what Paul Ryan thinks we need to know to advance his campaigning...in spite
of what the Libertarian's claim.

We Have To Read Michael Grunwald

Republicans have done all they could do to tear down The New Deal since the moment any of it was
signed into law.
Republicans despised Bobby Kennedy for founding food stamps.
Republicans truly believe Lockheed-Martin(s)- for instance- .. should petition the government for funds to thrive and be viable. They refuse to accept that corporations are collectives.
So if any group of persons needs government funds to thrive and be viable, that group had better,
as far as Republicans are concerned be a corporation. In America, thank heavens, many groups of
real people believe as much in each other as they do in their rich "managers, and corporate directors" in the workplaces.
Michael Grunwald's book, The New New Deal gives us a peek at what our president's partnership
with people who have to get out to work each day really means.
When I say work, I mean work in a setting where someone else is in charge of your labor or quantity
of input, at an hourly, or below management, salary wage.
I do not mean you who take care of your own children with all the help you need to hire. But I am
certain I appreciate all of you in a different way.

He's A Business Guru! He's A Government Funds Raiser! He's A...

He's a governor! He's a candidate for president!
He's a priest.
He's a gambler.
Well, he is an Olympics-saving husband who doesn't support his wife's competition in her Olympic sport entry.
Well, he is a dad. And he can be immensely kind when not destroying livelihoods.
Look, he chose to make money the way he chose to make money. So why isn't that enough for him?
He didn't choose a way to make his living that sets him up as leader of a representative democracy.
I can't understand why he thinks he did.
He sure isn't superman.

Clint Eastwood Was Clint Eastwood

I think POTUS would have thought it hilarious.  I don't know what we expected from an actor except
for him to dare us to "make his day". 
He did am improv roast. He is a guy known for being 'edgy' in the least of his characterizations.
We can take it. I don't know he meant the harm of disrespect. He is no goofy TV entertainer. He's
the real deal, and he did what he does!
(Why are people obsessed with celebrity hair? He has beautiful silver hair; but it was 80 year old hair. Is that wrong? To have hair when aged? We can maybe be very, very, silly. Sillier than Mr. Eastwood...)
Were it not for the slit throat gesture, I might have thought Mr. Eastwood was a democratic plant.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

I Hope Black Citizens Will Continue To Ignore Republican Policy

Are some in the Republican party asking black people to switch parties?
Do Republicans believe black people want to be in a party which gives hand-outs?
Well, to be clear, black people don't ask for hand-outs.  We always ask for jobs.
What we get instead, are crumbs from the jobs table.
We generally have a much different definition of the word "job" than many white employers
entertain.
We often have a much different idea of what we'd consider a career.
If anyone thinks women get less that equal pay for equal jobs, apply the same thinking to
inequalities in the pay black people get so often for doing the same jobs as whites.
Institutional racism lives large in this country even now.
Many jobs in our country are still with employers who find reasons not to hire a black person
unless at times a way to exploit that job applicant presents itself.
Sometimes when a man whose family is hungry applies for a job and is offered food vouchers
instead, he cannot allow himself go home empty-handed.
I see no reason whatsoever for black people to espouse Republican politics. Their policies are
regressive. If we all want to work for 3d an hour, we can all be Republican, or we take up the
policies of the blue-dog democrats.
Black Republicans have the luxury of voting at all in the first place because of the blood shed
by so many black democrats. White people died too, but they joined the fight black leaders
engendered. I think we have to give those leaders their due.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Democrats

We ave to begin to author a lot more bills, and to advertise what we are doing.
Since we cannot vote for the nonsense Republicans author, we are in danger of ourselves becoming the obstructionists. We are supposed to obstruct utter nonsense. However, we have got to begin to do a lot more. We have to write more bills and get sponsors  for them, so that the language of what we are proposing is as prevalent as that which republicans are constantly putting forward.

Let's Review Your Heart's Desire

You are in complete control of all eggs in the country.
The eggs are in complete control of every woman's body.
Women who have enough money to book a flight and pay for a procedure at a moment's notice are
safe and sound.
Other women are at your mercy. The choices they have are 1) go to jail 2) risk life and limb or 3) all
of the above. Sounds like adult autonomy to me. Sounds like democracy to me. How about to you?
Are we all happy now?
Or should Planned Parenthood attempt to have a fund for the flights out of here that poor women could also utilize?  I think we should try that don't you? It would be worth every cent spent to get out
from under what you call democracy and freedom and privacy for a woman. And the more flights and
docs we could line up...the cheaper it would get to be. Alrighty then! We have a plan.