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yeah fiesty not here that means it's a federal holiday since she works for the left liberal
media spouting her liberal BS lies everyday she must be at the parade cause you know
liberals love the poor, sick, elderly, blacks and illegals and the right hates everybody
and wants everybody to die and have no food and clothing and have dirty water and
air and let companies make money that never create jobs! yeah that liberal agenda
with big union payoffs, bailouts, stimulus, healthcare, fast and furious, cash for clunkers,
GMC buyout and the chevy volt disaster, soylandra, wall street, fannie and freddie, more
regulations, high energy and gas and food prices are really working! it's socialist utopia!
I refuse to feel sorry for federa benefits cuts. The government employees have benefits far in excess of any other workers, and private business cannot compete, because they are not allowed to ransack the paychecks of the American public through taxes whenever they please. No other employee is allowed to vote themselves pay raises, cost of living raises, or greater benefits. And it simply isn't feasible for the entire American population to work for the government. Are we to have two classes in this country? Government payroll and the rest of us? We already know that it is the intention of the current administration to stick it to the wealthy-being defined as anyone who doesn't qualify for aid at this point. So we will have those who don't work, and get paid via our tax dollars. Those of us who do work and are told how much we may keep from our labor, and government employees who can live like the wealthy and middle class used to live.
I don't know how welcome it is. We need to get ready for another round of REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONSIM to Governing the Country as long as Barack Obama is President.
ALL Republicans want to do is kill Government. Yet the Country is bigger and more diverse in the 21st Century. We cannot even fix the INFRASTRUCTURE of the Country, which will create more jobs than one can
imagine and Republicans are sitting on that until the 2012 elections.
It is the Government who STIMULATES jobs for the Private Sector to run with and innovations. Yet the Republicans have had the MEGAPHONE of lies about ANY Government IS BAD for the past 30 years.
Republicans seem to be winning the war on the Voter's Stupidity about how Government works.
Republicans only want Government to FIGHT WARS THEY START to keep the Military Industrial Complex going. The one Eisenhower, the Republican President, warned AGAINST, and Republican Cronies making untold millions in Tax Payer dollars with no accountability. Does the Iraq War come to mind? Somehow WARS HAVE become better for the Country than Government Stimulating the Economy through Infrastructure repairs, innovations, and RENEWABLE Energy and Saving the Environment.
NO NEW TAXES per the signed PLEDGE by Republicans, EXCEPT Millions of Dollars BY PACS who can PERSUADE
ELECTIONS, effectively TAKING Voting and Democracy from the people.
Corporations are People. At least according to Mitt Romney and the rest of us are ENVIOUS of Wall Street, his family and rich people in general. Did he just throw the Tea Party under the Bus? They came to prominence railing against Wall Street.
Are voters that dumb and really to not understand this? If Republicans like Rick Perry get their
way, we will continue to DUMB DOWN the Country with their CUTS to Education and Science, HEALTH CARE.
I have to give IT to Republicans, they have done an excellent job of MUSHROOMING 1/2 of the Country. This started with Reagan with Democrats sitting on the sidelines and trying to stay in Office instead of Standing up for the People fighting tooth and Nail.
The Republicans are fighting, with a PLEDGE, FIGHTING FOR THE 1% while calling the 99% everything except Americans, and vilifying the President, when they TANKED THE ECONOMY, and it is a RELIGIOUS WAR. The Republican Party has all of the Christians and family values.
Jesus was about the LEAST AMONG US. What are Republicans and Christian RIGHT ABOUT.