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Tuesday March 24, 2015 · 7:39 PM PDT

2015/03/24 · 19:39

Let's face it...neither party is doing anything to fix the quagmire we have created for our poor and middle classes. Too many, on both sides, are in the pockets of Wall Street, adding to the portfolios of the wealthy, while draining every drop from those working daily to survive. But which party is worse...the one that is blatantly touting free market over government regulations or the one that pretends to have your back, while sticking a knife in it? And does it even matter, since the results are the same?

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Obama's social programs are a nice drop in the bucket. However, his secret trade agreements not only offset them, but make them practically meaningless (although, it is nice to know that I can afford healthcare, when I'm hospitalized for stress and malnourishment, from working 2 minimum-wage jobs, trying to pay off crushing student loans for a diploma that I can use as toilet paper).

.When Elizabeth Warren is considered a "maverick" and "outside the mainstream," one has to wonder what has become of the Democratic party? Where are the ideals that we once held dear? I'll tell you where...we sold them for cheap electronics and cheaper food. Oh, and security...can't forget our manic need to feel safe!

Great ideas here, folks:
•    let's arm our police forces with tanks and military-grade weaponry!
•    Let's spend twice as much on our privately-owned prisons, as we do on our schools!
•    How about a new job program?...we simply arrest everybody in certain racial and socio-economic groups, give them harsh prison sentences and use them as slave labor, to assemble our cellphones and headsets. Bingo! Instant employment, right here in America! No unions or OSHA breathing down our necks. What? They don't need pay, they get fed three squares a day! And we pass the savings onto...Wall Street, along with a healthy tax break.
•    Oh, and just to make things interesting, lets make it super easy to own a gun, carry a gun and shoot a gun...what could possibly go wrong?

Get out those buckets, people...only a matter of time until it starts trickling down!
Maybe an umbrella would be a better choice...

Osama bin Laden Still Alive

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Tuesday February 24, 2015 · 1:53 PM PST

2015/02/24 · 13:53

Fear and Loathing in America

Do not worry, dear readers, I am not, as the headline might suggest, going for the conspiracy angle that bin Laden and Elvis are working at the same 7-Eleven in Kalamazoo, MI
I am simply suggesting that WE, as a nation, are keeping his memory alive. We have been, since the 9-11 attacks. We have become a fearful, vengeful and downright ugly place...exactly what bin Laden and other terrorist groups wanted to accomplish. The terrorists have already won...
Prior to 2001, would anyone have believed that half of our country would decide that torture was a necessary tool to get information? Would we have ever conceived of a necessity for open-carry gun laws? Could we have imagined a time when Christians would become so hateful toward people of Muslim faith, that the far-right fringe would become as dangerous as ISIS? How about a time when the NSA would spy on its own citizens?
14 years later, we might have been able to overcome our fears and prejudice, if not for those who stoked the fear, fed on it and profited by it. Those in power (and those who OWNED those in power) recognized the potential for riches, beyond anything they had ever known. After all, nothing makes the rich richer more than war.
The media became compartmentalized, divided into one-sided, subjective "entertainment" news. By choosing sides, journalism has been replaced by something grossly imitating news...but designed to keep us fearful and prejudiced. It is, of course, no coincidence that those who profit most from the military industrial complex, also control the major media franchises.
Those on the Christian right, who really do believe in the Rapture and Armageddon, would like nothing better than to see it happen in their lifetime...perhaps even going as far as to MAKE it happen. Why, then, would they care about climate change and future generations? And the one-percenters are more than happy to accommodate them, choosing profit over EPA restrictions.
America is in paranoia mode, where mob-rule replaces the voice of reason. When a group of people are afraid, they latch onto the loudest voice that promises to keep them safe. Regardless of the cost.
And somewhere in Hell, Osama bin Laden is chuckling...

Barack Obama: The Great Pretender

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Monday December 15, 2014 · 8:10 AM PST

2014/12/15 · 08:10

"Yes, we can."
Words spoken by a candidate promising change and reform. Instead, it has become a mantra for corporate America, as they practice business as usual.
As President Obama begins his last two years in office, there are more and more glaring examples of his true agenda. Joining the "Democrat Elite," alongside the Clintons, he has succeeded in pushing the Democratic Party even further to the right, both in economics and in foreign policy, while simultaneously distancing himself from the working class constituency who voted for him.

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