Please Vote This Year

Several of my friends are saying they can't vote for Obama because of some things they read on the internet. I want to say publicly that a person who does not vote for Obama is effectively voting for Romney.

I can guarantee you that you don't want Romney in the White House. He has a "blame the victim" mentality whether for poverty or sexual assault. He will effectively put corporations in solid charge of the White House and the Supreme Court. With corporations already running the House and Senate, the country will be lost.

He will cut all social programs for poor people, make education prohibitively expensive and remove all access to student loans, because he thinks parents should pay for school, not the state. Not that the state pays, because loans must be paid back - with interest.

Health care will be eliminated for the poor and elderly, the disabled, and the persons in the margins.

I must say that these folks need their heads examined. Really! Even if you don't like Obama because of his person, his background, or his parentage, you need to vote for him, or you are effectively voting for Romney. Don't let marginalized facts and figures stop you from exercising your right to sufferage, which men and women have spent over 150 years securing. Do not allow your rights to be subverted.

Vote. It's too important.

School Orientation and Health Care Decision

I was running around East TN State University yesterday, trying to get all the stuff covered that I needed to cover in a one-day orientation, advising and registration session. In the middle of it, I'd heard that the Health Care Reform Act had been upheld.

I didn't hear about the controversy until I was driving home, listening to the radio. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? I think John Roberts is trying to oust a sitting president, and if the Dems have any sense, they will oust John Roberts. If that were only possible...

The Supreme Court has clearly stated duties in the Constitution. They've been trying to legislate instead of stand impartially and compare all actions of the President and Congress to the Constitution, and that is just a problem for me.

I'm so fed up with the gamesmanship in Washington DC. It's just so much posturing. Nothing gets done because they just want to stall so the other guys can't act. It doesn't matter who's in office, really. It's just that the Dems seem to care a little more about the people and a little less about themselves and a lot less about corporate interests.  As an individual, and not a corporation, I prefer the Dems.

As for whether John Roberts will get his wish of ousting a sitting president from the Supreme Court or not, I certainly hope not.

How do I figure that, anyhow? Well, by upholding the health care reform act, Roberts stirred up republican opposition to the act, perhaps making them angry enough to oust the president for Mitt Romney (Egads!!) along with all the dems in congress who passed the bill to begin with.

However, if the Dems play their cards right, and put health care on a person by person basis, show the shenanigans and manipulations as bald political posturing, they have a chance. With Obama in the lead, I'm not so sure that will happen. He's too willing to allow crap. The "no-drama" side of him has to get put away. I'd love to see him yell and scream and have a few choice words at the republicans. That would be a bit better than his cool and calm exterior. Show that he gets pissed. Because if a president doesn't get pissed, he's not much good as a president.

Just remember that I warned you....

I warned you this was going to happen...

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/fast-fix/fast-fix-pac-ed-gills-092909836.html

Congress and Corporations

Congress has long been in bed with the corporations, as witnessed by the Supreme Court's decision that corporations are individuals and as such can contribute a near unlimited amount to a candidate. There is a video on this here which leads us to the question of whether corporations run the country or the people do. That story is here.

The next question is why are our elected representatives so wealthy? The rest of us are struggling along, many working paycheck to paycheck while our elected representatives are lining their pockets with campaign donations, freebies, discounts, and other perks.

Are "We the People" so gullible? Are we sheep to be led to the slaughter? Wake UP!!!! Kick the bums out and get corporations out of government. Make government Of The People, By The People, and FOR The People once again!

Government Disconnect

It seems that the "big 3" are taking notice of our disconnect from government. CBS is starting a series called "The United States of Influence" this week. The link to the first installment is here. This installment deals with American's attitudes toward their government and how we feel that special interests have more influence than we do. With the recent Supreme Court decisions, I have been asking why there isn't a way to recall the Justices?

There will be 2 more installments this week. The one I'm most anxious to read is Thursday's, but I'll post links to both segments here as they become available.