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Republicans Vow Not To Repeal Obamacare Without Detailed Plan For Disposing Of Patients’ Disease-Ridden Corpses...

http://www.theonion.com/article/republicans-vow-not-repeal-obamacare-without-detai-55069

And I thought GW Bush was bad

The greatest show on Earth will be Donald Trump, tweeter of the free world, completing the leap from reality TV to American royalty when he moves into the former home of Abraham Lincoln.

The former home of Ronald Reagan, who said: “If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.”

Of George H.W. Bush, who said: “We are a nation of communities … a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.”

Of Bill Clinton, who said: “Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.”

Of Barack Obama, who said: “My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once too.”

And now it will be the home of Donald John Trump, who said in the midst of his winning campaign: “My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well documented, are various other parts of my body.”

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-inauguration-20170117-story.html

http://news.yahoo.com/u-trade-groups-seen-leading-lawsuits-against-internet-004531423--finance.html


My Comments ..


(the FCC has unduly decided to treat Internet providers as "common carriers" ) ...Unduly? I think not, we are now closely bound to the Internet to pay bills and receive notices. What do we do when USPS finally takes a dump and we can no longer receive billing and letters through the mail?

My comment on My Comments ..

This needs to be about the consumer. The working class is already enslaved by Credit Cards, Cars, Homes and Healthcare. we don't need to add to the list.

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Corporations have pushed the Middle class out of existence. Getting meaningful and dignified industrial full time employment out of high school has all but vanished. Then in addition, secondary education is constantly being priced out of reach. No one established put a thought into trying to make getting on your own feet out of high school any easier. In my mind, thus creating a cheaper labor pool from which with they can continue to maximize profits at the expense of out personal freedom. It's unhealthy and damaging to our children's future.


See...

Political Necessity Forces GOP Into Middle-Class Income Debate

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/13/385948438/political-necessity-forces-gop-into-middle-class-income-debate

"Steele laughed off such concerns, saying marijuana would never be legal in Indiana." Already legal in so many states. I wouldn't make bets on that statement pal. Just look at the money Colorado is raking in. But then again some of our elected state officials really aren't too bright.



http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/02/16/senator-right-farm-protect-pot-growers/23505443/

Ted Carter

February 9 at 11:05am · 

Local politics make a bigger difference in our Daily Lives. Public Schools are under attack.I wont do this very often on Facebook, but this issue is dear and close to my heart and affects everyone of us on a daily basis. Much unlike national issues. Before its all said and done our tax dollars will be funding private and for profit education and class discrimination, based upon ability to pay the differences that vouchers don't make up, will take place.

Indiana House to vote on school Superintendent bill

A measure to prevent Indiana's School Superintendent from automatically becoming the State Board of Education Chairman is up for a vote.

WNDU.COM|BY NEWSCENTER 16

Way to go BO!!

" "My preference would have been to solve all these problems in the context of a larger agreement, a bigger deal, a grand bargain, whatever you want to call it," Obama said. "But with this Congress, that was obviously a little too much to hope for at this time."

Atta boy Barak, yes this little tidbit was aimed right at Eric Cantors little camp of radicals, and they knew it too. Below comments from the Cantor Camp...

Some Republicans were incensed. “If Obama’s goal was to harm the process and make going over the cliff more likely, he’s succeeding,” tweeted Doug Heye, a top aide to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Virginia Republican. 

Eric and his little band of Koch Brother groupies have done nothing but hurt this country and stick it to the middle class. I use to say that the Tea Baggers hate poor people,l but I was wrong. They hate the middle class. They like poor people because they can force them to live and work in substandard conditions that will increase their bottom line.

ref:  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/progress-cited-as-fiscal-cliff-deadline-nears-2012-12-31


and  

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-fiscal-cliff-before-you-go-to-your-new-years-party/266734/

More on the KOCH Buddies ... Old letter to the Editor

Dear Mr Editor,

I see the Koch Brother's Americans for Prosperity bus made a stop in Warsaw recently. Evidently it doesn't take much to make the front page of the paper these days. I guess there really isn't much else happening in the world so this is big news. I must question just how grass roots a movement is when it is founded by Billionaires in a effort to push taxes even lower than they are now when you consider that they are already historically the lowest they have been for the last 50 years. When you take that into consideration in combination with the 2 wars we are still fighting, how could you not conclude that to implement spending cuts with even more tax cuts in an effort to reduce the national debt as anything but sheer folly. That would be like me asking my boss for a reduction in pay and telling my family they will have to go without food 2 days a week in order pay more on my credit card bill. It would be insane. So when it comes to prosperity whose prosperity are they talking about? Not mine, but definitely the multi-billionaire oligarchy behind all these so called grass root movements.

We need to realize that a person so in love with money that they make it to the billionaire stage is logically unlikely to spend millions of dollars in an effort to help or appear to want to help the lower classes unless there is some sort of payoff for their investment. The economic freedom they speak about has little to do with re industrializing the United States as much as it does to increasing the bottom line. Which is ridiculous when most major corporations and investment groups seem to get out of paying most of their taxes anyway. Our tax code is so full of loopholes and corporate welfare programs it pays to keep an army of tax lawyers around just to avoid paying any taxes at all. Perhaps it should be called Americans for Prosperity of Offshore Corporations. For example an excerpt from ABC News: "GE's success at avoiding taxes is nothing short of extraordinary. The company earned $14.2 billion in profits in 2010, but it paid not a penny in taxes because the bulk of those profits, some $9 billion, were offshore.”  Wow... Do we really want to elect a President whose experience at Bain Capital has led him in this exact same direction?

Romney's 47% comments weren't off the cuff or taken out of context, they were heartfelt. A glimpse into the motivations behind the ultra wealthy who are bankrolling these grass root movements. They exhibit a complete chosen ignorance of the struggles of the poor and middle class, which is bad enough, but they were also an example of the sheer contempt that the Anti Obama financial backers really have for the same people they have deceived into championing their cause.

Ted Carter

Leesburg

My Buddy Mourdock ... Oh yeah he lost HANDS DOWN

Dear Mr Editor,

      Jack Jack Jack, if the shoe fits ... as for name calling, a rose by any other name ... be it extremism, obstinacy, partisanship, or even prejudice, all words that pop up on Roget's Thesaurus when you type in fanaticism. Given Richard Mourdock's recent statement on the political mind control network Fox News, that "I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view", we know that if elected he will be sure to contribute to the uncompromising Washington gridlock that most Americans have grown sick of. Seems rather fanatical to me.  In regards to the Pension money you refer to, I'm sure our public employees appreciate the state Republicans weakening of the ability to collectively bargain with their employers to try to make that up. Maybe Mourdock could take that $300 million he lost and found as Indiana State Treasurer and donate it back to our local firefighters, police and teachers, now that we are a "Right to Work for Less" state. As for paying our fair share of taxes why don't you and your Silent no more buddies trot down to your local pulpit and suggest revoking your own 501 (c) (3) status so you can just holler your heads off about how you need to start legislating morality through the due process of a Christian form of shariah law. For an affiliation who claims a political monopoly on Christ, the Tea Party and Silent no more bunch come off as uncompassionate, mean spirited and down right heartless when it comes to the plight of poor people in this country.

I usually avoid calling out the writers of the letters I disagree with by name, but felt driven to express an opposition to Monica Boyer's letter in support of the neophyte Mourdock, with a letter in support of Richard Lugar, an elder statesman considered one of the foremost experts on foreign policy as he is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and was its chairman from 1985 to 1987 and 2003 to 2007. Much of Richard Lugar's work in the Senate was toward the dismantling of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons around the world. Something we should not dismiss so offhandedly.

Sincerely, Ted Carter

Leesburg