Time to Fight for Health

My middle son starts Kindergarten this week. I wonder if my little boy will grow up in a Country that values his health more then they value a profit. I started to feel a little angry, at first at the GOP for their lies and slander and then at Democrats. Democrats like me. We should be at town halls yelling. We should be protesting, putting ads on TV. We want Universal health care with a public option then we need to wake up and get busy. We need to stop relying on congress to do the will of the people because it seems those who yell the loudest get the most. It’s time to start yelling!! We have become lazy, and content in our Victory last November but Democracy does not end on election day. We need to stay diligent and continue doing our part for the Change we voted for. I don’t want to have to look at my children and tell them that when the opportunity was given, we failed to execute. We failed to fight. So who’s with me?

Reasons Why the Tea Party is a Shame

*All quotes are from the Tax Day Tea Party website.

“So here we are in April 2009. Our country faces a crisis caused by the unstoppable greed of the Big Union and Big Corporate interests that sponsor most of the corrupt politicians who run Washington, D.C.”

The organizers don’t really care about the “Big Corporate” interests. If they did there would have been outcry from the GOP (which seems to be the biggest supporter of the Tea Party movement) over Halliburton, and the Bush Administrations close relationship with Big Oil. Now suddenly, when a Democrats in office, there is outrage over Big Corporations. Just remember that the GOP congressman (and woman) that are sponsoring this grass roots movement certainly have corporate ties that have generously donated to their campaigns.

“Those who prefer to live high off the hog of an extraordinarily large and intrusive federal government are doing everything they can right now to permanently cement into place government spending, procedures and policies that we will most likely never recover from.”

Permanently cement into place Government spending? I am pretty sure right now this administration is taking proactive (yes, I know, Government is normally reactive) action in fixing infrastructure, education, and health care that will save us an incredible amount of money in the end. Economists by and large fully support Government spending. There has only been debate on what that spending should be on, but there is no debate (except for the GOP, trying to get the rich richer) on if Government spending will help us out of a recession.

“You’ll pay for it. They’ll enjoy their federal government lifestyle.”

There not giving themselves raises, or buying lavish clothes, they are fixing problems that affect every American, to make our lives better.

Tying this event to the Boston Tea Party surely must make our founding fathers roll over in their graves. The purpose of the Boston Tea Party was to protest Taxation without Representation. We have Representation that WE as a country elected. We live in a democracy, where things like budgets are voted on.

Basically what this Tea Party is really about is a bunch of sore losers who are using people’s outrage about the abuses of Corporate America (which occurred due to deregulation, which happens to be a Republican principle). The GOP’s only proposal has been to INCREASE the tax cuts for the rich even further then they have been, putting more strain on the hard working middle class and have used every scare tactic they can think of about the Tax proposals from Obama; that will put the tax rate back as it was in the Clinton years. You know, when we finally got a sound economy and a budget surplus…but who wants that?

This Tea Party isn’t about the real hardworking Americans. It is not some bipartisan movement to give corporate America the middle finger. Don’t be fooled! It’s about the greed, and corruption of the GOP. Republicans, you have it wrong, that’s why the American people didn’t vote for you and if you keep pushing these principles and bad ideas, you are simply committing political suicide. Stop hating America and hoping for Obama’s failure, and stop manipulating middle America into believing your lies!

Politics is like Professional Wrestling

My husband made a comment the other day that made me chuckle.

“ *Bob has been listening to Rush. I told him ‘there’s your problem. Why would you listen to him? If anyone could understand politics, it should be you**…..because politics is just like professional wrestling. The results have been decided, it doesn’t matter who you vote for.”

While I don’t agree with the premise of that statement, it did make me think. Politics is a big show, Glitz and Glamor. There are ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guy’s, and we are all love a good match. We route for our favorites with passion and zealousness. A lot of the antics we see are well staged, written and plotted. It’s hard to say there isn’t an acting element to it. Plus, the smack talking…oh there is so much smack talking. So I guess, maybe politics is like professional wrestling. I don’t think the results are fixed, but there is definitely sometimes a lot more show than substance. Plus there are a few politicians that I would like to see get body slammed….

*Names have been changed to protect the innocent
** ‘Bob’ is a huge professional wrestling fan.