on the list

Lists have always been an American tradition. Lists were made to show things special, things not so special, and things especially mentioned as good or bad, right from wrong, the same or different.

In the 50's Eugene McCarthy had his of "commies", Nixon had his list of enemies. Kathy Griffin has the "D" List, Logo gives the ultimate gay list the "A" List, Football writers give us the AP List of top college football teams, and David Letterman dredges up his "Top 10" list.

And now for the over two million unemployed Americans, (who for most are unemployed because of the inept, self serving laws enforced by the Bush/Cheney Dictatorship with help from the Republican Congress People), there is a new list brought to America by the Republican/Tea Baggers. It is the Not Good Enough To Be An American List.

This Not Good Enough To Be An American List (NGETBAA) has a long list of perceived enemies of the state. With the help of the Evangelical Christians those proclaiming God speaks to them directly, FOX Pac the we make up news as we go along group, Tea Baggers funded by millionaires, and spineless soulless Republicans and Neo Cons this list is full of scapegoats, villains and cause for the shortcomings of the losers who create these lists.

Uppity Blacks, Homosexuals, Non-Uppity Blacks, Muslims, Aliens, Aliens who are illegal, Mexicans, the ones who chop off heads in the deserts of Arizona, Gays serving in the military, the ones who dare wear a uniform and dress in drag when they can and patrol the shower stalls, Unions, those communists like folk who want a fair salary, University grads especially if they graduated from an uppity Ivy League University, Non Evangelical Christians Catholics maybe Mormons but then again Glenn Beck is a Mormon, Jews unless they all want to move to Israel so the second coming can already come, women the ones who want equal pay for equal work, abortion clinics, abortion doctors are already on the NGETBAA List. And now with the carelessness and callousness of the Republican/Tea Baggers in Congress Unemployed Americans who want to have their unemployment benefits extended are new additions to the evil doers and demons.

As some Congress people have stated..."unemployment checks keep people from looking for work... unemployed people use their up to $300 a week to take vacations...if an unemployed person wants to work he/she can find a job"... and the best response is that extending paying the at least two million unemployed their unemployment check will add to the deficit and hurt the economy for our children and grandchildren.(Never worry that the children and grandchildren of the unemployed are severely suffering now). (But the Republican/Tea Baggers never mention that not eliminating the Bush Tax Cuts for the upper echelon of millionaires and billionaires will add over seven billion dollars of deficit and did nothing for the past 8 years to spur hiring.)

The Republican/Tea Bagger List of NGETBAA is full of boogie men scarier than any Hollywood film studio could envision. It is full of scorn and hate for anyone wanting the American dream. It is full of folks so necessary to be the fall guys/gals for the incompetent selfish lying bastards who only serve in public service to serve themselves.

Lists... throughout this country we have relied on Lists to keep some fenced in and some fenced out, to keep we from they to keep us from ever finding common ground.

Welcome to the NGETBAA List the six million unemployed Americans for now you have taken the weight of hate off my back as a Jewish Gay man. At least for the time being there are 'worser', wrong doers than I.