different demographics

"Every state has different demographics, every state has different problems," said Senator Orin Hatch of the health care reform effort while speaking to a Republican student group at Utah State University on Friday. "It's good to allow them to work out their own problems rather than a one-size-fits-all federal government dumb-ass program. It really is an awful piece of crap." (msnbc.com)

Senator Hatch is a Mormon and his state of Utah had a whole different standard for those who were Mormons as to their definition of marriage. The politicos and the Church elders had to conform to the standards of the other states to even consider joining the Union. Seems the greater good of the Utah Territory was to abide by a Federal consensus to enjoy all of the perks of belonging to the United States. There was at the time, a greater good that had to supersede the smaller habit.

Within the demographics of the Southern states a whole different idea of who should be a free man and who should be a slave existed.The Confederacy worked out their differences by creating something called a Civil War. Then in the 60’s the southern states also had a whole different idea about who should drink from a fountain, sit at counter and go to a public school according to their demographic needs. The Southern states said they had a whole different demographic and needed to be respected in their form of segregation, equal but separate was okay for the Southern states and too bad if the Liberal Northern states didn’t agree.

In 1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton realized that women were citizens of the United States and as citizens should have the same voting rights as men. They realized that this issue was greater then each state to determine, according to their demographics, if women had the right to vote. But the male dominated Federal government didn’t agree. The chauvinistic men in government seemed to be afraid of the power of women and refused to make this issue a Federal right. So slowly and slower some states agreed for the women’s right to vote and if you didn’t live in those states you were a second class citizen. As Senator Hatch proudly proclaims each state has their own problems, so I guess as a woman in the mid 1800’s you were no problem by not voting and would have been a greater problem if you were equal to men.

Anti-miscegenation laws, also known as miscegenation laws, were laws that enforced racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalizing interracial marriage and sometimes also sex between members of two different “races.” Typically defining miscegenation as a felony, these laws prohibited the solemnization of weddings between persons of different races and prohibited the officiating of such ceremonies. Sometimes, the individuals attempting to marry would not be held guilty of miscegenation itself, but felony charges of adultery or fornication would be brought against them instead. (Wikipedia)

Seems using Senator Hatch’s logic, each state has its own set of circumstances and until 1967, when the Supreme Court held that laws against mixed marriages was unconstitutional , each state could dictate who it deemed as second class citizens based primarily on religious dogma bigotry and bias. Dogmas remained the states right, until the Supreme Court ruled interracial marriage was not at the whim of the unique hatred of each state and proclaimed each state did not have the right to discrimination.

Senator Hatch is trying hard to win the favor of the Tea Bag Movement. He had been put on notice when his ex counter-part in the Senate, Bob Bennett was relieved as the Republican candidate during the 2010 election for not being considered bigoted and biased enough. Senator hatch was warned you had better hate harder. Senator Hatch as matter of self preservation has little to do with thinking via his conscience, and more to do with just a self serving need for power regardless of truth or value.

The leadership of the Tea Bag movement takes little time to read history or look at a greater good. They rely on hearsay and say they want smaller government but not when it comes to how we live our personal lives. Big government is okay when it denies, health care, a clean environment, marriage rights, women’s reproductive rights and union’s rights including collective bargaining. Many of the leaders within the Republican party, having no backbone nor a clear conscience acquiesce to the desires of a band of hoodlums who want to highjack the Constitution and the freedoms it presents all of the citizens of the US.

Senator Hatch who touts himself as a true American and a religious man is a phony. When he uses words like ‘each state has different demographics’, he is simply saying not all people are created equal. And as both a religious man and an American he is a sham of a human being.

If this country considers all of its citizens as equal under the law, then the law must enforce equality no matter in which state you live!

safer now

Seems Governor Walker of Wisconsin had contemplated, along with his Republican/Bagger Legislators about bringing in some hired hands to... kind of, sort of, almost add a little violence and pay for goons to cause harm while the peaceful workers protested union bashing. It had been discussed as a tactic to be used, because peaceful organizing, free speech, the right to gather are way too Democrat like and of course way too democratic.

A Congressman, Paul Broun, in Georgia held a town hall meeting, Mr. Broun a man elected to represent the people of Georgia as a part of our Federal Government, was elected to uphold the Constitution of this nation and abide by its laws. Low and behold an elderly man asked the question to Mr. Broun 'who is going to shoot Obama'. This Republican/Bagger Congressman did not stop his speech, point a finger at this elderly man, ask the police to escort the elderly man out of the room, or even stop his prepared remarks to say something like you are Un-American, Un-Christianor Un-Real, instead he added his own comments hopefully we will have a new President next year and continued speaking to his audience.

Ex Attorney General of Kansas Phil Klein used his elected office to open private health documents of women seeking legal abortions in his state. He found this personal and private information by using state paid employees to track down, in an illegal manner, using everything from using license plates to identify names and then finding addresses to send members of his Attorneys General Staff to their homes. He used his position as states Attorney General to discriminate against law abiding citizens bully them and intimidate them. He is on trial for ethics charges and smugly says he would do it all again.

During the rise of Nationalist Socialist Party in Germany brown shirted men were sent to roam the streets, bars, neighborhoods to help persuade the crowd to follow the lead of the government. In Tiananmen Square in Beijing the Government sent in soldiers in tanks to silence the crowd of protesters. In Kent Ohio, President Nixon sent in the Ohio National Guard to stop, even with force any Viet Nam protestors from organizing. In Egypt, during the first days of the uprising in Cairo, President Mubarak had his police fire into the crowd. In Tripoli today, Qaddafi has hired mercenaries to shoot innocent people requesting democracy in Libya.

In world history and sadly in American history violence, force and bullying by Governments has been a ready remedy to stop free speech, free right to congregate, and free expression of opposition. In the history of mankind, the fear of dissent has always seemed so great so powerful that Popes, Presidents, Royalty those demigods needed it to fight and fight hard at it ever finding a place at their table. Violence has been used as an excuse in many ways... as a message from God, a God given right, as necessary before any dialogue taking place, as the foundation to sustain the state.

In America 2011, we have a Governor and his legislators considering hiring people to cause chaos and disrupt peaceful protests. We have a southern Congressman who permitted a constituent to ask the question about who will shoot the President without protesting that illegal and immoral question. In the Midwest we an Attorney General ignoring his own responsibility to follow the law allowing his staff to suggest and intimidate innocent women.

In America 2011 we have people who call themselves Republicans, Tea Baggers who swear they know the Constitution, believe in the writing of the New Testament, swear they are more red, white and blue then any other person, and yet they rely on the treat of violence, the use of violence, and violent actions to get their way.

In 2010 we elected most of these people into office. Now that it is 2011 do you feel safer now?

so

So, the cause of all state budgets to be in such a deep deficit situation, is the fact that unions exist in state government, and in fact that those same unions are provided with the right to hold collective bargaining. So, in the same states whose budgets are suffering from deficits, the wealthy citizen has been given tax breaks, not asked to pay his/her fair share but somehow their elegant life style motivated by more money in their personal accounts have little to do with trying to balance a states budget.

So, unemployment is almost at 10% and job growth at its lowest. Businesses and corporations have registered some of the highest profits on record and seemingly have bank accounts filled with dollars in the trillions. But with all the good news for their P/L statements ALL of the same corporations are afraid to begin the process of hiring new workers. More profit, more income but somehow all of that capital is not even enough to pitch in, and do their part, (and now that the activist Republican judges of the Supreme Court have permitted for corporations to act like citizens), they do not want to do their red, white and blue part and make some sacrifices.

So, even though history as proven as it did with many of the New Deal programs that construction and infrastructure help stimulate the economy by hiring workers, buying products, many of the Republican/Bagger Governors refuse to spend any money on beginning those projects. Bullet trains, light rail, transportation systems that will lessen America from using more oil, permit cleaner environments, reduce the stress of commuting, but somehow all of that good stuff is not good enough because the bottom-line goodies of the Oil Cartel who lobby and contribute to the Republican/Bagger Governors might be affected and reduced. It is kind of like the prostitute who pleases the sugar daddy so he/she can continue to live in the penthouse.

So, as the New Testament is carried and quoted, and the voices of the Republican/Baggers try and emulate their version of Jesus, laws are trying to be passed in Iowa, that killing abortion providers is okay, carrying guns on Texas campuses is good, and child labor laws in Missouri need to be disbanded and ended. As chorus’s of “its’ for the children” sung by choirs of Republican/Baggers ring throughout the right wing concert halls, cut backs in education, denying loving LGBT partners in a family from officially marrying, repeal of universal health from establishing any roots, and the denial of parent education prenatal preparedness, mothers health are being slammed and shut down. . And in the same voices the Republican/Baggers say they are doing God’s work.

So in 2010 you stayed home on election day, protested by not voting, hated the Dems./Progressives because they didn’t do enough, voted for the Republicans/Baggers cause you thought since you weren’t a Muslim, Gay, in a Union, a Women they had your best interests at heart. So, you think this will all pass over, much ado about nothing, it doesn’t really affect me.

So, the shame of the matter is that anything but speaking and acting on the truth is happening in this nation. So, the shame of the matter is that democracy has been hijacked with false promises, misguided allegiance, and any kind of bogus, bigotry, bias, racism, sexism, homophobia Christian crusade techniques that those in the Republican/Bagger army can be handed by people as Un-American as the Koch Brothers and their band of right wing, self serving billionaires.

So, chaos is consuming America wonder if you should do anything about it? Or maybe just saying so what… is sufficient enough? So?

suddenly

Suddenly, 8 years of Republican disregard for the reckless behavior of the Financial Markets, deregulation for the Banking Industry, nonexistent oversight for Wall Street causing a horrific recession, collapse in the housing prices, foreclosures and jobs losses, it is now the Unions and their right for collective bargaining who are to blame?

Suddenly after 8 years of Republican tax breaks for the wealthy, CEO’s of Wall Street and Corporations receiving millions of dollars in salary and bonuses, an increase in the division between the wealthy and poor grossly out of proportion, creating unemployment, less public services, more jobs outsourced, it is now those receiving social security, any kind of health coverage, those who teach in public schools being told they are the greedy ones and must cut back on any entitlement.

Suddenly with Republican/Baggers in the majority in the Congress, and most State Governments, jobs, jobs, jobs have been replaced with a mantra of social conservative interpretation of morals and values, division of church and state becoming nonexistent and replaced with this is a Christian nation, and entitlement to anyone but big corporations and the ultra wealthy being Un-American and a Socialist plot to take over this country.

Suddenly anyone working in a Union, worried about their own reproductive rights, equality in marriage, wanting fair and equitable health care is the scapegoat for the ills this nation had experienced during the 8 years of the Republican rule in this nations government. Suddenly solving the problem does not requiring understanding how the problem started and escalated it is instead dummied down to those who were victims in the first place now being accused of initiating the whole awful chain of events.

Suddenly Rush Limbaugh’s ignorant accusations and crude comments, Glenn Beck’s paranoid, bigoted mind, Sarah Palin’s misread and lack of understanding of both truth and history, are the guiding force as who will become the leadership of the Republican party and who in the Democratic party should be portrayed as evil, Nazi’s, Communists and non Christians. Suddenly a group of people with little allegiance to anyone but themselves, lack of understanding of the Constitution, receiving lobbyist money from people like the Koch Brothers, homophobes, Islama-phobes, racists, sexists are creating chaos and dissension never telling the truth but relying on lies and say they speak for America.

Suddenly we forget about Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon both with their enemies list stopping democracy in its tracks and replacing it with a dictatorial direction. Suddenly Roe v Wade is ignored and the rights given to women via the Supreme Court are useless and ignored. Suddenly after 60 years of collective bargaining, establishing fair and equitable ground rules in the work place, for women and children are to be tossed and removed. Suddenly hard answers are replaced with easy scapegoats; difficult choices for all Americans are reduced to blaming the poor, the middle class the worker. Suddenly the answer to all democratic problems you do not like is to carry a gun. Suddenly those whose own greed and gluttony are no longer held for accountability and anyone else is better to blame.

If we do not take back the democratic principals this country was founded on, reading the Constitution looking for our rights not the dissolution of rights, stating that equality for all is the what makes America great, then suddenly we will not recognize the United States of America as anything but a Christian nation full of white people, working at the whims of billionaires, having separate not equal population of citizens, filled with hate and distrust.

Don’t believe it, easy to find…they started with the Gays, then the Mexicans, then the Muslims, then the Blacks, then the Women and then the Unions. Wonder who will be next, suddenly?

whose america?

Whose America are we becoming?

Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin wishes to do away with collective bargaining and hopefully disband unions. He wants to balance his states budget on the backs of teachers, maintenance workers, garbage collectors, correctional facility guards and any other group that earns a lower to middle class income. He says it is not a political maneuver, but in eliminating collective bargaining rights for unions, somehow the Governor has exempted the three unions which backed his campaign, local law enforcement, fire employees and state troopers. He says it is not about politics but somehow in balancing the budget, corporations and the ultra wealthy, vast contributors to his campaign will still receive tax breaks. Scary, that in their zeal to oust the Democrats and Progressives in Wisconsin the voters who did vote replaced the Liberals with a form of government using tactics that Hitler used in methodically turning his country into a Fascist state with no room for compromise.

In trying to become more Christian than Jesus, the Republican/Baggers have put notice to the country that Planned Parenthood would be on the chopping block for government funding. Small minded bigots who promised jobs, jobs, jobs and smaller government now want to expand their form of large government by controlling the reproductive rights of women. If any of these zealots would spend more time in reading the mission of Planned Parenthood and less time in finding passages from the New Testament to replace the passages in the Constitution, they would understand that Planned Parenthood educates women on the responsibility in having children and how to be responsible parents. That Planned Parenthood conducts health exams for women who have little to no health insurance. That Planned Parenthood is called Planned because it educates families on how to be loving, caring parents. Scary, in their zeal to fire the Progressives/Liberals in the Congress the voters who did vote have elected politicians who want to enlarge the government and establish morals police to govern how we have sex, with whom we have sex, and what how we treat our bodies.

“So be it”! House Speaker John Boehner said last Tuesday that the GOP plans to “get serious” about government spending, and if that means eliminating government jobs, “so be it.” If unemployment is already nearing 10% it doesn’t matter if we fire government employees, especially if they are jobs created by President Obama. Only Republican created jobs count and as of this date no new proposals for jobs has even been proposed by the Republican/Baggers. The deficit is big, but cutting jobs and entitlement programs is the only way to solve our problems so say the Republican/Baggers. Never mind that many of the cuts to the lower and middle class come from the expense generated by not increasing taxes for the ultra wealthy, or stopping tax breaks for oil companies, nope, those two groups pay for the campaigns of the Republican/Baggers. The party elected on the promise of jobs, jobs, jobs has spent their first weeks in office reciting an abridged version of the Constitution leaving out the parts they didn’t care for, planning on denying the Constitutional rights for women to have abortions, and trying hard to cut collective bargaining for union workers and trying to block honest “fair and balanced” radio and public television from receiving any government funds. Scary, in their zeal to eliminate any laws created by the Progressives/Liberals, in Congress, the voters who did vote elected politicians who believe the rich rule, the worker is a socialist, women once again are mere chattel and honest debate based on facts not heresy are not American values.

Whose America are we becoming when a smaller government is promised but not when it comes to the version of morals and values of self stated profits of God. Whose America are we becoming when health care, wages, social security for the majority of middle to lower class citizens is traded away so the top 2%of the wealthiest can keep more of their money? Whose America are we becoming when compromise, consent are replaced with my way or the highway, I am right and you are wrong, the Bible has more precedent than the Constitution? Whose America is it when lies replace truth, fiction replaces fact, and rewriting history to have it happen the way you wish is front and center and preached to a low intelligent community who base reality on what they see on FOX TV?

And whose America have we let this nation become, because many of us did NOT vote in the last election, thought our votes did not matter, wanted to vote the bums without thinking about the bums we voted in?

If the sane, the intelligent, the caring, democracy loving citizens in this nation do not stop the radical right from establishing the ground rules, this America will stop being the home of the free, the land of the brave. If we are removed from voting because we think our vote does not matter just whose America will this country become?

President's Day

It is President's Day, 2011, and as we celebrate this holiday the countries in North Africa are staging a revolution trying to bring democracy to places in the world that have not seen the light of freedom for quite awhile. While in America we are seeing the exact opposite, with the Republican/Baggers trying to squelch any type of choices, freedoms or free thinking. In 2010 those who voted staged a rebellion of sorts electing into office people who promised a change, but only want to change this country into a Christian state, owned by billionaires creating chasms and chaos for the citizens of this great nation.

We heard all about jobs in this country and on President's Day we witness a Republican/Bagger Governor in Wisconsin funded by the Koch Brothers wanting to disband organized labor and rid the American public of any safety net that provides safe work places, fair wages, and equal opportunities and wanting to diminish any equity for those who still have jobs.

On President's Day we hear less about jobs and more about a Christian conservative plan to enforce their brand of family values and good Christian values. We hear from Missouri State Sen. Jane Cunningham (R) introducing a bill to minimize child labor laws. Family values but have the child in your family work longer hours and at more dangerous jobs. The constant denial of same sex couples to marry and have an in tack family, adopting kids who otherwise would remain in an orphanage or foster care home. Quite the Christian values when kids don't have the safety net of a legitimized household, or are denied a long lasting love by parents who want to share love for kids who seem to be tossed and tattered.

On Presidents Day we have Health Care Reform treated by the Republican/Baggers as evil for America. We hear how unconstitutional it is for all Americans to have access to fairly priced health insurance, but hear very little about the outrageous profits garnered by the for profit health insurers. We hear about how the average American must make sacrifices but very little about how the top 2% of ultra wealthy Americans can't have their tax bracket increase. We hear how bad the unemployment rate is and in the same breath are read the trillions of dollars just sitting in the coffers by corporations, who are not quite sure they are ready to take those profits and hire more workers.

On President's Day we watch a slew of potential Republican/Bagger people wanting to run for President, each spouting a more divisive and partisan platform on how certain people in this country will not matter if they are elected. We hear from Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi who isn't sure of the true cause of the Civil War, saying slavery was not the reason we went to war. Tim Pawlenty catering to the bigots by not saying the President is a citizen, but by saying if he says so then maybe he is. Donald Trump saying he does not like to do business with the Chinese. Newt Gingrich saying all Muslims must not be trusted as many of them might, just might be terrorists. Mike Huckabee stating this is a Christian country founded by the founding fathers without any separation between church and state. And these are just the tip of the iceberg of the division-ist and dividers from the Republican/Bagger party who want to become President.

It is President's Day in America, and with all that the Republican/Baggers are promising if they gain greater majorities in the Government I am so worried that all that past Presidents fought for will diminish and die.

arrogance

Arrogance is never noticed by the ignorant. It is many times misinterpreted as sticking up for one's rights, or speaking loudly all the privately held biased and bigoted thoughts hidden inside your small visioned world, or just statements supposedly being spoken on behalf of the downtrodden.

Arrogance is a manner of speech used by powerful people who want to maintain control over others. They never want to earn the power they hold, but need to deny power to anyone else.

Arrogance is quoting selected scenarios from the Bible, choosing selections you want to teach but ignoring the rest of the lesson your limited passage supposes. Arrogance is stating that only you are the receiver of God's message, and that God speaks only to your morals and ethics.

Arrogance is saying that rape is not really RAPE and in most cases that in fact women are to blame for a man's God given right to claim his chattel. Arrogance is slaughtering doctors who perform abortions for women who for personal reasons request them, saying as they load their guns, its for the kids, but then never spend one minute more on the welfare of that child when he/she is born into poverty or a broken home.

Arrogance is to stand on your soapbox and spew hate for unions, poor people, unemployed saying they are freeloaders, lazy,Un-American as you secretly receive lobbyist dollars from billionaires who know nothing but the black ink of their bottom lines. Arrogance is to speak about the Constitution as you deny rights for people living in this country who don't look like you, pray like you have sex like you and speak like you.

Arrogance is being Gay and saying that issues like marriage equality don't really count it's a state by state issue. Arrogance is being Gay and just because you are in the closet and self loathing assume other Gays should be the same. Arrogance is being a man and defining family planning, reproductive rights for the female assuming it is just a female silly fling like hot flashes when they must endure an abortion. Arrogance is saying, jobs, jobs, jobs, deficit, deficit, deficit and spending your time trying to stop health care for most, reproductive rights for women, breaking unions, denying gay marriage, and re-defining the separation of church and state. Arrogance is fooling the lemming and patting yourself on the back for just how stupid they seem.

Arrogance is the smug attitude of those who decided not to vote in the last election saying who cares, or they are all bums, or whatever happens in politics does not affect me. Arrogance is looking at this country in 2011 and not doing anything to stop the madness.

Arrogance is never noticed by the ignorant and accepted by the insecure.