Middle Class and Poor: Time To Sacrifice

 

   After our so-called President Obama left us in the cellar with his cave in to the Republicans with those extended Bush tax cuts to the rich and powerful, we will now be told that it is time for us to make a few sacrifices in order to curtail the deficit. Those who will be doing ALL of the sacrificing will be the working poor and the middle class of America. The Republicrats are finally going to begin the dismantling of our social safety nets.

   For those of you who voted for more of the Reagan,Bush,Republican agenda, you will have what you have been asking for. For those senior citizens who thought that Obama wasn’t doing things fast enough for you,you will also get what you asked for. That will be cuts in Social Security and Medicare. You will now have the joy of paying even more for your medicines and premiums.

  Those of you who do have some common sense, DO NOT AGREE TO SACRIFICE!

by bink

Here it comes ...

Press Sec. Gibbs was on cable yesterday (no transcript available) saying that now that we've cut taxes, we need to address the deficits, a sure sign that spending will be slashed on programs that are valuable to Americans.

This is really bad news.

Republicans are celebrating.

Cuts to the social safety net are on the table.

Democrats will sadly agree that we can no longer afford to have the kind of quality of life that Americans have been used to for the last 50 years.

Nothing will be shielded from scrutiny when it comes to finding programs to cut, not even the sacred promise of Social Security.

I'm asking you to resist.

Don't let them do it.

Don't agree to this.

Don't let them slash poverty relief programs before the rich give up their wars.

Don't let them take away health care assistance before the rich give up their corporate welfare programs.

Most importantly:

Don't let them cut apart Social Security and other programs for the disabled and elderly.  Don't let them do it without a fight.

We'll be asked to "be serious."

To "act like adults."

To make "hard decisions."

The President, Congress, the Beltway and the media are going to start screaming at the top of their lungs, demanding that we sacrifice more so that the rich can have more -- more than any rich have ever imagined in the history of human civilization.

We gotta find a way to say no.

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“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” John McCain’s View From Fantasy Island

 

   This is another post where I am not going to say much. Just listen to this over the hill sack of shit.

 

Technorati Tags: DADT,Republicans,John McCain,News,Civil Rights,Current Events,U.S. Military,Liberals

Bank Of America Stops Handling WikiLeaks Payments…

 

…and this would be of no surprise to anyone on the planet since it appears that the next target of WikiLeaks is assumed to be one of the major banks in the United States, Bank of America.

    Bank of America, following in the steps of MasterCard and PayPal, offered basically the same response for the processing shut down as the other company’s have.

“Bank of America joins in the actions previously announced by MasterCard, PayPal, Visa Europe and others and will not process transactions of any type that we have reason to believe are intended for WikiLeaks,” the bank said in a statement Friday.

“This decision is based upon our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments.”

     Next question is,will this piece of crap bank be the target of of hackers,as was the case with MasterCard and Visa? Security experts think that the bank would be hard to knock off-line,as they are supposed to have very tight security.

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Political Humor: The Friday Funnies

 

   This has been what I consider a bad week for the Democrats, which I think also makes it a bad week for the citizens of America.

  As you all know, the Republicans in the United States Senate held America hostage over those tax cuts for their wealthy friends and corporations by refusing to extend unemployment benefits for the millions of you who have not been able to find a job which would maybe pay you enough to cover your living expenses.

   President Obama grew into one of those Republicants by accepting as few crumbs for both you and myself,which will do none of us any good over the long haul. He did succeed in helping his Republicant Party in adding close to a trillion dollars to our already massive deficit.     Time for a few political jokes.

Conan O'Brien:

"Today President Obama met with a group of top CEOs to discuss creating new jobs. They said they'd see what they could do and then all went back to China."

"Someone apparently found an old Internet dating profile posted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and it has been posted online. Assange was furious, saying 'Some things are supposed to be private.'"

Jay Leno:

"Two feet of snow in the Midwest. But the good news is, these are the first shovel-ready jobs Obama has come up with since becoming president."

"Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year. They said he has single-handedly changed the way we waste time at work."

''We all know there is a long tradition of great nations importing foreign workers to do their farm work. After all, it was the ancient Israelites who built the first food pyramids. ... But this is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American. Then sliced by a Guatemalan, and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.'' —Stephen Colbert, testifying before Congress on behalf of the United Farm Workers Union, which was pushing an agriculture jobs bill to give illegal immigrant farm workers a path to citizenship

''Say what you want, it's great branding. Way better than CNN's 'If You're Watching This, Your Flight's Been Canceled.'' —Jon Stewart on Fox News' ''Fair and Balanced'' slogan

                            Political Humor

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