This week saw the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the death of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. It also saw Mitt Romney's reaction to the tragic events, which was to the 2012 campaign what John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin was to 2008 -- the kind of desperate act that makes even one's allies worry about their candidate's fitness to lead. It's a bell that cannot be unrung. The week also brought word that over 46 million Americans remained below the poverty line last year, while a new study found that poverty is "nearly invisible in U.S. media coverage of the 2012 election." When you have 46 million people living in poverty and neither the candidates nor the media want to talk about it, you know the American Dream is in serious trouble.
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It is indeed a bell that cannot be unrung...
For it is The Death Knell of the GOP's 2012 presidential campaign!
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11563-obama-says-one-thing-in-spotlight-another-behind-closed-doors
I'm sure Romney would totally approve
What will happen to all these kids, elderly, handicapped, mentally ill and working poor when those sad safety nets are gone?
Are all these relegious zealots, who spout family values, going to adopt homeless families into their homes or perhaps find them places to live and furnish the home and pay the bills? Will their churches do more than make quilts for the homeless? Will each and everyone of them donate to keep a fragile elderly person in the nursing home, as we do with no kill shelters for animals? Will each good "Christian" family take in a battered woman and her children? Will they generously donate weekly to the food banks or just start soup kitchens in every town in America? Will they counsel the mentally ill and prevent suicides? Will there be one of them who will hold the hand of a young rape victim when she go to the ER? I have so many questions what will happen!
As good Christians they are obligated by the teachings of Christ to take care of their neighbors. Do you think they will?
I am afraid. I am very afraid.
However there is an aspect of American politics that deserves mention. The last 50 years has seen America slip into a groove that is worrisome. The trend started earlier however with the Soviets in Germany causing a phobia against communism and anything remotely akin to it. The so-called Social-Studies, in schools, incriminated Communism and Socialism to the point of the dumbing down of other political systems and putting the American capitalism on a pedestal it never really deserved.
The result was a dangerous cold-war that almost escalated into nuclear war, the War in Vietnam and a status of ignorance of the American public as to what other countries have to govern themselves with. Not to mention insane distrust and dislike of anything remotely connected with “socialism”. Ask any average American what he/she knows of socialism and you will see what I mean.
A perfect example of this ignorance is exhibited by those Americans who openly say “stop socialism” and who would protect their Medicare retirement pensions with their guns and their lives (without knowing it is socialist), but who would go to war against socialism.
America needs to rethink its Democracy. Ancient Rome had a form of democracy at one point, so did ancient Greece.
Several, well to do countries in Europe, have democracies with a socialistic twist to them, but the root is democracy. Capitalism, Free unbridled markets, Socialism, Communism, are but temporary and evolving forms of living in society.
Stop voting for people that do not know how to help poverty - only know how to create and enlarge poverty.
Vote Rep. Our future depends on new leadership
Remember 5% unemployment? Remember higher average wages? Remember before food stamp usage and disability payments were out of control? Remember gas prices below 4$? Remember the Ambassador and three other Americans before they were killed because we have a weak or nonexistant foreign policy?
I'm guessing you think Mr. Romney is the answer as he knows how to cut, slice,dice and outsource companies to make a profit and then deposit the money offshore to avoid taxes. Like the ad says he's not a solution to the problem, he is the problem.
If you see the problem in terms of red and blue your color blind..
Obama is clearly not the answer so our only choice is someone who has taken failing companies and turned them around, taken an Olympics that was doomed and made it successful and run a state. Only thing Obama knew how to do before getting elected was community organize - ie: take from companies and make them give to those that he thought needed someone else to take care of them. He is still doing the same thing - taking tax payer money and giving it to his buds so they can misspend it - Solyndra, green energy, shovel ready jobs that were not so shovel ready, etc.
It is time that our government and greedy corporations wake up from their greed induced comas and work for the people that voted them into office, We the People of America.