Hey Republicans, where are the jobs?

When the Republicans ran for office last year all we heard was, creating jobs and lower taxes. So far they have been a complete failure at both, unless you happen to be rich. The Republicans have used their new found majorities in federal and state houses to push their social agenda and tax relief for the ultra rich and corporations. They have pushed at every level to break unions and villainize the American middle class worker. Right now there is legislation in at least twelve states to limit or destroy collective bargaining for unions. Here in my own state, Florida, they are trying to make it illegal for the state to collect union dues from paychecks and keep the unions from using funds to contribute to political groups. The majority of funds from unions go to Democrats and the Republicans are trying to stop this. After last years Supreme Court decision, that allows corporate contributions, that go primarily to Republicans, that are basically unchecked and with out stock holder approval, the Republicans will have a hugh advantage in campaign funds. They will make unions get approval to spend money on campaigns. Corporations do not have to get approval. This is all about politics. In several states they are pushing moral issues, such as abortion and birth control, to reflect a small minority's view. The Republicans campaign on getting government out of your lives and yet they want to determine a women's right to choose. They campaign on de-regulation and yet the only thing they make easier is the way corporation and Wall St. steal from us. They campaign on lower taxes and yet they continue to only make a difference for the very rich. They campaign on reducing the deficit and yet they take money from education and the poorest people and do nothing to limit the hugh tax credits for corporations that are costing us hundreds of billions of dollars. They campaign on job creation and they have not done one thing to create jobs for middle America. They allow the same companies that stole billions of dollars from us to continue unchecked, while they rake in record profits. When are the American people going to wake up and take control. I am starting to fear that they won't until it is too late. They are amused with U-Tube, Face Book, Twitter and the myriad of other social media. This is like a David Copperfield show, the elite keep us all occupied in the direction of entertainment, while they continue to plunder and destroy the Middle Class. They are succeeding and we are letting them do it. Welcome to the new world order.

Kiss your children goodbye, now. They are being prepared to die in wars.

When we started our two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ten plus years ago, the young men and women, who are serving now were only 7 or 8 years old. When their parents tucked them in bed at night do you think they were thinking about the future soldiers that lay safely in their beds?  When you tuck your child in bed tonight I want you to think of the thousands of American parents who no longer can kiss their children on the head and whisper, "I love you", because they were taken in action on a battlefield far from home and the security of their bed. Usually as a soldier lay dying, they are thinking of their families and even call out, in vain, for them. Think of how much the parents, would have given up,  to be there to comfort their child to hold their heads in their hands, to kiss their foreheads one last time, as they took their last breath on that dirt covered road. They will never have that chance. You may never have that chance. That small child that you love so deeply is going to be the next child, in a ditch so far away from home because, YOU, did not care enough to stand up and stop the wars. You did not feel it would affect you. Wars, happen and there are times that we have to stand for something bigger and more enduring then ourselves. This is not the time. Today show your children that you love them above all else. Send this to everyone you know and implore them to send it on to everyone they know. We have to pressure our leaders to stop the wars and stop getting involved in more wars. We have to look at our children and decide that they will not join the growing list of children dieing alone, without us. Think of yourself standing at your door as a millitary officer hands you that letter that starts, "We regret to inform you". Millions of parents around our country have recieved this letter. I don't want you, or me to be the next.