Nine Days And The Deadbeat Dad is still in Congress

Day nine and nobody in Congress has brought up the fact that "Deadbeat Dad" Joe Walsh still has his seat in Congress. I am waiting for the outcry from his fellow lawmakers, or is that lawbreakers, to demand Walsh step down. No wonder our country has the problems we are facing. The very people who claim to make and uphold the laws of America are busy ignoring them. Congress sets itself above the very people it is supposed to serve. They are there to set examples and to obey laws, not break them. Everybody reading this should pass it on to their friends and relatives. Joe Walsh should become the poster child for deadbeat Dad's (parents) across the country. He owes over $117,000 and counting. One of the reasons we all pay more in taxes is people like Walsh, ignore their responsibilities to pay for and raise their children. Deadbeat parents all over the country have to be asking themselves, "Why do I have to pay if members of Congress are allowed to slide by?" Joe Walsh, from Illinois, you are a deadbeat Dad and the time has come to RESIGN.

Day Eight and Congressman Joe Walsh Is Still Here!

Eight days ago on July 28th Illinois, Congressman Joe Walsh was sued for $117,000, nonpayment of child support. I am still waiting for the outrage from the right. I am still wondering why, when a federal law has been violated, a Congressman still gets to sit in his seat. Each day I will make everyone aware of his refusal to take responsibility for his own children. I do not want to hear that he has not had any hearings on the matter.  Anthony Weiner was guilty of taking pictures of himself in his underwear and lying about it. Where was his hearing? There was only the relentless, right pounding on him to resign. Pictures of a man in his underwear is funny, sad, stupid, immoral, ridiculous, sophomoric, childish, repulsive and any other term you want to assign to it, but it is NOT ILLEGAL. Failure to pay child support is both immoral and illegal. Joe Walsh you must resign, now.

The New Republican Solution. Tax The Poor!

    Just when I think I have heard the stupidest solutions to our economy, some fool steps up and reminds me that we can sink even lower. Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, actually stood on the Senate floor yesterday and advocated the idea that we should look to the poor and working poor in order to solve our problems. He talked about the top 1% pays 38% of the taxes. What he fails to mention is that top elite group may pay a large amount of our total taxes, but they make so much money and yet their proportionate share is very small. In other words they still have huge amounts of money left over after paying taxes. So "snake oil" salesman, Mr. Hatch decided that the poor need to make up the difference and pay more in taxes.
    The working poor in this country are people that go out to work every day. They may even work two jobs to make ends meet, but because of low wages they are never able to get ahead. Think about this for a moment. People work full time jobs, but live below the poverty level. How is this possible? To find the answer, just look at the profit sheet of the large corporations in America. How do they keep profits so high? They pay Americans 8 to 12 dollars an hour. They ship jobs overseas, where the rate is even lower. They keep profits high by breaking the backs of average people and paying them less then a living wage. Then they pay off the politicians that give them a special tax break and behold enormous profits. Big bonuses for the upper management. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
    Now this would not be such a large problem except that they are selling the idea that we need to reduce the tax burden on the wealthiest and then they will create jobs. They tell us these jobs are well paying. They tell us that we are over regulating and over taxing the. "job creators" and this is the problem we face. To this I say, "BS".  For fifty plus years we have been drinking that Koolaid. For fifty plus years they have cut taxes, deregulate and reduced regulations, that were supposed to then trickle down to the average American and we would all have prosperity. How has this worked out for us? The disparity between the rich and the poor has widened to the greatest level in history. They have convinced middle class Americans that our neighbors are the problem. They have convinced middle class Americans that unions are the problem. They have convinced middle class Americans that higher taxes on wealthy and corporations are the problem. They have convinced middle class Americans that they should lower their expectations, so the richest can enjoy a better life and that soon this money will flow back to us. This is nothing more then the fleecing of middle class Americans.
    What can we do? For openers we can start educating ourselves. We can start looking beyond the one liners and see the facts. We have to get America back to work and by back to work, I mean with good paying jobs. Jobs that pay 15 to 20 dollars an hour and more. Jobs that provide benefits. Jobs that allow the middle class to expand and grow. Jobs that will allow the poor to move up in the economy of America and become part of the solution instead of, part of the problem. Jobs that rebuild America and modernize our country. It is time we start thinking about how to better ourselves. I guarantee that corporate America is more then happy if we continue with the direction we are going. They will continue to reap big profits and the middle class will continue to shrink. They laugh at the inability of Americans to work together for the improvement of all.
    We can start to turn the conversation from them to us. Start by sending this blog to everyone you know. Talk to your neighbors, fellow workers, church members, family and anyone else that you associate with. Move articles like this one to everyone. Take up the task to help educate those around you. Call out our political leaders and ask them, why they support special interests instead of working for you. Call out our corporate leaders and ask why are they sending American jobs to other countries and why are they finding ways to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. Call out the people around you and ask, why are the settling for less then what they deserve. Once again I am asking you to send this to others you know and get them moving.
    Corporate America and the wealthy elite rely on one premise. The American people have to continue buying their propaganda. Once we realize that this is all smoke and mirrors, they are out of business. They have brainwashed us into believing that what is best for them is best for us. It is not! Anyone, who knows me, knows that I am an optimist. I believe the best days are still in front of America. I know that given the choice Americans will meet the challenge and do the right thing. At this point in our history we need leadership more then anything else. We need to have a direction and a vision for us to strive toward. Unfortunately at this point in our history it is the one thing we are lacking. We then have to provide it for ourselves. We have to have that vision and direction so we can move forward. We cannot wait for our so called leaders, Republican or Democrats, we have to lead. So my advise my fellow Americans, is simple and direct. Start leading. It begins with you. Remember one voice can change the world. Be that voice.      

Joan Says If You Don't Agree With Me Shutup!

   I saw some statements on Face Book yesterday through a friend and of course I responded with my opinion. After a couple of back and forth statements, I invited the group to also come onto this blog and have more discussion. The lady that had started, with her own wrong statements, then blocked me from further responses. She stated that since I disagreed with her, I was blind and she did not want any left wing advertisements on her face book.
    Well Joan if you have the nerve, our if any of the other people involved want to hear a different opinion, here it is. You are the greatest threat to our Constitution. Ignorance and a closed mind. You feel that the only way to address a difference is to shut people up. I happen to feel that the only way we can solve our differences is to allow them to have a voice, even if we disagree. Oh wait isn't that a foundation to our Constitution. She not only accused me of being blind but also anyone that would dare to not follow her logic.  My friend and the publisher of SOG Oracle, Jon, wrote last week about the movement to fire Pat Buchanan from MSNBC. He stated very well the point that we all have a Constitutional right to speak and that even if we strongly disagree we should not silence them. I feel the same way about Rush, Glen, Sarah, Michelle, etc. They have a right and I should not try and silence them and neither should you. The first Amendment to the Constitution gives us this right. Too many times when people disagree with someone they try and shut them off. Why? Are they afraid they may find an area they can agree on? Are they afraid they may learn something, they didn't know before? Oh, perish the thought. We may learn something from someone and actually expand our knowledge. Well Joan you made it clear that Democrats are on the same level as street vermin, but you know what. I would rather live with that vermin then live in a country run by bigoted, small minded, uneducated people like you. Stay in your own little world, but while you remain ignorant, the rest of us will learn from each other. While you and your type regress, the rest of us will move forward. There is no doubt that in my mind the greatest threat to the American Constitution is people like you.

Congressman Joe Walsh Republican from Illinois should resign NOW!!!

    Tea Party favorite Joe Walsh from Illinois is violating a federal parental support law and needs to resign from Congress. A few months ago many people, including myself, stated that Rep Anthony Weiner from N.Y. should resign over the lies he stated when he was caught up in an online photo scandal. Weiner stepped down amid harsh rhetoric from all sides. He had lost the trust of the people.
    Joe Walsh has not only violated the trust of the people, he has broken the same federal laws he is supposed to uphold. Walsh is being sued for back child support in the amount of  $117,000. Of course right on schedule, his Tea Party supporters are claiming this is nothing more than a political attack. Let me see if I have this correct. A Congressman sends pictures of himself in his under ware to an adult. Does not break any laws and is hounded into resigning. Another Congressman fails to pay child support and violates federal law and yet it is nothing more then a political attack. Walsh is nothing more then a sleazy, deadbeat Dad. he cares more about himself then the children he fathered. He is a law breaker and we do not need people like him in the halls of Congress.  Where is the Republican outrage over this? Where is the Tea Party outrage over this?  I understand that we have an economic crisis at this time, however last week Congressman Wu, a Democrat, from Oregon resigned because he had made unwanted sexual advances. The difference in both cases are that the two that resigned were Democrats and Walsh is a Republican. When I stated, Weiner must resign, I noted that when Republicans were entangled in scandals, they were permitted to stay on for longer periods of time and this is unfair. I am stating emphatically, Joe Walsh is a criminal, both legally and morally and the time to resign is now.   
     

What Are We Leaving To Our Children and Grandchildren? NOTHING!

I am constantly hearing politicians state that we are leaving our children and grandchildren an enormous debt to deal with. They really don't care about future generations, they only care about the wealth and power they can accumulate for themselves. What we are leaving for the next group of Americans is, a once proud and great country, that has been destroyed and brought to it's knees by greed corruption and the inability to accomplish something that will benefit all Americans. The, "me", generation is leaving, an uneducated society, an infrastructure that is collapsing around us, corporations that do not make anything of value, prevalent greed, pollution, an inability to think, an attitude of defeatism, no sense of national pride, debt and, maybe worse of all, no leadership and direction on how to accomplish the big things we need, in order to regain our place in the world's economies.  We sit and wring our collective hands, just as our leaders do, waiting for someone else to devise a solution. While we sit, China is fast becoming the dominate force around the world. We are losing the economic war and instead of attacking the source of this war, we fight between each other. The communists in China are accomplishing what the Soviet Union failed to do and they are doing it with our help. Yes, we are helping with our money, but more importantly we are helping them by forgetting how to accomplish anything. We have spent months arguing about whether we should pay for the money we have spent, instead of focusing on solutions to create good paying jobs. Raise the God Damn debt ceiling and then let's start putting America back to work.
  Start by doing to China the same thing they do to us. Make it too expensive for companies to build in China and export to America. Give incentives to companies, who manufacture here and sell it at a decent profit, as long as they use American workers and pay them good wages and benefits. We could help these companies, by having health care that is not tied to our jobs. This would decrease the cost of benefits. Look at all trade agreements and if it does not benefit the American worker, we do not honor it. Give workers a real and fair opportunity to join unions and have collective bargaining. Give power and a voice back to workers, not to the corporations, that make huge profits off of our sweat and sacrifices. Look at regulation and make common sense approaches, to clean air and water. Make the regulations fit the industry and work for the good of American people, not to create loopholes for payoffs and corruption.
   We have to start campaign finance reform that will get the corruption out of our political process. No more private money, period. We could have public money and each candidate will get the same amount to run for an office. They can learn to live within their means and budget money based in this way. If you are elected or work for a politician, you will not be able to work for lobbyist. We need people to lobby for a particular point of view, however, we need the loudest voice for the average American. For too long our voices have been the silent ones.
    Tax reform will also have to be addressed. NO MORE LOOPHOLES!!!!! We should first eliminate the loopholes for everyone. Corporations and individuals. Then leave rates where they are for the time being and use the money, explicitly for paying off the national debt. Once the debt is paid off we will, first, build a surplus, then look at scaling back rates, however we will always leave a little something for savings.
    The only changes to Social Security is to eliminate the cut off point for high wage earners. If you receive a paycheck you will pay SS tax on the entire amount you make per year. If we have to, in order to preserve future generation's Social Security, we will have small increases to our payroll taxes for this purpose. Remember once we pay off the debt taxes will go down, so this will be offset. I do not want to hear about taxing and spending, this is for average Americans. We can adjust the age to receive benefits as the life expectancy increases, however we will keep in mind what type of work someone does before we move their retirement ages back. If you are like me and spent most of your time in an office, and are in good health, the age can be pushed back a couple of years. If on the other hand, you worked as a coal miner that age can be brought forward. See, common sense and fairness. It would work.
   We will look at education and infrastructure. We will examine our schools and start the process of changing them from a test taking environment to a place of learning. We will show our children and young people how to think and develop, instead of teaching for some achievement test. From early learning straight through college or technical school, we will spend what ever we need to once again become the highest educated people on the planet. we will leave no stone unturned until this is accomplished and maintained.
   We need to place people in jobs that rebuild our roads, electrical grids, high speed rail, mass transit, schools, bridges, dams, energy systems and every other infrastructure project we can think of. We need to rebuild America. This will provide high paying jobs that will provide higher tax revenues, that will create more jobs to supply the new homes, cars, furniture, appliances, electronics and all other items we need for modern life.  
   What are the alternatives? We could continue this downward trend until we become an after thought in the world. We can abdicate our position to China and acknowledge that Communism is the way to lead. We can become a third world nation and look for handouts from other countries. You decide. This is my vision and it only scratches the surface of ideas I have. What is your vision. In the days to come I will talk about ways we can work to change our visions to reality. Until then, get pissed off about our current direction and decide to work toward a new and better America for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren.

Economic Terrorists

I have only one thing to say about the Tea Party members in Congress. They are the equivalent of economic terrorists. They have demanded that either everything goes the way they want or they will drive the entire country off the cliff and dash it on the rocky coast below. They are standing by as our 401k's shrink. The jobs they promised are not appearing because THEY have placed such uncertainty on the businesses of America. The spectre of a collapsing American economy has not made them rethink their position. It is their way or chaos. Simply put if we default the interest rate will increase and we will then owe several trillion dollars more in debt. The very thing they say they will fight, debt, we increase because of their stupidity. Remember the "cold war". Everyone decided that if their was mutual destruction, nobody would pull the trigger. Well guess what the Tea Party folks are more then willing to pull that trigger and set off the destruction of the country they pretend to love.  While the Tea Party is out to destroy America the Republicans are the willing accomplices. They voted to have a law that will only allow tax increases if a two thirds majority votes to do so. On the other hand they can cut spending on programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid with only a fifty percent majority. This should tell you all you need to know about the Republicans and Tea Party. They will protect the millionaires and billionaires, Oh I am sorry according to the people on the right, they are job creators. They will cut from middle class Americans, oh wait again, we are the entitlement people. We feel that we should get all this money from Social Security, even though we have paid into it for 40 or 50 years. What should happen is every member of Congress, who voted for this piece of garbage bill, should resign. There is no longer a pretense by the right, about who they support. They have sold out the American people  to the highest bidder. That bidder is the wealthy elite. We should make note of who voted for this bill tonight and make sure they never get elected to another office in this country. Are they economic terrorist? Absolutely!