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emaycee
Showing posts with label Patriot Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patriot Act. Show all posts
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Nothing up my sleeve...
I'm having a real hard time getting worked up over the President's scandalous week. Whether it's Benghazi (as President Obama said, it's brutally obvious there's no there, there), the IRS scandal (really? these Tea Party groups are basically fronts for the filthy rich to make them richer and the rest of us poorer with the government paying for their additional wealth), or the AP scandal (any politician or reporter screaming about this, who wasn't screaming for a vote against the Patriot Act, should be bitch slapped) it's just a lot of republican bullshit to deflect us from inconvenient facts,
Chief of which would be this: a recent study showed that from 2009-2011 the net worth of the richest 7% of Americans increased 28%, while for the lower 93% it decreased 4%. We're not talking we just got less of it than the ultra-wealthy--we got fucking none of it.
And what republicans would prefer that none of us know is that they have done nothing to help the lower 93% and they never will. It would be easy to blame it on their utter incompetence in governing, but the plain truth of the matter is that they don't give a fuck about ordinary Americans--they haven't since at least Reagan was in the White House.
Sleight of hand is cute when it's Bullwinkle J. Moose, but not so much when people can't feed their families.
Peace,
emaycee
Chief of which would be this: a recent study showed that from 2009-2011 the net worth of the richest 7% of Americans increased 28%, while for the lower 93% it decreased 4%. We're not talking we just got less of it than the ultra-wealthy--we got fucking none of it.
And what republicans would prefer that none of us know is that they have done nothing to help the lower 93% and they never will. It would be easy to blame it on their utter incompetence in governing, but the plain truth of the matter is that they don't give a fuck about ordinary Americans--they haven't since at least Reagan was in the White House.
Sleight of hand is cute when it's Bullwinkle J. Moose, but not so much when people can't feed their families.
Peace,
emaycee
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Thanks, but I'll pass
If Labor Day is one of my favorites days of the year, this is one of my least.
A moment of silence or remembrance for those who were killed or gave their lives in service to their country and fellow Americans on 9/11/01 is certainly a noble effort. As for the rest...you can have it.
For newspapers and edutainment channels, it's become just another way to make money. Frankly, after ten years there is neither anything new nor anything of genuine interest to add. They should save their "what the day means to you" stories for the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, MLK Day, or Labor Day.
In many respects, Bin Laden's efforts have succeeded. Thanks to republicans, Americans are more divided than ever since 9/11--and that division is downright rancorous. Our moral compass has been shattered: we let a President lie us into an unnecessary war that killed thousands of Americans and never held him to account; we turned a blind eye to torture and are a lesser nation for it. We chewed up and spit out our precious freedoms, enacting civil rights killing measures like the Patriot Act and giving the Presidency untold power to spy on us. Ten years ago, the tea party would not have been considered mainstream--they would have been called what they are: a lunatic fringe hell bent on the further destruction of America.
But Bin Laden's greatest success has been the financial ruin that is the American economy since 9/11. Over a trillion dollars has been spent on two largely failed wars yet one quarter of our children now live in poverty.
Billions have been spent on Homeland Security and further increasing an already bloated Defense budget, yet our roads and schools are falling apart. In fear, too many Americans helped to elect people who promised to protect them but whose main objective was to lower the standard of living for the many and imcrease it for the wealthy few. Unemployment in America is over 9% and underemployment is over 16%, yet Sen. Kyl is threatening to quit the Catfood Commission II if there are any more cuts to the Defense Budget. Want to guess the odds of one of the six Democrats on the Super Committee threatening to quit over cuts to the Social Safety Net? Thanks to Citizens United, corporations can now effectively buy our elections--too many of us shrug our shoulders because, hey, we can still afford the cable and cell phone bills and never mind the shrinking middle class, the backbone of our country, and the fact that most of us are a medical crisis away from financial ruin.
Patriots Day? No, thanks--I'll say a prayer for the innocents and heroes killed on 9/11/01 and spend the rest of my time working on the progressive values that make America greater and not so much on the lip service that has lessened our country over the past ten years.
Peace,
emaycee
A moment of silence or remembrance for those who were killed or gave their lives in service to their country and fellow Americans on 9/11/01 is certainly a noble effort. As for the rest...you can have it.
For newspapers and edutainment channels, it's become just another way to make money. Frankly, after ten years there is neither anything new nor anything of genuine interest to add. They should save their "what the day means to you" stories for the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, MLK Day, or Labor Day.
In many respects, Bin Laden's efforts have succeeded. Thanks to republicans, Americans are more divided than ever since 9/11--and that division is downright rancorous. Our moral compass has been shattered: we let a President lie us into an unnecessary war that killed thousands of Americans and never held him to account; we turned a blind eye to torture and are a lesser nation for it. We chewed up and spit out our precious freedoms, enacting civil rights killing measures like the Patriot Act and giving the Presidency untold power to spy on us. Ten years ago, the tea party would not have been considered mainstream--they would have been called what they are: a lunatic fringe hell bent on the further destruction of America.
But Bin Laden's greatest success has been the financial ruin that is the American economy since 9/11. Over a trillion dollars has been spent on two largely failed wars yet one quarter of our children now live in poverty.
Billions have been spent on Homeland Security and further increasing an already bloated Defense budget, yet our roads and schools are falling apart. In fear, too many Americans helped to elect people who promised to protect them but whose main objective was to lower the standard of living for the many and imcrease it for the wealthy few. Unemployment in America is over 9% and underemployment is over 16%, yet Sen. Kyl is threatening to quit the Catfood Commission II if there are any more cuts to the Defense Budget. Want to guess the odds of one of the six Democrats on the Super Committee threatening to quit over cuts to the Social Safety Net? Thanks to Citizens United, corporations can now effectively buy our elections--too many of us shrug our shoulders because, hey, we can still afford the cable and cell phone bills and never mind the shrinking middle class, the backbone of our country, and the fact that most of us are a medical crisis away from financial ruin.
Patriots Day? No, thanks--I'll say a prayer for the innocents and heroes killed on 9/11/01 and spend the rest of my time working on the progressive values that make America greater and not so much on the lip service that has lessened our country over the past ten years.
Peace,
emaycee
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