November 7, 2009 

What Can You Do About Improving Our Congress?

The Political Stray harps on your knowing whether your reps fight FOR the people or AGAINST.

It doesn't get any easier than this.

Here is a link to the speeches about Health Care Reform right before the House voted. Click on it and check your rep.

I don't have to point out how bad the politicians are that vote to support a Health Care Non-System that allows thousands of us to die, do I?

Right. That's a bad thing and these people need to be voted OUT.

http://www.c-span.org/Health-Care-House-Debate.aspx

After you check, memorize how you need to vote in the next election, then go out into the kitchen and get a beer or some ice cream. YOU deserve it.

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The Political Stray Thought for the Day:

What Can We Do About This Outrageous Lying?

            How long did Martha Stewart spend in jail for lying about whether she did a bad or not? Scooter Libby got in trouble for that too. So did President Clinton.

            So why is it okay for our illustrious members of Congress to get up and tell outrageous lies?

            I’ve been watching the House “hearings” on CSPAN about health care reform. I know for a fact that some of what I’ve heard, particularly from the Republican side is untrue.

            Why are there different rules for Congress than there are for the rest of us?

            More importantly, what do we do about it?

            It’s very difficult to get Congress to pass a law that will hamper their political maneuvering. Could we get anything done through our courts?

            I don’t think we should settle for “Two Americas”,

            Do you?

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Senator Joe Lieberman

So...what about Joe Lieberman jumping off the health care reform wagon and onto the double-talk wagon?

Now we know how those women feel when they find out their husbands are serial killers and have bodies buried in the backyard.

"He seemed like such a nice guy..."

Risk Taking

I'm curious when folks with gray hair support a non-system that allows thousands to die needlessly. Whatever they feel about religion or karma, they're getting pretty close to finding out.

Now, THAT'S risk taking.

    Wide-eyed in Wonder,

    The Political Stray

Check out the new page: It's us or them 

Let me know what you think.

TPS

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Check out this link: These guys are too cool.

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In for A Penny...In for a Pound for Health Care

                  Normally I think this man needs therapy, well, after he'd been on a few months anyway. First Michael Moore, now Keith Olbermann. It's amazing what you can do when you try.

                The other night, Keith Olbermann did his whole show about health care. I'll warn you, it's pretty emotional, but it's says a lot of things that need to be heard.

                http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2009/10/olbermann-how-can-we-not-be-united-against-death.html#more

And You Want to be President?

By The Political Stray

            Quite by accident, the Huckabee show was on in the background at my house.

            I was astonished to see Huckabee using audience members and his own take on the still-to-be-written health care bill to get people to vote against their own interests by lying. His lie? That there would be large financial penalties and/or jail time for those people that didn’t participate in the new health care.

            As you know, I watched the Senate Finance Committee Hearings. There were few things the $$ people and the people-people agreed on, but one of them was no severe penalties for those that couldn’t afford to participate.

            How do we deal with people that are dishonest to promote their own interests?

            Aren’t these the same people that scream “murderer” at women trying to prevent the birth of child they’re not able to care for? Some of these are considered “Religious Fundamentalists”. What religion promotes over-the-top profits for a select few while others die from the lack of care?

            I’ll tell you which, none of them.

            This isn’t capitalism either. Capitalism encourages HONEST competition for business and may the best man win. That, by it’s very nature, has built-in protections for the common man. Writing the laws so that countries with far lower labor and production costs can pour their products into this country, undercutting our business people who are required to pay decent wages, taxes and whatever benefits they can scratch out – is promoting unfair competition against the best interests of your own country. Do I need to remind everyone what a treasure the American market is? (that's everything we purchase as a whole) Are you trying to tell me that we cannot "make it" successfully if we, as Americans have fair access to it?

              Why aren't we asking who is giving away the store? I'm not anti-import. I'm anti-unfair trade practices. We can import what we don't have or that which is tariffed to a point that makes it competitively fair. Making it personal for a second, I'm also sick to death of cheap imports that a little more than trash. I can't even find some of my favorite brands anymore.

                Recently, a friend of mine needed a huge quantity of custom-made bricks on short notice. There were a small number of companies large enough to handle this kind of order. Did you know that most of these companies had down-scaled so much that they couldn't accept this kind of windfall?

               Is that okay with you? It sure as hell is not okay with me.

            What kind of political system allows “lobbyists” to monopolize their politician’s ears while being paid by the ordinary tax payer?

            What has been happening in this country is that laws protecting the ordinary man have been quietly removed, the openings left are taken advantage of to the point of nearly bringing down the economy, not just of America , but the global economy as well.

            Don’t be fooled when the guilty parties crow about how legal it all is.  What has been and is taking place is by all standards illegal behavior, quietly made legal. This isn't the first time it's been done. Don’t you know loan sharks, illegal monopolies and price gouging when you see them? Yes, you knew it looked familiar, didn’t you?

            Now, through the health care profit-mongering, these people have graduated to negligent homicide. These people that stand and fight for a system that allows so many to die, don’t make me as angry as much as they make my skin crawl.

            Someone complained the other day because some are calling the health care crisis a "holocaust". Thousands of Americans are dying needlessly. What is that, if not a "holocaust"? Holocaust was a word before it was applied to Hitler's vicious handiwork.

            Any law written that violates the fundamental rights of the American public as set forth in the Constitution is not valid – no matter who writes it. Where are our lawyers? Are they all on the side of the illegal lawmakers? I’ll give you a hint, go to the web sites that tell who contributes to our politician’s campaigns and see how much the legal profession contributes.

               No. I don’t think all lawyers are bad, but the good ones are far too quiet when we really need them.

            How much longer are you going to just sit there and say you don’t have time to see exactly how your Congressman and Senator vote?

             As long as we do nothing, we are part of the problem.

  Watching with Amazement and Queasiness,

   The Political Stray

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I Repeat:

AMERICANS DON'T NEED HEALTH INSURANCE.

AMERICANS NEED REASONABLY PRICED HEALTH CARE.

We also want our doctors back in charge of our health care.

Not lawyers

Not Insurance people.

  Yes. I am shouting because no one in Congress seems to be listening.

The Political Stray

Pigs Are Flying Over A Frozen Hell!

The Political Stray has fallen into step with Michael Moore.

Check It Out:

http://michaelmoore.com/

I just can't talk about it yet. (sigh) I'm still getting over the shock.

 TPS

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The only Senator on the Finance Committee that seems to have read the same civics and history books I did is Rockefeller. I daresay I like this man.

Where Did They Get Those Numbers?

Ever wonder where some of these anti-public nurks get their poll numbers? Me too. I don't know - BUT I can tell you this much:

I got lots of polls to fill out UNTIL I decided who I was voting on for President. Once I voiced that in a couple of polls, they stopped coming entirely until after the election.

'Zat help?

     The Political Stray

     nodding and uh-huhing..

A Shifty-Eyed, Furtive Senate...

or is it just me?

I'm watching the Senate hearing on health care. (September 30) Did you listen to Cornyn and Enzi? Yeah. If ever there were a couple of guys in need of a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past, these guys are it.

Not hard to picture them, once they're out of office and minus any tidy retirement package, wandering the streets with a hat in their hand. If it's up to them, they won't be able to see a doctor for their exposure either.

'Nuff said.

                                                    September 30, 2009

Don't Say I Didn't Warn You

I'm hearing more and more about "behavior" related illness. You better get ready for someone to decide what you eat, smoke or how much exercise you do. Don't think so? Look at how SChip has been largely funded by raising taxes on cigarettes.

Wait and see. They're going to put all the responsibility for illness on lil' ol'you.

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It's As Plain as Day - Stop Complicating the Obvious.             

                          Americans need health care, not health insurance.

                         For cost control, volume buying with elimination of the middle man is "no-brainer".

                            Any sympathy I might have had for the insurance companies is alleviated by the knowledge that they can live well for a long time on what they have earned through their stunningly immoral business techniques in the last decade.

                        If government responsibility doesn't include preventing the greedy from making outrageous profit on something we ALL need, what does it include? A government's primary responsibility is the care of it's people. End of story.

                      When people stand on soapboxes promoting a non-system that allows thousands of Americans to die needlessly, they obviously think they are going to live forever and that there are no repercussions after this life is over. I think they need to ask themselves not how they feel about God, but how He might feel about them. Look around you. Doesn't it all seem pretty organized to be "an accident"?

 Unrelentingly Yours,

  The Political Stray

September 21, 2009

Is The Obama Administration Promoting Socialism? Don't Be Silly.

Grossly simplified, Socialism is a system that uses social and economic equality, collective decision-making, and public control of resources.

No one person has a higher status or salary than another - Everyone pools their money and collectively decides how to use it and all resources-that's why you keep hearing "government control".  By necessity, this places all resources in the hands a controlling segment of people although these people are supposed to act as the majority wishes.

Is the Obama administration promoting socialism? Of course not. The references are silly exaggerations to instill fear of government takeover in people.

The government control they last complained about was when the government wanted to put the laws back that protected us from our lenders. They're still trying to fix that, by the way.  Did you know that some of the lenders are returning to the practices that caused the whole mortgage mess in the first place? No. I didn't think you did.

Now it's the same bunch that want the right to charge us anything they want for medical care and coverage. No doubt the same types that invented insurance.

Insurance promotes out of control pricing. Have you noticed?

The largest part of insurance involves you paying someone a lot of money and them doing nothing in response. Brilliant.

Essentially, you are gambling. You're betting your money that something disastrous is going to happen. Sometimes it does. What happens then is a variable and not the point here. 

What you need to ask yourself is if this system is working. If not, why not?

How much of your pay check goes to paying people to do nothing for you?

After you answer that, look at your check again. How much is going to pay your political reps? That's your district's rep in the House and the one in the Senate. See? That's only two people you need to check on. Most of them are okay, but the bad ones are REALLY bad. 

I'll go get the tar and feathers.

Don't you think you need to check to see if you are paying them to rip you off?

Did your Congressman vote to not restrain the imports that put your Dad out of work?

Then did the same Congressman vote against providing an education for your Dad so he could learn another way to make a living?

Did he vote to tax that meager amount of Social Security your grandmother gets?

Did he take your money and give it to Volkswagen in order to get them to build a plant in your state and then scream about how much GM is paying your father-in-law? The thing they didn't tell you is that they included what was going out to pay for health care for retirees in their calculations when they said GM employees were making way more than others. In reality, the GM workers salary was only a dollar or two different than the foreign importers.

Well, they managed to get a huge percentage of GM workers on the public dime. That's certainly promoting this country's best interests, hm?

These things all really happened.

And it's getting worse because they're getting away with it.

Don't you think you ought to find out if your people are working for you or just the highest bidder?

Just  a thought,

TPS

Let the Political Stray be the one to say what so many are avoiding:

                            It makes me furious that Americans are dying for the lack of care. That's right.

                        I CARE THAT MY COUNTRYMEN - THAT I DON'T EVEN PERSONALLY KNOW - ARE NEEDLESSLY DYING!

                            There are no saints living at my house, rest assured of that. There doesn't need to be. This is "common human decency".

                             If my values only extend to the edges of my own life, well, that's a pretty sad standard. I'd like to think I'm better than that. I KNOW you're better than that.

                             I've had about enough of these big-mouthed "me-firsters". If you have one at home, could you put a quiet on 'em? Tell them they ought to be ashamed of themselves, because they ought to.

                             5000.00 injections for cancer patients put me way over the top.

                            I don't want insurance for ANY of us. 

                             I want reasonably priced health care for ALL of us. That means for ANYONE that needs it. America must not become a place where we step over bodies. 

                             If we're going to investigate profit margins, and I mean REAL investigations, then we'd better include big pharma in that. Why these guys haven't been arrested for price gouging yet is beyond me. I'm real curious about production cost vs price in all of that which is being held for ransom, but this should be one of the better ones. Admittedly though, it's hard to compete with two aspirin at 35.00.  

                              Get the damn middleman out.

                               I don't give a damn about the insurance companies.

                              I don't give a damn about shareholders.

                No doubt these people should be able to live on what they have made off the backs of their victims until they find new jobs.

                 How does your Senator vote? How does your Congressional Rep vote?

                   What is your retirement money doing? Are you financially supporting the people that get million dollar bonuses as they let people die? Demand to know.

                    All for one. One for All. That's how we do it.

   Now. Let's get on it.

    The Political Stray

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Free Speech-Not Manipulative Lies

I'm as pro free speech as the next guy. What I'm against is public lying-your-butt-off to influence people to vote against what's best for America.

Isn't that some kind of fraud? Planting well-paid liars in the blogs ? 

 Congressional Reps doing it and GETTING AWAY WITH IT...well, that's your fault and mine!

    For all of our sakes, Think. Look. Vote.

    TPS

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Okay. Here's your fun link for the day.

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Your Link for Think is

http://www.californiahealthline.org

Tells about how some doctors responded to a poll about healthcare changes.

How Do I Think Obama is Doing?

            I thought you'd never ask. He's doing (at least trying to) do exactly what he said he was going to do. I like that. He's got style too.

                 He knows that Americans dying from the lack of health care is wrong.

                 I know that too.

                  So do you.

                   This is a start. Not a silver-bullet-but until WE get rid of the wolves in Congress, a silver bullet just isn't going to fly.

                  So, I think Obama is doing a fine job.

August 16, 2009  

Towards Clarity on Health Care

Sometimes we understand things better when we "re-frame" them.

Let's say we all need cheeseburgers when we get sick.

Imagine that we had been paying other people a lot of money in case we need cheeseburgers, so they will buy them for us.

Let's say we find out that the price of cheeseburgers had risen to 500.00 each in the last few years.

And then we find out that Wall Street (your friend and mine, right?) had been urging investors to invest in cheeseburgers to turn a good profit. In fact, many that had been in the home mortgage game jumped ship to the cheeseburger market.

And cheeseburger BUYERS and makers were hanging out with our Congress pushing for laws that favor them.

Then our government starts calling for fairer cheeseburger buyers.

First, remember, we need cheeseburgers, not cheeseburger buyers.

In fact, the last few years of cheeseburger buying had given cheeseburger makers the perfect excuse to jack up their prices. Now that everyone is investing in cheeseburgers, there are many clever people whose job it is to increase the profits involved in selling cheeseburgers.

The people that are explaining the cheeseburger problems, the media,  all have cheeseburger commercials running.

Some people say that having cheeseburgers is a privilege, not a right. These people all have a lot of cheeseburgers of course. Many ladies with perfect makeup and nails cry out concerns about "government take over".

If the government is taking a big portion of your paycheck, just what do you have the right to expect? At least affordable cheeseburgers.

Are you really indifferent to your countrymen dying for the lack of cheeseburgers? Really? Because they are.

I care. I care a hell of a lot and I've got no problem admitting it. There are some really cool people in trouble out there. Regular people like you and me.

What's the problem here?

You are. I am. We've been ignoring everything our political reps do because it's easier to assume they'll care for us.

I've learned to watch these guys. Have you?

Truth is, there is a select group of people in our Congress that work harder for cheeseburger profiteers than they do you. In fact, you pay them over 160,000.00 a year with premium benefits to work against what's right for you. And they do. Because it pays well. Except that a large part of it is your money. Why is it hard for you to believe that?

Go see how your congressional reps voted on the issues that matter to you. The Washington Post keeps running records of how each member of Congress votes. Yep. I'd subscribe if I wasn't so poor from paying my dentist.

Remember, big companies with lots of investors with no objective outside of profit don't help bring prices down.

Greedy Wall Streeters, corrupt politician and snake-oil lawyers are shredding the quality of life in our beautiful country. When are we going to get tired enough of it to put our foot down?

Election day cometh.

We need profit margin control on cheeseburgers.

We DON'T need cheeseburger BUYERS. Middlemen cost money. We need to phase out cheeseburger buyers.

If your reps don't fight towards these eventual goals, dump 'em. Period.

For now, take what Obama is trying to get us. It's a good start.

Never let the law evolve so that things happen to others you wouldn't want happening to you, because eventually, they will.

All for one and one for all. Get back on track.

With all the sincerity I always put in my work for you,

The Political Stray

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     By the way, be careful what you believe when it comes to the "polls". Check out my  piece on the polls I answered until I made it clear how I felt about something, then they stopped asking. Their "results" however, still continued to be published.

 The PS

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 May 28, 2009

Think You Don't Have Time to Keep Up?

            American car companies are wobbling towards bankruptcy. There are millions of people employed by them and their various suppliers. Regardless of outcome, there are already thousands losing their jobs.

           Reducing it to it's lowest terms, how does having these Americans on the public dime make financial sense even to the most dense politician? Where's American unity here? Who promotes turning over the market for cars to foreign companies? Better look, the main culprits are politicians paid by you.

            Private lenders contributed thousands to politicians that changed the law so that the mortgage crisis could happen, in spite of historical evidence of what would happen. In fact, it had just happened to Sweden. Coincidentally, one of those laws was written by a politician that would eventually work for a Swiss bank when he was "finished" with his political career.

            Politicians removed restrictions on investing in commodities. (that's tangible goods like grain and OIL) Now investors force up the prices of oil through anonymous, phantom investing.

           Do you think the price of oil contributes to our car company woes?

           Now that the market has flown south, investors are flocking to invest in health care and insurance companies. Already the greed of these kind of investors are killing Americans through denial of care and other  various "moneysaving tactics".

            Our media frequently reports in a manner designed to elicit a desired reaction. Think they keep us informed? How much did your last prescription cost? What kind of commercials do you see the most when you watch the news?

            The money grabbers quietly peel back laws that protect you and me, our kids and our animals.

             Did you know that corporations pay people to go through the blogs and spout inaccurate information that influences opinion in their direction? Who goes through and gives the public and provides accurate information? The same as those that lobby congress in our best interests. No one.

              Yet, term after term, those responsible for these things are reelected. How politicians vote on important issues is a matter of public record, yet apparently we aren't bothering to check. Granted, a large number of politicians are doing their jobs, but there's also a substantial number that are little more than paid corporate shills.

                 So. If America is going through financial difficulty, (understatement) who is really to blame? None of this is rocket science folks. Better sit up and make time. Think for yourself and act accordingly. How bad does it have to get? Are we there yet?

                 I've written about these issues, including supporting information. I've shown you how to check out your politicians.

               God helps those that help themselves. I'm not giving up on you, I'll leave this information here – but until I can believe that it makes even the slightest difference, I'll have to use my time more productively. Maybe I'll do crossword puzzles.

Sincerely,

The Political Stray

The Power of the Individual

               There are a LOT of Americans. We have a LOT of buying power.

               How smart is it to hand over the market for cars to foreign car makers and to put the American car makers employees on the unemployment roles. How much should you trust a tax payer paid Politician that not only promotes this but tears at the unions that fight for worker's rights?

               You're being conned. Union people only make a buck or two more than non-union. The big costs come from health care and caring for the retired. Should Congress fight against caring for our health and old folks?

              If GM doesn't care for their own, who will? Yep. The taxpayers. That shouldn't be the reason you want the government to bail the car companies. It should be because it's the right thing to do. Americans caring for their own.

              I have an idea. Take back the tarp money from the bonus happy and foreign supporters. Give it to the car makers. It's the least Congress could  do. It was their legislation that is primarily responsible for the automakers current condition. Without the "oil crisis" and the lending crisis, the car companies would be on their feet.

  Watch, listen and learn - use your survival skills-you're being had,

 The Political Stray

  Get out there and Support American Workers

  Insist that the government slap some controls on health care profits  - let the human vultures find another place to feed.                                              

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Dear Regulars:  

I know this site needs to be archived and cleaned up. It's on my "to-do scroll". There's an illness in the family and I'm lucky I get here at all. Sheer dedication, that is.

TPS :)

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February 26, 2009

The World's Greatest Whitewash?

Check out North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxx talking about the people in danger of losing their homes. To hear her tell it, the poor lenders are but victims...

Don't trust me, see for yourself - click on the link below, then do a search (at the end of the page) on

Virginia Foxx

It's about mortgage reform/welfare mentality - she's wearing a blue jacket.

Video

I'm sure her attitude has nothing to do with the 10,000.00 the American Bankers Association gave her campaign. Right?

(this info on her page at opensecrets.org)

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Tired of Biased News and Misinformation?

It's a desert out there - populated with the under-researching and supreme irritants called pundits that are loaded with their own special interest motives or just not equipped for what they consider 'thinking'.

Get A breath of fresh air and real information for making decisions:

http://www.brookings.edu/Economy.aspx

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To see what the stimulus plan offers for homeowners 

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When Did Business Profits Become Destructive?

              There was a day when business walked hand-in-hand with a stronger state. When business did better, the government did better through increased tax revenue and most tax payer spending.

            How did that go wrong? The day that the government, tried to compensate for unexpected expenses and poor budgetary management by increasing taxes too much.

           Additionally, they eventually made it unfair for the ordinary businessman to operate when they, for reasons of their own, gave foriegn countries advantages over American businesses by not forcing importers to compensate for their natural currency and labor cost related differences.

           Americans doubling-back for personal profit by promoting those goods had and still has a lot to do with why it happened and still happens. That and using the American market as a bargaining chip in foreign affairs. (How can you give away something that's not yours?)

            This is so damaging to the country, it should be considered a form of treason. I'm not against trade, but if it's inherently unfair, that's profiteering at the expense of their countrymen. When politicians do it, it is at the very least, gross negligence of duty and should be treated accordingly.

          Now, because business so frequently sells parts of itself off to survive – creating stocks and "shareholders". People are hired to increase profits and they do just that. Unfortunately, because their vision doesn't include the future or the "collective", (meaning the rest of us) – their methods have wreaked havoc in our society.

            The profit seeking have given us medicine no one can afford and industries where we pay people just in case something bad happens. (insurance) Maybe it would have been smarter to not let prices to climb so high, we couldn't afford to pay them ourselves?

            The involvement of businessmen and shareholders are now more like a destructive infestation. Their involvement in medicine, which is increasing significantly as we speak, have led to thousands dying from lack of care.

            Look what operating with only increasing profits in mind did for the home mortgage industry.

            Stop believing everything you're told. That is NOT "free enterprise". What we've seen with the home mortgage disaster is plain, old fashioned fraud. Making it legal doesn't make it right. Clear your heads. The process of making the illegal and immoral legal is not a new one.

             What is shocking about it is the significant degree to which it appears the guilty have gotten away with it.

            For the people and legal divisions  of our government not to pursue this is to invite it to happen again as well. Ask any mother out there about whether that's true or not.

           
            Some say it would damage the country to take out the "questionable" politicians and those that participated in the fraud. Does that include whatever gain you might get by taking back what the perpetrators should not have gotten in the first place? What about leaving these people with power and responsibility? Does anyone really believe this will make us safer?

            One of the first steps of healing serious injuries is to remove disease causing bacteria. I cannot imagine proper healing without it.

            If we wise up and do this. Then our future is limitless.

            What if big business were to re-invest in rebuilding America's manufacturing base after our Congress levels the playing field? What is the potential there?

            For those invested in health care, what if they were to shift their emphasis from profit from high prices to profit via broad distribution, that is, higher number of sales?

            These are paths to consider. They would certainly be more constructive for the country.

              We will eventually fall apart at the seams if we don't remember that if the country falls from individuals concentrating solely on their own interests -  no amount of careful nest-feathering will keep them from falling as well.

              Maybe you and I need to start voting for people interested in promoting the interests of those that pay their wages. We need to stop rewarding our hit and run politicians by allowing them to move into lobbying against our best interests when they leave office.

              Maybe we need to insist that our reps remove the influence of the big bucks folks from our legislative process.

              Maybe we need to start paying attention and protect ourselves from the greedy wolves hiding amongst our decent Senators and Congresspeople.

            How bad does it have to get before you get mad enough to pay attention and follow through? Are you there yet? Mm-hm. I thought so.

            Go check the "Can you make a difference" page. It won't be nearly as painful as you think it will be.

Cheering you on,

The Political Stray

Lobbyist Delete

On every issue, there are lobbyists screaming demands into the ears

of the people we pay to care for us. Did you okay that? Neither did I.

Tell your reps: It's them or me.

Better yet, tell them: It's them or YOU.

and follow up on it.

Vote for the folks that hate it as much as we do.

February 17, 2009

Did you see Fox News bragging about being number one?

Hm. Sure I believe it. I watch them more than most of the others. I watch a lot of CNN too.

Being number one in news today is simply the least of evils. Nothing to brag about. I may like brussel sprouts better than liver, but you better have flying pigs if you're going to see me eat either one. Let's talk near starvation.

How bad is it? Watch the news. Is there a war on?

When did you hear about the peanut butter being contaminated? After many people had already died?

When did the problems that led to today's economic state actually begin? Who might have prevented it?

 You don't know, do you?

I rest my case.

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Check out our new pages:

"Take Me to Your Leader"

A more or less relaxed page on what our new President is up to.

"The Economic Plans - Hardcore Facts"

I'll post documents relevant to what the plans are for our economic recovery.

Free of all opinions, even the Political Stray's.

Not a page for baby political observers. It's all in Screen Door English - like reading and comprehending through a screen door: Filtered and fuzzy- feeling.  

I suspect this form of English evolved from folks suffering too much public and media browbeating.

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Governor Palin

(added long after the election)

                        Most of my regular readers know that I gave Sarah Palin a fair chance and eventually decided she wasn't ready for the job she was applying for. Her scope didn't extend far enough out in the world. Eventually, if she puts her mind to it, she could be a serious contender. She'd have to rewrite her image first  though.

                         Nonetheless, did you hear her when she cut loose on the media? Mm-hm. Well, I listened to her and here's your shocker:

 I support her one hundred percent.

                         especially when she was talking about how she would correct the media when they were stating facts that were not true, but they ignored her. They relentlessly pursued the "hot angle" or partisan viewpoint at the expense of the truth. I've seen them do this more than occasionally. Almost as often as we see them get tunnel vision so bad that it feels like we're in a media black out.

                       Palin complaint echoes mine about the media's constant insistence on attempting to choose our President for us. I heard one of them state that it was "their responsibility" to push us in the "right" direction. (grrrr)

                        When is the media going to remember how much we need the FACTS to run this country right?  When will they start being what they were meant to be by those that insisted on protection for a free press being written into the Constitution?

                        Journalism was once an honorable profession. Someday, it will be again. Yes. I really believe that.

                        I hope we can survive until then.

   Never surrender to being a profit-seeker over  a principle-keeper. It'll kill your soul.

   The Political Stray

                                        If I Behave, I'll Get More Promotion 

I've been told I have to take sides, Democrat or Republican or this page will never get noticed. And that I have to stop "picking on the media". Take that "License the Media" page down.

As you can see it's still there. I guess I'm just stubborn about some things. Like nagging at the media to elevate their standards again. Or believing that the "division" in America is little more than a media creation to promote chaos to help ad sales.

It's more important to be right than popular. What? Are they going to double the money I'm making here? Okay. Two times nothing is...?

  Rolling Eyes,

   The Political Stray

         Stop Nattering in Obama's Ear (and ours)

            Am I the only one that finds the Republican/Conservatives/Media's constant search to find fault with Barack Obama (and anyone connected to him) tedious, irritating and just generally "poor loser" behavior?

            Never mind. It was this constant belittling and attacking that made me turn in my "Democrat" badge during the last eight years. Problem is, I've got no nothing to give up this time…well, if you don't count votes.

            Yep. I'm a vote slut. I don't vote party. I vote for the people that I think care about my country and just as importantly, the people in it.

            I'm a little surprised that those southern Senators that are promoting voting against the auto industry are still allowed to use their state offices. Not just a "what people?" attitude, but an economically foolish one.

            Do you have any idea how much the autoworkers are adding to the tax base right now? Presto-changing that to unemployment output…mm…brilliant.

            Besides that, do you want someone that promotes Americans losing their jobs right before Christmas so that the foreign car manufacturers in their state thrive – in charge of anything important to you? That's some very ugly action.

            People matter to Americans. Time to remind these "me-firsters" of that. State priorities before national priorities? Not exactly. Some of them have GM plants in their state too.

            I'll bet those Senator's won't be campaigning at the UAW next election, eh? (chuckle)

            I support labor unions. We don't want corrupt unions but we DO want unions. You don't agree? Read the history of why we have them. It's like OSHA. I thought they were just put on earth to torment business owners until I read how they came into existence. I haven't uttered a complaint about them since. Never underestimate what some people will let happen to others in the name of profit.

            By the way, there's only a couple of bucks difference between GM and Toyota pay. Yep. You're getting twisted facts again. Better go check your source and scold them righteously.

            Check: the Heritage Foundation or The U.S. Chamber of Commerce for origins. Those are code names for the "I've got mine and to hell with yours" crowd. Just my opinion, of course.

Bad Example

               Am I the only amused by those that use the airlines as a positive example of successful bankruptcy restructuring?

            That's like using lawyers and politicians as an example of professions that the command public respect.

            Say a prayer tonight that it never seems like a good idea to ignore real public opinion when it comes to your business.

Peace and Power to ya,

The Political Stray

Drove Mah Chevy to the Levy...

             Anyone out there have a good memory of a time they had in an American car?

             Many years ago we dropped a 409 into a Chevy Impala and could blow the doors off of anything but a Porsche.

            What'd we get, 'bout 9 gallons to the mile?

             And it was fine.

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            Get the low down on the attempted mow down. Check our Auto Industry bailout page. Stand up for your fellow Americans. Don't let the politicians supporting import automakers con you this time.

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               Am I the only one that has noticed the "The Heritage Foundation" is a FAT CAT repubican front? Always offering their "experts" opinions.  What do they take us for?

 Shaking head in disgust,

 The Political Stray

Illinois Governor Arrested for Trying to Sell Obama's Senate Seat.

"This is a sad day for government. It's a very sad day for Illinois government," Fitzgerald (U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald) said at the news conference. "Governor Blagojevich has taken us to a new low . . . he attempted to sell the Senate seat, the Senate seat he had the sole right to appoint to replace President-elect Obama . . . The conduct would make Lincoln roll over in his grave."

(Check Washington Post for the hairy details.)

That's good for your daily jaw drop, hm?. (chuckle) I'm sorry. I know I shouldn't laugh, but cases of "Dumass" this severe always do that to me.  File it under "W" for "What the hell were you thinking…"

Take a good look at this case folks. Hold it up to the light and memorize it. I don't think it's the most damaging government behavior in the last twenty years, but by God, it's in the running for top spot for high-level stupidity in it's purest, crystal-clear form.

Trying to sell legislation for a children's hospital? Trying to sell one of the most closely watched open seats in the Senate - Obama's old seat?

I think Fitzgerald is wrong. This is a happy day for Illinois government. Makes you appreciate law enforcement. I wish more law enforcement would go for the big league players. It's the big league "rotten-to-the-core" types that damage us as a society. Large scale wrong-wrong-wrong.

What seems obvious to most of us, eludes the more self-oriented press. A nod of respect and a "well done" to the Chicago Tribune for sitting on the story and not blowing the case.

Did any of you hear the press conference?

            Sometimes the press will ask questions that are brilliant. Sometimes they make you cringe painfully because they are so idiotic. This was a painful cringe day. Somebody call a journalism professor.

            Does this make me more cynical about politics? Nah. This is a whole different level – there are always going to be people out there that think they can do anything they want and get away with it. Job security for the stoic and blue heroes. What's notable here as well is that the former Governor is in jail for corruption too.

            The folks I know from Illinois are honest to a fault. Hm. Maybe the Illinois people would appreciate the state being scrubbed and then dipped in disinfectant. I heard the Governor had an approval rating of 4%. This guy didn't fool the people. Once again, my favorite team, The People – are all over it. Yeah.

Power to the People - Wake up and take it back.

The Political Stray

The Obama-Rama

               It's a little dark in here, but there's a light over there…

            Some of you are asking what I think of Obama so far. (smiling)

            Well, I was trying to let him become President before I developed an opinion…

            But since you asked…

            I've always been optimistic when it comes to Americans being able to fix America's problems. Obama is just giving me ample justification for feeling that way.

            Great managers are few and far between, but I have seen them. And this is how they act.

Keeping a Good Thought,

The Political Stray

Speaking of Presidents,

            Bush-bashing is has become an activity to cover for being too lazy to research.

            I'll admit that there are things Bush did that really ticked me off, however,          there's a lot the man did right too --  not the least of which was doing exactly what I voted for him for-- making sure we didn't get hit again. I would still trust him with that.  Bush would find a way to walk on water if he saw a terrorist on the other side.

            Yeah. I know. You don't like that. That's alright. Here in America we can disagree without throwing childish tantrums – but feel free to have one if you like. I'm not too lazy to research and I've got a pretty good grasp on what President Bush was responsible for and how he did on those things.

            Here's my question for you:

                        How is YOUR Congressman and Senator when it comes to votes that affect you? Do they vote for the people or against them?

                        Do you know?

                        Well, how can we get better if we don't even know who is on our side? Let me assure you, not all of our congress behaves as if it was working for us.

Be a part of making America better. Find out. Election day will come again.

Sincerely on Your Side,

The Political Stray

The Political Stray congratulates Senator/President-elect Obama on his victory.

Senator: the time for work will come. Take your moment. Remember, your life was a gift from God. Show him you appreciate it by remembering to enjoy the fine moments. 

Obama's Victory Speech in Chicago

Hello, Chicago.

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.

It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.

We are, and always will be, the United States of America.

It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.  

It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America.

A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Sen. McCain.

Sen. McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And he's fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.

I congratulate him; I congratulate Gov. Palin for all that they've achieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.

I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on the train home to Delaware, the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.

And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady Michelle Obama.

Sasha and Malia I love you both more than you can imagine. And you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the new White House.

And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother's watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight. I know that my debt to them is beyond measure.

To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that you've given me. I am grateful to them.

And to my campaign manager, David Plouffe, the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best -- the best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of America.

To my chief strategist David Axelrod who's been a partner with me every step of the way.

To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done.

But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.

I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.

It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.

This is your victory.

And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me.

You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime -- two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.

Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.

There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education.

There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.

I promise you, we as a people will get there.

There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem.

But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night.

This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.

It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.

So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.

Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.

In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity.

Those are values that we all share. And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.

As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.

And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

To those -- to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.

That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight's about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons -- because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.

And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America -- the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.

At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.

When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.

When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.

She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes we can.

A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination.

And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.

Yes we can.

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves -- if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment.

This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.

Gov'nah Palin 

 You heard Governor's comment on the Vice President running the Senate? Obviously, they don't, but it's still an amusing thing to picture..(chuckle)

Like a den of tigers that would be...

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The Political Stray takes the Gloves Off and Puts the Heels On

McCain

            The republican's would elect Satan himself if he were the only republican available.

            Democrat. Republican. Each party has it's priorities, but in the last few years, it's become so difficult to tell those priorities apart, it stopped mattering to me which one wins.

            I was a lifelong Democrat until the Democratic party sunk it's overly-sharp teeth into the current administration and refused to let go. Normally that would just irritate me, but since we were at war, the placing of political favor over the welfare of the country made me change my party to independent. The relentless picking at policy and the focus on suspected internal blemishes in front of God and the entire world left me slack jawed with disbelief.

            Scooter Libby, an admittedly important part of the administration,  in trouble for lying to the FBI, when at the same time, the public couldn't tell up from down by what came from the mouths of our politicians? As well as from a press whose primary priority seemed to be tabloid-like headlines.

            What made it more difficult to swallow was the feigned concern over the exposure of an agent that would drive up and park in front of the security agency she worked for each day, one that somehow managed to wrangle a job for her husband with dubious motives that had he been intelligent enough, might have become a lead weight around the neck of the administration – fortunately his manner of speaking gave him away as easily as Ms. Exposed's actions gave her away.

           Just between you and I, I secretly wished she would run away from home and take her sleazy husband with her.

          However you felt about him, the shotgun accusations made against Tom Delay that would lead to him stepping down, added to a burden that had already made me angry. To this day, I don't believe anyone has been able to produce any proof that this man did anything wrong that the rest of our illustrious senate didn't do as well. The rabid taking down of this man in spite of the fact that he was a fiery motivator to the Senate that kept it's to-do list down to manageable proportions again demonstrated just where Democratic priorities were.

           I not only resigned from the party, I had to spit as I did so just to try and get the bad taste out of my mouth.

            I'm telling you that so that you understand that political party really doesn't matter to me. For the most part, they both irritate me.

            I want that to be clear before I come out and tell you that last night's debate finally nailed down for me what it was about John McCain that got under my skin, but  I wasn't able to name.

            It might have qualified as a last straw had I not made my decision some time ago.

             He's abrupt, childishly stubborn and remarkably unprofessional. His maverick title is largely a product of his campaign's imagination, as voted with his party 81% of the time. Watching a special about his life story confirmed what I'd suspected. He's got a spoiled boy syndrome  - he believes too much of what his mother tells him about himself. Is a "maverick" just another word for those that think rules apply only to others?

            He shows up in the Senate when he feels the issue is important enough to merit his presence. Where does this put the Senators that do show up for work most days? Where's this put his constituents and the rest of us relying on the votes of a concerned congress? Does he hole himself up and write out complicated bills to help take care of the public?  Just exactly what have we been paying him for?

            Yes, he does work without earmarks and chews at the rest of congress for not doing the same. THAT I give him full credit for. His efforts at a desperately needed campaign reform were great, if sabotaged by his colleagues.

            Unfortunately, whatever work he's done that's impressed me, has been seriously outweighed by the nightmarish, hodge-podge of past bills that they called a comprehensive immigration bill. To cite just a couple of it's flaws, it didn't come clean on the fact that our border is far too large to make impenetrable and that border patrol needs to be less line and more roving. A true maverick would have howled for the "fence" money to be used more wisely. My first thought was wondering which of Congress's "lil buddies" would be chosen to erect this money sponge that gets torn up nearly as quickly as it is erected.

              But far worse was that it stated there would be a twenty-four hour security check on incoming immigrants. When was the last time the federal government checked anything in twenty-four hours? I'm not saying they should be able to. I'm just making the point that it was less than realistic. Security not based on reality is nearly worse than nothing.

            At a time when M5-whatever gang members are infiltrating the Hispanic population and doing enormous damage to our communities, this struck me as irresponsible, idealistic and just plain stupid.

             Regardless of any sympathy I may feel for him for his war experiences, that doesn't qualify him to be President.

              If all of that is not enough, I see video clips of him in front of the NRA, (a group I still have hope for but am somewhat disappointed in) declaring he will never discriminate against a group of guns purely for cosmetic features.

              Oh. You mean the potential of the gun to be modified to a semi-automatic weapon?

             I don't know how you feel about our high school kids having those kind of weapons, but I've got a problem with it. Let them fight their battles with their fists, where it hurts even when you win.

               Senator McCain has big bursts of good intentions and intensive work, then he loses interest and that work is left to evolve into what it will. In the legislative world, this is a bad thing. A very bad thing indeed.

                I sometimes wonder if he ever researches the subjects he takes positions on.

               The Senate, to it's credit, in a search for the cause of our high gas prices, had experts in to advise them on the effects of speculation on our commodities markets. It was fascinating and should have been supremely productive. It would have been had the Senate not handily ignored the advice given to staunch American bleeding from the lacerating cost of gas.

                 Domestic drilling, to say the least, is not at the top of the list of things Congress needed to do to help us. Rather than promote restoring the proper protections to our commodities in order to prevent prices being artificially raised, John McCain choose to support the oil companies grab for the 'forbidden land' with a moronic "drill baby drill" chant.

                 Any Senator worth his salt would have called the others on their bending to greedy grabs instead of protecting our commodities markets. Which, by the way, are still wide open.

               Our deficit is mind-boggling large and there are some good reasons for that. One of them is so-called fair trade deals that virtually tear up most of America's businesses in favor of foreign importers and a few big corporations that outsource then undercut those that still conduct themselves as though they are a member of this society. John McCain has been called "Mr. Fair Trade". It is a title he has earned. 'Nuff said.

               Let me add yet one more teeny little thing. John McCain's promise to give Americans a 5,000 dollar tax credit for medical care? Can you tell that it's been a very long time since McCain's paid any medical bills? He also left out that he will take money from Medicare and tax employer health benefits to cover it.

WTF?

              If anything tells you of John McCain's compassion for Americans that should do it. But for those of you as skeptical as I am, look at his voting record. It mirrors everything I just told you.

              Arizona may be quite happy with the Senator, I don't begrudge them that, but personally, I doubt if I'd want him as my Senator, let alone my president.

   There it is. Flat Out.

    The Political Stray

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Are You Watching All of This Back and Forth About the Bailout and the Economy?

Here's what you need to know:

Are Republicans or Democrats at fault? BOTH.

On whom does the largest part of the blame lie?

Congress and Lenders/Wallstreet

then the media

then you and me.

I know. The only thing you've bought is the car and you paid that off, so how can you be responsible.

Because we tolerate a Congress that doesn't consider Americans their first priority and a media that covers what it feels like - the way it feels like.

Take a Short Reading Break 

Neil Cavuto on the Bailout

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432001,00.html

Neil Cavuto was named anchor and managing editor of Business News for FOX News Channel (FNC) in July 1996. He is now the senior vice president of Business News while continuing to serve as anchor and managing editor.

From Forbes: The Bailout: An Owner's Manual

The Bailout -- October 1st, 2008

Growling continues - lips peeled back threateningly,

Power to the People.

The Political Stray

Download all of Obama's and McCain's votes here 

Okay Gang. About the Bailout..

Note: I'm not trying to influence what you want as far as the "bailout". I'm not an economist and am having trouble trusting those lately.

What I AM trying to do is get you up on your feet when it comes to voting for people that will see to your interests as opposed to everyone else's, including those in the business of lending money.

I just can't help myself. I have to repeat this one more time. You do realize that Congress/Our Senate is including in this bailout bill foreign banks with investments here. That would include, I imagine, the Swiss Bank that Former Senator Gramm works for. You know, the one that wove the deregulation into our laws that allows the violation of our commodities -thus causing our gas price problem-as well as the legislation that allowed our mortgage crisis.

You know that. Right?

Yeah. You're mortgaging your kid's future (as they are so fond of saying) to help out banks who's own countries won't help. The British government flatly told them that they "had no intentions of being their fairy godmother".

You also know that the perps here are continuing to keep the laws so that these violations continue?

So, let's review. Our government hasn't lifted a finger (hardly) to help those who have and are losing their homes, but they'll bail out the bastar....I mean lenders that caused it all including foreign banks.  

Did you know that you and I pay even the lowest congressman over $160,000 a year, including premium health care and a nice retirement package.

Did you know that many of our politicians are now wealthy?

Imagine that.

    Going to look for my pitchfork and torches,

     The Political Stray

Where are the reputable lenders that refrained from playing in this nasty market?

Who are America's best business people? The financial wizards - the ones that play by the rules, I mean? Any opinions?

It's odd how bad these lenders in financial trouble look now. Might as well rename yourself "Greedy and Without Ethics".

     Just wondering,

      PS

If You Are Financially Frustrated,

                                                      Read This:                                                                     

            In order to prove to you that you need to check on your political representative, regardless of your political party, I've repeatedly started to gather the names and numbers of the various bills written by various politicians in a vain attempt to try and protect us from predatory lenders and unstable gas prices. Every attempt has ended in frustration. There are too many of them.

            Surprised? You shouldn't be. We still have some decent Senators and Congress People. Unfortunately, we may lose some of the good ones because of the rising public anger at this "bailout".

            Throughout this web site, I've repeated over and over, as well as shown you how all of this could have been and should have been avoided. I've included the actual bills and the votes on those bills.

            I cannot think of any other way to say it.

            If I could, I'd reach through your computer screen and shake you until your teeth rattled to make you understand that you can no longer count on the media for important information and that too many of our politicians are now working for the big bucks boys.

            The time for each and every American to get involved is now.

            If I could, I'd give up. I'd walk away from this web site and just leave it to tell the story. Unfortunately, I can't. Not as long  as ordinary people continue to get caught in the webs spun by these selfish me-firsters that don't seem to understand how our social order works, that is, we look out for each other.

            So, just to try another way, I'm starting a new page. It will be solely for telling you about how our laws have been quietly changed so that a few benefit at the expense of the rest of us.

            Yesterday, I found an article that tells of how big investors have poured money into our commodities markets. This undermines the price on everything you and I need to survive and used to be illegal. Roosevelt called it "racketeering". When our *@#$ politicians get this bailout passed, we will be helping to bail out some of these investors that invest at our expense. Not surprisingly, some of these investors include foreign investors, investing anonymously, big pension funds, even our own government.

            Did you notice the spike in oil prices when this bailout was announced? That's because panicked investors yanked their money and poured it into oil. You'll hear talk about the CTFC considering getting involved in regulation of the investment of our commodities. The irony here is that's what they were created for and our laws were rewritten to keep them from doing so. Remember the Enron loophole? Yeah. It's still there by the way. So are most of the laws that allowed to home mortgage rape.

            The mainstream media didn't tell you that OPEC cut production too, did they?

            If you don't understand this, there's more than enough information on this site to help you. If you don't want to understand it, at least check and see how your reps voted.

            I cannot help you until you help yourselves by getting these bought and paid for politicians out of YOUR government.

            Check out these previous attempts   to fix both the oil and mortgage problems - and there's more where those came from.

With Dogged Persistence,

The Political Stray