Hi, y’all out there!
I’d like to just say hello, and tell you I look forward to talking or debating ideas with any of you!
Today, I’m talking to Democrats/Liberals, and saying, I think your Convention is going GREAT! It looks just like the ones 4, 8, 12, etc years ago. People come out and throw bullcrap [...]
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midcan5 on August 25th, 2008
“In the 1950s, about a million illegal abortions a year were performed in the U.S., and over a thousand women died each year as a result. Women who were victims of botched or unsanitary abortions came in desperation to hospital emergency wards, where some died of widespread abdominal infections. Many women who recovered from such infections found themselves sterile or chronically and painfully ill. The enormous emotional stress often lasted a long time.”
If McCain selects judicial appointments, property will win over rights, If Obama selects them it will be rights over property. If roe v wade is overturned we will return to a sad time when only the rich could get abortions for themselves and for their children. The poor will suffer as they always have with lack of access and quacks. No one will care for these children as wingnuts only want a theocracy of morals for others. Having a child is a long process and raising a child requires love, care, resources, and great patience. Wingnuts care not for people but for ideology.
http://www.feminist.com/resources/ou…/abortion.html
“The secret world of illegal abortion was mostly frightening and expensive. Although there were skilled and dedicated laywomen and doctors who performed safe, illegal abortions, most illegal abortionists, doctors, and those who claimed to be doctors cared only about being well rewarded for their trouble. In the 1960s, abortionists often turned women away if they could not pay $1,000 or more in cash. Some male abortionists insisted on having sexual relations before the abortion.
Abortionists emphasized speed and their own protection. They often didn’t use anesthesia because it took too long for women to recover, and they wanted women out of the office as quickly as possible. Some abortionists were rough and sadistic. Almost no one took adequate precautions against hemorrhage or infection.”
A vote for John McCain is a vote against the fundamental principle of America, the right of the individual to lead their life privately without the government interfering.
http://www.issues2000.org/John_McCain.htm
# Supports repealing Roe v. Wade.
midcan5 on August 9th, 2008
Corporate Greed Condemns America
“In the 1950’s the American Dream became a reality. This was a time when a working man could support a family, own a house and maybe a new car, and send his kids to college. This was the dream of American GI’s, the people who risked their lives in World War II and saved the world for Democracy. It was what they thought about when they were spending those long, terrifying nights in muddy foxholes.
This was a time of economic balance in the country. Worker’s salaries were miniscule compared with today’s compensation packages, but a salary of less than $100 a week was enough for a person to buy a home and take care of his family. The house was probably a tract home, with four bedrooms, two baths, a yard and attached garage – nothing fancy, but a place the family could call home. It probably cost around $12,000 and the mere fact that you had a job meant you could qualify for a loan.”
http://viewfromthemeadow.com/corporategreed.html
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/publications/magazine/walmart.cfm
http://www.naturalnews.com/021911.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0712-02.htm
midcan5 on August 2nd, 2008
By Dean Baker
Editor’s note: This is adapted from Dean Baker’s new book, The United States Since 1980 (The World Since 1980).
“U.S. politics took a sharp turn to the right in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan as president. Domestically, Reagan touted an agenda that would lead to a sharp upward redistribution of income. Internationally, Reagan explicitly rejected the “détente” framework for engaging the Soviet Union that had been accepted by the leadership of both major parties since the beginning of the Cold War. In its place, Reagan put forward a doctrine of U.S. unilateralism in which the United States basically claimed the right to do whatever it wanted, unconstrained by allies or international institutions.
The welfare state in the United States was always weaker than in West Europe, but in 1980 it was reasonable to believe that West Europe presented a model that the United States would follow. Medicare and Medicaid were still relatively new programs, having been established just 14 years earlier. Having recently seen a massive expansion of publicly provided healthcare coverage, many people believed that it would not be long before healthcare coverage was extended to the entire population. Other features of European welfare states, such as long vacations, short work weeks, and paid parental leave (generally maternity leave at the time), also seemed feasible political goals.
Reagan’s election changed the political reality. His agenda was rolling back the welfare state, and his budgets included a wide range of cuts for social programs. He was also very strategic about the process. One of his first targets was Legal Aid. This program, which provides legal services for low-income people, was staffed largely by progressive lawyers, many of whom used it as a base to win precedent-setting legal disputes against the government. Reagan drastically cut back the program’s funding. He also explicitly prohibited the agency from taking on class-action suits against the government — law suits that had been used with considerable success to expand the rights of low- and moderate-income families.
The Reagan administration also made weakening the power of unions a top priority. The people he appointed to the National Labor Relations Board were qualitatively more pro-management than appointees by prior Democratic or Republican presidents. This allowed companies to ignore workers’ rights with impunity. Reagan also made the firing of strikers an acceptable business practice when he fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981. Many large corporations quickly embraced the practice. Also, his high dollar policy in the mid-’80s was a severe blow to manufacturing unions, who suddenly had to compete against low-cost imports that were essentially subsidized by an overvalued dollar.”
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barbie11 on August 1st, 2008
“Barack Obama Friday dropped his opposition to offshore oil drilling, saying he could go along with the idea if it was part of a broader energy package.”
“The change is dramatic because Obama often pointed to his opposition to drilling as a key difference between himself and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain. ”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/46174.html
Is anyone keeping track of the number of times this guy has flip flopped for political expediency? Is this his idea of a new type of politics? Man, you can sure tell how new he is to Washington. He hasn’t even been around long enough to know that what he is doing is business as usual in DC.
Do any of you Dems even have enough decency to be embarrassed that you bought this empty suit’s BS or is the kool-aid just too stong? He sold you a dream during the primaries and now its turning into a nightmare.
The far left found a way to swallow the bitter pill of his FISA flip flop, wonder what kind of excuses they are going to have to come up with to swallow this one! Maybe they will just figure screwing the ecosystem is worth it to get the sainted one into the Oval Office…be careful what you wish for…
