Tea Party
Not for me
CoffeeForDC
Dear America,
The Tea
Party and its leadership do not represent me and seemingly many other
people. The whole concept of a “Tea Party Cruise” was a real slap
in the face for those
Americans going through major lifestyle changes
like unemployment. The U.S.
has money it’s just a matter of who wants to sacrifice and so far the
only
people being asked to pay the bill are the people who can’t afford it.
The United States
could pay for a lot of things
if we brought all our troops home, told legislators in Washington
to purchase their own health care, and shut down wasteful, useless
government
projects we never asked for in the first place, most of which seem to
be in the hands of a military community out of control. Nobody
wants to pick up
the
bill for things we really need (Health Care and Social Security) but we
continue to pay for things we don't need. When Tea Party members
talk
about 'wasteful government spending' I want specifics and I want to
know where these people were when Bush invited himself into
office. I think
our time
in Iraq and Afghanistan is over and it’s time to
come home
and invest in America,
our economy, our children and our health. This is what I perceive to be
where some of
us
agree.
1. Put
Americans back
to work and stop exporting our jobs to other countries.
2. Support
Health Care reform for all Americans. Every citizen in the United States
is entitled to some sort of base line coverage.
Massachusetts
and Hawaii
have public health care so I'm sure they can help on how it's
done. If we get out of Iraq and we can pay for
all sorts
of health care. In the
meantime, support the one day free health clinics in cities where they
can be
arranged and invite your congressmen and senators to volunteer or make
an
appearance. See who shows up. (FYI, Obama's bill does not
include reducing medicare payments to seniors nor does the bill pay for
abortion. These are lies created by the Republicans.)
**Tort Reform (putting caps on
damages
for pain and suffering) has nothing to do
with getting people the care they need right now. There has to be
another
time and place to debate lawsuit abuse. (Republicans want to debate
tort reform
while a tumor grows on woman's neck at health clinic in CT.)
**See my
statement on Republican Genocide below.
3. Support bank regulation
and vote for legislators who will
keep our finances on course including watching the thieves on Wall
St.
Lobbyists for the banks have taken over Washington and our interests
have gotten lost in the shuffle.
4. Support the
ammedment (2/4/10, Sen. Dodd) that
would limit how much
corporations can contribute to any one candidate. Recently (Jan.
2010) the
Supreme
Court ruled that the government
may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. So
as of now our votes mean very little
until this is changed. If
an amendment is not passed big corporations will be able to
finance the candidates of their choice to levels no one else can match.
Our
individual votes will be meaningless.
5. Let independents have
some sort of say in the
primaries. Better yet, forget the primaries. As it is, in most
states, one has to be a registered
democrat or republican to vote in the primaries. The candidates
that come up for election
are extreme examples of the party's vehement character types rather
than
candidates that possibly represent moderate views and have the ability
to cross the aisle to get things done in Washinton. Independents
have to pay for the process of having primaries but don't get to vote
in them. This is called "taxation without representation" which
is not legal in the U.S.
6. Gays are already in the
military, teaching in our schools,
preaching in our churches and are giants of industry.
Back off.
Everyone has a right to a private life and personal choices.
7. It
is against the
law to discriminate. Everyone deserves a
chance no matter what they look like.
Not all great people are camera friendly. We
have become a nation who elects
politicians, watches newscasters, and hires workers based on “handsome”
or
“hot”, rather than research a good track record or challenge a great
mind.
8. Save the planet. We have
nowhere else to go.
9. Realize a politician’s first
job in Washington
is to preserve their job. Make
sure they are speaking for
you before
you send them back. Visit web sites and
know how your representatives vote. If
s/he doesn’t vote in your best interest, texts
while the
President speaks, always votes with the party and doesn’t vote for you
to have
health care then it’s time to bring them home.
10. Vote. Not
for a
name but vote based on what you know to be the facts.
Read.
Go to the candidates’ websites.
Look for the projects being brought to the table and not the
negative
campaigns. Candidates _count_ on American voters being
emotionally over-charged rather than factually informed and year after
year we never disappoint them. (Fox News heads the class on drama
without content and personal slant rather than fact. I don't know
how they get away with calling it a news show.)
11. Watch news with a diverse
taste. One
channel, one show, one performer doesn’t
say it all. Watch for the bad manners,
the theatrics and histrionics of politicians, “reporters” and
“commentators”
that are competing for a following.
12. Nothing in government is
done unless somebody is making
money. Find out where it’s going. People make money off of war and that is not a good
reason to sacrifice our children. Our nation's money
should go to us, the American people. We
shouldn’t have to borrow money from any
other country to fight wars, buy back homes we shouldn’t have lost or
stop our deficit
from growing.
13. Children are the future
around the globe. There
is no excuse to cut back on their
education, their protection or a multitude of programs that speak to
their
individual needs. How do drugs flow so easily into this
country? Somebody at the top makes money and our children go down
in the process. If you are a lonely little country in the desert
and you want to take over America you grow drugs and sell it to
American youth. Wait 20-40 years, pay people at the top and
you have America in the palm of your hands.
14. Military
families
sacrifice everything to protect us. They
deserve to have educated voters who send only the best to Washington to
vote on our role in world
peace.
They
deserve protection within their own ranks from those in the military
who would sign up to bring harm to American soldiers and sailors.
15. Iraq
was questionable and Afghanistan
should have been taken care of years ago. It’s
time to take care of America
and leave the cave
people
alone. So many military contracts and not too many
pictures of coffins coming off the airplanes. We're tired.
We've lost our homes, jobs, savings and our children.
16.
The Muslim faith is by nature a peaceful religion.
Here is the point for debate: for now, we are
at war with segments of that faith that are hiding among peaceful
members. Radical Muslims have designed
completely new
tactics against free Americans on our own soil and they walk among us
in
disguise ready to die along with innocent civilians. For
now, we have a duty to protect our
communities. Do
we continue to let
mosques be built and have them preach to the innocent on our sidewalks
because
the constitution says so? (At least this
way we know where they are) Or do we
take steps to protect ourselves and endanger our freedom of
speech?
Is there a fair answer? Peaceful
American Muslims are Americans first
and, hopefully, would understand we are all in this together and our
children
are dying on foreign soil when the war is right here.
17. For
God’s sake
save social security. That is money taken
from all of us long ago involuntarily and it’s ours. No one had any
right to
touch it
and any person who signed the papers to touch that locked box should go
to jail
for fraud and theft.
18.
It was
good for America
to see the President step up to the microphone and debate his
adversaries. As long as there is action behind the talk many of
us love his style and how he deals with the countries we have upset for
eight years with Republican arrogance. We should be proud of Mr.
Obama! He's a great
speaker,
debater and makes us look good. Unlike his predecessor, he speaks
clearly;
he's logical, intelligent and won a Nobel peace prize. What else would
a good
American voter want? Every Democrat
should be proud to support Mr. Obama. Conservatives and Republicans cry
wolf
so often (every day over anything!) that when they do have great
idea they
have a hard time getting my attention because they are just never
satisfied
with anything. Republican lawmakers in general appear as the
ongoing
spoiled children of the unsatisfied, unfulfilled, overindulged, upper
class. I’m sure they have some wonderful
ideas but
it’s time for them to pick their battles.
19.
Democrats, support your president and unify the party. Unless
Nebraska has a zero jobless rate Senator Ben Nelson is only one example
of what is wrong with the democrats.
20.
Whatever
percentage retirees lose on their pensions so should
lawmakers. People
on the hill are really looking like
bandits to the people who followed the rules, saved their money, paid
their
taxes and voted you into office.
21. China. Tax their imports and too bad if they don't like it.
The national debt will go away real fast. Like Donald Trump says,
"they are laughing at us."
(MSNBC,Mar. 13, Morning Joe)
22. Reduce
our need for OPEC. Not sure about nuclear but all new construction
should have a minimum of solar power, at least for water heaters.
(Donald Trump,MSNBC,Mar.13, Morning Joe). (White
roofs are not a bad idea either.)
(I add and
remove things all the time. When Washington improves my list will
go away)
WHO PAYS?
Who pays for fixing America? China. Tax their imports. Ask Donald
Trump. If we don't do something eventually we all will
pay one way or
another. Either by totally failing, changing
how the currently government spends or by digging into the pockets
of the privileged, which is probably why the Republicans are making so
much noise. Look around, there is money
still in America but it's not "on the street" until the street is
safe. If
we can send aid to any country in a crisis on a moment’s notice then we
have
money somewhere to save ourselves. If we
can fight two wars and move the military around the world somebody is
holding out.
We can raise billions by taxing Chinese imports. Too bad if they
don't like it. We can build our own toys without lead paint.
The right people with the
right causes in the House and Senate can
find it and spend it on programs that benefit Americans who have worked for it.
On the
other hand, we could send
part of the bill to anyone
who served during the eight years of the Bush administration starting
with
Bush, Cheney and the entire Republican party.
How quickly people forget where all this started.
If you have a correction or addition
email CoffeeForDC. Be polite or be ignored. Positive
thinking and correct facts are a
plus. If you have a decent blog I will
list it.
Marty
in NY
Republican
Genocide 3/3/2010
REPUBLICAN GENOCIDE.
Hitler took down 6 million people but the republicans are going
for 30 million
working class Americans who are suffering without Health Care. As long as the republicans have their spray on
tans, starched collars, perfect benefit packages, big houses and Tea
Party
cruises why should they worry about the unemployed they created under
Bush? Republicans under Bush could
afford two wars, billions of dollars for military contracts, tax cuts
for the
rich and business/banking deals without regulations.
Now the republicans and the insurance
companies turn the guns on us, the voters.
The U.S.
can afford Health Care. It is the
insurance companies, not the government that have gotten too big. As the clock ticks republicans want to debate
caps on lawsuits (Tort reform) while Americans have tumors growing,
conditions
worsening and prescriptions unfilled.
Everyone should be very suspicious about any democrat who
doesn't vote
for Health Care (my guess an insurance company donation fixed that). Fight back, speak up and support Health Care
for all. If you think it’s too expensive
wait until you see what happens without it.
Marty@CoffeeForDC.com.
A Cup of Coffee for President Obama!
Who
cares what Brett Humes thinks? Freedom of religion is
part of the U.S. constitution.
Will the republicans
remember Obama latest bipartisan outreach caross party lines on
nucear
pow
ler?
No.
Minority
Leader
John Boehner sees meeting with the president as a "trap"? Time to
send him home.
Republican
National
Committee
to hold its winter meeting at a tropical resort is turning
the
accusation on its head.
The
Right Wing
Propaganda Machine At
Its Best.
Big
Lies: Joe
Conason
. Counterpunch to the deceptions that have plagued American politics
for a generation.
My
Blog
(Not good at this yet but I'm learning)
The
Lighter Side: There are three
people
that put things into words in a way nobody else can.
They do their homework, keep it light, invite a who's who list of
guests and say what the rest of us
can't.
Jon Stewart for the
Daily Show.
The only reporter who admits his news is fake but, in fact,
he finds sound bites, facts, authors, lawmakers and details of the day
the rest of us would miss.
He makes current events palatable at the
end of the day.
Stephen Colbert from the Colbert
Report. It
doesn’t matter if he’s a real or fake
Republican he’s a real
American. Shamelessly
over confident and his own best friend he makes sport of how ridiculous
arrogance
looks while bringing details of current events to nighttime television.
Bill Maher. Cutting and to
the point but he puts it into words and makes us laugh.