Rob Rogers for February 11, 2018

The GOP has shown their true intentions. They don’t care about the future for their children. They don’t care about any children. They just want all the money.

It happens EVERY SINGLE TIME. Yet they have become so skilled at selling it to those it most hurts that it boggles the mind. And the Dems seem to lack any semblance of a spine to fight back; with two exceptions, Bill Clinton & Barack Obama. I am watching a slow-motion catastrophe, and I feel powerless to stop it.

And THERE YOU HAVE IT! 100% TRUE and ACCURATE!!!

At least as far back as Reagan, the GOP has used every opportunity to ratchet up the deficit/debt through tax cuts and spending-without-paying-for-it to head us toward bankruptcy. When we get close enough to going belly-up, the plan is to remake an entire national budget that has no social services of any kind.

We have two ideologies, that when working together, have made the US a leader in the past. They are complementary and not to be used separately to get the best results. Most of the world’s conservatives are very different than American conservatives and endorse universal health care and affordable education … looking at the long term, rather than short term benefits. Our liberals endorse supply side economics as much as their conservative counterparts do as it seems to have moderated inflation ( by among other factors, holding wages constant). The middle class, not being re-skilled, has lowered their median wage (factoring for inflation). Artificial Intelligence, automation, and robotics are eliminating jobs and creating more gainful employment for the re-skilled, but, American corporations, instead of training or retraining are hiring foreign workers who already have the skills they need. Research is shrinking in public and private laboratories. Other nations have high speed trains, smart traffic lights, and research centers/projects -- (e.g.) Cern ITER -- and other amenities that the US would have previously taken the lead in, if we had a government that worked for the people instead of one of the narrow scope, mutually exclusive, political ideologies.

Our politicians talk in terms of dollars when they should be using percent of GDP. All the senseless bickering about items like minimum wage would have been avoided if it were a percentage of GDP rather than a never-quite-right dollar amount. We can be so much more if we work together and focus on making the US truly united in common purposes that benefit everyone not just 25%-30% of the population that are members of the Democratic or Republican party,

@ Liverlips McCracken, Say What Now‽, Masterskrain, Dapperdan61, magicwalnut, Bobbers & Kind&Kinder

”Success is not final, failure is not fatal.

It is the courage to continue that counts.”

The feeling of powerlessness is just that – a feeling – maybe one that we all share, center, left, and right. The thing in and of itself has been a powerful weapon deployed against humankind since self-governance / determination occurred to the first thinkers.

A moderate-to-left sweep of Congress and the presidency is the important present goal, crucial to restoring our national sovereignty and the Constitutional rule of law. Elected public servants are highly sensitive to pressures the voting public exert on them via elections.

Each and every Congressional district and Senatorial election could and should be contested vigorously by both parties and at least one independent – win or lose – hopeless ain’t in it. There is hope. We all know that there is. Our fate is in our own hands. There is no they – only we.

The particular individual GOP politicians who are supporting un-Constitutional governance should be exposed to their constituents and voted out. Same for the Democratic traitors, be there any.

Kentucky is a unique example in the American experience. Dominated by Jeffersonian Democrats for most of her existence, the ‘automatically in’ party became chronically riddled with corruption. Even there, among some of the most poorly educated and informed people in the world, the voters rebelled and are currently locked in the same cycle with the GOP.

The key to democracy and self-determination lies in the participation of the majority of citizens. Waking voters up is a very good thing. Helping change non-voters into voters is the only thing likely to save us in the long run.

Old white American males, the biggest thieves in the world.

Remember rule #1 of the G.O.P. : IOKIARDI.

Greedheads Rule! We have no shame. Never have. Never will. And you Republican voters buy our lies every time. Life is good for the bad.

Seeing as the establishment Democrats have some of the same corporate donors as Republicans, I have to wonder how many would have voted for the tax cuts if the Republicans didn’t have enough votes. After all, the Dems made Bush’s “temporary” tax cuts permanent when they controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. Fortunately for them, the Republicans did have enough votes, so the Dems could put up token resistance and let the Republicans take the blame.

The Dems don’t have to win elections. They still get their corporate “campaign contributions” (AKA bribes) so long as they let the Republicans do their mutual masters’ bidding.

Do you drive or ride in a car? Do you mortgage or rent a house or apartment? Have internet service? A bank account & credit cards? Watch t.v. or movies? Listen to music or read books? Do you eat at restaurants or go to the grocery store? Wear clothes that are other than homespun?

Do you live in America in the present day?

We are all a part of the same people in the same place at the same time. Corporate America is us.

Either participate in the exercise of self-determination or cop-out. Just stop whining — all the while you yourself are a weak willed corporate enabler & co-conspirator. Own it and ante-up, or shut up.

Moral, Republicans lie about everything all the time, don’t vote for them.

Kaynes has always been right. Read up on Kaynesian economic theory. This was the worst possible time for this tax cut and aimed at exactly the wrong people