Liberal Accomplishments

National Parks
Women's Suffrage 1920
Social Security 1935
Fluoridation of drinking water (a communist plot) 1940s)
Integration of public schools 1954
Interstate Highways
Clean Air Act 1955
Clean Water Act 1972
Civil Rights Act 1964
Equal Housing Act (Fair Housing) 1968
Social Security Medicare 1965
40 hour work week
Sick leave
Overtime
Minimum Wage
Roe vs Wade 1973

A Poem For Our Times, Hungry Child

Hungry child,

I didn't make this world for you.

You didn't buy any stock in my railroad.

You didn't invest in my corporation.

Where are your shares in standard oil?

I made the world for the rich

And the will-be-rich

And the have-always-been-rich.

Not for you,

Hungry child.*

-- Langston Hughes, “God to Hungry Child”

 A Poem For Our Times, or, in other words, Shame on Us.

Health Care Thoughts for the Election: WHY

Does the U.S. rank 176 in the world in infant mortality (6.6/1000)

Do 16% of our population live below the poverty line?

Do Children of the poor only get to eat at school?

Do charities and teachers have to provide so many school supplies?

Do so many not have health care?

Do many seniors have to decide between food and medicine?

Is the U.S. 11th in per capita product? 127th in growth of the GDP?

Are we 121st in maternal mortality with 24 deaths per 100,000 live births, behind countries like S. Korea, Slovenia, Macedonia and Greece?

Are we 50th in the world for life expectancy at birth? 78.73 years. Monaco has an expectancy of 89.73 years.

Source: CIA World Factbook

I Wish I Lived in Massachusetts

If I did, I could vote for Elizabeth Warren. She said the following:

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own—nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory—and hire someone to protect against this—because of the work the rest of us did.”

“Now look.  You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea—God bless!  Keep a big hunk of it.  But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay it forward for the next kid who comes along.”

Makes a lot of sense to me.

In addition, look who doesn't like her.
Tim Geithner
Republicans in the House (who would like us to believe that the recession in full flower in 2008 was caused by the Democrats and would like to call it the "Obama" recession).

BTW, I am a registered Republican. I don't know what to call today's Republican Party. My thoughts and convictions haven't changed, but my party's have.

Anti-Capitalist, or Anti-Corrupt Practices

Critics of the Occupy Wall Street movement often charge that the movement is anti-capitalist. I think this charge is unfounded.

OWS started because of the frustration so many have at today's economic conditions, and the certain knowledge that our politicians serve special interests not the voters who put them into office.

I see the OWS movement as an attempt to REFORM capitalism and to REFORM congress, not to overthrow either institution.

It is very important our leaders understand this difference and respond appropriately. In 15717 an insignificant German monk objected to the corruption and error of his church. His name was Martin Luther, and he sparked a movement known today as the Reformation, and the movement ultimately caused the Roman Catholic church to lose its secular power and greatly reduced its influence on Christendom.

Rep. Charles Rangel Makes Some Sense

I am no fan of his, but his post at Huffington said a lot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-charles-rangel/education-rangel_b_1029455.html

October 14, 2011

Today, I read that Robert Jeffress, a Baptist preacher says Mitt Romney will go to hell.
I beg to differ. Hell is reserved for people like Jeffress who have forgotten the weak, the poor, the meek.

He also calls the defeat of our President's agenda a "spiritual imperative"

I wish he would spend his time and use his bully pulpit to correct corporate looting, feed the poor, bring medical care to those who need it, teach congressmen ethics, fight corruption in congress and business etc. Since the Constitution of the United States plainly states " no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Article VI Paragraph 3 USC

He should be censured by his denomination, and his church should lose its tax free status, as should any church that wishes to engage in political activity.

Why should churches who would violate the Constitution enjoy its protection, and legally avoid taxation.