I'm sick of it

I'm sick that we have all the money in the world to wage wars in Iraq, Afganistan, and now Libya, but we don't have the money for states to provide education, healthcare, and unemployment benefits.

I'm sick that all these Republicans are hawking at the deficit, when the real problem for the deficit is an overloaded military budget, a healthcare system that drains so much money and energy from working people, and a lack of taxes on those who should be paying. Before the Reagan Administration, the top marginal income tax rate was at about 70 percent, and during the 1950s, perhaps the era where America was at its peak prosperity, it was between 80-90%.

I'm especially sick of the fact that our lawmakers continue to ignore the four key proponents of our future: healthcare(US ranks 37th), education(ranked 'average' by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), clean energy, and infrastructure(given a D by the American Society of Civil Engineers and is in need of a 2.2 trillion dollar investment over a five year period).

I'm sick of the attack on workers and union by the Republicans, and I'm sick of those who call themselves "real Americans" yet hate the unions. Without unions, we'd have no benefits, 16 hour workdays, no weekends, child labor, etc.

I'm just sick of it.

We're going to need more benches though.

Come on over.

Americans ever wise up and put these damn fools back in their box.

Then call up all of your state and local R officials and chew their asses too. Talk to your friends in the same way and give them good info/feedback. Grab an oar and row.

that people who listen to Blimpturd and believe everything they say only have what they have because of unions forcing the issue in so many areas

The worst part is the fact that a lot of democrats have became willing accomplishes in these crimes. Make no mistake, all that you listed are crimes. To paraphrase Eisenhower "every rocket fired signals a final theft from those who are hungry and have no food, from those who are cold and have no clothes."

We the People (humanity), for money and power. It's all so sick and pathetic.

their actions contribute to and signify a collapse here -- at least for the masses who are in, or soon to join, the burgeoning Underclass.

While it may seem contrary to now outdated perceptions we have had about big business, there does not seem to be anything viable on the horizon to grapple with and solve the dozens of critical issues we face. What do they know that we don't? Our vast numbers of homeless and destitute people, our 1 out of four children in poverty, are symbolic of the future, not just a sign of the present failure of will and lack of concern for our needs.

Many who follow the availability of vital resources could make a potential connection here. The dollar is really the petro-dollar and much of its value and pertinence in world markets rests on petroleum. There are alarming and definite signs that signify not only that this is the period of Peak Oil, but that other resources -- vital to our modern lifestyle -- are reaching peak, from water to minerals. Some call it peak everything. Why bother to continue the paradigm of growth under the old assumption of infinite supply and infinite garbage dump, when neither is viable or sustainable and the impact to the environment is becoming obvious and is to our long-term detriment, as well as to other species? It is a disgusting legacy for future generations, should they survive.

In this phase, we may just be seeing the upper-echelons hunkering down, grabbing what they can to survive the Big Transition ahead, while they weave and spin propaganda and toss out issues that manage our gradual descent into a wretched and sketchy form of neo-Third-World existence into perpetuity.

Don't get me wrong. We most likely could have made this transition in a collective way with honesty, a decent, long-term game plan, and with an acceptable standard of living for all of us. There has been enough time, (to this point) and plenty of wealth to accomplish that and our technology could very-well have been re-tooled and dedicated to a 21st-century, low-energy, low-impact, hybrid lifestyle. There are transition towns and pioneers working piecemeal around the World to further this absolute necessity. The mainstream, corporate propaganda machine has other intentions and wealthy interests to promote and protect, regardless of our long-term survival or the resulting state of our only home, Earth.

Edit: couple of fixes.

could, as you've said, have an acceptable standard of living for all of us. Instead, we are being led by greed and profit at any cost to the country. The domino effect is moving into full swing, it seems each day that goes by on a personal level I hear of one more financial tragedy, personal or small business, that is going under.

Yet, the Stupid is so great in this country that many believe the endless propaganda machine. There is nothing left to call it anymore, Stupid is Stupid. Just how much do some Americans need for them to get what is going on and they take their head out of their ass.

Even with the stupid, both willful and perhaps the innate, we may reach a point where things boil-over. Emergence, (or would it be better to call it eruption) may be unavoidable and there is the likely-hood of some chaos. The question to is not if, but how long the facade can be maintained. Probably to the point that enough people find their world crumbling around them that corporate, reality-creating media will not be sufficient or practical. Then, there are other means and methods.

Without going into details here, these may very well be the years of living dangerously.

Every day we travel down the totally wrong road brings us closer to the point of no return.

austerity lectures from millionaires and/or billionaires.

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in the White House.

if voting really did something that would benefit us as common folks greatly, it would not be legal.

The Billionaires using the governors as pawns to attack the Unions and the middle class. Welcome to corporate fascism.

and the "history of all history, is the history of class struggle."

Money knows no limits, they all cooperate to get the most out of the herd in each country. Each worker competes against millions. No boundaries takes on a new meaning. So there was an IWW.

Americans get what's going on, that their country is being systematically taken from them and they will dwell the land as serfs in a 21st century feudal system. And the Stupid factor of Americans votes them into office and in other cases they get their cronies in by probably rigged elections with questionable voter machine validity.

Take away their protections and taxcuts. They don't need the protections of the American taxpayers.

i do not EVER want to fund a war with my tax money - that's not who i am. i will never again for a pro-war candidate.

who live by no laws.

and corporations bought the United States Government.

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If it makes you feel any better, the money was never *really* ours to begin with. Nor will we ever *really* pay it back. The whole world is an elaborate fiction at the moment.

They are continuing with their 'starve the beast' strategy. It was ramped up under Bush when he started two wars and huge tax cuts. The Republican Party now appear to be employing the same strategy at the state level.

What did Newt say when he was asked about medicare? It went something like this, "I think we can allow it to wither and die on the vine." They are in the process of carrying it out right now.

Republicans are assholes. Can we be clear on that?

I've been thinking this for awhile now and it just keeps getting worse....

nations on the planet. All one or three of them.