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The Republicans Attack on Religious Freedom

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:23:36 +0000

Webster defines Religion as:

a : the state of a religious religion> b (1) : the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2) : commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance

: a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices

archaic : scrupulous conformity : conscientiousness

: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

The Bill of Rights or more commonly known as the first amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I started with these so there can be no argument to either definition or law. personal set or institutionalized system of attitudes, beliefs and practices. Establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. These are the points and if religious institution were made to physically make available contraceptives to all its members it would be in violation of the constitution. This however is a law which doesn’t require that these institutions do anything unless it wants government money. Then as an entity which wishes that money it must determine if taking that money under the rules established for all it must determine if the requirements interfere with beliefs and therefor not take the money.

If the members are true to their religion there should be no problem. However if these Churches wish to become businesses instead of Religion they should not be allowed to hide behind their religion for the simple fact that there is another religion involved which also can’t have it’s rights stepped on.

Please read the constitution. nowhere in the document is God mentioned. The idea of freedom of religion is not to have government choose your beliefs however it is also there so that religion cannot control your government. Nothing is absolute so the distinction should be that in your head or in youir Church or in some cases in your bedroom your religion rules. In your place of commerce aka a hospital things like the health care law prevale.

I have said this before but it bares repeating Quit standing in congress and telling me that your religion is the religion of the country and we need to have our laws follow it. If you can’t convince your flock to stay with your rules your religion is obsolete or soon will be. In most cases your religion and mine will keep us from meeting in the afterlife( even if you don’t believe in one).

Finally I must say to the born again Christain group. There is nothing wrong with a “cult Chrisianity”. If you would quit lieing and read some history this country was founded by a “Cult Christianity” called the masons. I guess they were wrong because they believed only Christ will be born again.

Why They Keep Lying About The Debt

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:40:03 +0000

If you think your saving the country by not stimulating the economy because the debt will kill us in the long run, You are only half right. If You think that enhanced debt reduction is a way for those that make money to stealing yours you are right.

CNBC had a blog post explaining debt and deficit along with who owns it.The deficit refers to the difference, in a single year, between government receipts and spending. National debt is the sum of all outstanding debt owed by the federal government.

The conservatives take these definitions and do what they do best, demonize a normal system belief or occurrence. Some of these statements they use are. “China is taking us over by buying our debt!!”, ” Look at Greece were next!!”,” Business can’t borrow money because the government does!!”,”Were going broke!!”. Are you afraid yet. You should be these radical statements actually reinforce themselves.

To realize how hideous these statements are you need to know some real differences between the rhetoric and reality.

1. Federal Reserve and intragovernmental $6.328 trillion

2.China $1.132 trillion

3.Other Investors/Savings Bonds $1.107 trillion

4. Japan 1.038 trillion

5. Pension Funds $842.2 billion

6. Mutual Funds $653.5 billion

7. State and Local Governments $484.4 billion

8. The United Kingdom $429.4 billion

9. Depository Institutions $284.5 billion

10. Insurance Companies $250.1 billion

If you add up our outside the U.S. lenders from the top ten you will see that China holds A little more than a third and that it is about 5% of the total. hardly enough to foreclose.

The next realization is that we are not in the Euro group. If you look at these nations that have tied their economy’s to each other they haven’t tied their governments to together. If New Jersey were to go bankrupt the federal government would have to bail them out. If Greece goes bankrupt none is required to help them. Of course it is in their best interest to do so because their economy will go into an upheaval if the monetary system fails. Greece cannot print euros to pay debt, we can print dollars.(this has a negative of causing inflation and making goods more expensive because it devalues the dollar. On the bright side a devalued dollar makes our goods cheaper on the world market and therefor would increase demand and create jobs)

When you buy a house you put yourself deep in debt and for most people the equity in their homes is their greatest asset. If you want to get another loan lets say for college tuition the lender usually wants collateral. If you have enough net wealth (assets) your interest rate is usually lower and you get the loan. If you need an extension or you are having trouble paying or need to borrow more then once again it depends on your assets. In other words what are you worth. Once what you owe is less than your worth your broke. Rutledge Capital estimates the capital worth at 188 trillion. Shiller estimates the investment value at 1.4 Quadrillion(based on trills @1400 per). Our GDP is about 14 trillion. So let take a look The average mortgage is three to fours times your annual income. Then you have car heat food credit card and other debt. While the country needs to be careful it is by no means broke.

So why the lies and or exaggerations. Simply put when the economy is humming along there is less to complain about. There is less control and more mass liberty. If these conservatives can’t scare you then they have nothing. Name me a Republican President that didn’t have another country to hate and fear. Total destruction of our way of life. Please including the intrusive patriot act they have done nothing but take your freedoms one by one when they gain power. If you think I am Exaggerating too just look at whats happening in Michigan and Maine. See how they go against the populous in Wisconsin and Indiana,not to mention Ohio.

Let me in on the off the wall ideas where these guys can get off and also solve a few problems. Let’s invade Cuba annex it then sell it to Venezuela for say 18 Trillion in oil. Sell the oil pay off the debt then take Cuba back and let it become a free country. With the extra money we received we can support the wars. If a bomb or two drop on Guantanamo as Gov Perry would say Oops!!

Republicans Just Keep on Proving Their Own Arguments Wrong

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:48:45 +0000

Yesterday In response to President Obahma’s predictable decision on The Keystone XL Pipeline the Republicans as usual gave a scathing account of his politicizing the outcome. In addition to wasting our money and time by summoning Hillary to be berated by them they will ignor the possible danger to the water supply of a large area of the country. Boehner(Ohio),Griffin(Arkansas),Cantor(Virginia),Hensarling(Texas 5),Lipton(Michigan),Terry(Nebraska 2),Capito(W Virginia),And Blackburn(Tennessee) each gave an official response . They accused the President of playing politics. Seems to me that when only 2 of these folks are from states where the pipeline will pass, neither of those from a district that the pipeline goes thru , they also are playing politics especially when the contentious area is in Nebraska where the other representatives are Republican. If an alternative route (already being studied) can be found not to endanger water supply(even more important to life than energy) we should build it. These political hacks that need the Tv face time should start doing what is best for the people they are most directly affecting, not the poor foreign ”Indians” in Arkansas that made a bet the pipeline would be approved and prebuilt the pipe. If they have to sell it to China their profit margin will actually match the market and you poor conservatives will have to live on the other billions being poured into free speech.

Perry Say What?

admin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:16:38 +0000

I read an article written by Chris Moody on The Ticket today. It was written about the ideas of Govenor Perry wrote from his book “Fed Up”. In the piece Chris breaks down those things that the then not a candidate (Governor of the closest to hell conditions state we have) would change. If he only wished to change or eliminate amendments the we could call him an originalist. In his case however he wants to change structure. He could also show this trait in his cult meeting to pray for rain just prior to announcing that suffering his beliefs on those that live in his state isn’t enough now he wants to bring his inquisition the the whole country. Instead of the three equal power structure built to protect the country from those that would bully their way on all, Perry would allow congress to both override the Supreme Court by a two thirds margin instead of by amendment. He would make the President more of a European type monarch with the title and little power. In other words while he continually questions Obama’s love of America he was willing to write his disdain for our constitution for both profit and political gain.

Please my republican friends pay attention. We have just spent many dollars and ten years fighting the Taliban of Afghanistan. Don’t pick a Christian fundamentalist for your choice as leader. Fundamentalist Christianity is just as repressive as any other religious fundamentalism.

I heard Governor Perry is proud of Texas’s job creation yet near the end of 2010 a report came out that said:

In the larger universe of Texas families below 200 percent of the poverty line, work participation is even higher. Of 1.4 million poor and “near poor” Texas families with children, 77 percent—or 1 million—are working. These families include almost 4.8 million Texans, 2.4 million of whom are children. Low wages in many of the state economy’s growth sectors contribute to Texas’ large working but low-income population, as do limited public assistance benefits. Compared to the U.S. average, Texas workers are slightly more likely to have low-wage jobs. Texas workers also rank near the bottom in terms of access to job-sponsored health insurance, pensions, workers’ compensation coverage, and unemployment benefit

In other words a job in Texas doesn’t mean you also can have a roof and food at the same time. Companies also offering health benefits are at a lower percentage than the rest of the country (understandable if you don’t have leper colonies how can Christ return and visit them?)