The Public Shrugged

I've heard that the world will end with a wimper not a bang. Well I guess democracy ended last month with a shrug. Congressman Kevin Yoder (R-Kansas) inserted laguage at the last minute into the 11th hour spending bill that averted a government shutdown. But the language wasn't written by Yoder or any other of our erstwhile "Representatives". No, it was written by Citibank. and you can bet it's NOT in the interest of We the People. But the response to these Rulers seems to be "meh".

The new law repeals part of the Frank-Dodd reforms the resulted from the Great Republicon Recession of 2008 and once again allows the big banksters to use FDIC insured depositor money (not investors) to gamble on risky and complicated derivatives. If they win they keep the cash. WHEN they lose we bail out their Too-Big-To-Fail @$$es. Shame on all who voted for this bill, Dems & republicons, right on upto and including President Obama who signed it into law!

Did anybody vote for citibank? How about the global corporations that run the fascist American Legislative Exchange Council (fALEC), who are writing and voting on our state laws in secret. Or for that matter, the WTO or the World Bank? Our "Representatives" have become mere middlemen, our "Republic", a Demockery.

Where is is the outrage at the usurpation of our freedom and self-determination?! When in the course of human events will it become necessary for The People to dissolve their bonds and restore our inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A man ruled in the interests of others is NOT Free!

Oh well America, it was nice while it lasted. Meet your new bosses.

Republicons Luvs Dem Some Freedumb!

Pall "Lyin" Ryan

It's got to suck to be a Republicon. I mean having to lie all the time, about EVERYTHING! That's Got to be Exhausting! This week's most prominent example was how every GOPster jumped out and pounced on the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on Obamacare, Twisting it's conclusions into Half-Truth, the main ingredient in the curdled concoction that is GOPropaganda.

The GOPster syndicate took the CBO finding that Obamacare would cause a reduction in hours worked equivalent to 2.5 million full-time workers by 2025 and Twisted it into the Lie that 2.5 million jobs would be lost.

The Truth of the matter is that the CBO report finds that Americans who will No Longer be Shackled to their Jobs because of the Healthcare They Need for themselves and their Families will likely decide to reduce their hours or leave jobs in order to accommodate their personal needs and those of their families. Not being a Slave to a Job you don't otherwise need just to have healthcare for you family? That sounds a lot like Liberty to me!

And those jobs aren't going away, so maybe that'll give some opportunities to some of the young people whose Hopes for the American Dream have been Dashed by the Great Republicon Recession.

Them's Fightin Werds!

And what's with the Coke inspired Hatriots who love's them some Freedumb ya'll, but think they're Empowered to Dictate to Others what language they're allowed to speak, or sing? Oh, and dear ones, America the Beautiful is NOT the National Anthem, although, I for one think it should be. Do these idiots actually think their forebears spoke the native tongue of these shores when they landed . . . or English?

Which of course reminds us of the the hate-filled response to the little girl and her bi-racial family featured in the Cheerios ad of last year, reprised in an updated ad for last Sunday's Super Bowl. In the Cult of Con personal freedom still doesn't extend to the choice of an individual to decide who they should love.

FREEDUMB FER AWL!