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02-02-2012, 05:12 PM

Veronica
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Posts: 205

Latest campaign $$ figures show that the combined advertisements of the top 3 GOP candidates would buy filet mignon & Cabernet Sauvignon (once a day) for every poor family in America.

Other candidates spent enough campaign $$ to send 500,000 poor students through college.

A few drop-outs of the race, spent enough to take 50 trips around the world (a month each), and still have enough money left over to bribe 5 Supreme Court Justices.

When asked to sell a couple of their extra YACHTS so that starving Veterans of the IRAQ &
Afghanistan Wars could feed their kids & keep their little pup tent set up in their former backyard (behind their home that got foreclosed on), the "generous, patriotic, God-serving"
GOP candidates said -- "We don't believe in Welfare." These Veterans sacrificed their arms
& legs, got severely wounded, watched their fellow soldiers DIE, to wage war in a Hell Hole
that NO GOP sent their children to fight in, but they are too selfish to DONATE to help the
veterans once they return AFTER the War. (A War which the GOP insisted on starting). Please
RECALL that the last 2 or 3 WARS were illegitimately started by Geo W. Bush & pals.

The GOP always have obscene amounts of money to spend on corrupt things like WAR, stock market manipulation, election "rigging," & paying lawyers to find TAX loop-holes, but when it comes to their fellow Americans, or our heroic veterans, they shrug & say, "We don't really care about the poor." MOST ALL THE VETERANS from these accursed wars are AMONG THE POOR. It is hard to make millionaire wages without arms or legs. OUR TAXES (yours & mine) go to pay for the "rehabilitation" of our vets. Yet the GOP DON'T WANT TO PAY ANY TAXES. Well, it is THEIR DAM WAR!! WE should pass legislation that says our Billionaire industries that PROFIT immensely from WAR, should have to pay for ALL REHAB NECESSARY afterwards.

Now they are willing to throw away millions of dollars to MANIPULATE our elections so they can get into power, to START MORE WARS (for oil & glory) & create more crippled veterans that they do not want to help when they come home. The GOP always claim that they are holier than thou, that they are so very "Christian."

Here is a simple quickie TEST to see how "Christian" they really are.

At Jesus birth the angels sang, HE IS BORN THE PRINCE OF PEACE, his name shall be Immanuel (God among you) -- he comes to bring PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN.

Famous quotes of Jesus: Blessed are the Meek, Turn the other cheek, turn your swords into plows, Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you, Love thy neighbor as thyself, Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, do not bear false witness against your neighbor, thou shalt not steal, or covet thy neighbor's land or wife. (or their oil).

For ONE: Has the GOP seemed to REFUSE TO WAGE WAR, or protest against War? (NO)
They enjoy WARS (for oil & power & greed) not just for self-defense or aid to others.
Well then, there goes the Prince of PEACE thing. (They defy Christ's message).

For TWO: Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.(The Golden Rule).
Is the GOP generous to others? Kind & sensitive to others? Caring for others? (NO)
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF. (The GOP only care about other rich people). So they
so not qualify as Christian on that score.

For THREE: Do not bear FALSE WITNESS against your Neighbor. (That means you do not
deceitfully lie about any person, to profit from him or to cause him harm).
JUST THINK ABOUT all the LIES they have told about President OBAMA the last 3 years.

It was deliberate Slander, Libel, Character assassination, trying to manipulate & destroy his election, discredit his past achievements, which were phenomenal compared to "W" Bush.
First, they started by blaming him for things THEY DID, & using race baiting, re-writing history, & LYING about where he was born (& his religion) to make him appear unqualified
to be our President.

NOTE: that JESUS is not "brain-washed" by Rush Limberger, SO HE DOES NOT BELIEVE ANY OF THEIR sick twisted distortions of the TRUTH, & HE will JUDGE accordingly. So if any of the GOP actually believe in Jesus, they better be "very afraid" on Judgment Day.

But this brings up the question: Since Bush & friends always ask: Is Obama truly qualified to be U.S. President? (Answer: YES)
BUT WAS BUSH qualified to be President? NO -- He was NEVER elected by the people of the United States in a fair "un-rigged" election. A primary requirement of the Founders.

His rich pals "rigged" his 2 elections in year 2000 and 2004,(one by Supreme Court) & the other by crooked voting machines. Which were made by Diebold, whose CEO "promised the election to Bush" in person, in front of witnesses. (All these facts have been proved).
SO BUSH WAS NEVER LEGITIMATELY ELECTED PRESIDENT, was NEVER TRULY elected by the PEOPLE & was an imposter & Fraud sitting in the White House for 8 years. Perhaps we the people could forgive this heinous act of sabotage, of our most sacred institutions, IF BUSH HAD BEEN A WONDERFUL person, an exemplary human being, who had brought us Peace & Prosperity & done much good for humankind. BUT LOOK at what his Presidency has wrought. At least 3 or 4 wars, which bankrupted our economy, & crippled & maimed & Killed thousands of our young soldiers.
For WMD which he KNEW did not exist. Dan Rather of CBS news had interviewed Saddam Hussein 2 weeks before Shock & Awe (Bush's pre-emptive strike against IRAQ) & Saddam said he did not have those weapons anymore, he allowed the UN to come inspect all his properties even including his personal home. Saddam offered to "debate" Bush on live satellite TV so all the world could watch & judge for themselves who was telling the Truth.(& it was Saddam)
Since we found out really soon that NO WMD existed over in Iraq. The bombing invasion of Iraq is officially a "war crime" & violates all international treaties. Especially if it is a pre-emptive strike against a nation that never threatened us or attacked us. THEN to make things even worse, Bush kills Saddam's 2 sons, & goes on to kill Saddam, although it was NOT Saddam who started that War. It was solely "W" BUSH & Halliburton & Dick Cheney.

He killed Saddam so he could not "talk" about all the weapons deals done by US capitalists who profit greatly by conflicts in the Middle East. Saddam thought he was a U.S. ally who was proud of that description. He loved U.S. movies, Art, clothing, music, & tried to be like us in any way possible. Women were allowed to walk without a burqua (gunny sack over their head) & could work & get a college education. He was building a modern Iraq that may have gone higher in that regard than any other nation. If Saddam loved War so much, why did he build a beautiful "Peace Palace" with giant sized carved flying DOVES on it? If he was in conflict with the US, why did Don Rumsfeld go over there offering US armaments to him & shaking his hand? If Saddam had ANY dangerous weaponry, it was because WE gave it to him.
THIS HAD TO BE COVERED UP. Saddam had to be killed so he would not talk about any of that crooked GOP "behind the scenes" weapons dealing. And maybe Bush thought that if Saddam was not alive, it would be easier to steal the OIL out the back door when nobody's looking.

Anyway, on Judgment Day, I doubt that any GOP are going to Heaven. They are undoubtedly the most crooked slimey cold-blooded reptiles, snakes, & creatures of the Black Lagoon that ever slimed their way into U.S. Government. EVIL Snakes, like the Devil himself.

02-03-2012, 12:46 AM

llagerdog
Hagerstown, MD
Posts: 72

The Obama camp will raise over a $1,000,000,000 (that's > a billion; with a "B") on
the re-election of the President. This is expected to be an all time record for campaign
collections. This is appalling! He is an incumbent for crying out load! He gets free press, and free travel, where ever he goes. How many surf and truf meals could the poor eat off of Obama's $1,000,000,000? This pales in what the GOP candidates can and will spend.
This Liberal finger pointing continues to be an absolute double standard!

02-03-2012, 01:06 AM

llagerdog
Hagerstown, MD
Posts: 72

Besides Veronica, who are you to decide who will go to heaven? If there has been any evil doing in the past, it has been done by the President you so admire. He has shoved a health care system down the throats of a country that doesn't want it. He refuses
to remove an Attorney General that has commented perjury. He ignores and refutes Israel in an era where an agressive Iranian dictatorship threatens Israeli rights to exist. And
he has had cohorts with Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, and Tony Rezko. Do Progressives, Liberals, or Democrats have any conscience?

02-03-2012, 07:12 PM

Veronica
Not Selected
Posts: 205

To clarify: I do not try to choose who goes to Heaven. I only report what the BIBLE says about the Rules that one must obey, & Principles one should follow to get there. And it is often obvious when some people DISOBEY in extravaganza fashion. Like the hypocritical "right wing" GOP so often do. I just like to point out to them that they are not nearly as "pious" & "Christian" as they like to portray themselves. I do this to show them that we are not "fools" on the liberal side, but we know exactly how far "off the mark" they are from sainthood. I also do it for their own souls, as edification, to give them a possible chance to redeem themselves.

IT IS ALMOST TOO LATE. The repercussions of their disastrous policies, & the time wasted by the clown & circus act of the Tea Party, has led us into a dangerous period where Congress can not act to get ANYTHING done. The Tea Party itself is an unethical reckless band of fools, that in ordinary times would have been arrested for "sedition" at least, & possibly "treason." Nobody should ever take them seriously as a "qualified or capable" leader in our modern globally influential democracy.

You think that some actions that "you" perceive as corrupt should be the identifying CRITERIA for us to choose who is good or bad? But in MY point of view, I want to know which actions are "bad" by GOD's standards. What will be the litmus test to determine who goes to heaven or hell?

Fortunately, it is all written out for us. Are you familiar with the BIBLE?

To find out about THE JUDGMENT DAY, look in -- MATTHEW 25: 31-46.

WARNING: That tells you who is going to heaven or hell. Do Not Read it if you are elderly, sick, or otherwise enfeebled, as you may need smelling salts before you get done:)

As for my "descriptions" (previous article) you may see in MATTHEW 23: 27, 28, 33.

"Woe unto you, scribes & Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness." (27)// "Even so, ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity." (28)// "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" (33)//

(Gee, I really "nailed it" head on). Let me know what you think of Matt 25: 31-46.

Seriously, I think ALL right wingers should read that EVERY DAY till they get used to
the idea that they have NOT been living or thinking like a "true" Christian. It is only
to awaken them before it is too late. JUDGMENT DAY is NOT TOO FAR AWAY.

02-04-2012, 03:42 AM

Veronica
Not Selected
Posts: 205

I know that many of you are "busy"people who do not have time to borrow or locate your old family BIBLE, but you would like to know WHO IS GOING TO HEAVEN? OR TO HELL?

OR WHAT MUST YOU DO? To be sure YOU GET INTO HEAVEN?

Never fear -- the answer is here: MATTHEW 25: 31-46 (JUDGMENT DAY)

Jesus will come in glory with all his holy angels, & sit on his throne of glory.
Before him will be gathered all nations, & he will separate them one from another.
As a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put sheep on the right, and goats on the left.

Then he will say to the sheep: "Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry & ye gave me meat, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger & you took me in, I was naked & you clothed me, I was sick & you visited me, I was in prison & you came to me."

Then the righteous answered him: "When, Lord, did we see thee hungry & fed thee? Or when did we see thee thirsty and gave thee drink?” “When did we see
thee a stranger and took thee in?” “Or saw thee naked, and clothed thee?” “Or
when did we see thee sick, or in prison, and came to thee?”

“And the King shall answer them: “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done so unto me.”

Then shall he say unto the goats: “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and ye gave me no meat, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you took me not in, I was naked and you clothed me not, I was sick and in prison & you visited me not.”

Then shall they also answer him: “When Lord, did we see thee hungry or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?”

Then shall he answer them: “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, my brethren, ye did it not to me.” “And these shall go
away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous shall go into life eternal.”

TRANSLATION: Through-out your life, if you encounter a stranger who needs something from you, maybe a drink of water, or maybe some bread or meat to eat, or perhaps clothing to keep them warm, or shelter for the homeless. If you know
someone who is sick or in prison, and they need someone to visit with them,

YOU WILL BE JUDGED by how you react to these situations, and if you neglect to care for the helpless, the poor, the sick, the elderly, or the orphan or the widow, you very likely will be sent to eternal punishment in everlasting fire.

02-05-2012, 03:20 AM

llagerdog
Hagerstown, MD
Posts: 72

John 3:16.

02-05-2012, 07:13 AM

mtduffer
Clancy, MT
Posts: 3

Instead of targeting only one political party how about comparing the two largest, i.e., the Republicans and the Democrats. You will be surprised that both could do that, and maybe Obama with draw more monies to his coffers. So, let us stop saying anything with out some kind of resurce and let's compare both Parties. Both, are equally dirty.

02-05-2012, 07:52 AM

mtduffer
Clancy, MT
Posts: 3

"The GOP always have obscene amounts of money to spend on corrupt things like WAR, stock market manipulation, election "rigging," & paying lawyers to find TAX loop-holes, but when it comes to their fellow Americans, or our heroic veterans, they shrug & say, "We don't really care about the poor." MOST ALL THE VETERANS from these accursed wars are AMONG THE POOR. It is hard to make millionaire wages without arms or legs. OUR TAXES (yours & mine) go to pay for the "rehabilitation" of our vets. Yet the GOP DON'T WANT TO PAY ANY TAXES. Well, it is THEIR DAM WAR!! WE should pass legislation that says our Billionaire industries that PROFIT immensely from WAR, should have to pay for ALL REHAB NECESSARY afterwards."

What a bias statement. Listen I spent 18 months in VietNam 1968-69. I don't have to tell you what the Leftwing Anti-War Protesters did to me when I landed in San Francisco. I couldn't even get a job because I answered the question that I was in the Armed Forces. My Father, a WWII veteran, told me to not answer the question or write none. Guess what I got the job! 1 out of 12 applications. The only one that I said none to the question I got the job.

I do not like the GOP anymore than you, but you also must look at the Democrats. Clinton reduced and cut monies to the military and when we needed the arms and flak jackets and heavier armor we didn't have it.

You accuse on party of "stock market manipulation, election "rigging," & paying lawyers to find TAX loop-holes" Again, you missed the mark you gotta look at the other party, also.
I am also a Disabled Vet and I am very discusted that you through-out you dialog mentioned out Disabled Vets. Please don't use them or anyother Vet as an accuse in trashing our Government, and throwing such a one-sided vizual of verbage it is the people of this Great Nation that must make the change not the President. This one has proven that he has no idea about change.
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OK, the following was taken from the World Socialits Web Site [wsws.org]

Government of the rich, by rich and for the rich

28 December 2011
According to a study reported Tuesday, nearly half the members of the United States Congress are millionaires. Of the 535 legislators (100 members of the Senate and 435 members of the House of Representatives), at least 250 are millionaires and the median net worth is $913,000.

Sixty-seven senators are millionaires and the median wealth of the body’s 100 members is $2.63 million.

While the Senate has long been known as a millionaires’ club, the transformation of the House is a relatively recent phenomenon. The median net worth of members of the House of Representatives, excluding home equity, has more than doubled over the last 25 years, from $280,000 in 1984 to $725,000 in 2009 in inflation-adjusted dollars. During that same period, the median net worth of an American family fell from $20,600 to $20,500.

Both the Washington Post and the New York Times gave front-page treatment to the data, derived from figures collected by the Center for Responsive Politics. The articles reflect nervousness in the corporate-controlled media over the degree to which the rising personal wealth of members of Congress is discrediting the institution.

The Post commented: “The growing disparity between the representatives and the represented means that there is a greater distance between the economic experience of Americans and those of lawmakers.” The Times noted that “the wealth gap between lawmakers and their constituents appears to be growing quickly, even as Congress debates unemployment benefits, possible cuts in food stamps and a ‘millionaire’s tax.’”

The proportion of members of Congress who have no net worth outside their home equity—the economic position of a majority of the working class—has declined from one in five in 1984 to only one in twelve. The Times contacted the offices of 534 members of Congress to ask if they had friends or relatives who had lost homes or jobs since the 2008 financial crash. Only 18 responded, and only 12 reported even a second-hand contact with the impact of the economic crisis.

The median wealth of members of Congress rose 15 percent from 2004 to 2010, despite the financial collapse that devastated working people and for a time drove down the median wealth even of the financial aristocracy. In part, this was the result of congressional turnover—the incoming “Tea Party” Republicans were on average far better off than the Democrats or “establishment” Republicans they replaced, with a median net worth of $864,000 for the 106 members of the supposedly “populist” freshmen class of 2010.

The Times noted that at least 10 members of Congress were worth over $100 million, including Congressman Darrell Issa, an auto alarm manufacturer who has the largest single fortune, as well as two leading Democrats, Senator John Kerry, the 2004 presidential candidate, and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the current minority leader and former house speaker.

The rising cost of congressional election campaigns will only strengthen the grip of the wealthy. The cost of a victorious US Senate campaign in 2010 was $10 million, while a successful House campaign had a price tag of $1.4 million. Winning candidates must either be independently wealthy, so they can self-finance, or sell themselves to enough corporate interests to generate the necessary campaign cash.

This is even more true of presidential candidates, for whom a private fortune or the backing of major financial interests is indispensable. Barack Obama’s support in the ruling elite is demonstrated above all by the fact that he out-raised his Republican opponent John McCain by three to one in 2008. He is projected to become the first candidate to raise and spend $1 billion in 2012.

The Post and the Times have good reason to worry over the discrediting of the US political system. The vast and historic socio-economic polarization in America is giving rise to a political polarization: not the mock conflicts between Democrats and Republicans that are the exclusive focus of the corporate-controlled media, but the real conflicts between the working population and an isolated and arrogant financial aristocracy.

Working people are increasingly conscious that official Washington represents government of, by and for the rich. This political and social reality accounts for the dismal standing of Congress in the eyes of the public, with only 11 percent approving of the record of the current Congress according to one recent poll.

The popular disaffection extends not only to elected officials, but to the two officially recognized parties. According to an analysis of voter registration statistics published December 23 by USA Today, more than 2.5 million voters have left the Democratic and Republican parties since the 2008 elections, with the Democrats losing 1.7 million registered voters and the Republicans losing 800,000.

These figures are a significant undercount, since 22 states do not identify voters by party registration. In the 28 states that do, Democratic registration fell in 25 and Republican registration in 21. The number choosing to register as independents has risen by 400,000 during the same three-year period.

The popular alienation from the traditional two-party structure will inevitably widen as a new generation of working people, with no prospects for a decent job and secure future, comes to maturity. A separate survey by Scarborough Research last month found that nearly 50 percent of young voters classified themselves as independent or unaffiliated.

The first open expression of these sentiments came in the Occupy Wall Street protests of the past three months, although still limited mainly to layers of youth and students. Despite the desperate efforts of Obama’s apologists in the trade unions, liberal publications like the Nation and pseudo-left groups like the International Socialist Organization, these protests were characterized by hostility to both parties.

As broader layers of the working class come into struggle over fundamental economic and social issues—jobs, living standards, the defense of public services like education and health care—the conditions will develop for the emergence of a mass political movement of working people, independent of and hostile to the existing parties of big business.

The Socialist Equality Party fights for the development of such a movement, based on a revolutionary socialist program, as the only alternative to a political system controlled by the one percent at the top of American society and utterly indifferent to the needs and sentiments of the people.

Patrick Martin"
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Now, I do not support the Socialist Organization, but I do read different views and I must agree with this particular article. Oh, I am a true Independent, I vote for the man/woman and what they stand for not their party affiliate.
Walt

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