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Ode to Joy – response to Joy Leeper
Ok, did your eyes bleed like mine? Let's start the shake
down of this piece. The writer states "The Democrats are clearly
stating their intention to put the middle classes first" in my view
the Republicans and the Conservatives supporting them want to put ALL AMERICANS
first instead of apologizing FOR them. We want Americans to succeed not by
sending taxpayer money to South America for their oil industry but by keeping
it here, and enable America to become less dependent on foreign oil. Not by
using less, but by producing more HERE in America. This will create American
jobs, American TAX revenue and cheap energy is the fuel for innovation and
growth in America. Ms. Leeper also states ""Democrats are the ones
who do not want to make cuts to public education, Pell Grants for college
students" One of President Obama's first acts was to remove the
school voucher program in the DC schools that was very popular and enabled a
community in need to get a better education for their children. She says
"We must not balance the budget on the backs of teachers and minimum wage
earners", what exactly is she saying? That Republicans want to actually
take money from teachers and cut the budget with that money? Get serious; never
have we supported that idea, regardless of what the teachers unions wildly
claim. I am still surprised that democrats will use education as a stance since
the state of our student’s educational results drops lower and lower in world
ranking. There are GREAT teachers that are under paid and under rewarded. The
unions don't seem to like the idea of being rewarded for performance.
Describing Republicans, she says "They say one thing and do another, but catch them in an unguarded moment and their true plan comes out. Their true plan is this one thing: privatize everything." Everything, really? Medicare and Social Security are BROKE. A brave Paul Ryan proposes an option to fix it and the Senate won't even debate it? Why not consider privatizing the U.S. Post Office, it is BROKE under governmental control. Constitutional limited government does not mean privatizing everything and that is NOT what the Republicans are asking for. We are just asking for the founders’ intent to be returned to this country. Radical isn't it.
The author writes "We sent new people to Congress in 2010 to work on jobs and they have spent the last 2 years doing nothing about jobs." The House of Representatives has passed 2 budgets, many jobs bills and NONE of these have even been debated in the Democrat controlled Senate. When the President proposes a budget, it received ZERO votes. Yes that includes ZERO votes from ALL Democrats in congress. No person in congress took it seriously enough, even for a symbolic YES vote. The first 2 years of the Obama Administration they had complete control, no blocks, no opposition to speak of and their signature piece of legislation is the Obamacare bill that polls show is NOT supported by the majority of Americans.
The piece says "The way to improve the economy is to give aid to the lower incomes. If a person earning $20,000 a year gets a raise, she spends it on a new bed or washing machine, thereby helping the economy; whereas a person earning 2 million a year just socks the tax break money away" Why does she believe that helping the lower income is ok but not the rest of Americans? Is that not class warfare in a nutshell? Pretty bold of her to think that rich people also don't need a new bed, or GASP!, a new washing machine. So rich people don't spend their money, what world is she living in? Shared costs apply but shared benefits are wrong?
So in conclusion she writes "Students, seniors, women, gays and anyone earning less than a million dollars a year, plus anyone who cares about our American family and the future of the planet." So you make $500,000 a year, you’re ok and should vote Democrat because you won't be harmed by liberal and progressive policies? Yes you will. Students who are among the highest rate of unemployment in the nation won't be harmed? Yes you will. Women also have a higher rate of unemployment and the Presidents administration still pays their women less, won't be harmed? Yes you will.
Oh and "one more thing" as she put it. Writing "Obama was hamstrung by the” just say no” Congress the last 2 years, making it almost impossible to do anything. When we re-elect the Democrat for President, let’s give him a Democratic Congress to work with" she seems to have a memory or reality lapse. Like I mentioned above, the first 2 years of his administration he had a clear ticket to pass anything he thought would help America. The exact same policies he claims will help us now were not passed when he had total control in the House, Senate and White House. Other than spending more money and accelerating the growth of debt, what good did it do?
"This is the time that the rise of the oceans slow and the planet begins to heal" President Obama's own words not mine. Recent developments in the Middle East where an unguarded embassy was attacked and our Ambassador murdered, even the Middle East is out of control with no signs of it getting better. He refuses to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but has time for fund raising and an appearance on David Letterman? This election is critical, will you make the right choice for ALL Americans? I have faith that....Yes you will!
Describing Republicans, she says "They say one thing and do another, but catch them in an unguarded moment and their true plan comes out. Their true plan is this one thing: privatize everything." Everything, really? Medicare and Social Security are BROKE. A brave Paul Ryan proposes an option to fix it and the Senate won't even debate it? Why not consider privatizing the U.S. Post Office, it is BROKE under governmental control. Constitutional limited government does not mean privatizing everything and that is NOT what the Republicans are asking for. We are just asking for the founders’ intent to be returned to this country. Radical isn't it.
The author writes "We sent new people to Congress in 2010 to work on jobs and they have spent the last 2 years doing nothing about jobs." The House of Representatives has passed 2 budgets, many jobs bills and NONE of these have even been debated in the Democrat controlled Senate. When the President proposes a budget, it received ZERO votes. Yes that includes ZERO votes from ALL Democrats in congress. No person in congress took it seriously enough, even for a symbolic YES vote. The first 2 years of the Obama Administration they had complete control, no blocks, no opposition to speak of and their signature piece of legislation is the Obamacare bill that polls show is NOT supported by the majority of Americans.
The piece says "The way to improve the economy is to give aid to the lower incomes. If a person earning $20,000 a year gets a raise, she spends it on a new bed or washing machine, thereby helping the economy; whereas a person earning 2 million a year just socks the tax break money away" Why does she believe that helping the lower income is ok but not the rest of Americans? Is that not class warfare in a nutshell? Pretty bold of her to think that rich people also don't need a new bed, or GASP!, a new washing machine. So rich people don't spend their money, what world is she living in? Shared costs apply but shared benefits are wrong?
So in conclusion she writes "Students, seniors, women, gays and anyone earning less than a million dollars a year, plus anyone who cares about our American family and the future of the planet." So you make $500,000 a year, you’re ok and should vote Democrat because you won't be harmed by liberal and progressive policies? Yes you will. Students who are among the highest rate of unemployment in the nation won't be harmed? Yes you will. Women also have a higher rate of unemployment and the Presidents administration still pays their women less, won't be harmed? Yes you will.
Oh and "one more thing" as she put it. Writing "Obama was hamstrung by the” just say no” Congress the last 2 years, making it almost impossible to do anything. When we re-elect the Democrat for President, let’s give him a Democratic Congress to work with" she seems to have a memory or reality lapse. Like I mentioned above, the first 2 years of his administration he had a clear ticket to pass anything he thought would help America. The exact same policies he claims will help us now were not passed when he had total control in the House, Senate and White House. Other than spending more money and accelerating the growth of debt, what good did it do?
"This is the time that the rise of the oceans slow and the planet begins to heal" President Obama's own words not mine. Recent developments in the Middle East where an unguarded embassy was attacked and our Ambassador murdered, even the Middle East is out of control with no signs of it getting better. He refuses to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but has time for fund raising and an appearance on David Letterman? This election is critical, will you make the right choice for ALL Americans? I have faith that....Yes you will!
Jeff Chancey you ROCK my friend. Perfect style refuting the propaganda Joy "take a Leap" propagates as truth. I have no room to add what my passions ache to instill to bring sanity to the mentally deficent who applaud the twisted logic of the "government is God" squad. Republicans are for limited government and local control NOT the abolishing of all forms of government through "privatization". How extreme does the liberal mindset rage on to instill fear in the voter! No plan to speak of just fear mongering. How disappointing as the acts of Joy intends to suck my pursuit of happiness right out of my middle class grasp. I say just take a flying leap ms. Leep!
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