Question for the Republican Party

How on Earth do you have a presidential candidate, on the last night of your big, once every four years political convention, go on for over an hour, promising the sun and the moon and the stars and balanced budgets and a wall between us and Mexico and equality to the LGBTQ community (who saw that coming?) and who knows what else and then, at the very end, once he's finally, finally finished, how is it you play "Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones?

Donald Trump plays 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' after RNC speech

How do you do that?

Was that code for "Suckers! You're no way getting all I just promised you!"?

What the heck was that?

It's not even the first time this was a thing for The Donald.

'You can't always get what you want,' 

Stones tell Trump

It must be his way of telling the Stones, "up yours."

Hopefully.

That or he just told the American public that all he just promised was nonsense.

Not that that wouldn't make some twisted, Trump-sense.

That damn Obama

That damn Socialist/Communist/Kenyan Obummer.

First I saw this today:

Census: Poverty rate has first decline in 7 years

Then this:

CDC Study: Fewer Americans Now Without Health Insurance

And finally this from, of all places, business-loving, conservative Forbes Magazine:

The Federal Budget Deficit Has Disappeared.Really

It just keeps getting worse and worse.

Drives me nuts.

California's Dream Act vs. their budget (deficit)

It seems California just passed their own version of the "Dream Act", allowing illegal immigrant students to stay in the state and reap the benefits of the state paying for some of their education.

That has got to drive a whole bunch of people out there crazy.

You see, California still has a budget deficit of at least $10 billion, which isn't chicken feed, for sure, but the legislature passed this legislation which will only add yet more to the state's budget and so, deficit.

Now, you may come down for or against this "Dream Act", allowing illegal immigrant's children to stay in the state and get their education but if you're for it--and I'm for the idea, anyway--it makes it difficult to support the viability and plausibility of making this work and happen if you're that deeply in debt.

Right?

If you're not only broke but deeply, deeply in debt, how is it you "invest" if you don't have any money and the law requires that you balance your books?

This is one tough situation.

Links:  http://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/forum/x43955787/Should-voters-get-say-on-tax-extensions
Editorial: Support the state's DREAM Act
DREAM Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=california+dream+act+news&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=bd65c7b8ba23dd6c&biw=1024&bih=653

Gov. Brownback, Kansas and the Arts Commission

The budget for the Arts Commission in Kansas was $500,000 or so. 

There are 2,853,116 people in the state. 

This comes out to about 17 and a half cents per person per year for every Kansan for the arts.

But Brownback had to slash it. So he can run for president, later. He's showing he's tough, now. On the backs of Kansans. 

Hope it works for y'all.

(Thanks to Thomas Gieseke from Facebook for parts of the above).

Have a great weekend, y'all.

Hopefully the shape of things to come

Dem Wins NY 26

Let's hope the Rethugs haven't learned a thing here and keep on pushing budget cuts at the expense of the populace instead of corporate welfare cuts and closing corporate loopholes.

(Accidental) Quote of the day

"When Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure, he's just being America's accountant ... This is the same guy that voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill--but wasn't paid for,"   --President Obama when supposedly or apparently speaking near an open microphone.


Maybe we need to have him speak more openly, honestly and more frequently near an open mic.




Have a great weekend, y'all.


Link:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110415/ts_yblog_theticket/obama-caught-on-audio-slamming-gop

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

Remember that now-old movie line from Tom Cruise's character?

Well, it applies to too many of us Americans when it comes to our national budget deficit spending.

To wit:

Think and assume that Republicans are the ones who are good at cutting budgets and deficit spending?

Think again:

"Dwight Eisenhower was last Republican President to preside over a balanced budget. He had a balanced budget in 1956 and 1957.

Since then, there have been two presidents to preside over balanced budgets, LBJ in 1969 and Clinton in 1998 through 2001.

During the last 40 years there have been five budget surpluses, all five were under Democratic Presidents: 1969, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001.

As we joked when we were kids at home:  "Hurts, don' it?"

Links:  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/23/959315/-Empirical-Evidence-That-Proves-Conservatism-is-Destroying-America

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_republican_president_balanced_a_budget#ixzz1HRBkNpr7

Quote of the day--you want to balance the budget on who??

"They got more millionaires in New Jersey than they do teachers, but we got to have the teachers pay for everything."  --Ed Schultz, The Ed Schultz Show, MSNBC


Links:  http://www.alternet.org/news/150115/why_don't_teachers_get_the_respect_they_deserve_republicans_would_rather_destroy_schools_than_raise_taxes_on_millionaires/
www.bigeddieradio.com

Here's an idea for taxation and corporations

Question and proposal: Why don't we have a minimum 10% tax on all businesses in the United States, regardless of deductions?

It could and should serve as a minimum requirement for working, living and benefitting from being in this country and having exposure to its markets.