The harsh realities...

            Well the Midterms are finally over and the Republican Party is now in control of the House. The polls said that almost 60% of people wanted more jobs and a better economy, let’s see what they are getting for their money…

1.      Smaller Government.  Reality: almost 200,000 government jobs lost so all those people on Unemployment, a program by the way that the Republicans and Tea Party want abolished. And for the several friends I have on Facebook that work for the Government 2 for ICE and several in the Military hope you are still working next year.

2.      Tax cuts across the board.  Reality: a budget deficit created of around a trillion dollars. But they figure they can get that back by privatizing Social security, eliminating the Dept. of Education, eliminating Medicare and Medicaid and privatizing the VA..

Now lets talk about the things that most people forget about when voting on pure rhetoric…what the base of the GOP stands for…

1.       Re-Writing the First Amendment. They want Religion to be taught in all public schools…not just religion but only Judeo Christian Religion…no others.

2.       Repeal Roe v Wade.  Abortion will be totally illegal…even in cases of rape and incest. If you do have an abortion you will be put in prison for murder.

3.       No gun control at all.  Don’t get me wrong on this one…I have owned guns all my life and have no problem with people owning any and all types of weapon…but if you can’t wait 3-7 days in order to buy a gun…you probably shouldn’t have one. And if they want your fingerprint in order to run a background check so be it…again if you have a problem with that you probably shouldn’t own a gun cuz you’re hiding something.

4.       Repeal of Healthcare bill.  I don’t have a real problem with this as long as everybody is ok with Medicare and Medicaid…oh that’s right they want to abolish those programs too…so I guess the new health care program for the country is simple….don’t get sick, and if you do, die quickly.

5.       Repeal all Wall Street reforms that have been put in place.  Ya we can all trust those guys to just do the right thing. Hope you all like those jumps to 30% interest rates on your credit cards.

       Look I’m not trying to say the Democrats can do it any better, I guess though that I am a blue dog Liberal. I’m just trying to say that we have been in a deep recession since 2004 and it’s going to take more than 2 years to dig out of it. I’m sorry that we are such an impatient people that we can’t give at least as long as it took to get into this mess to get out of it, unfortunately I feel like we just made a deal with the devil to try and get out of it.

       The latest election to me was a true view on what our political system has become…for sale to the highest bidder.