You go Girl!
go on with your bad self DorisP. I agree.
I've tried and tried to figure out the difference betw Democrats and Republicans, esp in those years where people say that there's "no difference" betw them and it makes it hard to vote. I've finally figured it out by what's happened to me in my adult working life, and by looking back through history in the 1900's:
Republicans think that if you take care of big business, it will take care of the people.
Democrats think that if you take care of people, they will take care of business.
Which do you think serves this country best? Which do you think is REALLY working according to "plan". I live in California: big business electric co.screwed my bulb into the ground last year and then went off to their own private island into new bazillion dollar houses for the CEO's, leaving employees behind jobless, pensionless, broken. How come Halburton, Cheney's business interest, got an uncontested government contract to send MRE's to our troops in Iraq for 29.95 EACH ? I say we stop all that hogwash immediately and let local elected governments "consult" with the Feds before contracts are awarded. I bet the city council of, say, Garden City Kansas would send back notes saying that they would arrange for the downtown Army/Navy shop to send THREE meals/ day, postage and all, to each soldier for less than 30 bucks a day. Don't EVEN get me started on how the Republicans changed the way we elect presidents in this country. I will never forgive them for NOT allowing the election to proceed according to the balance of powers in the Constitution. It SHOULD have gone to the the House of Representatives. Bush would probably have been "appointed" anyway. But, he and his team have now set a prescident for the Supreme Court---a politically appointed board---to fiddle with elections infinitely. I will never forget even to my dying day that Chief Justice Scalia--a Republican appointee--said in defense of the court's decision that "the Constitution does NOT guarantee suffrage" meaning that, he believes that Constitutionally, your vote NEVER needs to be counted. It is the "luxury" of the court that ANY vote is counted. How's THAT for checks and balances?
go on with your bad self DorisP. I agree.
I've tried and tried to figure out the difference betw Democrats and Republicans, esp in those years where people say that there's "no difference" betw them and it makes it hard to vote. I've finally figured it out by what's happened to me in my adult working life, and by looking back through history in the 1900's:
Republicans think that if you take care of big business, it will take care of the people.
Democrats think that if you take care of people, they will take care of business.
Which do you think serves this country best? Which do you think is REALLY working according to "plan". I live in California: big business electric co.screwed my bulb into the ground last year and then went off to their own private island into new bazillion dollar houses for the CEO's, leaving employees behind jobless, pensionless, broken. How come Halburton, Cheney's business interest, got an uncontested government contract to send MRE's to our troops in Iraq for 29.95 EACH ? I say we stop all that hogwash immediately and let local elected governments "consult" with the Feds before contracts are awarded. I bet the city council of, say, Garden City Kansas would send back notes saying that they would arrange for the downtown Army/Navy shop to send THREE meals/ day, postage and all, to each soldier for less than 30 bucks a day. Don't EVEN get me started on how the Republicans changed the way we elect presidents in this country. I will never forgive them for NOT allowing the election to proceed according to the balance of powers in the Constitution. It SHOULD have gone to the the House of Representatives. Bush would probably have been "appointed" anyway. But, he and his team have now set a prescident for the Supreme Court---a politically appointed board---to fiddle with elections infinitely. I will never forget even to my dying day that Chief Justice Scalia--a Republican appointee--said in defense of the court's decision that "the Constitution does NOT guarantee suffrage" meaning that, he believes that Constitutionally, your vote NEVER needs to be counted. It is the "luxury" of the court that ANY vote is counted. How's THAT for checks and balances?