Please my republican friends pay attention. We have just spent many dollars and ten years fighting the Taliban of Afghanistan. Don’t pick a Christian fundamentalist for your choice as leader. Fundamentalist Christianity is just as repressive as any other religious fundamentalism.

I heard Governor Perry is proud of Texas’s job creation yet near the end of 2010 a report came out that said:

In the larger universe of Texas families below 200 percent of the poverty line, work participation is even higher. Of 1.4 million poor and “near poor” Texas families with children, 77 percent—or 1 million—are working. These families include almost 4.8 million Texans, 2.4 million of whom are children. Low wages in many of the state economy’s growth sectors contribute to Texas’ large working but low-income population, as do limited public assistance benefits. Compared to the U.S. average, Texas workers are slightly more likely to have low-wage jobs. Texas workers also rank near the bottom in terms of access to job-sponsored health insurance, pensions, workers’ compensation coverage, and unemployment benefit

In other words a job in Texas doesn’t mean you also can have a roof and food at the same time. Companies also offering health benefits are at a lower percentage than the rest of the country (understandable if you don’t have leper colonies how can Christ return and visit them?)

Please keep up your rhetoric about Medicare and Medicaid going. Your party has really missed the reason the country sent you to power this time. I will explain it to you The country wants jobs. It felt that the Democrats weren’t doing the things they promised during the election, like removing the tax benefits for companies sending jobs overseas. They felt that they tried to push their extreme agenda while they were in control. Your group has created the fear about the deficit even if China who just by its size will pass us eventually.

Every argument the Republicans give starts out with the people sent us here to take care of the most important thing to them, Jobs! Could you explain to me where the jobs are in all the anti abortion actions. All I can see is eventually this road will only lead to more people to be unemployed.

I love this one “We don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.” We can’t afford food medicine or education. We can however afford an extra engine for the b30,oil subsidies,tax deductions for private jets. If we give these things up how many jobs would be lost? Lets go back to Reagan era taxes and fix this mess. We could also reinstate the draft and fire the outside contractors doing the jobs our servicemen and women did for a couple of  hundred years.

Eric Cantor did you do as bad when you were on the debating team. Did you make something up and then keep repeating it hoping someone would believe it? The average family not only controls their spending( what is the credit card debt in America, what protion of the collapse was caused by continual remortgaging, In many households the wife is working to increase revenues, your party allowed the housing to get out of control because it made it look like the economy was ok even though no job growth was a tell it wasn’t. You want to stop kicking the can down the road and put it back in the same sewer it just escaped.

While were sitting around the table. (If you live in a 1950′s setting TV sitcom) When we bought our house and we borrowed the money what was the amount of every dollar spent that was borrowed?

Would the Republicans agree to work like the rest of us and only get paid by the Federal Government when actually in Washington. The States would pay the rest and could then cut their pay when it was in a financial bind or wanted to give corporations another tax cut?

Since the privileged will soon be the only people who can afford to drive can we start charging them to repair any potholes they report?

Which will Representative Ryan do after his last town hall, change his stance on medicare and tax increases for the rich or quit saying he is listening to the people?

Senator Ensign  another moral conservative that isn’t moral need I say more?

Listening to a group of politicians from Iowa one said  the states seceding in the civil war era were constitutional even if their reason was immoral. Maybe he wants to go to war so the federal government will rebuild his state?

Here is an idea. The Republicans think Ronald Regan was great he lowered the federal tax maximum rate to 50% over 171550 phased in to this amount in 1985. Why don’t we use his wisdom, and of course realize that inflation has occurred, go back to that rate over 1,000,000. that would do two thing. First it would transfer the wealth back where it was before the upper transfer(Rush things can transfer 2 directions only your listeners don’t understand that). Secondly if an increase of 4% will net 700 billion in 10 years then 15% will give us 26+ trillion. pay off the debt and rehire the cops and teachers. We might even be able to fix a few bridges. I’ll bet the cost of election would go down because there would be less free floating money. I would even give up my argument for no cap on payroll and medicare taxes.

Let’s pass an amendment say that we can never again fight a war off the budget. We can never fight a war where everyone is engaged either through service or rationing and taxes. We will never again rebuild the country we go to war with and there is no such thing a a police action except those joined by the rest of the world( shared responsibility). I think Dwight D Eisenhower warned us of this. George Washington said we should mind our own business.

One place I stand with the Tea Party. We should reevaluate our foreign aid. You know like Brazilian Wheat , Exxon Oil, countries like that.

When did barefoot and pregnant turn into stupid ,cold, and hungry?

Maybe help is on the way. Did you see where the Chinese hackers went after their version of google. We could all benefit from that government retribution.

The Republican amendment to the 9/11 Health and Compensation act added to prevent the law from passage is in effect How much money could we save by not running every first responder through the FBI terrorist list. Repeal This !

How stupid do the Republicans really think McCain is? He wouldn’t have challenged the legality of Obama’s birth. Please he would have joined the tea party to get elected. Need proof check his Senate campaign.

To s0lve my cravings a little web searching was necessary. To save others time I thought I would share some of my findings.  The first places of interest can be found for a Senator or Representative just by using their last name . which house . gov (example Senator Bob Casey is http://casey.senate.gov/ )or Nancy Pelosi is( http://pelosi.house.gov ). The nice thing about visiting here is that if you don’t ask for them to send you updates they don’t ask for money every time.

If you want to find the progressive blogs or websites your best bet is to start with one and see who the are connected with. Lets star with Oil Change Iinternational. When I go to this website using Internet Explorer it freezes but if visited with FireFox it works well. Oil Prices  and energy for all and clean energy. This site has a blog roll (connections to other websites.) The first one is Amazon Watch and deals with energy and pollution in the Amazon. This is logical but one subject and distant. They are also linked with The center for responsible politics(Opensecrets) This is a sunshine site tring to follow the money on both sides, The Understory all the dirt that’s fit to post (as long as it helps liberals), Truthdig is a news website with a progressive point of view. When you visit Oil Change International there are many more links.

Here’s one that is a Fox alike and one that Fox actually does dislike
You can’t be a Christain and a Republican was just a couple of posts but Faithful America is a full time website with this in mind yet still not that faith based one we need. Don’t be discouraged there is Sojourners with daily posts in sections like Verse and Voice. How about a Catholic group that realizes abortion isn’t the only topic Vote The Common Good is just such a place. The National council of  Churches doesn’t endorse anyone but many of it’s principles to look for will be found in a progressive agenda

Courage Campaign  is an online organizing network that empowers more than 700,000 grassroots and netroots activists to push for progressive change and full equality in California and across the country. Since 1971 there has been Public Citizen Corporations have their lobbyists in Washington, D.C. The people need advocates too. Get Equal and Task Force are gay rights groups Progressive United formed byRuss Feingold aims to build a massive grassroots effort dedicated to mitigating the effects of, and eventually overturning, the Citizens United decision.Progressive in States Network is a multi progressive subject site. Brave New Foundation champians social justice issues

I’ll have more for you next post