Behind Right-Wing Hype

I am unable to comprehend why Americans living on fixed incomes, low-wage earners, and middle-class Americans choose to support a political party based upon their political efforts to legislate morality. Look around. Is the Republican economic trickle-down theory working for you? Is Wall Street's record profits enhancing your life?

May I suggest leaving each individual's conscience a matter between them and God. If their actions do not negatively affect you, is it any of your business?

Instead of supporting a political party because it tries to dictate its own morality upon others, may I suggest worrying more about taking care of yourself and your own family. This is the basis for capitalism and democracy. Our forefathers separated church and state for this very reason.

My, my... why would anyone on social security vote for a party candidate that hasn't allowed a COLA in three years, keeps increasing medicare deductibles and supplemental insurance rates while boasting of reducing taxes for the wealthiest Americans? *scratching head*

Republicans want to create a caste system in America... the haves and the have-nots. They are dismantling public education, eliminating student loans, reducing grants, subsidizing private charter schools with tax breaks for the wealthy, and slamming the door on equal access to higher education. It is government's responsibility to ensure ALL Americans have access to higher education. College tuition continues to increase while middle-class incomes decline. Soon, America will mirror the countries from which our founding fathers fled seeking opportunity in this new land.

The short-sightedness of the Republican party is glaring. They want to sell us their products and services at the same time they're shipping our jobs overseas. Our economy is based on consumption, not production. If we don't produce anything, how can we buy their products? We can't. But guess what. They don't care. They'll sell them to Chinese, Brazilians, Indians, and other emerging markets. Americans won't have an education to gain employment in high-tech jobs. Instead, we'll be the ones driving the trucks, cooking their food, cleaning their homes, cutting their grass. 

If voters looked at the real issues instead of the hyped belligerence uttered by fools to rally those who fall prey to simple-minded media soundbytes, there would  never be another Republican elected until they changed their party platform. Voting themselves a raise while cutting social security. That's not their money. It's mine. The problem is... they've already spent it. Now they want me to do without while they keep giving themselves raises. Grrrrrrr....

Farah
8-27-11