And that people voted for Obama just because they want “stuff”.  Then she goes on to tell me that she is married and has two kids … but hasn’t had health insurance in years because she can’t afford it.  Believe me, I am trying so hard to understand right-wing’s supporters’ methods of thinking, but most the time when they explain their reasoning , they either have this “what’s good for me is not good for you” attitude or it’s this whole subservience to the policies that got this country exactly where it is in the first place mentality. They even defend the right-wing to the point where they are attempting to justify policies to me that doesn’t even include them!  Some of them are even living out the exact problems that are plaguing many Americans, that Obama is fighting against, such as millions of Americans running around here with no healthcare.  How long are we suppose to wait on taking care of this healthcare problem?  How long do we keep it on the backburner?  How long has it already been on the backburner before politicians decided to do anything about it knowing full well this breach in the insured to uninsured was going to bust wide open?

At this point, universal healthcare or some kind of healthcare reform, should have happened after the Clinton administration when we had the surplus, but NOOOOO someone wanted to sling their dick over their shoulder, go to war and waste the money. Now we’re in a deficit and struggling to get the money we need to help our own people.  Other co-workers started ranting about other country’s national healthcare about how they suck, even though they have never lived there to even know, and saying that they have poor health conditions.  Jesus people, it’s not like the government is building new clinics and hospitals and sticking 3rd world doctors in them, morons.  We will have the same clinics and hospitals with the same doctors as before, just the policies are changing.

The prices for health insurance go up every year or so no matter who is in office,  so how long are we suppose to wait before we do something about it? There are about 48.6 million uninsured Americans right now.  Americans bitch and whine about the price tag for universal healthcare, but when there’s a war all of a sudden the money comes out the woodworks.  It’s like no one wants to spend money on their own country, they seem content on blowing other country’s  up. Do we wait until we have people dying in ER waiting rooms or people dying in their homes, etc?  Until we have an epidemic of the Bubonic Plague-like proportion because a handful of people couldn’t afford healthcare so they just walked around with it infecting everyone else?  Do we wait for some illegal to jump the border with a nasty bug that infects us all?  Or do we wait until there’s an outbreak of the super-flu that wipes out a small town?   Because that is exactly what is going to happen with the number of people running around without healthcare. No healthcare means you got people walking around with diseases and the last thing we need is for one to mutate and wipe out people.  Yes it does sound like something from a horror movie but it’s a very possible reality; it’s a ticking time bomb just waiting to go off.

Left to the decision of Republicans, that is exactly what’s going to happen and they will not do anything about it and do what they do best, neglect the issue.  Neglect it until it explodes and becomes an epidemic just like they neglected the issues of Wall Street under the Bush administration until the crap busted wide open and America woke up the next morning to evaporated pensions, a balance of $.50 cents in their 401k’s, and a foreclosed sign on their porch.  I remember getting letters in the mail from 2 of the banks I had accounts with saying my accounts would be transferred to another bank because they were folding and were getting bought out; banks that now charge fees for their services mind you.  So when I see them say things like this, it makes me wonder if they have just  given up their dignity and submitted to this big business, plutocratic and oligarchic country, hoping that some way or somehow corporations, under their own vices, out of the kindness of their hearts, will just handover medical insurance to you and if not oh well or do they just love getting pistol-whipped by the wealthy?  Even when I was working for an employer it was only about $20 cheaper from individual health insurance; not a big difference.

As far as my co-worker, I don’t know if it’s her entire family with no insurance, probably because she also says she is in a single income family although she is married, but she is walking around with no health insurance because she cannot afford it. Do you not see something wrong with that?  Is this the new American patriotism?  To just neglect yourself because you don’t have the money to pay for it and thus walk around with no kind of medical insurance whatsoever but work 10 hours a day?  And if you ask for ONE thing, a.k.a. healthcare, you’re classified as wanting “stuff”?  If this IS the new America, then we need a better education system to make college part of our standard education system so everyone can go to college just like the Arab and Indian countries do, so we can make more money to feed the plutocrats while at the same time afford healthcare for ourselves.

But I guess it’s the American Way to just become an expendable pawn in this game to work hard for the plutocrats and spending your life doing it, and at the same time the money you earn that YOU worked for, once again just goes back into the hands of the plutocrats and then your kids are going to raised into a public school system that teaches them to be cooperative to the plutocrats and do the same thing in life? Well are you a human being or just a friggin Duracell battery because I don’t see much difference between the two. I mean unless you like being created predestined to never get ahead and just be drained by the plutocrats of everything you work hard for, and serving no other function in life.   Sorry, I value myself much more than that and I am not  going to continue to let the divide between the have’s and have not’s continue.

The 1% seems to have forgotten that they made their money off the sweat of the 99%’s backs.  Sorry plutocratic America.  We’re hurting out here so we’re taking some of it back.

I say let ’em; no sweat off my brow whatsoever.  In case you live under a rock, most if not all the states, have petitions on the White House web site to “peacefully” secede from the United States.  I live in Virginia in which there was a petition to secede from the U.S. … hello excuse me?  I am not seceding from anything.  I am not leaving my life behind because a few butt-hurt Tea Bagging pricks are mad that their candidate didn’t win the election.  If you want to secede from the U.S. then you pack your bags and gtfo; no one is stopping you.  Don’t let the Constitution hit you in the ass on your way out.  No matter how boring it is, I am still proud of my state and country through the good and the bad.  I tolerated Bush; I didn’t like him, but you didn’t see me or anyone else crying about they wanted to leave the Union.  No we all sucked it up and stuck through the fail.

Now mind you, nobody wanted to secede from the United States when Bush destroyed our economy.  Nobody wanted to secede from the United States when Bush set off on his witch hunt over weapons of mass destruction that were never found because they never existed in the first place, killing thousands in a fake war. Nobody wanted to secede from the United States, when Bush was making this country go into ginormous debt.  And where were the Tea Baggers through all this?  They were nowhere to be found because they were convenient and comfortable with all of it including starting a war based on emotions.

So now we have a President who wants to invest in our country and put a system in place designed for the future, to help those who are struggling and ignoring the fact that our President decreased our taxes at the beginning of his first term AND delivered Obama’s head on a silver platter AND saved our auto industry which would not exist today if he hadn’t AND provided immediate support for Hurricane Sandy victims AND getting new green jobs on the market so we can live cleaner for the future AND getting ways for us not to depend on foreign oil … and all some ungrateful American people can say is now they want to leave the United States?

This is all because the man is black; nothing more, nothing less.  All that other crap about Obamacare, taxes, welfare (of which I can guarantee there are thousands of Tea Baggers on) and everything else is just an excuse to cover up the REAL reason because taxes have been going up since America was created, welfare has been in the U.S. since the early 1800s government and welfare has been a constant argument since it was created in the 1930s.  People are scared of Obamacare because it is new, BUT at the same time we cannot continue health insurance on the same road because the number of uninsured people walking around is just going up and up every year because insurance is too expensive for everyone to pay for; we can’t continue on that route or we’re going to have insurance only the wealthy can afford.  The only reason they are against Obam is because he’s brown and the racists truly believe if he’s not white, then he’s not right.  They do not trust the country in the hands of a black man, despite his credentials.   If Obama were white it would be business as usual in the United States just like it was business as usual when Bush was raping it.  Sure there would have been a little protesting here and there, but it would not nowhere of this extent.  Obama could be the Pope himself and they would still believe he’s stupid.  They seem to believe that the color of one’s skin is a measure of one’s intelligence and character, even though he’s been in the government most his adult life, they believe he is incompetent. I see we still have white Americans who haven’t learned a  thing from history and they never will; we can only hope they die off and they haven’t poisoned too many of their children with their disease.

Don’t get me wrong, there are some Tea Party members that are truly honest people who just don’t agree with Obama’s politics and that’s cool, those are not the people who piss me off because they have an intelligent, logical argument against the President that they are entitled to, but  then there is another side to the Tea Party. A strong, dark lot of them, reminiscent of the 1950s, KKK, Neo-Nazis and other hate groups, and who are extreme  Christians and/or racists who have already shown that they will not stop by any means to stir things up and sabotage this country just to turn people against Obama. I would feel comfortable betting that the people who started the secession petitions were Tea Baggers.  In fact, a few of the secession petitions were created by the same person and they didn’t even reside in the state in which they created the secession petition for. The Tea Baggers preyed off of people’s emotions, bigotry and hate and turned it into a movement.   And we all know from history that religious driven hate is the worst hate of any kind on the planet because they feel they were “chosen” and it is their “divine” and “god-given” duty to become their god’s “hand of retribution” to protect something.  I am not talking about the civilized Tea Party members, I am talking about the handful of radical ones and personally, I believe those handful of radicals are just a stone’s throw from becoming home-grown terrorists. I mean seriously, you don’t see Mexican hate groups, Black hate groups, Asian hate groups etc, creating organizations across the country and having hate rallies; you see only the white people doing this.  Unfortunately, THESE particular radical white people are derived from centuries of hate that carried down through the generations, which white Americans that squashed the racist tradition at some point, never dealt with .  They just allowed them to fester and grow.  These particular white Americans,  never came to face their demons and now this is the white trash we are left to deal with in 2012.

By the way I know the secession would never happen in the first place in any of the states because just as there are people who want to secede there’s to be millions times more people who will not want to secede, so I know this will not happen.  But it’s just the audacity of some people who still haven’t gotten over the race card. Build a bridge and get over it.  You guys are the ones who are dividing this country and will make this country fall, not President Obama.

America herself will not survive in the 21st century unless she comes to tap into the diversity that is her’s and stop pursuing this kind of divisive policy. This is more of a threat to the future of America than anything ever posed by the old USSR. We will explode from within unless we all understand we have a stake in this system and that’s the compelling issue; not whether we like each other, not whether we love each other, not whether it ever started out right, not whether we should be angry with anybody. We won’t survive unless we understand we’re in it together.

– Mayor of Washington D.C. Sharon Pratt Kelly, The Issue is Race, 1992

They had it right.  Women didn’t get the right to vote until 1920 and it took an amendment of a law, the 19th amendment, to even make it happen.  And just to note, these women wouldn’t look like Romney supporters to me. Just saying.  Get out and vote! The moment we get complacent about it, is the moment the government will snuff it from under us.

Because technically you have; 1964 isn’t that far away … Blacks didn’t get their true right to vote until 1964; don’t be complacent.  There are still people alive today that didn’t have that right.  Voting today in 2012 makes it no less important than it was 48 years ago.

Voted today. Go-go Obama.  To those in Virginia who have not voted yet, please please get out and vote and turn Virginia Blue!! If not blue then at least vote and stand for something and not just sit on the sidelines watching the world go by, because believe me, the haters are voting … in droves.  If you don’t vote, I don’t want to hear one political or government complaint from you until 2016.  You only have to do it every 4 years so it won’t kill you; I promise. And to you people, and you know who you are, on WELFARE need to get out and vote and not wait on the rest of the state to do it for you.  Because frankly, I am so sick and tired of hearing from friends who I know are on government assistance, saying that they do not vote!  How can you not vote?  You’re using MY tax dollars and honestly, I don’t give …

… if you get your food stamps or not; I have never been and will probably, knock on wood, will never be on them, but I think of other people who hit a rock in life and I don’t mind my taxes going to people in those situations.  Do for yourself because no one else will!

Was kind of disappointed today to see that my usual voting place had ZERO people in it … but me and the voting monitors.  Last time I went the line was wrapped around the building.  I’m just hoping that it’s due to them closing alot of the apartment complexes around here causing people to move and had to vote elsewhere.  My Mom said that her voting location was packed though.  Took me less than 5 minutes to vote tho so I was happy.  Took me longer to vote on the two amendments to the Virginia constitution though because of all the derivatives   I didn’t understand.  Why can’t they make it easier to understand!