June 27, 2015

Give it up for Barack Obama, The Ever Loving Best President of the United States of AMERICA!

June 27, 2015

VIDEO: President Obama sings Amazing Grace

Published on Jun 26, 2015

President Obama sings Amazing Grace. Watch the complete funeral for South Carolina State Senator Clementa Pinckney here:

June 26, 2015

'Over an 8 year period he (Obama) will change America for the better.'

When I was growing up, I often thought of the trees that led to peace which were planted by my parents' generation. And how I lived in the shade of those trees.

In the future the seeds of peace and justice planted by Obama will be seen the same way. By those who remember the changes he brought to us.

June 26, 2015

You forgot scaring people to death and causing early death. Such as the GOP is promising with a:

20% cut in SSDI - you're on it if you didn't make the golden age that the GOP set for 'honorable' retirement.

Even if you did all the things you were supposed to do and acted with honor all along, something out of left field like an accident knocks you out. Then you are 'suspect' for the rest of your days. Looked at with disdain, insulted by the media, Paul or Boehner, forever seen as a thief and criminal.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026048383#post21

House Rule Could Hurt Vulnerable Disability Beneficiaries

More worth reading at link:

http://www.offthechartsblog.org/house-rule-could-hurt-vulnerable-disability-beneficiaries/

Breaking: House GOP seek rule change that could undermine Social Security for seniors & disabled.

http://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/brown-condemns-dangerous-move-by-the-house-that-would-undermine-social-security-by-attacking-disability-insurance

This Move By Lawmakers Could Reduce Select Social Security Benefits By 19%

http://www.fool.com/retirement/general/2015/01/11/this-move-by-lawmakers-could-reduce-select-social.aspx

Or the GOP drools over their plan to reduce current SS checks by 60%, leaving 40%:

Debt Ceiling: 'Chaotic' choices on 100 million payments

Rand Paul says default can be 'framed as a reasonable idea' and Tom Coburn wants to default to face a 'managed catastrophe.'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3820816

16 Ways Default Will Totally Screw Americans

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/16-ways-not-raising-debt-ceiling-will-screw-americans

Rand Paul: Tie Debt Ceiling To Raising Age For Social Security And Medicare

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014619542

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014619542

Still Standing With Rand?

August 26, 2013 by JM Ashby

Senator Rand Paul says the obligation of society to care for its less-well-off population is a form of servitude and government overreach.

“As humans, yeah, we do have an obligation to give people water, to give people food, to give people health care,” Paul allowed, “but it’s not a right because once you conscript people and say, ‘Oh, it’s a right,’ then really you’re in charge, it’s servitude, you’re in charge of me and I’m supposed to do whatever you tell me to do.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/26/2525961/rand-paul-food-health-libertarianism-hayek/

If you’re such a rugged individualist that you view humane society as a burden or form of servitude, I don’t believe you have any business serving as a member of Congress or even the city mayor. And this call to free ourselves from the chains of the SNAP and Medicaid programs comes in the form of a pitch for his medical practice which, I’m guessing, probably relies on customers receiving some form of government aide to stay in business.

If you can get over your contempt for Rand Paul for a moment, a feat I struggle with, you may realize this is somewhat amusing in that a man who may be a Republican presidential contender in the near future believes access to food and water are not a right.

I could see today’s Republican base running away with that idea, but I don’t think the party establishment will like the results at the ballot box.

Read~http://bobcesca.thedailybanter.com/blog-archives/2013/08/still-standing-with-rand-3.html

Never mind that what Rand is saying is a slap in the face of those who paid into SS all these years, and income tax to fund whatever else was needed. Being rugged individualists is pretty much out the question for the elderly and infirm, or young children. The crime is poverty and not living like Paul one's whole life, taking, never giving. Yet he blathers on as if he's a disciple of that bleeding heart liberal Jesus or an American.

Tough Love For The Frail And Sick

October 04, 2010 by digby

If the world was sane, this would be the end of the Rand Paul campaign:

A new video today catches Rand Paul repeatedly supporting a $2,000 Medicare deductible on Kentucky seniors – despite his claims just last week that such a statement was a “lie.”

Because it's important the elderly people with dozens of health problems be more responsible with their health care dollars. We certainly can't expect people like Dr Paul to
take that role. After all, they "deserve to make a comfortable living" and can't be expected to ensure that these frail old people aren't overusing the system. These "greedy geezers" need to take more responsibility for themselves and maybe a little of that Paulite "tough love" will snap them into reality.

By the way, the average social security check is $1,000 a month.

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Note: the term 'tough love' is one coined to deal with unruly children who are told to get out and make it on their own with no help. So the frail and sick have done something wrong. Like outliving their ability to work and pay income taxes. No such thing as 'All Men Are Created Equal' per the GOP.

Yet after Obama stopped them from their default shenanigans (most likely by the condemned 'walk from the White House to the Federal Reserve or IMF' and probably getting them to call the GOP and threaten to cut them off at the knees) and his reward was the GOP victories of 2014, just as in 2010 for doing the right things.

The conservatives hate a lot of people and want them dead. They are ensconsced in the federal system now and literally scaring these people to death for no good reason.

June 25, 2015

Drama class in session indefinitely:

The anger (which tells more about the person expressing than the object attacked) and yelling (trying to win an argument by sheer volume) and name calling (mischaracterizing others whom one can't possibly know) aren't as successful as Method acting but do approach Meisner acting.

June 25, 2015

Papa Pope: 'I am disappointed in the way you treat my country.'

Papa Pope vs The Confederate Flag

to Quixote:

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1017274229

June 25, 2015

From 2010:

June 25, 2015

Canadians have told me it took 20 years of fighting after passing an ACA-type law.

The problem here is the need for instant gratification and sweeping change that the Canadians didn't get right away.

The forces fighting not just single payer but any kind of tax funded insurance will never give up. It's a sustained, life-long battle that requires sticking to it between presidencies at the state level. The ACA encouraged states to set up their own single payer systems wit some subsidies, but I think only CA has succeeded. They always had expansive programs in place for decades, AFAIK.

Example of the attacks on what people in the UK tell me is their 'beloved old NIH' are now giving them problems, despite years of acceptance of single payer. But then, they seem more united as far their ideas of citizenship than we are here. Too many regard their fellows as illegitimate and not deserving of tax dollars, when in the long run it benefits all.

The same forces are at work all over and weakening civil society and starved government takes its toll on established systems. It takes citizen involvement at the state level, year round to set good policy and change things. We're so media driven in this country, we expect to get what we want every four years from Washington. It's the states that do it.

This ruling, AFAIK, doesn't force the red states that insist upon their right to give the bird finger to their indigent citizens in lieu of setting up exchanges or taking Medicaid at all into account. It is, like most a blow against those who fight healthcare for all. The death toll from red state nihilism:



That's a projection from over a year ago but Isome of the states may have given in but some have not and I don't know if this will change that or not. But it helps establish the principle in law that may used to argue in the states, where the real problem for single payer or any tax funded care is.

YMMV.

June 25, 2015

We'll miss him when he's not around. Smarter than all candidates. For you, DSB:

Been missing him since he was re-elected in 2012. Knew he was marking the days, working to make every day count.

What better way to spend one's life, not wasting one's limited time on Earth?

Always thought that when his last day on this planet comes, the only thing to say will be, 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant.'

Not many have had such an opportunity and used it so well, especially in the face of such adversity. We were lucky. JMHO.

June 25, 2015

He's my favorite. Perfect barker for the GOP. n/t

President Obama:

"We do not have time for this kind of silliness. We have better stuff to do. I have got better stuff to do. We have got big problems to solve... We are not going to be able to do it if we are distracted, we are not going to be able to do it if we spend time vilifying each other... if we just make stuff up and pretend that facts are not facts, we are not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by side shows and carnival barkers.

From 2012 regarding Trumph's birth certificate demand.