some clear thinking

Today is a good day at "Some Assembly Required" -- the tone is becoming more serious -- as the plans of our Republican "representatives" become crystal clear.

Follow link to original -- here are a few samples -- enjoy!
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Spade / Spade: Whenever you hear anyone - Paul Ryan or the Gang of Six or those two troglodytes on the financial Reform Commission, Obama - anyone talking about “reforming Social Security” and reducing Social Security entitlements, remember this: The Congress owes Social Security $2.5 trillion. That's right, they borrowed it and used the money instead of taxing the public directly to pay for their spending. So now it is up to Congress to tax the public sufficiently to pay back that money to Social Security – to those of us who have paid the money in based on the promise. Anyone who wants to “reform” Social Security simply wants to finish stealing the money that was lent to the government. It is theft, not reform.

Over There: The US is choking to death on our profligate and unsustainable spending on social entitlements. Or so “they” claim. Yet the US spends relatively little on its citizenry – of OECD's 34 countries, we are last, spending but 7.2% of GDP on social welfare. Canada, France, Australia, Germany, Denmark, and more all spend well over 20% of GDP and are not running around claiming the sky is falling. Why not?
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(always remember that when those who HATE "the people" they speak so fondly of pontificate -- also think about how they deflect folks from considering REAL problems by going on and on about abortion, gay rights, expanded marriage rights, etc. -- they seem to want folks all riled up -- so those folks do not have time to think about how THEY are being SCREWED by "their representatives")
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The Path Leads Back: The Republicans do not want to repeal the Great Society and the New Deal. They want to turn back to at least 1890, before the Federal income tax, before the Federal Reserve, before labor unions, before child labor laws. They want to repeal ”this hundred year, European-originated social democracy welfare state experiment” according to Mayr Matlin, former Cheney aide.

Without Comment: “The entire US healthcare industry is a giant scam.” Free sample: “Between 2000 and 2006, wages in the United States increased by 3.8%, while health care premiums increased by 87%.”

Emergency Rule: Under Michigan's Emergency Financial Management legislation (a gift of the GOP-dominated state government) The emergency manager appointed over Benton Harbor, MI has emasculated all the elected officials, ruling that he alone had the power to “exercise any power or authority of any office, employee, department, board, commission, or similar entity of the City, whether elected or appointed.” In Wisconsin, Governor Walker is planning to take over administration of municipalities whose finances fail to meet his standards. Or whims. Lawsuits will follow. Then the revolution.
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