My last "demonstration"/ "protest"

I went to what might have been my last demonstration yesterday. It was outside a "town meeting held by Jeb Hensarling. It was a "town meeting" held at The Lakewood Country Club. In keeping with what appears to be typical Republican policy, the PUBLIC was not allowed into the Country Club. So, as opposed to the IDIOT DEMOCRATS who allowed everyone into their town meetings, the Republicans carefully choose the "acceptable" CITIZENS, insuring there would be no unruly demonstrations -- say, like those the "TEABAGGERS" held at Democratic town meetings. Of course, the "left wing media" never calls the Republicans on this.

I don't think their owners ALLOW them to. Our press is MANAGED. Welcome to the USA of PRAVDA.

There weren't many folks from "the left" there. Just about all the "left wing" folks I spoke to STARTED by saying, "I'm not a socialist." -- I, of course, said, "well, I am" (if only to get them thinking or just a little upset).

There were quite a few "Tea Party" folks there -- some even took off from work to oppose us "dangerous" leftys.

there were also quite a few cops -- I guess they were there to keep us rabble from polluting the Country Club grounds.

There is no real left left. We, the USA are a wholly owned subsidiary of various corporations. If anything is going to be done -- it would help if the younger folks would take over -- but -- I'm afraid they don't even know WHAT to protest. They've ALWAYS lived in our buttoned up, corporate, society.

Here's a little more about Hensarling from "Think Progress". Please follow link to original
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Rep. Jeb Hensarling Calls Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid ‘Cruel Ponzi Schemes’

By Guest Blogger on Apr 16, 2011 at 9:04 am

As the House took up Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan to end Medicare and Medicaid yesterday, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, the GOP Conference chair, called the programs, along with Social Security, “cruel ponzi schemes” that will bankrupt the nation.

Hensarling admitted that the three programs had been “of great comfort and assistance to my grandparents and parents,” but he went on to claim that that they were now morphing into the greatest drivers of the national debt:

REP. HENSARLING: Let’s remember again the main drivers of this national debt are three large entitlement programs, programs that have been of great comfort and assistance to my parents and grandparents but they’re morphing into cruel ponzi schemes for my 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-olds. Unfortunately, the President ignores the reality, he doesn’t really give the facts to the American people and they will go bankrupt where we will save and secure these programs for future generations.

Watch it:

While he now calls for “saving and securing the programs for future generations,” Hensarling has previously shown little interest in effective entitlement reform or deficit reduction. Last December, Hensarling decried the health care reform law’s reforms to make Medicare more efficient. And in the last few weeks, Hensarling has declined to say whether he would play “chicken” on the debt ceiling and even argued that corporate tax rates should be lowered.

Hensarling is not the first conservative to call Social Security a Ponzi scheme. As ThinkProgress has previously reported, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called the program “a Ponzi scheme that Bernie Madoff would be proud of.” Former House Majority Leader and FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey called Social Security a “pay-as-you-go Ponzi scheme“; a month later, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) also compared the program to a Ponzi scheme. And Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) campaigned by making the same comparison in his television commercials.

As Charles Ponzi’s own biographer, Michael Zulkoff, has noted, these programs are not Ponzi schemes because “no one is being misled,” and they are not automatically doomed to fail. Indeed, they’re the polar moral opposite: social insurance policies created to benefit retirees, the disabled and survivors of deceased workers, not a single individual.