Is Your Government Conservative or Liberal?

To determine whether your government is Republican or Democratic, just evaluate whether it supports all its people or just the wealthy and powerful. Does your government protect the weak or promote the strong? Is it for the general welfare or the prosperity of some and and poverty for others? Do they want to help, temporarily, those that are down or just let them drown? Does your government financially protect big companies like agribusiness companies and pharmaceutical companies and oil companies? Conservatives seem to think they can do away with Medicaid, Social Security, Welfare, and Disability; then the irresponsible will become responsible. But what about those that really need help? What we need is more regulation. There are people who take avantage but then there are those that need help to get back on their feet. Why punish them? This is an example of the black and white world of conservatives...certain people take advantage, so we need to just do away with the whole thing. Politics in the United States should not be about protecting the interests of only the rich and powerful but all its citizens even those who need a little help getting back to where they should be or helping those Americans who cannot help themselves. We are all Americans and should look out for each other.

Democrats represemt the people while Republicans are the party of the powerful. Democrats use the federal government to serve public interest. There are no federal programs that are now generally approved by both major parties that were not initially pushed by liberal.

Republicans that say they hate the wealthy but somehow excuse the corporate world that continues to hurt the average citizen. Repulicans believe somehow that by paying taxes, they are handing over their hard earned money to people who do not work. Here is the thought process...Welfare, Medicaid, and food stamps breed dependency but if you are lucky enough to be born into a rich oil family and inherit millions of dollars that is somehow acceptable.

Another way greed comes into play is the tax cuts that the Republican administration pushed for and got voted in. These tax cuts, that people were led to believe would help eveyone actually only benefit substantially those that make over $330,000 a year. So of course, the very wealthy are going to do whatever they can to have as many Republicans in the White House as they can. That includes conning the Religious Right. And they did a good job of it. Corporations run the Republican White House. The divide between the haves and have-nots has never is widening.

Trickle down economics is a silly theory. It is like saying that by giving the super rich a larger meal that the people living under the table will eat better by getting good table scraps. Doesn't it make more sense to set them up with their own table by using tax cuts for the rich and making them self-sufficient, lessening the divide?

Jackie Wellman
www.jackiewellman.com

Conservative or Liberal?

There are two main reasons people call themselves Republicans instead of Democrats:

The first reason for declaring oneself a Republican is a justification for selfishness. Voting Republican gives permission to be uncaring and looking out for number one only. The current administration has demonstrated astonishing greed. Democrats are just more caring people who would go out of their way to help someone rather than step all over them. Democrats are opportunists...the politicians, lawyers and corporate America. Those at the top income level or those hoping to be at that level in the future. Also the people who make money of that top level vote Republican...don't bite the hand that feeds you. These people vote with their pocketbook (as most of us do) but they will tell an untruth and say it is for moral reasons. Apparently they do not want to look slimy and uncaring. An example of this greedy mentality is illegals being let enter this country so American businesses can hire cheaper labor. If a company hires illegals they pay no insurance or no taxes. Corporations and Republicans are risking national security just so they can pay less money and have higher profit margins.

The second reason is being confused about the role of religion in government. Neither Jesus nor God was a Republican. They were not Democrats either, but I believer closer to the Democrat side of things. After reading anything about Jesus, it is truly amazing that anyone would think he would have chosen the Republican way. Just read the red writing in the Bible. Jesus would have never condemed the poor the way Republicans do, he would have helped them. These are the truly religious people who are slightly self-righteous to horribly self-righteous. They believe church propaganda but do not really know much about politics. These are average citizens with low to moderate income that dislike lawyers, politicians, abortion, and equal rights. Now they have become known as the red staters. These people truly believe any people with beliefs other than their own are evil and anti-American. A lot of these people were raised this way and do not know any better. These people actually like George W. Bush and still like him no matter what he does. He lies and does moronic things over and over again; they still are members of his fan club.

If an individual is raised with a certain set of values and thinks differently than his parents, it is a rarity. Uneducated people are especially prone to thinking just like Mom & Dad, whether it is about religion or politics.

Republicans want to take from the poor to protect tax cuts for the rich. Now who has higher Christian values?

Another Quote

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny of religion is the worst.

Thomas Rain




Jackie Wellman
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