I used to think that back as a kid that the rescission was something that happened every year, of course my mother did nothing to dissuade me from this, but then again she had not been much into politics back then as she some what is now. However the problem back then unlike now is that for some reason everything was business as usual, meaning that nothing would ever change, and that notion has actually tripped on up to today's world and life, it's like they honestly think that nothing will ever change.
I mean I've actually talked to a few people here where I live and literally nothing has changed in their minds, and that nothing will actually change either, that's the extremely bad thing to think, but it's also the truth. With how bad things are in Washington right now, there are people out there actually believing that nothing is going to change, and even though a fight is being waged for the people right now fighting against those that are willing to do what ever it takes to shut down the government for those that are rich and don't care.
Now I've been (as I've stated before on here) advocating for a complete Purge of the Republican Party from EVERY level of government (local, state and federal), and there are those out there that tell me that it's not just the Republicans that are the bad ones, and I know that there are Democrats out there that are the same way. However the reason why I'm calling for a complete Purge of the Republican, is not only because of the complete stupidity that the TEA Party has done to them, but also because of the money that they've taken in, something that they should never have taken in.
So we're going to use the Republican Party as an example to OTHER parties that if you aren't working for the American People, your ass is gone, doesn't matter if it happens to be just you or your entire damned party, you're gone. Trust me on this, those that look bad on election day next year will think about it if someone happens to come to them and say that if they vote this way that everything will be fine and that nothing will happen and they pay them a large wad of cash. They'll look at that person and say, are you out of your mind.
Republicans themselves though are not the one thing that they've been claiming they are since the 80's with Reagan in office. They DO NOT know how to handle or manage money at all, they are doing what ever it takes to spend other people's money and don't care about what happens in the end. So they draw up a debt that this country can never pay and it ends up killing the American people in the end. After you got those thinking out there that since the Mint is constantly printing up money, that we can pay for literally anything that needs to be paid for. Yea...no that's not how it works (though a lot of people actually do wish that was the case). We actually have that tax system set up for a reason, and though we do need our minimum wage raised, that has to be raised gradually since the Cost of Living would also go up as well at the same time and it would be like nothing ever changed at all. Now if the richest 1-2% actually paid more in taxes that they should be in the first place, but considering the incentives that they're being offered in order to make jobs here in the US instead of over seas, short of ANYTHING (other than the unions getting totally taken out), they're not going to be willing to keep any jobs over here at all, after all what's the point in keeping jobs here when you can't pay your workers a prison wage of $.05 an hour like they do over seas at the sweat shops over there (sweat shops that the Republicans honestly believe there's nothing wrong with at all (like Ted Cruz had said there's nothing wrong with them, though I think he was saying that there were no working problem, like no one could get hurt there), and that's another thing that they need to be taken out for).
So with the Republicans no only getting us into wars (and unlike President Obama, the Republicans had ZERO intention of getting us out of the Iraq war), and spend other people's money for those wars that we really don't need. After all, this last war that we were in, the Operation name told EVERYONE what they were really there for before the name had been changed. Operation Iraqi Liberation OIL, then it got changed to Operation Iraqi Freedom, but those that saw it and figured it out knew what we had gone there for in the first place, even though they denied it like all get out. Problem was, a little known fact had surfaced up which had threatened the Oil Companies here in the US, and that was that Iraq oil was planning on changing from the Dollar over to the Euro which was more stable at the time then the Dollar was then. So on our dime and a lie of Weapons of Mass Destruction (of which there were none, still waiting for that apology you lying sack Bill O'Rilley), they went in to a fight that they should never have gone in on, plus it was right on the heels on 9/11, which helped give them the perfect excuse (only thing was, Bin Laden was killed on President Obama's watch since the Republicans were so keen on keeping the oil and didn't care about Bin Laden at all).
Now during the times since Reagan had been in office and we actually had back to back Republican Presidents (which really didn't help out the country at all), we'd seen the end of the Cold War, (all the while the Iran-Contra scandal was going on), the tearing down of the Berlin Wall (yup, need to mention that little historical fact right there), but then the start of Desert Storm war during Bush Sr.'s time in office, which also included the screwing over of the Iraq people at the time then, which actually didn't help us later on. After all thanks to what Bush Sr. had done, all they think of us now (and some of them still do too), is that we happen to be heartless Christians that need to be exterminated from the face of the Earth. Of course when Clinton came into office, that's when for the first time that things started to turn around for not only the country, but at the same time if there were any fights and wars, we never heard about them because they were taken care of with out any one knowing about them at all. Plus Clinton actually put the country in the red (which you have those out there that are thinking that the only reason why Clinton put us in the red was because of that bull shit (yeah I swore) trickle down theory that doesn't work because the money doesn't trickle down in the least. However you will always have those out there that will continue to think this even though it happens to not be true in the least.
No Clinton actually put us in the red and balanced the budget, the one thing that NO Republican has actually been able to do since Reagan, nope they just spend your money and don't care about what the effects are going to be like in the least. Which is another reason right now why we can't have them in charge of our country since they refuse to see what's going to happen to our country with their actions.
However once Bush stole the White House, everything that Clinton put in for the people Bush took out and was there for the Church and the corporations only and that's the one thing that we don't need.
So now Obama is fighting for the people right now, and when he's done with his time in Office, then it's going to be up to (hopefully) Madam Clinton to not only continue his work, but to take it further. However we need to help her out in 2014 by Purging the country of the Republican menace that's currently hurting our country right now. So go out there next year and vote.
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Felix Sanchez
Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
