   All War Is Deception By Ernest Stewart
"Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do." ~~~ Paul Ryan "The war on women that the Republicans have been waging since they took over the House, I think, is going to not only restore but possibly help us exceed the president's margin of victory in the next election." ~~~ Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time" ~~~ Vince Lombardi In fact, this is what I said: Just listened to your speech, and all I can say is what a crock of shit! So, the war, the murders, the war crimes and crimes against humanity will go ever onward, and gosh, after another year or so, we'll still have twice the number of troops dying for Wall Street that we had before you got there, and since you won't be in office after January 2013, I'm sure President Palin or Romney will have a different idea on how to keep the blood money flowing for decades to come -- so much for 2014, huh? I'll be voting Green, like I did in 2008, as I can't see any difference between the Rethuglicans and you Demoncrats. You're both enemies of the people, and forget about balancing the budget as you hinted at on the backs of the poor, the elderly and the sick, or you'll find what happens when you step on that third rail! Ask your golfing buddy how that works! So, if I suddenly disappear never to be heard from again, you'll know the reasons why! I can't say that I was surprised at all by the speech. I could have guessed what he would say and he didn't disappoint in the slightest, i.e., that the longest war in American history will go on, and besides having the power to murder any American citizen he wants to without any oversight, he no longer needs the will of Congress to start new wars around the world by remote control and with the aid of our puppets in NATO doing the dirty work! Yes, the empire will live on until the last dollar in the treasury is spent, after the last American -- poor, elderly sick and hungry -- is dead, as we all need to sacrifice. We need to sacrifice Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Food Stamps, but not the funding of the wars, not a tax on the insanely rich, not a tax on the trillion dollar corporations that pay no taxes! Oh Yippee! In Other News The Rethuglicans in the House have one thing on their mind as far as debt reduction goes. That one thing is the mass, premeditated murder of millions of Americans, and if Obamahood goes along with them as he always does, they will certainly get their way! This war is against the newly-created poor, including millions of American children. The sick and the elderly will soon find themselves cut off and adrift from Social Security. Medicare, Medicaid and Food Stamps. First, our politicians got rid of millions of middle class jobs by sending them overseas -- something they continue to do to this day. With the resulting tax losses and those former workers now finding themselves without a job and no chance of getting another one, losing their houses and cars, and nowhere else to turn for help except the federal government -- a government they've been supporting with their taxes all of their lives, and when they need that help, their representatives are preparing to deny them! Which, on a positive note, just might start the third American Revolution! What exactly are the Rethuglicans proposing? Well, they want to balance the budget on the back of the welfare state, not the corpo-rat welfare state, mind you, nor stop the military industrial complex handouts. No, they want their trillion dollar giveaways to the insanely-wealthy -- paid for by the desperately poor, the sick, and the elderly -- and it looks like they'll get their way.... Ryan's plan would cut food stamps by 20%-- either by limiting who can get them or by reducing the benefits -- either way, that's a lot of hungry, angry people -- perhaps as many as ten million going without help; I wonder what they'll do to survive? If you think that's bad -- and it is -- the Rethuglican Study Committee's cuts are far deeper! They'd cut food stamps in half over 10 years, and that's just to start! These proposals would have similarly-harsh impacts on medical care. The House budget cuts, if implemented solely by reducing eligibility, would deny Medicaid to nearly half the people who rely on it now, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. More likely, there'd be some combination of denying people altogether, and reducing the care, or increasing the costs for those who remain eligible. Either way, the impact would be severe. Again, the Republican Study Committee proposal would inflict even deeper cuts. That proposal calls for cutting Medicaid spending in half by 2021! These plans would slash money for education beyond just the bare bones that we have today! We know that the House budget would cut education by nearly one-fifth next year and by a quarter by the end of the decade -- with 1.7 million fewer low-income college students qualifying for Pell Grant scholarships. U.S. military spending, which nearly totals the combined military expenditures of every other nation on earth, wouldn't be cut at all. Of course, the Republican Study Committee doesn't spell out most of its education cuts, but it'd cut all appropriations except for military spending by 70% by 2021. Education funding would be slashed from preschool through college. The GOP deficit reduction plans rely solely on massive domestic spending cuts that would heap more trouble on the "recession generation's" already grim prospects. There is, of course, a better way. A simpler way, a fairer way, for all. Raise the tax rates on the insanely-wealthy to at least 50%. That, in of itself, would go a long way to balance the budget. Make all corpo-rats pay taxes on their profits -- no exceptions! No more tax gifts to the trillionaires in big oil, and start this country on the path to full green energy! Get rid of half of our military bases throughout the world and cut the military budget in half. Bring the troop home and cut back on the size of the Army, Navy and Air Force. We have tens of trillions of dollars in nuclear weapons, so no nation is ever going to attack us. Cut off most foreign aide, especially to Israel, and force them into the green line borders and create a Palestinian state. And bring an end to our six current above-the-board wars, and end our many black op wars around the world. Spend money on our crumbling infrastructure, and put millions of tax paying workers back to work -- which is the only way to keep from having more and greater debt in out future! And last but not least, put a 1000% import tax on all products that used to be made in this country, but are now made overseas. See if that doesn't start up the assembly lines from coast to coast! We can do these simple steps, or become a third world country getting care packages from abroad to feed our starving masses! Oh, and make sure your Con-gress person, Sin-ator and Obamahood know your feelings on these issues -- in no uncertain terms! And Finally I've been kept amused lately by Rethuglican women in the Con-gress that've been saying the Rethuglicans aren't anti-women -- when it's so obvious they are! They want a return to those daze when a women had less rights than your horse or dog! It was against the law to harm the animals, but not to harm your wife or your slaves! Those were the daze, "whoppin' slaves and sellin' cotton," huh, Newt? The latest atrocity concerns Mitch Daniels and the Republican-controlled Indiana legislature. These gentlemen showed how much they like women by de-funding the Medicaid payments to planned parenthood, leaving thousands of Indiana residents without medical care or any way to get their prescriptions. Did I mention that this affects mostly women and disabled people?!!? Like so many punitive measures brought by the recent Tea Baggers' disaster, it'll end up costing the state a whole lot more money than if they hadn't decided to punish the poor for being poor -- even though they're the ones, for the most part, that made the poor, poor! This left thousands of low-income patients to fend for themselves Tuesday to pay for birth control, breast exams, Pap tests and other medical services while a court battle continued over a new state law that eliminated the organization's Medicaid funding. A state law that is in direct violation of federal law and will no doubt be overturned when it comes to trial! Planned Parenthood said, "A state law that took effect May 10 denied Planned Parenthood the Medicaid funds it uses to pay for general health services it provides to low-income women at its 28 Indiana clinics. We are seeking a preliminary injunction to block Indiana's law, and a ruling is expected by July 1." Planned Parenthood began turning away Medicaid patients who couldn't pay for its medical services Tuesday, one day after private donations that had paid those patients' bills ran out. Yeah, the Rethuglicans like the ladies, huh? Keepin' On It doesn't look good as it stands today that we'll be publishing in a couple of more weeks as I still don't have enough to pay the bills which will be due next week. We're still $300 short this month with another $500 due next month. We've already raised $2400 on these two bills but are about $800 short. Our total bills are about $10,400 a year, which is chump change compared to most magazines and newspapers on the web -- most have a weekly-operating cost of more than our yearly cost -- so you get a much bigger bang for your bucks with Issues & Alibis. You also get authors, cartoons and such that you can find nowhere else. 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