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An Open Letter To The People Who Hate Obama And Everyone That Disagrees With Them More Than They Love America

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 4, 2015 by sheriffali

[Merriam Webster Said: The True Meaning Of Democracy Is To Respect Others Even When You Disagree With Them]

 

[Source Ministry of Truth]  I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the right to make choices concerning their bodies, you hate em all. You hate being called racist. You hate being called a bigot. Maybe if you talked about creating jobs more than you talk about why you hate gay people we wouldn’t call you bigots. Maybe if you talked about black people without automatically assuming they are on food stamps while demanding their birth certificates we wouldn’t call you racist. You hate socialism and social justice. You hate regulations and taxes and spending and the Government. You hate.

 

     You like war. You like torture. You like Jesus. I don’t know how in the hell any of that is compatible, but no one ever accused you haters of being over-committed to ideological consistency. You like people who look like you or at least hate most of the things that you hate. You hate everything else.

 

Now, I know you profess to love our country and the founding fathers (unless you are reminded that they believed in the separation of church and state), but I need to remind you that America is NOT what Fox News says it is. America is a melting pot, it always has been. We are a multi-cultural amalgamation of all kinds of people, and yet you still demonize everyone who is not a rich, white, heterosexual christian male or his submissive and obedient wife.

 

You hate liberals, moderates, hell, anyone who disagrees with Conservative dogma as espoused by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. You hate em.

 

Well, here are the facts, Jack. If you hate the Government then you are unqualified to manage it. If you hate gay people more than you love America than you should take your own advice and get the hell out. There are several countries that are openly hostile to gay people, but they are full of brown people and you don’t like them much either from what I understand. It looks like you are screwed, but that’s not what I am here to tell you.

 

 

More rant below the fold . . .

 

Now that you have thrown everything and the kitchen sink at President Obama and it still hasn’t worked you are panicking. Obama’s approval ratings are still near 50% despite your best efforts to undermine the economy and America’s recovery at every step you can. You tried to hold the American economy hostage to force America into default on its’ debts, debts that YOU rang up under Bush, so you could blame it on Obama and it failed. You’ve used the filibuster more than any other Congress ever, going so far as to vote against providing health care access to 9/11 first responders. You remember 9/11, don’t you, it’s that thing you used to lie us into a war in Iraq, and then when Obama killed Bin Laden and ended the war in Iraq you told people that he hates America and wants the troops to fail.

 

You monsters. You hate Obama with a passion, despite the fact that he is a tax cutting, deficit reducing war President who undermines civil rights and delivers corporate friendly watered down reforms that benefit special interests just like a Republican. You call him a Kenyan. You call him a socialist. You dance with your hatred singing it proudly in the rain like it was a 1950’s musical.

 

Frankly, you disgust me. Your hatred nauseates me. Your bigotry offends me. Your racism revolts me.

 

Dear haters, I am openly questioning your patriotism.

 

I think you hate gays, Obama, black people, poor people, all of us, women, atheists and agnostics, Latinos, Muslims, Liberals, all of us, I think you hate every one who isn’t exactly like you, and I think you hate us more than you love your country.

 

I think you hate gay soldiers more than you want America to win its wars.

 

I don’t even think you want America to win wars, you just want America to have wars, never ending wars and the war profiteering it generates. You love that kind of spending, you love spending on faith based initiatives and abstinence based sex education (George Carlin would have loved that one), you love spending on subsidies for profitable oil corporations, you spend like drunken sailors when you are in the White House, but if it is a Democrat then suddenly you cheer when America doesn’t get the Olympics because it might make the black President look bad.

 

But oooh you love your country, you say, and you want it back. Well listen here skippy, it isn’t your country, you don’t own it, it is our country, and America is NOT the religiously extremist Foxbots who hate science, elitist professors and having a vibrant and meaningful sex life with someone we love if Rick Santorum doesn’t approve of it. Rick Santorum isn’t running for America’s f**king high school dance chaperone, he should probably just shut the hell up about sex, but he can’t because he has nothing else to run on.

 

Republicans can NOT win on the issues. They’ve got NOTHING. All they have is a divide and conquer class war that pits ignorant racist and bigoted people against the rest of us in a meaningless battle of wedge issues and the already proven to fail George W. Bush agenda again of tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, privatization and war profiteering and nothing else, so all they can do is blame black people, gays the government, anybody and everyone else for their own failings. The party of personal responsibility, my ass.

 

But they love multi-national corporations, just ask a gay hating and racist religious extremist if they think Corporations are people and they will gladly agree, but if you ask them if gay people are people they aren’t so sure.

 

Dear haters, you are the cruel, heartless misinformed assholes who would sell America out to Haliburton in a heartbeat, you would rather pay ZERO taxes than you would see a newly born baby get access to quality health care, you cheer when we discuss denying health care to young people with preventable diseases, and you boo when we discuss the First Ladies plan to cut back on childhood obesity.

 

You are a cross to carry and a flag to wrap yourself in away from being the people who Sinclair Lewis warned us about, but I guarantee that if Fox News told you to dress that way you would, because you are the same blind, ignorant and closed minded dunces who drove this country into a civil war years ago because you are bound to the notion that some men are more equal than others. In short, the reason I proudly wear my union army hat is because of seditious sell outs like you who constantly f*ck over working class Americans so a foreign entrepreneur like Rupert Murdoch can get a bigger tax break. If corporations are people, they are neither American patriots nor capable of love. Just like you.

 

So stop wearing your hate with pride. Stop celebrating your anti-science, anti-math ignorance. Stop using code words to mask your bigotry like “family values”, especially when you hate my family and when you stand on the same stage as a guy who has had three marriages or if you share a seat in the Senate with a guy who cheated on his wife with hookers while wearing diapers. You should be ashamed. I know that you are just doing this to motivate your misinformed hate cult base because if they actually knew that your ideas will make them poorer than they are now, they would never vote for you.

 

You are doing your best to impoverish your countrymen so rich people can get bigger tax breaks and you can keep on delivering corporate welfare to the special interests who have bribed you, and I am disgusted by the way you gleefully parade your hatred with aplomb. I don’t think you do love America. At least, not as much as you hate everyone in America who isn’t exactly like you.

 

You should think about that, and maybe get some help.

 

And for the record, I do not hate you. I am embarrassed by you and nauseated by your cruel and thoughtless behavior and your all consuming greed, but I do not hate you. I forgive you and I hope you can change someday, but I don’t hate you. You have enough hate in you for the rest of us as it is.

 

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Jeb Bush Declares His Brother’s Failures Irrelevant! But, Hell No, George W Bush And Dick Cheney Wrecked The Country And The World!

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 20, 2015 by sheriffali

Two months ago, Jeb Bush was asked about some of his brother’s foreign policy decisions. “I won’t talk about the past,” the Republican said, adding his unannounced presidential campaign is “not about re-litigating anything in the past.”

 

The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the former governor’s position hasn’t improved much since.

 

…Bush dodged reporter’s questions about how he might govern differently than his father or brother or whether his views on foreign policy differ from them…. Bush has previously said that the intelligence used to justify the start of the Iraq war was flawed, but he pushed back against a question Friday about whether his brother had made any other mistakes with his foreign policy.

 

“I’m not going to get into that,” he said. “That’s not particularly relevant in a world of deep insecurity, focusing on the past is not really relevant. What’s relevant is what’s the role of America going forward?”

 

The comments were, of course, caught on tape.

 

The obvious problem with Bush’s position is that it’s factually wrong. If there’s “deep insecurity” in the world, much of it is the direct result of some of his brother’s decisions – most notably a disastrous and unnecessary war in the Middle East that destabilized the region.

 

If the Florida Republican genuinely believes his brother’s wars aren’t “relevant” to today’s national security challenges, Bush is badly confused about the basics of current events. Indeed, Americans deserve to know whether the former governor has learned any lessons from his brother’s devastating failure; “I’m not going to get into that” isn’t a satisfactory reply.

 

The less obvious problem is that Bush has already surrounded himself with the Bush family’s team of foreign-policy advisers. In the context of his 2016 candidacy, few things are as relevant as this basic truth.

 

Jeb Bush believes his foreign policy beliefs should be guided by his brother’s staff, but at the same time, Jeb Bush believes his brother’s foreign policy decisions aren’t relevant to his presidential ambitions. If he sees this as a coherent argument, he’s mistaken.

 

Finally, let’s not brush past the contradiction at the heart of Bush’s talking points: he insists that “focusing on the past is not really relevant,” while at the same time, he’s eager to condemn President Obama’s handling of international affairs. Last week, the GOP candidate told an audience that Obama “believes that America’s power is not appropriate and America’s presence is not a force for good,” which is both demonstrably ridiculous and an obvious attempt to focus on the past.

 

There’s still plenty of time for Bush to come up with a more lucid response to these questions, though I’ll confess to being hard pressed to imagine what those answers might look like. The results of his brother’s foreign policies – and to a very real degree, Jeb Bush’s advisers’ foreign policies – were catastrophic. He doesn’t want to endorse failure; he doesn’t want to condemn his brother; and he can’t simply take a pass on the legitimate questions. It’s not a recipe for long-term success.

 

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Sick Bastard Pastor John Hagee Living Off The Collection Plate Says: “‘Nasty’ Welfare Recipients Don’t Deserve To Live.”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 7, 2015 by sheriffali

All Religions were created by fallible men and carried out by fallible people that use self righteousness and fear to bilk the vulnerable out of every penny they can squeeze, while they Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Paula White and others, live like Kings and Queens in Multi Million Dollar Mansions; Fly on Private Jets; Ride in Limousines, as they suck the blood out of their followers.

 

For those that believe I have no problem with that, however, as for me “I personally reject “all” Religions for they are nothing short of the world’s largest scams for Mammon and Power.

 

San Antonio, Texas – Pastor John Hagee of the Cornerstone Church delivered an impassioned speech decrying the evils of welfare dependency. While prefacing his remarks with an acknowledgement of the need the disabled, infirm, and elderly have of receiving social support, he made it clear that he has little tolerance for able bodied individuals who are living off the taxes of the working people.

 

Pastor Hagee cited that statistic that the welfare population of the United States exceeds to population of Spain. He believes that many of these people do not actually need welfare and should instead reap the rewards of their actions according to Biblical counsel.

Referring to 2 Thessalonians 3:10 “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”, he insists that such people as are found gaming the system must get off the proverbial couch and work. His comments are certainly well-intended even if they came across as somewhat derogatory. The problem is that the sectors of the economy which product mid to high wage income, have not recovered from the 2008 banking crisis.

 

The main sectors of the economy which have thrived are those producing low-wage jobs which is what makes it very difficult from even working people to make a living. Coupled with the disincentive that a person can fare better on welfare than they can to work, and the picture becomes clearer. Yes, people need to work, but the economy isn’t the rising tide lifting all the ships that it needs to be either.

 

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Showdown – Presidential Executive Powers V. Republican Big On Mouth And Short On Brain; Irrationality On Immigration And The keystone Pipeline

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 18, 2014 by sheriffali

18 Months and counting John Boehner has been sitting on a bipartisan Immigration Bill that passed the Senate with 68 votes. However, Boehner brought up the Keystone Bill that passed the House and seems likely it will pass the Senate.

 

I am certain President Obama will Veto it which is the right thing to do. Some spineless Democrats have in the House and will in the Senate vote with Republicans in the Senate today, November 18, 2014.

 

John Boehner has and continues to block the Immigration Bill coming to the floor for an up or down vote because he doesn’t have Republican Support. However, the Bill can pass because with most Democrats voting for the Bill and the few sane Republican Representative’s votes, the Bill can reach the President’s Desk and be signed into the Law.

 

But despite the Obstruction by Republicans they are against President Obama doing his job by using his legal Executive Powers. The Republicans are fantasizing on Impeachment claiming President Obama would be violating the Constitution. Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush and George W Bush used their Executive Powers to address Immigration Policies. That is an inherent right given to all Presidents in the Constitution and by Congress. We shouldn’t be surprised because irrespective of what Obama does, to the hate mongering, deceitful, obstructionist Republicans, they would without any shame whatsoever, claim that the President is breaking the Law.

 

The CEO of Trans Canada conceded that Keystone will only create about 50 Permanent Jobs but yet Republicans with no concern for Carbon Emissions, somehow convinced their Voters that keystone is the greatest thing since Sliced-Bread.

 

The Tar/Sand Oil that Canada and the Republicans want to pipe from Canada, through the United States and into New Orleans to be shipped to foreign countries, there aren’t any financial benefits to the United States and the only contribution it will make, is to add more Carbon Emissions at a time when Climate Change is so critical.

 

Do you ever wonder how uninformed, out of touch or uneducated Republican Voters are? The GOP are hell bent on destroying America in order to give more to the 2% and people still vote them in Control of both Houses of Congress. Amazing isn’t it!

 

Twitter @sheriffali

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Using Executive Order On Immigration, Obama Would Reverse Long-Held Stance![NYT]

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , on November 17, 2014 by sheriffali

Mr. Obama has effectively reversed his position and now said he believes that such actions can be “legally unassailable,” as a senior White House official put it last week. Mr. Obama is expected to announce plans soon to expand the program for Dreamers to shield up to five million people from deportation and provide work permits for many of them.

 

The president insisted over the weekend that he had not changed his position. During a news conference in Australia, the president said that his earlier answers about the limits of his executive authority were prompted by people who asked him whether he could enact, by fiat, a bipartisan immigration bill that had passed the Senate, which would have provided a path to legalization for more of the 11 million unauthorized people in the United States.

 

“Getting a comprehensive deal of the sort that is in the Senate legislation, for example, does extend beyond my legal authorities,” Mr. Obama said Sunday. “There are certain things I cannot do.”

 

In fact, most of the questions that were posed to the president over the past several years were about the very thing that he is expected to announce within a matter of days: whether he could do something to reduce deportations and keep families together if Congress would not act.

 

The president was pressed on that very issue during a Google Hangout in February 2013. An activist asked whether he could do more to keep families from being “broken apart” while Congress remained gridlocked on immigration legislation.

 

“This is something that I have struggled with throughout my presidency,” Mr. Obama said. “The problem is, is that I’m the president of the United States, I’m not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed.”

 

Officials have said the president could announce a series of executive actions as early as this week. The move comes after a concerted lobbying campaign by immigration advocates demanding presidential action in the face of 400,000 deportations every year. And it reflects the president’s mounting frustration that Republicans have blocked all efforts to pass immigration legislation.

 

At the news conference in Australia over the weekend, Mr. Obama implored Congress to pass a bill that would secure the border, revamp the legal immigration system and legalize many of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States.

 

“Give me a bill that addresses those issues,” Mr. Obama said at the conclusion of the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia. “I’ll be the first one to sign it and, metaphorically, I’ll crumple up whatever executive actions that we take and we’ll toss them in the wastebasket.”

 

White House officials said they did not believe that Republicans, who will control both chambers in Congress next year, have any intention of passing a bill that the president could sign. They note that Mr. Obama delayed any executive action throughout 2013 and 2014, hoping that Speaker John A. Boehner would allow a vote in the House on a bipartisan bill that passed the Senate.

 

When that did not happen by the summer, officials said, Mr. Obama decided he should act on his own.

 

 

That decision puts the president in a drastically different posture than the one he took in numerous interviews and speeches since 2010. In those settings, Mr. Obama was repeatedly urged to act on his own to reduce the number of families that were being separated by deportations. In each of the appearances, he rejected the idea and urged people to pressure Republicans in Congress to pass a bill.

 

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 GOP BANKRUPT OF SHAME

 

4 Billion Dollars Spent To Elect People with 9% Approval Ratings That Are Against 95% Of The American People’s Interest; And It is The Majority Of The Same People That Voted To Elect Them, November 4, 2014. [REPUBLICANS]

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 5, 2014 by sheriffali

It defies common logic and beyond any sane person’s comprehension as to why the “Majority of Voters” would vote and reelect the same people that are responsible for almost destroying America during their 8 years rule when George W Bush and Dick Cheney ran the country.

 

In addition, since the inception of 2009 these elected people have done nothing but obstruct everything that would help 95% of Americans, including our Veterans, Middle-Class, Students and the Poor. They have “blocked” or “voted” against every bill having to do with Jobs, Infrastructure, Education, Health Care, Students, Unemployment Insurance, Veteran’s Benefits and other assistance for the American people.

 

I think we are living in a time where majority of Americans are uninformed; uneducated; ignorant; brainwashed and totally bankrupt of basic common sense. In the Exit Polls 54% of the Voters disapproved of how President Obama has handled the Ebola Virus. Just imagine, one person died and the approximately seven people that contracted the Ebola Virus have all been cured. Mr. Obama has taken steps along with other countries to contain the Ebola Virus that are only in three countries in Africa in order for it not to become a worldwide problem.

 

On the other hand, Ronald Reagan sat around until 20,849 Americans died from the HIV AIDS Virus before he even acknowledged its existence. Many of the same people are still in Congress and they are the same people that have cut over 600 Billion Dollars from the CDC Budget since 2010.

 

At the end of 2008 Bush and Cheney along with Republicans had literally wrecked the country. The Stock Market, Dow had fallen as low as 6,500; NASDAQ below 1,800; The S & P that House most of the 401K plans fell to 730, wiping out 50% or more of people’s pension. The Housing Market had totally collapsed and unemployment had hit 10.2%. The Annual Deficit was 1.2 Trillion Dollars. We had two unpaid for Wars costing to date 5.1 Trillion Dollars and two unpaid for Tax Cut for the wealthy of 1.2 Trillion Dollars.

 

Today the Stock Market is at record high; the Housing Market has recovered; Over 10 Million Jobs have been created bringing unemployment down to 5.9% and the Deficit has been reduced by 72%.

 

But yet, Majority of the Voters are totally dissatisfied with President Obama handling of his job. People are so ignorant on the Social Media Sites they blame Obama for the 2005 Hurricane Katrina Disaster; they haven’t a clue that the Deficit has been reduced by 70%. They blame him for America’s National Debt of 17 Trillion Dollars, even though when Bush left Office our National Debt stood at 10.4 Trillion and if you add the unpaid 5.1 Trillion for Wars that Bush started and the 1.2 Trillion Dollars unpaid for Tax Cuts, it isn’t difficult to see why our Debt is at 17 Trillion Dollars.

 

Irrespective of the Politicians that were Winners Tuesday night and even those that lost, their good life isn’t going to change. They will continue to draw $174,000.00 Plus Salaries and other major benefits including the best Medical Coverage. The people that are going to suffer are the people that Voted them into Power.

 

What has caused such damage to the Brains of the Majority of Americans?

 

Twitter @sheriffali

ELECTION NOVEMBER 4 2014

Why You Must Question The Pollsters, The Media And The Republicans!

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 1, 2014 by sheriffali

DEMOCRATS: Remember The Media, Pollsters And Republicans In 2012 That Romney Was Going To Win! Remember Eric Cantor Was Going To Win The Primary By 35% And He Lost By 25%! Do Your Part And Vote And We Will Maintain Control Of The US Senate.

 

Polls Are More Misleading Today Than Any Time Before.  Pollsters Are Polling Land-Lines And We Know Factually, Senior Citizens Are Mostly The Only Ones Still Using Land Lines And They Do Always Vote Republican. It would be Another Five Years Plus, Before Polls Would Be Able To Incorporate Cell Phones In Surveys In Order To Again Become A True Scientific Measure.

 

 

When It Make Sense To Question The Polls [NYT]

 

I wrote an article this week headlined “Why Polls Tend to Undercount Democrats.” Reaction was fierce.

 

A number of readers compared the article’s argument to the “unskewed” polls phenomenon before the 2012 presidential election, when many commentators argued, mainly based on their instinct about the likely composition of the electorate, that the polls were missing Republican-leaning voters.

 

Other than the observation that the polls might be off, the similarities end there.

 

The unskewers peered into the crosstabs of the polls, saw party-identification figures that they didn’t believe, and said that their candidate would lead if the polls matched their assumptions.

 

As a general rule, this is not a good idea. There are instances when it is fine to criticize the composition of the polls, but usually only when it’s a metric where we have very good knowledge about the “truth” of the target population, as when the pool of adults differs from the census or when a poll from the voter file looks a lot different than the voter file.

 

 

The “unskewers” were relying more on their intuition about the likely electorate rather than any data. There are no census figures, for instance, on the partisan self-identification of likely voters. The figures usually used by unskewers, like the exit polls or the Voting and Registration Supplement to the Census Current Population Survey, are not nearly good enough for this sort of analysis.

 

To take an example from this year: We really have no idea how many Colorado voters were Hispanic in 2010 or 2012. It might have been 7 percent; it might have been 12 percent. We really have no idea whether they voted for President Obama by 30 points or 60 points. So I don’t embrace the view, argued by many on Twitter, that we know the Colorado polls are biased if they show Mark Udall only up by a bit with a seemingly small Hispanic share of the electorate.

 

When is it a good idea to question the polls? When there are good reasons to believe that the polls are missing or screening out certain kinds of voters.

 

Research suggests that polls need to do the following things to produce a representative sample: call enough cellphones; sample voters with out-of-state area codes; weight to recent population parameters and hit your targets; weight by population density or appropriate geographic areas; conduct interviews in Spanish; call back nonrespondents over multiple nights of interviews. We could go on.

 

If you believe that these are best practices, then you should also believe that a majority of the polls out there have Republican-leaning samples, even after weighting, because many or most of the polls aren’t embracing some or all of these practices. Or put differently: If you think I’m unskewing the polls, then you must also believe that the top pollsters are unskewing as well.

 

It’s hard to say how large the accumulated bias might be, but it’s fairly indisputable: If we had up-to-date population targets for states, every pollster would weight to them — and it would make every poll more Democratic. If pollsters could call out-of-state area codes with random digit dialing, they would — and it would probably make polls more Democratic.

 

  All that aside, I really don’t think we should expect huge polling errors on Tuesday. Young and nonwhite voters won’t turn out in large numbers. There aren’t many Hispanic voters in the battlegrounds. The states tend to have smaller urban-rural divides. The generational divide is smaller, as well, with Democrats running far better than President Obama among older voters and behind among younger voters.

 

Any modest bias can easily be overwhelmed by movement among undecided voters or in screening for likely voters. Over all, the Republicans are undoubtedly favorites to take the Senate.

 

Twitter @Sheriffali

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Republican Budget Cutting Almost Halved The Center For Disease And Control Emergency Preparedness, And Now They Cast Blame On Everyone For Ebola!

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 21, 2014 by sheriffali

The Republican fetish with starving government has helped land West Africa in an Ebola crisis. The director of the National Institutes of Health made that clear when he told Huffington Post that steep budget cuts by Congress has set back the institute’s work on both prevention and treatment for the disease and that if it hadn’t been for a decade’s worth of cuts, “we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would’ve gone through clinical trials and would have been ready.”

 

It’s not just the NIH that’s suffered, and it’s not just in Africa where the cuts are harming people. The Center for Disease Control’s emergency preparedness budget has been nearly cut in half in just the past seven years. That means preparation at home. That means that local health departments in this country don’t have the funding—or the staff—they need to do the necessary preparation and training to deal with any epidemic. Judy Stone, MD is an infectious disease specialist, details the cuts at Scientific American.

 

The CDC’s discretionary funding was cut by $585 million during [2010-14]. Shockingly, annual funding for the CDC’s public health preparedness and response efforts were $1 billion lower for 2013 fiscal year than for 2002. These funding decreases have resulted in more than 45,700 job losses at state and local health departments since 2008. Again, it is not just the Ebola that is a looming threat. We need to worry about vaccine-preventable but neglected infections like influenza, measles, and whooping cough; the serious emerging viral infections in the US like Enterovirus-D68, chikungunya and dengue, as well as overseas MERS and bird flus, and natural disasters.

 

Just let that sink in a bit. $1 billion less for infectious disease control in 2013 than in 2002. The problems in the Texas hospital that led to one of the nursing staff contracting the disease could potentially have been prevented if the local public health infrastructure had the funding and the staff it needs to deal with a serious health public health threat. Meanwhile, Republicans will continue to screech that it’s all Obama’s fault and will do everything they can to terrify Americans about the (highly unlikely) Ebola epidemic at home. [DailyKos]

 

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The Nobel Prize-winning economist, once one of the president’s most notable critics, on why Obama is a historic success. By Paul Krugman | October 8, 2014 Rolling Stone Magazine

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 10, 2014 by sheriffali

When it comes to Barack Obama, I’ve always been out of sync. Back in 2008, when many liberals were wildly enthusiastic about his candidacy and his press was strongly favorable, I was skeptical. I worried that he was naive, that his talk about transcending the political divide was a dangerous illusion given the unyielding extremism of the modern American right. Furthermore, it seemed clear to me that, far from being the transformational figure his supporters imagined, he was rather conventional-minded:

 

Even before taking office, he showed signs of paying far too much attention to what some of us would later take to calling Very Serious People, people who regarded cutting budget deficits and a willingness to slash Social Security as the very essence of political virtue.

 
And I wasn’t wrong. Obama was indeed naive: He faced scorched-earth Republican opposition from Day One, and it took him years to start dealing with that opposition realistically. Furthermore, he came perilously close to doing terrible things to the U.S. safety net in pursuit of a budget Grand Bargain; we were saved from significant cuts to Social Security and a rise in the Medicare age only by Republican greed, the GOP’s unwillingness to make even token concessions.

 

But now the shoe is on the other foot: Obama faces trash talk left, right and center – literally – and doesn’t deserve it. Despite bitter opposition, despite having come close to self-inflicted disaster, Obama has emerged as one of the most consequential and, yes, successful presidents in American history. His health reform is imperfect but still a huge step forward – and it’s working better than anyone expected. Financial reform fell far short of what should have happened, but it’s much more effective than you’d think. Economic management has been half-crippled by Republican obstruction, but has nonetheless been much better than in other advanced countries. And environmental policy is starting to look like it could be a major legacy.

 

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Read the Full Rolling Stone Article: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/in-defense-of-obama-20141008

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After rescuing us from Bush and Cheney’s chaos, President Obama being constantly disrespected and kicked around, I wonder, how does he feel?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 3, 2014 by sheriffali

If President Obama had just a little help from the Republican Do Nothing Congress Clowns, think how much more progress we as a country could have made. And yet, majority of Americans Middle Class and Poor in Poll after Poll, continues to run over Obama same as 99% of Congressional Republicans and some Democrats in Congress.

 

When he took Office he inherited two out of control wars; a Deficit of 1.2 trillion dollars; 10.2% Unemployment; 10 million plus people had lost their jobs; the Housing Market Crashed; the Stock Market at its lowest levels, especially the S & P that house most of the 401k plans; and our entire financial system at a total collapse from Bush, Cheney and the out of Control Republican Congress.

 

And today, Over 10, million jobs created; unemployment 5.9%; the stock Market breaking record highs; Housing Market rebounded; the Deficit reduced by 70%; and yes, Obama had to act on his own because the Republican Congress, outside of obstruct haven’t done anything to help the Middle Class, Poor, Students, infrastructure or anything Domestically, including our Veterans.

 

And what does majority of Americans 54% say; they are dissatisfied with the Job Obama is doing as President. As for the Media, during the times of Obama trying to repair Bush’s damage with economic struggles, it is breaking news, but when there is good news, it is a side-bar.

 

Today October 3, 2014 is a good example. 248,000 jobs created in September according to the Labor Department, and as for the Media, the story died quick; however, when the August figures showed 188,000 which were lower than expected, it was breaking news for almost a week.  

 

So I ask, how does President Obama, just a man, a normal human being feel when he knows that he has done his level best and then some, and he is being constantly disrespected and kicked around.

 

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