POLITICS/DO NOT READ IF POLITICS UPSETS YOU!

Funny isn’t it? We just cannot recognize politics for what it is, when MY party is in I get so mad when folks call my president names, and call for his ouster. Shoot, we can do no wrong. Whatever tactics we use to get our way is fine. And NO, it wasn’t the same when your guy was in He was just a crook a Crap head. I called him names because they were true. How can you call my guy names, he is a saint! Your party is just jealous.

If it wasn’t so serious, it would be funny. Folks it is politics pure and simple. Parties bribe and cajole to get votes for whatever they feel is the agenda at the time. The Republicans do it, the Democrats do it. We just get mad when folks don’t see things the right way! LOL.

I have said it in public; I have said it to my Sherry. Referring to the present Bill that just passed congress and is headed to the president’s desk, MR./MS. JOHN DOE PUBLIC (you and me) have no idea what is in that bill. You got no straight talk from the political parties because a Bill that large (in all fairness) was probably not read by most that voted on it.

We got only HALF-TRUTHS and some misrepresenting from Both sides, one to get it passed the other to kill it. Now that it will become law I honestly hope it is a good thing.

It was meant to be complicated, lawyers wrote it. If they wanted it to be simple they could have just amended the present Medicaid system to cover all people under $50K a year (Or something similar, George McGovern suggested this a long time ago, but that is too simple).

So now we will find out what it really means. Of course if it is a WRONG step the folks that passed it will be long gone before it is realized. If it was the RIGHT step, some other national emergency will come up to overshadow it. I was against the Bill because I thought it was too complicated. It seems like Health Care INS. repair, instead of Heath care reform.

And contrary to many feelings, Americans have the right to protest. I didn’t always agree with President Bush (I did vote for him), but I did get hurt when you (who did) called him VERY NASTY names (i.e. painting a mustache on him and calling him Hitler) and still do. Many will Blame Bush for everything from a stumped toe to Global warming. So don’t get so upset when folks call the present president and his party names, when they blame them for some misdeed (Not deserved in your opinion)

ITS POLITICS FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE. They love to get our blood boiling.
I am Libertarian/Republican in my politics. I voted for Goldwater, Wallace, Nixon, Ross, Carter, Reagan, Bush and McCain (Who I felt the lesser or two bad choices).

I buried a great dear friend a few weeks back, a died-in-the-wool Democrat. We differed on politics and unions. WE joked together. I loved him like a brother and NEVER did we have a major argument. WE accepted politics as what it was, the BIG GUYS GAME and we were the pawns.

Remember Mr. Johnson’s Great Society. Johnson's success depended on his skills of persuasion, coupled with the Democratic landslide in the 1964 election that brought in many new liberals to Congress. Anti-war Democrats complained that spending on The Vietnam War choked off the Great Society. While some of the programs have been eliminated or had their funding reduced, many of them, including Medicare, Medicaid and federal education funding, continue to the present. The Great Society's programs expanded under the administrations of Nixon and Ford.

So we will all watch and learn later how smart or ignorant this Presidency is. I said when he was elected that I hoped he was the best we ever had. So far I don’t see it, but that is my opinion. I am an American and have that right, so do you.

Thanks for coming by the log (No matter what your politics).

Nite Shipslog
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