I applaud the Republican Senators for refusing to play along with the Democrats attempts to extend unemployment. Republicans have voted down these wasteful spending programs that represent increased debt with no accompanying value in return. Sending weekly checks to the jobless is the same as taking the hard earned wages of working Americans and lighting it on fire.

It must be made clear to this lower class of vagrants that only hard working individuals are recognized in this society. As far as this country is concerned if you can’t produce a pay stub than you no longer exist. We don’t want to hear from you and we are certainly not going to waste any more valuable time becoming emotionally drained by your sob stories. The gig is up. Get up and get out we have work to do and we can’t waste anymore time listening to whine. Life sucks deal with it.

It’s time we stopped working on the issues of the unemployed and focused on the debt crisis. The long term solution to this problem is tax cut incentives to business and slashing entitlements for the nonproductive. The focus has got to shift from the bottom dwelling losers who have nothing to offer to businesses that actually produce things, employ people and pay taxes. We need a program of business tax incentives along the lines we saw Ronald Regan institute. If Obama’s trillion dollar stimulus program had instead consisted of a trillion dollars in business tax incentives we would by now have full employment and be back on the road of prosperity.

We can’t have the least among us make policy for those of us who actually add value to the country. Cut the lifeline to these unemployed cockroaches so we can finally start to move forward and make progress. We will never get back to where we were carrying these dead weights on our backs.

To paraphrase theTea Party” the tree of liberty needs to be watered occasionally with the blood of tyrants”. So too the tree of the free market needs to be pruned of dead branches so the rest of the tree can produce plentiful fruit and not crab apples.

The republican members of the Senate finally put an end to more wasteful spending by democrats. Good job boys. Keep up the good work.

CNBC stocks its guest line up with anti-government financiers who can’t wait to pile on the plight of American workers with their comparisons to the Greek welfare state soon to arrive on U.S. shores courtesy of big spending liberal politicians who are clueless as to how their actions affect stock prices.

While these Wall Street whores scream Greece and big spending Joe nods his head in agreement with that foolishly cruel smile on his face. The American welfare state needs to be killed in its womb before full blown socialism destroys free market capitalism and the Greek flag flies over the capital building.

Of course it was the American worker who had to bail out Wall Street. It was our government that blew our debt levels through the roof to save Wall Street‘s life and look how they intend to repay the favor. They don’t just want to bite the hand that fed it they want to tear the head off of government and bury it so far underground it will suffocate and never resurface.

The American worker is being demonized for being unemployed and in need of a life line. American business could care less about the workers plight, the fewer people than can force to do the job of two people for the same pay the better. That’s why a lot of the jobs that were lost won’t be coming back.

This is a good thing for fund managers and their performance along with stock prices and that is all that really matters to Joe Kernen and the world of CNBC. The short term success of the markets is nothing to celebrate or to dedicate ourselves to if it means sending the country into decline.

For my part we either sink or swim together but otherwise I have no interest in listening to financiers lecture me on my excesses and propensity to depend on government for help when things become desperate. After all it wasn’t me who got a bailout it was the same geniuses who brought the country to its knees in exchange for a quick buck who got taxpayer money.

In response to Joe Kernen I would say that those who enriched themselves or attempted to do so at the expense of America need to be held accountable, and  they have to face up to their obligation to fund the restoration costs caused by the damage to America their irresponsible behavior brought down on us.

At some point, Joe Kernen, you have to be an American first and a free market champion second. You are one of us Joe. It would be helpful if you would occasionally defend Americans and American principles over stockholder interests in this time of hardship and crisis.

We, the American workers are the problem. If we would just submit to working for slave wages and were cut off from our addiction to unemployment insurance, welfare, social security and Medicare, the free market system would work just fine.

The problem with the American worker is that when you send their jobs overseas or you lay them off they don’t go away. They’re like fleas on a dog that can’t be shaken off. You kick their ass out the door and they show up at the unemployment office looking for handouts. My god what happened to the old fashion American virtue of personal responsibility. Can’t you losers take care of yourselves? Do you need nanny Uncle Sam to replace your aversion to self responsibility?

Well since we won’t disappear on our own we will have to be made to go away forcibly. Unemployment will be the first to go then social security and Medicare. We will all agree to these attacks on ourselves because our financial leaders will point to Greece and tell us to go ahead and look in the mirror. We are all Greeks now and you will believe it. We are about to be pounded into the ground and our response will be please master do it again your being too easy on us.

My friend, I’m here to set you straight on what really is taking place here. First, we are not Greeks. What makes us different is that the Greeks have no money, but we are the richest country in history. We can deal with our debt while the Greeks can’t.  The debt crisis in America can be summed up in our refusal to pay our bills even though we have the money to do so.

The 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts for the rich are the genesis of a debt level that spiraled into the crisis we are facing today. That administration knew at the time that they would most likely be creating levels of deficit spending that were unprecedented. They didn’t care. They knew that once they got their tax cuts they could shed their burden of paying for humanitarian safety net programs that they as employers had forsaken years ago. (I.e. pensions and health care benefits). They also knew that if the debt accumulated over the years to crisis levels they could defend their tax cuts by shifting the blame for the debt to entitlement programs.

Instead of admitting that tax rates need to revert to pre-Bush levels so that we can pay for the debt that those tax cuts ran up, we are being told that American workers  are filthy socialist Greeks that need to be beaten down to pre-Great Depression status. Cut them off from government assistance and let them fend for themselves.

If we worker’s don’t push back against this oppression the middle class will drain away and a semi- feudal society will be established in which Americans will have no power over their own country or their own lives.

There is nothing radical about the government tending to the maintenance of the machinery that makes capitalism work. In this case it was the strong arms of human labor that needed to be re-fitted. This is basic fundamental maintenance. That’s all it is.

But for the hate filled right it was much more than that. It was a passing of the torch from their generation to the next. It was the transfer of their ideology of the past to the pragmatism of the present. It was a transfer from hate to reason. It was a transfer of power from old white people to the diversified citizenry that is America today. It was total freak’n rejection of everything they stood for. And it was a confirmation that they are finished, humiliated and discredited. The right has been asked to leave the premises and to make sure the door doesn’t hit them on the ass on the way out.

And now the spectacle of the wounded demon lies dying in the gutter with blood red hate spilling from its veins. Like the wicked witch of the west in the Wizard of Oz water has been thrown on it and it is melting. No tears are being shed and the bells are ringing out in celebration. The extreme right is dead. Finished!!

And now people like me, the American Peasant, get to watch gleefully as the right drowns in its own vomit. Hatred choking on its own bile, drowning, sinking deeper while screaming and screeching louder “we will destroy you in November”.

No you won’t. You’ll be dead long before then. The country has already moved on. It won’t remember in November. It will be busy solving other issues.

Screw you hate mongers. Your time has come and gone. We choose something better and nobler than you. Talk to the hand dude, we’re not listening anymore.

• A job with a living wage
• Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
• A home
• Medical care
• Education
• Recreation

Since the capitalist system has severely damaged our country in its pursuit of short term profit, and since wealth creation has been cordoned off to the middle class, and since this is no longer the land of opportunity but the land of the victims of capitalism, we should impose a second bill of rights upon our corporate masters.

I am an American Peasant, and it has been made unmistakably clear to me that I am not allowed to participate in the American dream of accumulating wealth through hard work. If fact the wealth I did accumulate over decades of being the good worker was stolen from me by Wall Street hucksters,  big banks, and corporate monopolies.

If my place in the New American middle class is to work harder than ever to cling to support an ever decreasing standard of living, while the fruits of my labor are rewarded to the 1% of the elite who own 95% of the country’s wealth already, then I demand the imposition of a Second Bill of Rights.

The rights proposed by Roosevelt are missing one critical item. The right to food and clothing. It wouldn’t surprise me if these commodities got to be beyond the budget of everyday people and they are already for a lot of us.

I differ from the Tea Party movement on this point: I already lost a lot of my liberty but not due to a government takeover. I lost it to capitalist excesses and worker suppression. We workers gave up a lot of our dignity on the Reagan and conservative belief that unregulated capitalism would create unprecedented wealth that would trickle down and lead us all to a time of abundant prosperity.

It didn’t work. Our situation didn’t improve it went backwards. It turns out capitalists don’t share either power or money with workers. Now that they have accumulated all this wealth with the help of the Reagan and Bush tax cuts, they own the country, and we can never get it back again.

But I’m a realist. I can see what happened and how this is going to play out. The middle class is finished. What we can do is demand certain basic rights. An expanded lists of rights that protect the basic dignity of us peasants. We better do it fast before it’s too late.

Screw the Tea Party it’s already too late for that. It’s time for Americans to draw a line in the sand and make it clear to Wall Street that we will not allow them to push us down any lower than we’ve already fallen.

 Some of the arguments for keeping the policy are steep in hate and ignorance. Here is a sample:

 Jane Chastain http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127520

 “Have you taken the time to thank a soldier, sailor, airman or Marine for their service to our country lately? …There is no other job that requires this kind of selfless dedication and courage. We need the military, and now the men and women on active duty need us to do something for them they cannot do for themselves. They need to be defended from Barack Obama’s plan to expand the gay-rights agenda by using our armed forces as a laboratory for social experimentation.”

There is always the chance that if you thank a military person for their service that person might be gay. And if they are do they not deserve our thanks? There is no social experiment going on here. Gays have always been in the military. There is nothing new going on here except acknowledging what everybody already knows.

 “The president is the commander in chief of our military. The folks at the Pentagon work for him. However, Congress writes the laws that set the rules that govern military personnel and “we the people” have the ability to control Congress. When the president and Congress lose their way on military matters, “we the people” not only have the option of giving our elected representatives our input, it is our duty to do so.”

This comment is strange. If a majority of Congress repeals Don’t ask Don’t Tell then “we the people” have made that decision. You can’t refer to Congress as an entity separate from the people the congressmen represent. If a majority of Congress votes to repeal it then that means a majority of the people wanted it repealed.

“The issue of fairness is one that really needs to be addressed: Is it fair to put our men and women in the military, who have no control over where they sleep or shower, in situations where they are viewed as objects of sexual desire? Isn’t military life difficult enough as it is?”

The problem with this comment is that gays have always been part of our military. Gays make up 10% of the population so it is fair to say that 10% of the military personnel are gay. It has always been that way and you can’t change that. You can’t discriminate against 10% of the population. The shower thing might be a problem in prison but it’s not in the military.

 For the record, historically bonds among soldiers have in some circumstances been stronger than the bond between a soldier and his wife. Soldiers have been known to have spent years campaigning away from home and have faced death together repeatedly. Sharing that experience with fellow countrymen leads to very strong bonds being formed among the soldiers. There are strong indications throughout history of homosexual type feelings between and among the troops.    

“Our civil-rights laws were written to protect citizens from discrimination based on immutable characteristics such as race and gender, not on politically correct terms like “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.”

This is another strange comment. It totally disregards differences in religious believes. Those are not immutable.

These comments represent a very pathetic secular argument meant to defend a religious position. Repealing  Don’t ask Don’t Tell has little effect on anything. What it does do is water down the fundamentalist stance towards gays. In this respect it is damaging to conservatives.

But we have to live in the real world not the pretend world. We can’t waste time trying to circumvent our way around the gay population. They are part of us and we need to stop obsessing over the need to keep it hidden. Fundamentalists cannot play the part of the Old Testament God and push these people back in the closet, or worse, punish them.

We are not the Taliban here. Let’s stop acting like it.

Now they want to get their money back by doubling down on that bet. I for one have been beaten to a pulp by the unregulated free market and I can’t survive another beating. I may not even survive the first one. But rage and insanity trumps reason and the angry Republican mob is filled with hatred. Everything they stand for has been discredited and the very sight of Obama on the TV screen is a constant reminder that they are wrong.

Rather than rethink the underlying basis of their faulty values and political ideals, they prefer to be stubborn and instead cry foul. They believe they are ultimately right, but misfortune or an ill-timed misalignment of the planets derailed the free market express to Shangri-La. All Republicans need to do is put the train back on the tracks and we’re off and running again.  

Unfortunately, it’s not just a derailment it’s a total blood soaked train wreck. So while Republicans try to reconstruct the wreckage and bury the dead they will just accuse Obama and the Democrats of having little faith, and of using the disaster as an opportunity to overturn the political and social structure.

Listen in to the Republican right as they pass the blame along to Obama:

Erik Rush http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127522

“In America, during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the administration of President Barack Obama elected to spend over $3 trillion in nine months – and they are looking at laying out much, much more. They’re also poised to raise taxes, when the conventional wisdom indicates that cutting taxes generates more tax revenue than raising them. Obama is doggedly attempting to “lower health-care costs”

Of course the $3 trillion was either inherited from the Bush administration or emergency action taken to prevent a total collapse. The stimulus package included a massive middle class tax cut. So using this man’s own argument against him, the deficit should shrink because of an action Obama instituted; a massive tax cut. Why the criticism over the dogged attempt to lower health care costs? Are higher health care costs a thing to be desired?

“I’ve expressed my belief in the possibility that, given President Obama’s political background and the number of power-mad freaks in Washington in general, his intention is to coordinate a societal breakdown (probably precipitated by an economic implosion) so horrendous that unprecedented government intervention on a civil level will be “unavoidable.”

Republicans love a good conspiracy theory in the same way a juvenile loves a good MTV reality show.  A democratically elected president, elected by a sizable majority of Americans, is nothing more than a political terrorist.

And so this is where the conservative right stands today. They intend to ride this insanity all the way back into the oval office come 2012. They just might pull it off because the world has gone insane, and it just might be a lunatic we’re looking for.

By Matt Patterson- FOXNews.com (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/08/matt-patterson-obama-health-care-town-hall-democrats-republicans-gop/)

“The summit and subsequent events have revealed two distinct philosophies that are like oil and water, and are likely to mix just about as well. Democrats obsess over the uninsured; the Republicans over cost. Democrats believe it’s the business of the government to dictate coverage;… “

This is crap. The Democrats are not trying to dictate coverage. This is a lie. What they don’t want is an insurance industry that will only cover those who don’t need insurance. Insurance needs to be for everybody regardless of the risk. An insurance industry purified insured pool would leave far too many millions of god fearing Americans helpless.

“…the Republicans that government’s role must be limited and encourage competition. What we’re talking about here is two vastly different views of the nature and rationale of federal authority in our lives, a difference between top down and bottom up, between centralized or diffused power, between government that knows best and liberty that comes first.”

What foolishness. This isn’t about the role of the federal government. It’s about a health care system that’s broken and the need to establish one that works for everyone. The government and the people are on in the same, and the people love their liberty because it allows them to choose to fix the broken healthcare system that’s eroding individual wealth, damaging the economy, and causing businesses to resist hiring.

“The best line in this whole debate so far was uttered by Eric Cantor, when at the summit he put his hand on the Senate bill and said to the president: “We can’t afford this. That is the ultimate problem here.”

More lies! The plan is budget neutral. Eric cantor knows this but still insists on misinforming voters since democrats always have to be portrayed as big spending budget busters even when it’s not true.

“The president claims his plan would cost about $950 billion. That’s $950 billion more than we have. Our anticipated budget deficit for 2010 will be a record $1.6 trillion; the CBO foresees $6 trillion in deficits over the next decade, an untenable situation which even Obama’s Secretary of State admits is a sobering national security challenge.”

Again, this reform legislation is budget neutral and this man knows this. If this fellow was so concerned about the deficits he would be demanding that the Bush tax cuts be allowed to expire and that we raise taxes to fund our armies in Iraq in Afghanistan. But no, he won’t do that. The deficit has to be filled by pounding the working class into the ground.

“In fact, these deficits are a mortal threat to our civilization. If these politicians were truly honest, they would have looked at each other and said, “Cantor’s right, there’s no way we can afford this right now!” adjourned the meeting, retired to their respective offices and chambers, and gotten to work getting Americans back to work, which is what they should have been doing in the first place.”

The Republican party of “NO” is no more likely to vote for a jobs bill than they are for healthcare reform. Asking Republicans to get back to work is asking them to think of new ways not to do anything thing.

It’s time to call out Republicans on their lying and campaign of misinformation. They are hypocrites and their ideology and policies have led us into this severe recession. We need to continue to remind them of this and to keep them out of the discussion on how to recover from their legacy.

And so when you listen to republicans address Obama’s explanation of the reform package the response goes around the language in the bill directly toward the ingrained hatred of government and its stereotyped image of a liberal controlled socialist takeover. Takeover of healthcare and everything else.

Here is some typical republican talk that exemplifies the talking past the bill on the table and to the biases and prejudices of the government haters that make up the republican base.

 “My response to the President’s weekly address outlined the dangers of putting government in charge of medical decisions that should be made by patients and doctors….there is no doubt that our health care system needs to be reformed, however, the President’s bill does nothing to offer a solution to our health care reform needs.”

Rep. Parker Griffith State Senator Alabama

He’s lying or he’s stupid. How does setting ground rules for insurance companies equate to putting the government in the same room as the doctor and the patient? It doesn’t. There are a myriad of improvements to the healthcare system in the reform legislation that are needed. Again, this man is lying or he’s stupid.

“Public opinion polls demonstrate that Americans do not want a government takeover of health care. A recent CNN reported that 73 percent of Americans want Congress to start over and drop health care entirely for now. In my own town halls and meetings I have conducted in north Alabama, I talked with doctors, nurses, business owners and consumers, all who expressed opposition to a government take-over of our health care system.”

Rep. Parker Griffith State Senator Alabama

Government is not trying to take over healthcare. Nobody wants that. So if you ask people if they want it of course they will say no. What people want is access to private medical care. Ask them if they want that and they will say yes. Why are you implying that healthcare reform is a government takeover? You’re either lying or your stupid.

Republicans know they are in danger of coming out looking like fools in the healthcare debate. Initially they branded it as another big government big spending redistribution of wealth program. They refused to participate in drafting reform at the outset. But if reform is successful their party faces oblivion. To hedge against the danger of extinction, they now say if the current bill is scrapped and the process started over they will participate the next time around.

They are lying. There is no starting over. If the legislation is scrapped, they will celebrate the crumbling of the Obama administration not reopen talks on reform.

But this is not a problem in the eyes of conservatives. To them the problem doesn’t really exist. The data is all baloney concocted by a socialist president looking to take over health care and make the rich pay for the poor and illegal immigrants.

But the reasoning of a conservative moron pig like Pat Boone carries weight since he and his feeble minded republican friends have representatives in congress. Despite what we all experience every day some of us are still in total denial. What follows from a Pat Boone article is beyond senile: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=127071

“For a while, he (Obama ) was saying there were 45 million Americans without healthcare. (False, of course, in that any hospital emergency room in America is required to care for any human being who comes in.) “

This statement is beyond incredible. By this logic every person in the country can cancel their insurance policy and just get in line at the emergency room. It’s free so why pay over $1,000 a month for a family plan and do what 45 million smarter Americans are doing. Go without coverage and get free care at the best hospitals in the world. 

“Now he says it’s 30 million without insurance, and he’s determined to see that they get it. And, though we’ve just heard an earlier recording in which he himself says ramming this proposal through Congress with a 51 “hands up or down” reconciliation vote will never do, he’s decided that if that’s the only way to force this on us, that’s what he will demand. “

What does Pat Boone have against 30 million Americans who need access to healthcare? In a sane world you wouldn’t be so callous toward the lack of health care of 30 million people. Unless of course you were a wealthy person and the gutter dwellers among us were essentially invisible non-existent entities. No doubt Obama made the whole thing up in some socialist plot to redistribute the wealth.

“But wait. Analysis has shown that his 30 million includes 12 to 14 million illegal aliens, not entitled to any government benefits at all. “

You got me on this one Pat. 14 million sub-human Mexicans who we are not required to treat. So what if they die their aliens not humans.

“It includes a few million more young people who don’t want insurance, and millions more who could have and afford insurance, but choose not to have it.”

These people are choosing not to pay for health insurance but they still want you to take them to the hospital when they get hit by a car. When these people are lying in the street with broken bones and bleeding lacerations, they don’t say to the paramedics “leave me here, I choose not to buy health insurance”.  No, they want to be rushed to the hospital for emergency care which they have no intention of paying for after they get it.

“So the actual numbers of people who actually need and can’t afford healthcare may be no more than 12 million or so. That’s a lot of Americans, and we’re right to be concerned and want to help. And what conservative leaders are shouting at us is that we can do that with a much simpler plan, for peanuts compared to the Obama plan. A simpler plan that won’t bankrupt our economy.”

Not quite as simple as this Pat. Even the insured can’t afford to pay for the out of pocket deductibles, co-payments and uncovered services. That’s not just 12 million people. It’s most of the people. That’s just not a small number of Americans that we should feel sorry for while doing nothing to help. It’s the whole freak’n country.

The rich can pooh pooh the pain of the proletariat. “Stop whining it’s not so bad.” Average people don’t count for very much these days. This is the land of opportunity and we had our chance and blew it. We’re losers and this country doesn’t tolerate losers. If you’re feeling the pain it’s because that’s what you deserve.

I am an American peasant. The pain I feel is the pain of greed. The greed of the filthy rich who managed to gain too much of a piece of the pie during the periods of republican rule. But I have a surprise for you Pat Boone. I like pain. It keeps me focused. It gives me a passion for revenge that will not be assuaged until the day comes when justice prevails and all people are treated as equals. Not in terms of material wealth, but in terms of the amount of suffering they are allowed to endure before they are deemed worthy enough for equal access to medical care.

Keep signing that happy tune Pat while the rest of us suffer. As they say ignorance is bliss. I suppose the more you have of it the more the more blinded you become to the truth.