This is Mitt's core belief.....we've seen where this leads

Robert Reich's FACEBOOK post on 11/4/12


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• It's time for a final summary of the worldview of Mitt Romney. Despite its contradictions and ellipses, Romneyism, as this creed might be called, has an internal coherence. Here are its ten core principles:

1. Corporations are the basic units of society. Corporations are people, and the overriding purpose of an economy is to maximize corporate profits. When profits are maximized, the economy grows fastest. This growth benefits everyone in the form greater output, better products and services, and higher share prices.

2. Workers are a means to the goal of maximizing corporate profits. If workers do not contribute to that goal, they should be fired. If they cannot then find other work that helps maximize profits in another company, their wages must be too high, and they must therefore accept steadily lower wages until they find a job.

3. All factors of production – capital, physical plant and equipment, workers – are fungible and should be treated the same. Any that fail to deliver high competitive returns should be replaced or discarded. This keeps an economy efficient. Fairness is and should be irrelevant.

4. Pollution, unsafe products, unsafe working conditions, financial fraud, and other negative side effects of the pursuit of profits are the price society pays for profit-driven growth. They should not be used as excuses to constrain the pursuit of profits through regulation.

5. Individual worth depends on net worth — how much money one has made, and the value of the assets that money has been invested in. Any person with enough intelligence and ambition can make a fortune. Failure to do so is sign of moral and intellectual inferiority.

6. People who fail in the economy should not be coddled. They should not receive food stamps, Medicaid, or any other form of social subsidy. Coddling leads to a weaker society and a weaker economy.

7. Taxes are inherently bad because they constrain profit-making. It is the right and responsibility of individuals and corporations to exploit every tax loophole they (and their tax attorneys) can find in order to pay the lowest taxes possible.

8. Politics is a game whose only purpose is to win. Any means used to win the game is legitimate even if it involves lying and cheating, as long as it gains more supporters than it loses.

9. Democracy is dangerous because it is forever vulnerable to the votes of a majority intent on capturing the wealth of the successful minority, on whom the economy depends. The rich must therefore do whatever is necessary to prevent the majority from exercising its will, including spending large sums of money on lobbyists and political campaigns. The most virtuous among the rich will go a step further and run for president.

10. The three most important aspects of life are family, religion, and money. Patriotism is a matter of guarding our economy from unfair traders and undocumented immigrants, rather than joining together for the common good. We owe nothing to one another as citizens of the same society.

On Tuesday America will decide whether these ten ideas should be the guiding principles of the nation.

Deja vu two

A few years ago I wrote a piece about Voyager leaving our solar system.  I realize there are two Voyagers but they were both launched in 1977 so they can't be too far apart even though V2 is on a slower trajectory.  Keep in mind 100,000 miles is a very short distance when dancing through space.

Obviously I'm quite confused because yesterday it was reported that Voyager 1 is getting ready to "leave the bubble."

The "BUBBLE" refers to the hellopause which sits outside the hellosheath which rests outside the termination shock zone.

I THOUGHT THAT PARTICULAR EVENT OCCURRED A FEW YEARS AGO and if I take time to research my archives I'm pretty sure I can locate the story.

OF COURSE I COULD BE EXPERIENCING A HUGE SLICE OF DEJA VU....but it's so hard to tell during election years because EVERYTHING seems to be a deja vu.

In fact....I think I wrote that line 5 years ago.

Voyager 1 is 11.3 BILLION miles from the sun and apparently is getting very close to exiting our teeny tiny solar system,  BUT (AND THIS IS HUGE BUTT....EVEN BIGGER THAN J'LO) scientists don't know where the edge of the solar system is......BUT....(lots of butts here) they think the spacecraft MUST be getting close.

HUH?

They don't know where the edge is but Voyager must be getting close.

There appears to be some scientific guessing involved in when the actual event might happen so I don't feel so bad about thinking that it already happened because maybe it did happen and those brainiacs just forgot.  No one ever said science was an exact science.

One of the nice sidebars to the traveling Voyager show is that IT carries a record of human experiences on the planet Earth.....and maybe a little moon tale. 

It's a GOLDEN RECORD and it looks like this......

...........and I swear to God that I've never seen this image before and I can show you a few paintings of mine that look quite similar.

Of course anyone suffering from repeated sessions of Deja Vu could be potentially stealing anything and everything over and over and over.

A few years ago I wrote a piece about Voyager leaving our solar.....OMG it's happening again....I am so sorry and I am so sorry and I am so sor------------stop it!

I'm pretty sure this anomaly is caused by the election frenzy that is just heating up.

THE BEST THING I'VE HEARD SO FAR FROM EITHER PARTY IS THE DEAL PRESIDENT OBAMA MADE WITH THE AUTOMOBILE COMPANIES WHEN HE BAILED THEM OUT.

THE DEAL CONCERNS THE MILES PER GALLEON THAT NEW CARS MUST REACH BY TWO DIFFERENT DATES 

34 MPG BY 2016 AND 50 BY 2024

THIS IS A HUGE STORY AND ONE THAT DOESN'T GET TOLD ENOUGH.

I HAVE HEARD THAT MITT WOULD GET RID OF IT IF HE IS ELECTED.

WHY ON EARTH WOULD ANYONE WANT TO REVERSE THAT AGREEMENT?

WHY?  (it's not that hard to answer)

I MUST BE WRONG......THE REPUBLICAN PARTY COULDN'T BE THAT STUPID
COULD THEY?

Since they don't believe in Global Warming maybe they don't believe in good gas mileage....and it follows that they don't believe Voyager will ever leave our solar system. They don't know why so many people are on food stamps and they don't believe health care should be available to everyone....and they don't believe rich people should pay higher taxes....and I hate to say it....but they don't seem to think an African American could, should or would ever be elected President of the USA.  There appears to be a certain type of hate that is much different than how we felt about GW.  Democrats thought Bush goofy.  Republicans actually seem to hate Obama.  BIG DIFFERENCE in how the two parties operate.  I remember actually hating Nixon so I remember the attitude....but I grew to be a more loving and tolerant person.  The Republican party sppears to be headed to a place that I would describe as.....ugly.

I really believe I've written all of this before so maybe it's.....

deja vu two too......

A few years ago I wrote a piece about................

Michael Timothy McAlevey

The line is now offically drawn

Everyone who knows me realizes it took a long time to stop using the word "Fag" in reference to gay people.
It obviously took longer for the office of President of the United States to acknowledge same sex marriages.

Please don't think for one minute that I'm comfortable watching gays lip smack on prime time TV shows but I've always thought legal issues should be equal among anyone not in prison.  Laws, directed toward gay unions, that were created by homophobic opinions, should be eliminated from the books.

The election of 2012 will now have a distinct dividing line and that line will be the issue of gay marriage.

I think it's an issue that displays tolerance and compassion vs intolerance and judgemental behavior.

The dividing line isn't so much right or wrong but love and acceptance.

I'm fairly certain that there are homosexual Republicans who now might have an issue voting against a President who says they are entitled to the same legal benefits as a straight couple.

The issue will prove to be very interesting in Florida where the both parties will be fighting to win.

There's a wide assortment of human types in Florida and it always seems to be a very close race between the two parties.  This issue could be the tipping point and to be honest I'm not sure which way it will tip.

I've always thought Florida was a very strange place because they have little tiny bugs that you can't see that bite the crap out of you.

The gay marriage issue will bite the crap out of somebody but I'm not sure who.

I have no idea of the Mormons stand on gay issues but Mitt came out yesterday and said he personally was against legal gay unions...so therefore the line is drawn.  How many gay people work on the Romney campaign?  How many gay people are in Romney's family?  How many gay people has he ever talked to?

WILL THOSE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR HIM, who absolutely love Glee, SUPPORT HIS POSITION?

By the way.......I'm one of those hetero anomalies who absolutely loves Glee.

I also love the show Smash....but every time the gay lovers start to inch up toward one another I feel a little queasy in my stomach and sometimes even close my eyes.  I can't help it.....I'm just not comfortable watching two men kiss. 

But that queasiness has nothing to do with how my brain works when regarding legal equality for every person in America.  I can't worry about the rest of the planet on this issue because we are the leaders of the free world and our behavior vibrates to all corners of the globe.  We are the beacon for freedom and equality and we basically haven't even gotten it correct yet.......so why fret about other places.

So much work to do here and now that another line has been drawn in the sand, for the 2012 Presidential election, it becomes an even more interesting and intriguing election.

Watch that line.......it's not so blurry anymore......except of course for gay Republicans.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

A Face and a Race

This is Paul Ryan, Congressman from Wisconsin. He appears to be the new face of the GOP.

Today is the beginning of the 2012 Presidential election. The GOP used the Sunday morning news shows to outline their $4 trillion dollar deficit reduction plan....and then this morning President Obama officially announced his re-election campaign.

Let the BULLS..T BEGIN!

The nation doesn't need what we are about to see.

What we probably won't see is a lot of common sense.

The division between the have and the havenots will be emphasized in a major way due to the fact that the numbers are comparable to just before the Great Depression.

http://www.robertreich.org/

I just hope that environmental issues become paramount during the campaign. It would be nice to hear a few Republicans actually back down from the platform position that Global Warming is an Al Gore invention.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS A FACT and the reasons are numerous. Somethings can be done and somethings can't be done but nothing will get done if people deny the existence of the problem.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DENIES THE EXISTENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING! And they deny the existence of de-forestation....just like they deny that there is a problem with Nuclear Energy.

The democrats need to stress that denial factor and they need to stress it LOUDLY.

IT CAN BE A DIFFERENCE MAKER.

AND ALSO...... THE TRUTH ABOUT TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS AND HOW IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING FOR 95% OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

Let the bull.... oh I mean..... the party....... .....begin!

Michael Timothy McAlevey