One from the past that is still applicable

Here is a post to another site that I wrote a year ago that is still applicable today.  How little things have changed.  Enjoy!

SUMMER TO FALL

 As we glide into fall (That’s what I said; fall!) we have to lament over another wasted summer in Washington.  Republicans continue to do nothing to improve the lives of the middle class and insist that those who have made fortunes on their backs should earn even more money.

Every effort put forward by those congressmen and women who support the middle American family is thwarted by anarchists, war mongers and the greedy politicians vying for the support of the top 1% while ignoring the needs of the 99%.

Tea Party Republicans are ignoring the call of the better part of the Republican Party and refusing to do the business of the people by wasting the last few days of the summer session to vote for the 40th time to repeal the Affordable Care Act leaving the discussion of the budget for the next fiscal year to the fall session to begin in September.

Tea Party Republicans plan to refuse to pass a budget (Something they accused Senate Democrats of doing.) unless it includes a mandate to defund  the Affordable Care Act.

For decade after decade, a law that needs repair is revisited with amendments to fix problems without throwing out the entire law.  I will be the first to admit that the Affordable Care Act may need some adjustment but Tea Partiers do not want adjustments.  They just want those who do not get health insurance from their employer or are too poor for quality care to be abandoned completely to die in solitude.

Tea Partiers do not want anyone to have anything except the most fortunate of all of us.  No Medicaid, no food stamps, no free school lunches, no unemployment insurance, no infrastructure improvements, no college education.  In fact, they want to put the poor in their place.  In servitude to the top.  Tea Partiers are not out to improve America!  They are out to destroy it!

A little over the top?  I don’t think so.  In fact, I think it is about a wake up call to all my Republican friends.  I encourage all my Republican friends to go to the polls next year and elect those among Republicans who are more interested in improving America than pleasing the top 1% and doing the work of the people while in office instead of wasting money on themselves because greed is what is destroying America.

Republicans claim to the party of Christians but manage to ignore the word of God day after day in their actions in Congress.  You are your brothers keeper.  Act and vote like it!

Vote Smart!  Vote Common Sense!  Vote Independent!