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````````There is NO doubt, the Republicans in control of the Legislature, and all of state government in Arizona have funded Corporate Tax Dodges, Tax Cuts and special Corporation legislative favors on the backs of school children and with extreme reductions in funding for Public Education. The children of Arizona are expected to do with less educational opportunities so the elected GOP officals can pay back their wealthy campaign donors. ```````````````````````

Andrei Cherny, Arizona Democratic Party Chairman “Arizona Republicans hold all the power, and they’ve used it for all the wrong things. The result is that jobs are nowhere to be found, schools are forgotten, and our communities are silenced. We won’t stand for it, and we will hold them accountable in 2012 so Arizona can get back on the right track.”

Saturday, September 3, 2011

We will not go back!

The social and economical gains we have made in the last seventy years are worth fighting to keep. Short changing our children and grandchildren, by turning over a bankrupt, environmentally spoiled world with a crumbling infrastructure in a nation intellectually unprepared for the future is not an option. We will not go back!

Florida Senator Marco Rubio has a picture of the past that makes the great depression of the 1930s look like social programs were instituted by the Democrats to drug the American people so that they would become addicts to government giveaway programs.

"These programs actually weakened us as a people," explained Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, everybody's favorite choice for vice president, at the Ronald Reagan Library earlier last month. "You see, almost forever, it was institutions in society that assumed the role of taking care of one another. If someone was sick in your family, you took care of them. If a neighbor met misfortune, you took care of them. You saved for your retirement and your future because you had to.


"We took these things upon ourselves in our communities, our families, and our homes, and our churches and our synagogues. But all that changed when the government began to assume those responsibilities."

Rubio is only 40, so he may actually think that was true, that America 50 years ago was a happy land of communal caring and secure multigenerational households. He may have missed the part about how, before 1965, half the elderly had no hospital insurance (and helpful surgery by a friendly neighbor really wasn't the answer), and the elderly were the poorest demographic group, with about a third living in poverty. 
Senator Rubio joins Nevada US Senate Candidate in the 2010 election Sharron Angle with her suggestion at one point in her campaign against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid paying your doctor with a chicken.

Both these Republicans are out of step with real life today and history, "poor houses" were not fiction,  care for the elderly poor, infirm, and mentally ill was responsibility of family. Of course there had to be a family that would be present, able, and willing to assume the care. When no home care was available, some counties used jails to house the mentally ill. Almshouses, poor houses, and county owned poor farms developed in the local communities. Most if not all counties had some version of a poor house or poor farm.  Usually in the early days, counties had insufficient revenue. County owned poor farms could produce salable crops which would offset costs of caring for the poor.

The extremists in the Republican party have completely taken over the agenda of the Republican political movement and replacing common-sense with nonsense and anti-President Obama rhetoric.

To this extreme group of people organized as the Tea Party will destroy every bit of progressive life protections and enhanced living conditions leaving every person for themselves, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, forget that you have no boots world.

Across the country with the financial aid of rich corporate conglomerates who have through tax loopholes, special tax favors and just plain tax dodges accumulated wealth at the expense and on the backs of less fortunate hard-working, taxpaying, middle-class Americans gained governmental power to put in effect radical laws that are now destroying an American way of life.

In the name of jobs, yelling government and taxes are the problem they have succeeded in slowing economy activity, halted our capacity to expand more employment by putting our government on the tab. By destroying our flow of tax revenue with tax cuts, starting unfunded military foreign ventures, making drug companies rich with needed unpaid for senior drug benefits and giving the rich needless escapes from citizen responsibility.

No where have the Republican dominated US House of Representatives asked for one ounce of fair and shared effort for their super rich patrons.  In order to perpetuate their mismanagement of governmental affairs they have placed roadblocks and limitations on even the basic rights of Americans to vote. Discourage, confuse, and frustrate voters until they give up and leave voting to a few influenced by wedge issue politics.

Republican politicans have squeezed our confidence, promoted a tumbling faith in our own country to gain election advantages for total control of our way of life and make a few even richer at the expense of the America we inherited. What kind of America are we passing on to our children? Greed, has provided a luxury existance to a few, with less and less for the rest.

Stop and think, what does "tax relief" really mean?
Less taxes for some, no jobs for many and more money in the pockets of a few.

What does "less government regulation" mean?
Dirty water, foul air, rotten food, bad drugs, no consumer protection all in the name of more money for a few corporate giants.

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