The Tea-Partied Republicans and Big Business

This America... home of the free, defender of democracy the world over, and all that is righteous is under attack from within.  The descent into chaotic disorganization began the day that Bush 43 announced that we were in a recession - a lie, that Big Business took as its cue to rid the American people of their right to a decent wage and fair workplace laws.  We, the silent majority, have watched as the Tea Party influenced the Republican Party to demand extreme solutions to our economical dilemma by taxing the poor and removing what the Right calls our 'entitlements'.


Let me remind all of you sympathetic to the Republican train of thought to destroy the institutions that each of us has paid into, and what we now recognized as Social Security and Medicare.  We were signed into the system before we understood what we were committing to the day that we took our first job.  The system has been there and will be there until someone introduces change that will not disenfranchise those that have paid faithfully into it.


Big Business, with the help of Chief Justice Roberts, has gotten the green-light to finance the re-structuring and deletion of every right that we have earned through years of social evolution.  OSHA, EPA, FDA, and many of the other agencies such as the new Department of  Consumer Affairs are in danger of being eradicated as well... at the behest of the Koch Brothers to their Republican puppets in Congress and State Legislators.


Who is doing this to America?  What Democracy Antichrist is creating this environment for us... the Republicans in association with ALEC, Carl Rove, and the Koch Brothers are the main culprits?  Pay attention - be informed, and follow the money trail.  
  



In a democracy, silence is not golden; it is condonance in the face of injustices; it is fear, where the thought of reprisal fosters control – Rodney A. Davis

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You:

In his weekly address, Obama reiterated his call to "end the $4 billion in taxpayer subsidies we give to the oil and gas companies each year." Americans of all stripes recognize that tax breaks and giveaways to oil companies need to be eliminated, despite the industry propaganda that these subsidies are needed to prevent high energy prices. When asked about massive subsidies given to the oil industry, even Tea Party activists have agreed with progressives that there is a structural imbalance in the political system towards corporate power.

Many of the oil-industry subsidies come in the form of passing corporate risks onto American families: there have been no laws passed to protect our nation from oil disasters like BP's, and companies like Koch Industries enjoy the multi-billion dollar subsidy of being able to emit millions of tons of carbon pollution for free - while communities foot the bill for our increasingly dangerous climate.

Far from raising prices at the pump, eliminating these subsidies would instead reduce oil companies' outsized profits and corporate paydays. If this Congress wants to take on the pain at the pump, it will support legislation to build a national infrastructure of electric charging stations for electric vehicles, deploy 21st-century high-speed rail, and curb oil profiteering by Wall Street.

In a democracy, silence is not golden; it is condonance in the face of injustices; it is fear, where the thought of reprisal fosters control – Rodney A. Davis