Posted on 05/23/2005 8:23:04 AM PDT by JBW
It was a carefully staged Norman Rockwell scene. The street was lined with American flags; a high school band played "God Bless America."
Then, under the watchful gaze of Wal-Mart's chief operating officer, Maryland's governor vetoed a bill that would have obliged large businesses to spend more on employee health care.
The news here isn't that some politicians wrap their deference to corporate interests in the flag. The news, instead, is that Maryland's State Legislature passed a pro-worker bill in the first place. In fact, the bill passed by a veto-proof majority in the Maryland Senate, and fell just short of that margin in the House.
After November's election, the victors claimed a mandate to unravel the welfare state. But the national election was about who would best defend us from gay married terrorists. At the state level, where elections were fought on bread-and-butter issues, voters sent a message that they wanted a stronger, not weaker, social safety net.
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I find it a laugher as well. Try reading "Whats a Matter with Kansas". The whole supposition of the book is that liberals and the democrat party know what best and have the best interest of workers and families - so why are they so dumb and voting Republican?
"Also seems to live on in the minds of 15-20% of our population, they whine so much that they are heard more than our side."
Isn't is funny that the 15-20% are the people who live in mansions, get driven around in limos, show up at rallies, bash Bush then go home to Margaritas on the veranda.
Sic O'Reilly on him & rip him a new one as he did on Russert's show.
This is the central beef I have with the GOP: They never come out and openly say just what game is afoot. They never denounce Socialism for the treason it is. They do not do this. It not hard to do; there are plenty of historical examples and as plenty of contemporaneous ones. (eg CA, or NYC.)
I write it off to shear cowardice.
If we Conservatives cannot get committed legislators to force the issue into the public eye then I fear it will be too late.
It is becoming clear that we must push this from the grass roots.
Oh! AND everyone approaching or at 60 years of age.. which is a large percentage of the voteing public, AND getting BIGGER..
Them damned socialists are our fathers and mothers, aunts and uncles..
Hmmm.... Anyone even KNOW anybody that would TURN DOWN a government check.?. America has had socialism brain washed into them since FDR.. even during the cold war.. Which WE evidently LOST... ideologically..
To say America is not socialist minded is to fly in the face of reality..
and to be in denial.. <<- not a river in Egypt..
Socialism is DEAD in the United States.?.....
Welcome to earth, WHat planet are you from.?..
LOL, I missed this point.
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