Who’s Political Platform Is This From?

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Political

Readers, who’s political platform do you think this is from?

We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: an end to the power of the financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand … the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of the national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our system of public education…. We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents…. The government must undertake the improvement of public health — by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor — by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth. We combat the … materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of “The Common Good Before the Individual Good.”

Hillary Clinton on Time Cover, with Horns

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hillary clinton, Political

http://time.com/3741847/the-clinton-way/

In the link, scroll down to the image of the magazine cover. The tops of the “M” in “Time” look like horns on Hillary’s head. I wonder what the photographer saw when he or she took the photo? Did the devil make him do it?

Poll: Obama the Worst President in Modern Times

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obama, Political

Here’s the link:  http://news.yahoo.com/u-poll-more-voters-see-obama-worst-president-122609810.html

I happen to agree, but there have been so many horrible presidents (and other politicians) in recent times. How to pick the worst?

Fall of Baghdad (coming soon?) Echoes the Fall of Saigon in 1975

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Iraq, Political, Vietnam, war

Been reading/watching the news from Baghdad, Iraq in the last week or two? To me, this echoes the Fall of Saigon, Vietnam in 1975. As a baby boomer, the war in Vietnam loomed large when I was young. I remember they were drafting the young men for that war, more than a few from my high school and neighborhood were taken. Gary had to register for the draft when he turned 18 (though he was not drafted). And the numbers of Americans killed and wounded there was much larger than those lost in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Just as the group called ISIS is now taking area after area from the government we set up in Baghdad, the Viet Cong  and north Vietnamese fighters did the same to the regime we installed there. We seem to have learned nothing from that mess 39 years ago. What a horrific waste of lives and resources.

Perhaps people will realize that the real enemy of peace, liberty, freedom and human happiness is the State itself. Maybe not.

From Pat Buchanan: How the GOP Sold Out the Middle Class

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Corporate America, middle class shrinkage, Political

We can see the middle class shrinking over the years. Here is Pat Buchanan’s take on how it happened.

Since 1990, some 30 to 40 million immigrants, legal and illegal, have entered the country.

This huge increase in the labor force, at the same time the U.S. was shipping factories abroad, brought massive downward pressure on wages. The real wages of Middle Americans have stagnated for decades.

What was wildly wonderful for Corporate America was hell on Middle America. But the Republican Party had made its choice. It had sold its soul to the multinationals. And as it went along with NAFTA, GATT, fast track and mass immigration, to appease Corporate America, it lost Middle America.

http://buchanan.org/blog/gop-lost-middle-america-6210