Rant #1: Get Out and Vote In 2014

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Saturday March 16, 2013 · 10:35 PM PDT

2013/03/16 · 22:35

Part of me thinks I'm preaching to the converted but another part of me just wants to make sure. I think most of you reading this are fairly intelligent people with an I.Q. above room temperature. So at the risk of stating the obvious...People if we don't get out in and actually vote in this mid term election then it will be as if 2008 and 2012 never happened at all. Republicans, especially in the Senate and Congress have made it perfectly clear they are going to do everything in their power to make sure Obama has a long four years. That's putting it mildly. Let's face it. If Obama discovered a cure for cancer tomorrow Republicans would have a problem with that too and do everything to stop him. They are counting on our usual apathy when it comes to voting in mid-term elections. They have no hope in hell of winning or even competing on the national stage with their rhetoric. This is all they've got anymore. If we really want to put the final nail the Republican coffin winning in 2014 would be the one-two punch they couldn't come back from. Imagine a world without fat, loud, racist, old white men (are you happy?). I wonder if you can?

California Knows All About "The Free Market"

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Sunday March 10, 2013 · 8:51 PM PDT

2013/03/10 · 20:51

Republicans love to go on and on about how truly great the free market is and how private enterprises would better handle all of those things the government usually does and supposedly does a terrible job at but those of us who lived in California remember all too well how "the free market" failed us miserably when electricity was deregulated and turned over to private enterprise in 1996 because of California Legislature (AB 1890) and Governor Pete Wilson which led to the California Energy Crisis of 2000. Market manipulation and mega-watt laundering by companies such as Enron caused massive blackouts and cost the state of California $40 to $45 billion. It sounded like such a great idea at the time it was being touted. We were all told how healthy "free market" competition would provide us all with better service and lower rates. Instead it only encouraged unprecedented fraud. This is what happens when greed is allowed to go unchecked and it will happen every time. When profit becomes the motivating factor i.e.prisons, schools, etc. etc. corruption always ensues.

Minumum Wage: Cause and Effect

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Wednesday March 06, 2013 · 7:02 PM PST

2013/03/06 · 19:02

Republicans and the rich love to go about how devastating an effect raising our minimum wage would be, or even having one for that matter. They say the cause of raising the minimum wage would have the effect of businesses not hiring people. I call bullshit on this. The one and only thing that determines whether a business hires people or not is if they have a need for more help based on the business they are doing. If business is good they will hire people even if they have to pay $2 an hour more. If people are making more money they will have more money to spend and businesses will be doing good so they will have to hire people who will be making more money...you get the idea. Why don't Republicans?

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