My random thoughts on Ohio & Wis and Unions

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Thursday March 03, 2011 · 10:01 AM PST

2011/03/03 · 10:01

Okay I have waited for the bugs to be worked out, I have commented on some diaries and recommended quite a few, so I am ready I am mad about the union bashing activities of Ohio and Wisconsin, it seems Ohio will push their anti union law across the finish line before Wisconsin does, it passed their Senate by one vote and they also have a Republican majority so Kasich will get his win.

It also turns out Walker is not so much about just busting the union he is also pushing vouchers for private schools for rich people that instead of covering families that made less than 38,000 for a family of 4 he is removing the caps and all children will be covered at private schools under the state voucher system where the parents will get back 66% of the tuition thus depriving the local school districts of the funds they should have received if the child went to public school, who will pick the students of the private schools the admission boards of course and it won't be by lottery, the kids admitted will be by the parents who are screened and the kids admitted on "merit" the merit of who they are and who their parents know and how much money they have.

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Sunday January 30, 2011 · 2:14 PM PST

2011/01/30 · 14:14

I was reading the NY Times a few minutes ago and I realized that Republican Senators that we would normally never stand a chance to unseat on our own are going to more than likely be defeated by the new trojan horse of the Republicans- the Tea Party itself.

Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana did not even have a democratic opposition candidate the last time he ran, he won with 87% of the states vote. He is a republican without doubt, his current problem is that he is a Ronald Reagan type Republican, he would make compromises with the Democratic Party and as we all know that is now enough to get a Republican defeated, just as Charlie Crist in Florida last year. In these times even Ronald Reagan could not win the Republican nomination, I am not sure George W. Bush could now get the nomination.

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Friday January 28, 2011 · 5:44 PM PST

2011/01/28 · 17:44

I will be the first to admit no one enlists in the military for the benefits of becoming a totally disabled veteran, approximately 2700 a month from VA Compensation and about 1000 a month from Social Security Disability, if they are married and have children then there will be about another 500 a month in family benefits until the children turn 18 and graduate from high school.

On average in each of our nations wars about 9% of all veterans actually become totally disabled and qualify for the payments that she is suggesting be off set dollar for dollar so that they are not compensated twice for the same injury.

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Tuesday January 25, 2011 · 11:03 PM PST

2011/01/25 · 23:03

Tonight you made it sound like I am a lazy person who just lays around the house waiting for the federal nanny state to send me a check every month. I for one resent the hell out of your statements.

For two reasons, since I was a teen ager I went to work at McDonalds before I enlisted in the Army, I paid FICA taxes included in those taxes I have paid since 1970 was a portion for disability insurance, so that if I became disabled before age 67 I would get SSD which I have paid the premiums for in every check I have ever received.

I also enlisted in the US Army at the age of 18, I was made a PROMISE the same one made to all men and women who enlist or were drafted, yes I enlisted while the draft was still ongoing.

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Tuesday January 25, 2011 · 8:07 AM PST

2011/01/25 · 08:07

Let me start with the fact that I am not the President of anything, I am not even a Michelle Bachmann type, I am a simple American, who has spent my life as a soldier during 2 wars, I enlisted during the Vietnam War on October 31, 1973. I served on the DMZ of South Korea, the closest I came to the Vietnam war was escorting 2 bodies home from the far east as the official escort from Guam to Travis Air Force Base and then stayed on active duty until Sep 1982.

I then joined the Army National Guard and was activated for this nations first war with Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait. All I was trying to do was finish 20 years of military service so I would be entitled to my military retirement, I never imagined I would be activated for a war, they never activated Guard units for Vietnam, Guard units used to be a safe place to do 20 years and then become eligible for the Grey retirement cards, the monthly check and the benefits of being retired military at the age of 60. The reduction of forces after the Cold War ended changed the previous rules.

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I am worse off

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things will never get better I am moving to China

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Sunday January 09, 2011 · 8:04 PM PST

2011/01/09 · 20:04

It has been a day since the shooting in Tucson, I have listened to many newscasts and read many articles about who created this atmosphere the left or the right, and when I stop to think about it, we ALL did it. Everyone who is passionate about their politics have been helping to create the current vitriolic hate and garbage spewing from Faux news, the radio talking heads, MSNBC, CNN the coverage of the TEA Party and creation of the it by Faux news and the Koch Brothers and Dick Armey and his astroturfing group, the 2nd Amendment remedies of Sharon Angle, the targets placed on maps showing which congressional districts were to be emphasized. Nasty comments on blogs which have been deleted over the past 30 hours, we saw Blue Boy write a heartfelt apology to this community, I watched Keith Olberman apologize for his over the top verbal attacks, which ones I don't know, KO is not as bad as most on other networks but all words have meaning, even these.

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Wednesday January 05, 2011 · 5:00 PM PST

2011/01/05 · 17:00

The year is new and the silly season really has begun if this has made it into the WAPO Michele Bachmann for president. Seriously?!

This is almost as funny as this was SC man busted for having sex with horse. TWICE!!! when you think about it according to the article they charged him with "buggery", and then this is the state that gave us this man Alvin Michael Greene and he also has Presidential aspirations it seems

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Friday December 31, 2010 · 2:01 PM PST

2010/12/31 · 14:01

Color me stupid and maybe ignorant but where was the outrage and demand from the republicans after 9/11 when Vice President Cheney and President Bush threw out all the Geneva Conventions and Army Field Manuals and wrote their own rules for questioning detainees? Who can forget water boarding that both Bush and Cheney have bragged about and written about since they have left office.

To the point that a conservative Mayor of London actually wrote that President Bush should not come to London on his book tour as he might be arrested as General Pinochet was for the crimes he committed while in office in South America. That Britain might have to apply the same rules to President Bush that were used on Pinochet an old friend of President Nixon and DR Kissinger, that we helped put into power in 1973.

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Thursday December 30, 2010 · 5:53 PM PST

2010/12/30 · 17:53

I have written before about my PTSD, I am not proud of the way I treated my family over the years, this was in the years before I admitted to myself that I had the problem and sought help for it. This was during the phase where I blamed everyone else because of my problems, my supervisors, my ex wives (4 of them) my kids, you name it I could find some one else to blame the problems on. I drank a lot, a few DUIs, some people call it self medicating, me I needed it to be able to fall asleep, without it I never slept being drunk I managed to close my eyes, being rested was never an effect I remember since my 20s. The nightmares were always hell and I seldom slept, I either worked 20 hours a day or if I was off I drank, so I was not a good father, I was in fact quite a shitty father figure. My kids lived in a good house, went to good schools, had food and clothes but that doesn't make a good father, I was never there for them and when I was, I was usually verbally abusive.

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Thursday December 23, 2010 · 5:39 PM PST

2010/12/23 · 17:39

I am like most Americans, I have my opinion on how the past year has been, both personally and politically. I am amazed at the amount of good stuff coming out of the Senate since the "lame duck" session began like what did they put in the water?

The repeal of DADT, the ratification of the new START Treaty, the Food Safety Bill, 9/11 Hero's Funding Bill (4.2 billion version) the "financial package" agreed to by the President, the House and the Senate. The majority of this is good stuff that I never thought would happen (like most of you I hate the extension of the tax cuts for the millionaires and billionaires).

Then there is the insane acts like these follow to the bottom......

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Friday December 10, 2010 · 1:42 PM PST

2010/12/10 · 13:42

I realize I am an old man that gets easily confused, but I swear since that the stimulus package was passed 2 years ago, the republicans have been calling for the money to be returned to the federal coffers due to it not being spent wisely.

Yet here we are in Dec 2010, where Republicans are refusing to do any business in the Senate until they get the tax cuts for the taxpayers making more than 250,000 dollars a year. They will not even discuss a proposal for tax cuts at the million dollar level and above, they are demanding all Americans get the tax cuts regardless of how much money they make. They are stating that to raise taxes on people who create jobs would hurt the economy despite the fact that in the past decade these people are not using their personal income to hire more people, they are just increasing their own net worth.

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Wednesday December 08, 2010 · 7:23 AM PST

2010/12/08 · 07:23

The article deals with Connecticut, but in reality this is happening in Veterans hospitals across this entire nation, there are NOT enough beds for mental health patients.

The author Lisa Chedekel has written for years now about PTSD and the effect it is having on this nations soldiers and veterans. this is a google link to her writings

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