What I need from my government

This is so perfect, that I totally lifted it from the Unitewomen.org page on Facebook. The author is attributed in the image (not naming her, since I don't know if she wants to be identified publicly like that).

I don't need a government to give me morals. My parents did that. I don't need a government to dictate my faith. My conscience does that. 

What I need is a government that keeps the roads that my loved ones travel safe. I need a government that keeps the water my loved ones drink, the air my loved ones breathe, and the food my loved ones eat, safe. I need a government that ensures that the resources of the only planet in the known universe that is capable of supporting life are protected and conserved for future generations. 

I need a government that protects my loved ones from wanton predation by those who would steal the homes and property that we've worked for and invested in, and our livelihoods from us. I need a government that is blind like Lady Justice; one that ensures that the rule of law is applied with fairness and equity between all people. I need a government that ensures that its citizens have equality of opportunity, because they are smart enough to understand the concept of the chain being only as strong as its weakest link and that we all do better when we all do well. 

I need a government that will ensure that the nation that I live in is not some substandard, third world, oligarchic, theocratic, dictatorial, totalitarian, plutocratic, thug ruled state in which only those with wealth or might of arms have access to basic human rights and necessities. I need a government that ensures the nation in which I and my family live is not overrun with the desperation of poverty, disease, and crime.

If, in anyone's mind those things make me wrong, evil, a liberal, a Democrat, a socialist or a communist, I'm perfectly okay with that. In my mind, and those of the most sentient, logical beings, they make me a normal human who wants the absolute best for those I care about. If you don't want these things for your loved ones, what does that say about you?

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"Look, I live in 'Realville', I'm the Mayor. You force insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions and we're not talking insurance anymore, we're talking welfare. It's not insurance."
~ Rush Limbaugh


Realville? Try Fantasyland.

One can only hope that when his heart attack comes (and I'm sure it will), that he has to pay for his octouple bypass surgery out of pocket because his obesity is a preexisting condition.




And yes, I'm well aware that there are no octouple bypasses. But if there were? He'd need one.

No, really. How come you guys call us racist?

So John Derbyshire, the White Supremacy King, is at it again. This time? Apparently, in the 17-1800s, since free blacks had the opportunity to flee the US and take the very short and very inexpensive drive back to Africa (from whence they were originally stolen), they obviously preferred the white supremacy of us far superior white supremacists if they didn't leave. And apparently, African-Americans agree with him! So don't be silly! Why would we call him racist?

…the overwhelming majority of black Americans agree with me, and always have. From very early in the Republic, free blacks not only had the opportunity to escape from white supremacy, they were encouraged to do so by abolitionists.

Well then. See? All them dumb black folk was just too stoopid to leave where they weren't wanted. Therefore, they superdy-duperdy wanted to stay because they loved being lynched by the KKK. And who wouldn't?  And why don't all the rest (like the illegal President) do what their ancestors shoulda coulda done and just go back and leave all us white supremacists to glory in our minorityhood?

Makes perfect sense to me. So why do you guys always call them racist? Geez, you intolerant piles of doodoo.

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I am not an American either

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"I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I do know this, that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American."
~ Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colorado)

Lovely. I guess I'm not an American either. Because I agree with the President and would like to move forward, and not with those who would like to take us back 150 years.

I challenge anyone who is also "not an American" to say it loud and proud.

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"In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that — as great as her friends may be — we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview."
~Bristol Palin, condescendingly responding to President Obama's explanations of how there were many different things that helped shape his views on same-sex marriage

And, I'm sure President Obama wrote every word down of her parenting advice. Cuz, well, we all know how fantastic it is that her child is growing up in a home with his father, so she of course is the very bestest authority on 'mother/father' homes there is in the whole wide world. EVAR.

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