bluegreen17 | i hate people and republicans*

i hate people and republicans*

well,i'm incensed again...is that the right word? it sounds right...well,anyway,i'm pissed off.

reading the news,it seems the republicans are so sure they will win the majority of congress in the upcoming elections,that they are already dividing the spoils,and that's more literal than one would think.

amongst other things,

'a major overhaul of the tax code to reduce the burden on corporations'

the burden on corporations?!!!! what about the burden on the working poor? and believe me,we exist. we pay more than the rich of course,relatively speaking,since we have no loopholes and no lawyers to find them, and of course we pay more than the poor...some who are truly in need of help and some who are lazyasses and spoil the system and make it look bad for those who really need help...like,for instance,my mother. she has worked all her life,either as an nurse,as a mother raising children and running a household with no social security benefits (but i heard they're working on that) and also at several other jobs and she was working almost full-time until last february when she started having neurological and speech problems,and she's going to be 71 next week! but now she needs help from the government and no one wants to help her and all her kids are either working poor (sara and i) or otherwise have no money to spare (lise,michele and rachel).

well,anyway...back to the latest news...i suppose,then,if we relieve some of the 'burden' (grrr....that really.....arghh....grrr...) of the poor f**king corporations,it will trickle down like it didn't during the reagan era? ha ha ha ha.....

i become more misanthropic every day...sometimes people do good things,and sometimes people do very good things...and that makes me...er,verklempt. but mostly they don't,as i observe every day. this makes me sad. this makes this optimist very disappointed on a daily basis. this makes me think of a quote from trainspotting which i can't remember exactly,but which sort of goes like this:

every morning i get out of bed hoping things will be better today and every day it's the same old shite (that last word sounds better than the american way of saying it...much prettier...)

well,indeed,the bush administration is taking VERY GOOD CARE of their friends....

arghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

*with some exceptions...for instance,anyone who reads this will probably qualify for my special non-papal dispensation

current soundtrack:20,000 r.s.l.(best of)-midnight oil
perfect music when you're thoroughly disgusted with your government.
it rocks too!
'we carry in our hearts the true country and that cannot be stolen'

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*with some exceptions...for instance,anyone who reads this will probably qualify for my special non-papal dispensation

Hehe...why, thanks...since I'm registered Republican in this state. ;)

Interesting little factoids on Republicans supposedly hating the poor, btw: a) the Republican Party is much stronger in the rural (and thus poorer) counties, as that blue-vs.-red map from the 2000 election showed, b) I'm certainly not rich and never was--in fact, I've been dying to know where I can get on this list of Republicans who get money from rich corporations just for being Republican! :) c) The Republican Party has, for a long time, made public their average contribution from anyone, corporation or individual. The amount of this average contribution is about $55. They've asked the Democratic Party to do the same, and the Dems keep refusing. Hmmm. Perhaps those glitterati from Hollywood have skewed the averages just a little? Maybe Barbra Streisand and Martin Sheen could provide some more work for the poor, which at least corporations are doing.

I'm very, very sorry to use this space for this answer. It's nothing to do with you really, and I sincerely hope you and your family can make ends meet. I hope that for everyone. It's just quite hard to be a young quasi-conservative, especially in California, and constantly hear people claiming stuff about your compatriots that isn't true. Once in a while I answer; usually I don't. Delete this if you want--heck, it's your journal. :) Anyway, just wanted to say that we do care--I do, at least--and it's just that we have different ideas about how to make things better for everyone, which certainly includes the working poor. (Or, in my case, indentured servitude, a.k.a. graduate student.)

hi lemonlye,
actually,i am impressed that not only did you respond,but most importantly,that you responded in a more mature manner than i posted.

i was kind of hoping you wouldn't see this one,because i know of your political bent and i certainly would never mean this as an attack on an individual.most of it isn't personal,and i usually give everyone the benefit of the doubt most of the time.unfortunately,george w. has become my personal scapegoat...i try to remind myself that he's a person too,and in fact if i ever met him i wouldn't be rude...he's a scapegoat because he represents to me much of what i am very much against (i was going to say loathe,but maybe i have worded things strongly enough for one day!)

i will also admit that some of my opinions are more based on emotional reactions than on facts,and indeed,mea culpa.

i could also say i hate all politicians...because i'm not too thrilled with democrats either! i think the two parties are much alike,but i right now i would prefer to have a democratic leadership because they are more in line with my personal beliefs in some areas,including foreign policy.

i'm a pacifist,which isn't a popular thing to be these days.
yes,there are good arguments against pacifism,but overall i still stand by that stance,because my ethics are more important than my politics.

i did bookmark a page that you linked to that has viewpoints that i don't hold,to just educate myself.i've only glanced at it,but an argument was made that you can't be a pacifist,that our enemies will only stop when they are dead.the fallacy of that particular argument is that there is no way one can kill all the terrorists or potential terrorists in the world.the writer was making the point that the statement 'violence breeds more violence' is wrong if you kill all of the enemy...if they are all dead. the problem is,everyone has potential to do bad things,so i guess you'd have to kill everybody.

well,anyway,i don't often get into these kinds of discussions and in fact i rarely write political stuff on my journal.
in the aftermath of sept.11 2001,i caught a lot of flack for my pacifistic views,so i certainly toned down talking about my ideas because i'vd got enough challenges in life,i dont need more battles!

thanks for the information you included in your note.i actually am conservative about some things and i also shouldn't lump all republicans together either.

you made the point that corporations employ people at least. the problem is,many of them employ people and pay them poverty wages. i dont think the ceo of the company i work for works so much harder than i do that he deserves to own several homes and while i can barely pay the rent on my little condo unit.(but greed seems to be human nature,which is part of the reason that i 'hate' mankind as a species.)

again,thanks for your intelligent and level headed note,and i will definitely not delete it. i think differences of opinion exchanged with respect is a very good thing.thank you,diane

i was kind of hoping you wouldn't see this one...

I can ignore them in future :) --as I said, I usually do, because, like you, I really hate getting into these things! Takes a lot out of me. I don't know what possessed me. Might have been because someone else, just yesterday, made the blasé comment that all conservatives are racists and religious fundamentalists, and it just bugged the heck out of me that he could really believe that. Obviously, I'm neither, and I don't think it's true of the majority either. It just seemed excessively rude of him--I mean, I may not like stuff that some "liberals" say, but I do try not to slander them.

i think the two parties are much alike

Definitely, and given how insane their debates and statements sometimes are, it's amazing the country ends up as good as it does. Someone, P.J. O'Rourke I think, said, "Government is like sausage: the end product may be good, but you shouldn't watch either of them being made."

i'm a pacifist,which isn't a popular thing to be these days.
Heh, you should come to a California campus; you'd fit right in. :) Actually, I don't like war, either. I daresay nobody does. (Well, Rumsfeld might...he's funny that way...) That's why I hate the current situation and just want to hide under my desk: surely we should "do something" about scary people like Saddam or Al-Qaeda, but whatever we do will not be pleasant either (since Saddam and Co. seem awfully uncooperative). So it's kind of a lose-lose situation.

On CEO's: ugh, definitely, some of them make obscene amounts, and surely they don't quite need THAT much. I'm a capitalist in general, but I do have to get suspicious when you get a load of some of those salaries. Same with actors and ball players - how on earth do they really "deserve" $30 million for a year's work??

Anyway, I sadly don't fit the conservative mold entirely well in several ways, either... for instance, I don't think most conservatives would be amused with my extreme pervy hobbit fancying, Goth-Wiccan music moods, or sympathy toward gay couples. Though of course people vary, so I could be wrong...haven't taken a poll or anything. :)

Thank you for your kind response - I've gotten lambasted for similar statements in the past!
Regards,
Molly

well,just goes to show that there are nice conservatives and nice liberals,eh? and yet i don't think either you or i actually totally fit those labels...which is a good thing. it means we think for ourselves.

as for pervy hobbit fancying,i think the world could use more of it,dont you think? i used to favor elves over hobbits,but now that i've seen them in the celluloid...er,i mean,now that i can embrace so many hobbit qualities,like eating a lot (in my case,only in spirit...i eat two meals a day,and second breakfast,elevenses,luncheon,afternoon tea and dinner only in spirit! and being short and brave and many other things...i can especially relate to being a took...pippin has made clumsiness endearing...now i can think of how cute i really am when i trip over things and knock things over! just have to work on the took accent though...sorry,i get carried away talking about hobbits...(much more fun than talking about politics...thank you for not yelling at me!)
i feel like i must be the oldest pervy hobbit fancier in the fifth age or whenever we are...
ttfn,
di

Oh, I have no desire to yell at anyone, especially in their own journal! :)

Yes, I think the hobbits' lowly height and general vulnerability make them especially endearing to people like me. (I've always been short...) And the way they cower and cringe and cry and hide when bad things are after them--well, that's probably how I'd react, too. I don't pretend to be hero material, and neither do they. Gotta love 'em for it.

"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

I always love reminders that there are fellow non-Republicans in groups that people seem to think are bastions of right-wingedness.

Like, FlyLady. And Longaberger.

hmmmm....i never thought of flylady as particularly right winged,but i must admit i haven't read the entire book yet nor participated in the group. and longaberger? will have to look that one up!

i am rethinking whether to even write political stuff at all in my journal in the future. i rarely do anyway,but when i do,i either hear from the like-minded folks...and that's nice,or i get people who don't agree with me angry.this time,though,i did get a note from a republican that was more mature than my post,and i appreciated that.it gave me a heads up.

i think i need to focus more on what it is good,what i think would be good in the world,and what i can do about it rather than wasting my energy on my favorite scapegoat,dubya. i'm probably playing right in to the agenda...just getting angry.
as often happens,i don't even know if this note makes any sense but it's where i'm at at the moment.
and it's always good to get notes,so thank you!
diane

I don't think that the FlyLady agenda is right-wing, its just that so many people seem to think that only stay-at-home-moms/wives/whatnots can do it, and that Payroll Fly Babies are an abberation. Which is totally untrue, and the joys of the system (wait, did I just use that phrase? Yeesh) are that it fits into the time you have and points out that you have the time.

ANYWAY.

I rail and rant and rabblerouse. But I try to do it in constructive ways, leading to solutions, not just shouting at the wind. Its easy to shout at the wind. And sometimes, it makes everything feel better. But I do try to make CHANGES.

Here's hoping some of them take.

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i hate people and republicans*

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yeah,i tend to go overboard sometimes

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mmm.. Midnight Oil....

Lovely!

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Oh, and ... Longaberger.