Quixotic Tales

In the early campaigning for the office of President of the United States in 2012, the Republican Party has presented a herd of candidates, including Mitt Romney, from which American voters can choose. All the Republican candidates, have been bickering over who is the most extremist anti-government, pro capitalistic Corporate America candidate; the Republicans claim that subsidizing wealthy Corporate America is the best choice for the benefit of the working Middle Class American voter, based on their Republican “Trickle Down Wealth Theory” ideology.

The Republican campaign maintains that if Corporate America is economically successful, that success will trickle down and be beneficial to working Middle class Americans and resolve America’s unemployment and inequitable distribution of wealth problems; Mr. Romney has claimed that his success with corporate wielding and dealing makes him the best Republican candidate to oppose sitting President Barrack Obama.

It seems to matter not that currently American corporations are currently experiencing record profits and the American working Middle Class is currently experiencing record unemployment at the same time; the Republican Mitt Romney’s revised theory appears to be that Corporate America could resolve the unemployment problem but only if Corporate America has a viable and cooperative Mitt Romney, Presidential Administration, in Washington.

Evidently, the 2012 Presidential Election will be a test of the Mitt Romney theory if he should be the Republican candidate; voters will, of course, have to vote first and then, ‘wait and see’.

Mitt Romney won the Iowa caucuses and now has become the winner of the New Hampshire Republican primary election. It appears that Mr. Romney is the leading Republican candidate. Mitt Romney’s response, upon winning the New Hampshire Primary is somewhat puzzling and worthy of voter concern.

“In the last few days, we have seen some desperate Republicans (Romney Republican Primary opponents) join forces with him (Democratic President Obama),” Mr. Romney said in his victory speech in New Hampshire celebrating his victory. “This is a mistake for our Party and for our nation. This country already has a leader (President Obama) who divides us with the bitter politics of envy.”

Mr. Romney did not elaborate or define just what President Obama’s bitter politics of envy are but it certainly sounds sinister and does not seem to be in any way related to Mr. Romney’s concept of “What is good for Corporate America is good for America’s working Middle Class”. Neither does Mr. Romney identify what factions President Obama’s bitter politics of envy has divided the nation, other than Democrat or Republican. In fact, Mr. Romney’s claim of President Obama’s bitter politics of envy sounds very much like candidate Romney’s bitter politics of envy.

If Mr. Romney is referring to America’s growing radical inequitable distribution of wealth between America’s wealthiest one percent and the other less wealthy ninety-nine percent as the bitter politics of envy, Mr. Romney should be made aware that the distribution of wealth in America is a statistical fact and not a political opinion of President Obama, the Occupy Wall Street Movement, or anyone else. It would behoove Mr. Romney to make his statement clear in this regard.

What is the American working Middle Class, a majority of American voters, to assume is important for their general welfare when deciding for whom they should vote for President in 2012? Just what is Mr. Romney offering that will appeal to the majority, the working Middle Class voters?

Will a vote for Romney for President be a vote for Corporate America that will presume to trickle down to working Middle Class Americans, or will a vote for Romney be a vote against President Obama’s bitter politics of envy, whatever it is?

Americans have a serious decision to make in 2012. An enlightened electorate could alter the nation’s current trend toward massive unemployment and further the inequitable distribution of the nation’s wealth. It is incumbent upon both political parties to make their position clear.

If the Republicans want to trash Obama, they should be specific instead of just calling my President names. Mitt Romney is just like all the other Republican candidates, if you put all of them into paper bags, none of them could find their way out.

The Republican Party has become pathetic, they cannot find a candidate that is not negative; the GOP has nothing positive to offer.

America doesn’t need or deserve more negativism. America today is in limbo; the minority Republicans filibuster everything the President tries to do including his appointments.  Yet, they Republicans have nothing to offer but tax cuts for the wealthy.

Republicans offer nothing and oppose everything. America the beautiful has become America the garbage can.

Elections are not democratic anymore, they are purchased with mystic money from sources that are never revealed due to the Supreme Court’s “Citizen United” decisio.  Americans no longer enjoy the power of the ballot; elections are bought and sold, regardless of the issues and unemployment, the high cost of living, and inequitable income distributions.  American democracy is dead!

America is rapidly becoming a John Birch Society dominated Republican Third World Nation!

God have mercy upon America.

The U.S. Supreme Court in their Citizens United Decision, declared that a corporation is a legal person entitled to the right to Constitutional First Amendment rights to “Freedom of Speech”; the Court’s politically Necon 5 Justice majority therefore decided that a corporations was a legal person and that  statutes which regulated corporate political contributions and required contributors’ be identified was unconstitutional because it violated a corporation’s “Free Speech” .

Holy crap!  What a sad state of affairs this democratic Republic is in!

No one in their right mind believes that Corporations are American citizens or even human; of course, the five Neocon members of the U.S. Supreme Court majority are certainly not in their right mind they just have a mind that thinks to the Right of Attila the Hun.

How could a corporation have rights of an American citizens when a corporation is a piece of legal paper incapable of having emotion, like compassion, patriotism, or loyalty; corporations are obviously incapable of loyalty, they have proven that beyond a shadow of doubt.

If corporations were people, they could be drafted in time of war and work for a buck private’s pay like people instead of profiting from war like corporations.

The Supreme Court should require corporations to show their drivers’ license before they call corporations a people.

My Constitutional forefathers instituted the U.S. Postal Service in 1775; THEY believed communications to be too important to trust it to the private sector.

The USPS is a necessary part of American life and has not been made obsolete by the internet; USPS is a different kind of service than the internet provides.

Post Offices in Europe are modernized, efficient, FAST, and serve needs of the people; USPS  has been decimated by Republicans and Congress.

Extremist Republicans like Sen. McCain have emasculated the USPS because they adhere to a idiotic capitalistic cult that believes any nationalized service is evil, the work of the devil, and they are convinced that Benjamin Franklin, our first postmaster, was a filthy socialist.

In 1971, President Nixon and Congress threw the USPS under the bus, refusing to subsidize it but requiring USPS subsidize commercial airlines by sending mail by private carrier instead of providing USPS owned cargo planes for transporting the mail; Congress continues to set postage rates, and has provided no funding for research and development for the USPS to improve services.

Private companies (like UPS, United Parcel Service) can undercut USPS prices and services because they are not limited by Congressional regulation and control like the USPS is (UPS has their own airplanes).  Yet Congress continues to insist on having THEIR (FREE) FRANKING PRIVILEGES to sent campaign literature to their ENTIRE CONSTITUENCY under the guise of informing constituents.

Personally, I want my USPS back; “Come rain, snow, or sleet, USPS delivers the mail!”

Congress sucks; Republicans suck!  I’m mad as hell!

I absolutely refuse to have a President called Newt; if nominated, I will not vote for him; if elected, I will not accept him; if he appears on TV I will not see him; if his image appears on a ten dollar bill, I will not accept it as legal tender in change for a twenty

The Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln, is currently offering me a President from a herd of candidates, one of which wants to repeal all child labor laws and put kids to work in the national labor force; or another candidate who in the past fostered a signature universal health care plan that he insists that today it does not provide any health care whatsoever; or a female candidate whose every move is directed by God Almighty and she promises to close the American embassy in Iran where there hasn’t been one since 1980; or yet another candidate who is a governor of a State and who proposed that his State secede from the union of the United States; and another candidate with overactive hormones who does not know what a Libya is.

Holy crap! And yet, I am supposed to believe that America is a civilized Republic and a democracy?

I’m fascinated by my US Mail. Yesterday, I received in a plain white envelope from Jill Larson, an opportunity to partake of smart cremation; I’m convinced that the offer was premature.

Holy crap! The Republican Party is no longer just disgusting, the Republican Party is now dangerous and scary. It is time Americans take the necessary steps to salvage our democratic Republic before one of these maniac candidates gets elected by the US Supreme Court or Diebold voting machines.

If any one of the Republican candidates were to win the Presidency it is obvious that the America people would be without health care; America would be at war with Iran, North Korea, and France; contraceptives would be illegal; and anyone born in Hawaii would lose their citizenship.

Today’s Republicans are a much greater threat to America than the Communists ever were, before the Communist Party was made illegal.

It is imperative that the Republican Party be made illegal in America, based on our Americans’ Constitutional right “to insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our prosperity.”

ANNOTATION: Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am adding this annotation of disclaimer to my blog, Quixotic Tales, posting of December 1, 2011, entitled, Make The Republican Party Illegal; Save America. http://quixotictales.escapenet.ch/?p=469

This particular post is a satire, and though factually true, it is written as absurd and comedic to get across a particular political point using humor; however, in reality there is no intent, and has been no intent of the author to lead angry, taunting mobs seeking to make the Republican Party illegal. (Actually, the author never believed it was necessary to make the Communist Party illegal, but the U.S. Congress did.)

Unfortunately, the author evidently failed to clearly establish his post as satire and he apologizes, hence this annotation for readers.

As further explanation, here is the dictionary definition of satire: “Biting wit, irony, or sarcasm. A literary work having these qualities.”

Holy crap!

There are only 2 kinds of people in a society, Wealth and Labor, 1% and 99%, Workers and Queens. Wealth, 1%, and Queens are incapable of producing. Wealth never produced a thing.

Wealth relies entirely on Labor for production and services and that is why Wealth covets power; Wealth desperately needs to purchase and use Labor. This is the reason for the Taft Hartley Act in America; this is the reason Wealth bands together in unity like the Koch brothers and their John Birch Society in America.

Only Labor produces through the strength of their backs and the sweat of their brow. The strength of Labor’s back and the sweat of Labor’s brow is also the source of the wealth of the 1%; don’t ever forget it.

It is God’s fault you know, he made man so that even a wealthy man could not scratch his own back without Labor no matter how much gold the wealthy man had in his own pocket; wealth must have Labor to scratch his own back.

Wealth is power and Labor is power. Labor is power but only powerful enough when it is organized and works together in a union; wealth is power for whoever can possess the gold but wealth is extreme power when in unites.  But wealth cannot survive without Labor.

Wealth covets the power of labor; Labor covets the power of wealth. This is the struggle of a human society; but only Labor produces goods and services.

Labor can live alone; wealth cannot survive alone.

Wealth is worthless without Labor. Gold cannot pick an apple from a tree!

Because I was employed in Public Education for an entire career and earned a professional Doctorate in Education, I am proud of American Public Schools and all the great Americans who attended public schools. PUBLIC SCHOOLS TODAY ARE NO BETTER NOR NO WORSE THAN THEY EVER WERE. I really wish the Public Schools were better and I know why they aren’t.

Tests are an important tool in education and every test is written for a specific purpose and must consider important variables that influence the results. Standard Achievement Tests were devised to measure student knowledge of selected subject matter over a period of time; SAT tests DO NOT MEASURE HOW OR WHERE OR WHY the students learned or did not learn or did not remember the subject matter. SAT tests simply do not measure teacher success and were never intended to measure teacher success.

Private sector test publishers and test writers are in business to make profits selling tests and not to tell customers how not to use their tests; that is called American capitalism, companies just selling tests for as much profit as possible.

There is nothing wrong with tests or testing; THERE IS SOMETHING VERY WRONG WHEN TESTS ARE MISUSED for a wrong purpose.

Further, as a professional educator, I resent economists, basketball players, politicians, computer freaks and statisticians insisting upon mandating SAT scores be used for teacher evaluation or school funding, to wit tests that do not tell WHERE AND HOW AND WHY STUDENTS LEARNED. These nuts call it REFORM of Public School. Holy crap!

I DO NOT tell economists how to run the economy, thank God, the economy is mess and Economists want to evaluate my teaching and tell me how to teach?

I do not tell Congress and the President how to govern, thank God, the government is a mess and the government wants to evaluate my teaching and tell me how to teach?

Bill Gates wants to evaluate me and tell me how to teach?

The Secretary of Education is a professional basketball player and he wants to tell me how to teach?

School Boards hire business men, prosecuting attorneys, and professional basket ball players, instead of professional educators, to be the top Administrators of Public Schools and they will hire cheap unqualified teachers or relatives to teach in those schools and then complain about bad teaching saying they can’t fire bad tenured teachers; WRONG, THEY CAN fire any tenure teacher FOR JUST CAUSE, AFTER A FAIR HEARING.

Tenured teachers who are ‘good teachers’ and Teachers’ Unions want bad teachers fired because they give teaching a bad name and screw up the minds of students.

But Boards of Education WON”T FIRE BAD TEACHERS, for political reasons, instead they want to ELIMINATE TEACHER TENURE so they can have the power to fire ANY teacher FOR ANY REASON OR WITHOUT A REASON. Before teacher tenure, teachers were fired for political reasons or to replace fired higher paid teachers.

Meanwhile, extremists John Birch Society Republicans want to eliminate Public Schools and privatize education.

Everyone but professional educators is trying to destroy Public Schools by REFORMING PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

I’m mad as hell and sick of these nuts; they behave as illiterates Neanderthals.