Intro: "Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) has, to say the least, a very odd understanding of the Constitution. He thinks Texas should be able to opt out of Social Security, and he believes that everything from federal public school programs to clean air laws are unconstitutional. Yet in an interview with the Daily Beast's Andrew Romano, Perry makes his most outlandish claim to date - Social Security and Medicare are unconstitutional."
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has some fun with a six-shooter filled with blanks as NASCAR driver Colin Braun looks on. (photo: Rodger Mallison/MCT)
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So....go progressives go. Let's push with everything and everybody we've got to avoid more Bushwhacking, Kochsucking, and OhBombAh'ing.
With so many bordering-on-the-insane politicians now wanting to become president (obviously, being a dysfunctional Alaska or Texas governor is a boring job) and the future of the USA up for grabs by those same border-on-the-insane Republican Party on the payroll of greedy corporates, I'm not very optimistic in the Nation back on course.
The question is why do voters in a high sophisticated nation like ours let these kind of politicians get away with it knowing that they are bent on destroying the very fiber of morality, financially and economically of working men and women.
Both Rick Perry and Michele Backmann are using fundamentism dogma to con the American people. They have the makinga of anti-Christs!
Only in the USA, folks, can fools like Bachmann, Perry, Palin and run for a very high office which could mean the destruction of civilized once-upon-a-time nation.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
I think its more dramatic than that. The expression is "Fools rush in where ANGELS fear to tread."
That shows just how foolhardy "Perry the gov't cash grabbing parasite" is. SECESSION was outlawed, declared UNCONSTITUTIONA L shortly AFTER THE CIVIL WAR ENDED. Oh, that's right! He wants to change the history books, so......
AND built a GREAT WALL of their own around them; COMPLETE WITH BORDER PATROLS!!
They'll say anything to get their hands on the SS fund... it's big money that Wall St could make 'evaporate'.
But, instead, the $2.5 trillion has been routinely borrowed by Presidents and Congresses to reduce budget deficits, thereby enabling them to repeatedly postpone levying sufficient taxes to fully fund the spending they've approved.
Now the Boomer generation is retiring and SS revenues have/are declining because of the Great Recession. So SS needs the government (and its taxpayers) to begin repaying the $2.5 trillion sooner than expected. That is, its now time to levy the taxes that have been repeatedly postponed.
Bet that anti-tax Republicans (and Blue Dog Democrats) have never intended that SS will be re-paid and that privatizing the program is how they plan to somehow dishonestly default on the $2.5 trillion debt - without it being called a default.
Which is why S&P's August 5 downgrade - and probably future downgrades - will become increasingly legitimized.
Actually, Michael, he and his family grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. He is really a DRUGSTORE COWBOY!!!
As to his environmental and energy policy, Perry accepted huge sums of political contributions connected from out of state coal companies which resulted in dirty coal being the primary fuel powering our electric plants causing Texas adjoining states billions of dollars in health care costs due to air pollution and poisoning our waterways, streams, and estuaries with mercury thanks to a fraudulent state policy of allowing dirty old stacks to continue polluting if new stacks had a net reduction effect and there is a case to be made that these coal plants have contributed to the most pervasive and damaging state wide drought in decades destroying our Texas agricultural economy, second in importance only to our oil and gas industry.
to his flock of sheep who are waiting to be
herded to slaughter. He might be a decent
candidate if he was not so stupid. It would
be difficult to upstage Dubya, but I think he could do it. Actually, I don't think he
can read well enough to interpret the Constitution.
Repuke Party, as you have so aptly named
them. My best friend lives in Richardson
and he abhors Perry and his ilk.
Agreed! Keeping the people divided into two camps, us and them, makes it easier for the corporatists to maintain control. If we don't dialogue with each other, we are in a world of trouble. It is difficult when we are so far apart ideologically. I don't know where to start but I do know divide and conquer has worked well for the top 2%.
Molly also, very wisely, said-"the Texas Legislature meets for 142 days every 2 years. We'd be better off if they met for 2 days every 142 years."
And that's a fact because that's the only time the Governor works too.
Let's not forget that Perry hypocritically accepted through the back door millions of federal stimulus dollars and still drove up huge "deficits" causing recent teacher layoffs and lack of college funding because he gave huge property tax breaks to the rich and corporations without providing alternative taxation to compensative for lost government revenue needed to fund the state's budget and its essential needs.
Maybe Rick should go back and read the Beatitudes, amongst which is stated, "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive Mercy."
Perry needlessly privatized our state prisons built at taxpayer cost that has become a cottage industry in Texas meaning that the private operators need to have them filled to make more profit which needlessly criminalizes too many Texans with great harm to taxpayers and families.
Perry used bonds to fund highway projects that are supposed to be "pay as you go" projects funded by gasoline taxes. Perry loves the concept of having taxpayer dollars build toll roads and then let private interests buy them for perpetual private profit.
But, of course, that is the last thing on their minds. They use such rhetoric to manipulate the weak for their own immediate carnal needs -- MONEY, got to have MORE, MORE, MORE!!!!!
Anyone who's not-with-stupid in Tx. (and as I implied above that may be 40-sth. percent) knows that Perry has grown, increasingly, into Bankster's false prophet bait.
Oh, and its not "a techinicality". Article 2 clearly states that Congress shall have the right/power/duty to coin money- not 'Congress shall aborogat this fundamental duty unto a [actually "the"] international currency syndicate gang'- at 8% interest, ultimately compounding up to $900bn. per year, in service fees for such Plutocrats, since of course, They are so much more clever than us.
There's no shortage of UNCONSTITUTIONA L acts and so-called laws these days- like leaves on a tree. But the main trunk from which the branches & twigs spring is Congress' failure to safeguard OUR USA money supply from private/usurious usurpers. Once the globo-privateers are in charge of the currency in a place like America, everthing else from there is proverbial 'foxes guarding the chicken coup'. It doens't have to be that way, and indeed is not supposed to be that way.
Have the courage of your convictions!
They have their own bank, low interest rates (with the profit going to the state) and they didn't participate in our default or mortgage meltdown since their bank funds mortgages in their state.
Never underestimate the militancy of many religious folks in the U.S. and their "leaders". They have taken over entire communities, including the schools. I live near such a community.
people seriously. They surely voted to re-elect George W. Bush to a second term.
You are so right, Regina. I live in Ohio, so I KNOW what has been said is TRUE.
They include all social and religious interactions but a definite goal is to take over government and institute their laws, based on the Old Testament. They are a terrifying bunch!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
I think Rick Perry should be informed that Our Dearly Beloved Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, is, and always has been, a liberal.
The first time He was aware that He was a liberal, was when He turned over the tables of the money-changers in the Temple, it just happens that "liberal" was what the admonished money-changers called Him.
And if you think otherwise, it is because you are under the influence of the devil!
Of course, they lost out to the people interested in money and power. And who managed to scare them with talk of hell and damnation.
Love you,
ma
Ron Paul is a "Trojan Horse" version of Rick Perry.
Simple equals manipulable.
A majority of Texans therefore, are simple.
Simple equals either dumb, or maybe thinking with their endocrine system,
The Democrats have lost the trust of the middle class as has Obama. The Democrats don't seem to understand that fact. They are living in a fantasy world. They continue to back Obama but the people have abandoned them and will not show up at the poles. The 2012 election will be a low turn out election.
Perry and his strong group of evangelicals,ul tra conservtives and tea partiers will show up at the poles and win the election. I hate to tell you this but this is exactly what is going to happen. Just keep laughing soon you will be weeping.
The silver lining in that cloud is that congress might very well swing back to a Democratic majority - not that that will do us much good, because whoever the next republican president is, he will almost certainly run rough shod over everybody and everything that he can, like we hoped Obama would and then namby-pamby'd OUT!
And, just wait and see, even with a democratic majority, the repubs united, obdurate front will stymy anything GOOD from happening, such as overcoming a republican presidential veto - forget it. Dems these days are almost as much a wholly owned subsidiary of corporations as their unabashedly fascist counterparts on the other side of the aisle.
If corporate shills such as Perry had their way, all labor unions would be banned and all federal and state labor laws regulating workplace conditions -- including child labor laws -- would be repealed. Workers' comp, overtime, paid vacation, health benefits, sick days, pension funds, minimum wage, etc. ... all would be distant memories.
Corporations would be free to pollute the air, land, and water at will without fear of repercussion from any federal agencies.
Only members of the upper class would be able to send their children to college, and relatively few middle income earners would be able to purchase their own houses.
And of course, the elderly would need to fend for themselves since those who were unable to afford medical care or financially survive stock market crashes would be destitute.
And on a side note, public schools would only be allowed to teach science concepts that did not conflict with Christian dogma or the allegories of the Bible.
We the peole it starts, We are the important word.
We in order to form a more perfect union,
We to establish justice, we to provide for the common defence, we TO PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, we to secure the blesings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Do establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The people are what make the United States. Without them there is no United States. If you keep the people healthy and safe you will have a great country if you do not take care of your people you are a Dictatorship country and that is exactly what the Republican party want.
The heck with the people and only the rich and powerful to run the country. That is not a We the people country. That is not what our founding fathers wanteed or meant.
Since the Republicans want to do away with the Public schools how would they teach a man to do anything. All they want are workers without any rights.
Their kids of course will go to college and be just as greedy as they are.
The Republican party want to ruin our country. As long as they keep all their money they can always go somewhere else, so they really do not give a hoot for our United States.
Show me where in the Constitution it says that a state can just opt out. The Constitution provides procedures for adding states, but owhere for one to secede.
This country is financially and morally bankrupt. It's almost Road Warrior time!
Earlier times claimed Welfare and Aid to Dependent Children were the culprits creating a financial shortage in our Federal Operating budget. Once those programs were slashed, Americans realized not one red cent in their paychecks, their pockets or their communities. In fact, money to the communities began drying up. No matter how much is cut from the bottom....regular folk and those in need, the 'saved' money will only land at the top. This is our trickle up theory at work.
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Well..FYI,.. I don't bother watching Fixed News because it's just an extension of the GOP and pure Right Wing propaganda machine 24/7.
That said I've seen a good many MSM guest and there PAID CONTRIBUTORS lately almost acting like the Fox News GOPhers pushing all of Perrys alleged attributes and that's a FACT JACK so don't get on me for just making an observation,.... GOT IT???
It starts with we the people and when it says promote it means take care of we the people.
I'm sure you have noticed that there is no party affiliation mentioned when there are big layoffs, such as with the post office layoff of 120,000 people, or on unemployment roles. Everyone is in this together. Stop letting the entertainers running this country keep us all divided.
Why curse the Wizard of Oz every day when when we could instead be expendeing the same amount of energy to SOLVE the problem and (grannym's above recommendation aside) OUTGROW money politics forever?
Sounds like some kind of dream world? Check out the work of Ellen Brown and Bill Still. Its as real (and contitutional) as the nose on your face.
I'm a disabled Vietnam Veteran living only on SSDI, I am also covered by medicare/Medicade. I'm sure there are many Texans in this same situation and may not care for thier Governors stance on THIS/These isues. As for me, Govenor Perry, DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT TOUCHING WHAT I FOUGHT FOR AND EARNED!
and people please, stop the insults and name colling and changing the subject. The Subject(s) is/are: Social Security, Medicare/Medicade.
Thank You
Wolfy
"Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention."
- Molly Ivins
From Arma Virumque by Ambrose Bierce
"For somewhat lamely the conception runs
Of a brass-buttoned Jesus firing guns."
But, getting off topic a little, I feel compelled to give feedback relating to comments by a Mr. Abercrombie regarding the role of government. Abercrombie asserts that the term general welfare in the U.S. constitution means defense of the nation and that's it. Well, no, that's not it. Included in the preamble are the terms: provide for the common defense AND promote the general welfare. Two separate terms, the first being obviously connected to Abercrombie's assertion. The second? Look at the word general. It strongly implies the general population, or the people. And the word welfare? A strong implication in support and protection of basic rights.
I'm not implying that the U.S. founders were socialists.(But so what if they were?) They apparently focused on elite interests based on property ownership, race and gender, while paradoxically acknowledging the rights of the people. AND, of course, they were sometimes wrong (denial of subsidies to farmers?). And thus the imperfection of the U.S. constitution; still a work in progress.
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