Tax day tea party? Give me a break

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Seriously? It's okay to be pissed off now when there's a democrat in the whitehouse? Where the frak was your outrage when Bush was approving the bailout. Where was your rage when Paulson asked for and recieved all those billions of dollars with NO oversight?

You beat up that straw man, Republicans, you beat it up real good.

The founding fathers, conservitaves, and you

So I was thinking the other day about what we call conservitive, liberal, and everything in between.  When was the last time we had anything close to a conservitive president?  I know the majority will say "Ronald Reigan" but I call total shens  on that and would say Ike.  He warned us of all the things to come and yet no Republican president after him took a lick of advice.  So why not Reigan you ask?  There was nothing conservitive about him.  He surfed us into a massive debt (surfing is borrowing debt to pay debt) which wasn't fully paid off until the Clinton era.

The changes that "Conservitives" have implimented in the last eight years are astounding by any measure, one could say "Revolutionary" in the sweeping changes they brought in and how they flipped our goverment on its head.  But Obama can be in office for two months and he's burning the Republic to the ground?

I'm not pleased with Obama signing in some things he signed, I'm not pleased with Congress voting for them.  But most of what Obama has signed into law was pushed for by the Bush administration.  We're getting the government we deserve.  How many of you can say what your senator has or hasn't voted for?  Do you hold them accountable to do the job you elected them to?  People shouldn't be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of their people.

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Enough is frakking enough. I'm looking at you, media

What ever happened to real journalism?  Ya know.. the kind where they informed people instead of just giving drive-by hits worded whatever way they wanted them to be to get the biggest scare factor?  I'm referring mostly to this piece of crap article written by Derek Broes - http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dbroes/2009/04/03/youve-been-warned/

The first part makes it sound like the government controls pay for anyone (at least to my reading) when it only has the legal right to make alterments to companies that took TARP money and that doesn't include companies that did work for bailed-out companies.  So if you did work with AIG but didn't work for AIG, you're fine.

And why is this such a big deal?  The federal government has bailed out these companies, the US people are a major shareholder of the said companies and we have every right to dictate what pay is what until we are paid in full.  Don't like it?  Don't accept TARP money and don't run your company into the ground.

The second part of the article goes into the SERVE act which re-establishes AmeriCorp and other volunteer services.  This time around people that serve are given tax breaks, credits to go to college, etc.  I think it's a fantastic incentive to get people to donate their time that normally wouldn't or couldn't afford college any other way.

Search for H1664 H1338 on http://thomas.loc.gov/ to read the language of the bill.

Where did it all go..... wrong? Or atleast where did it all change.

I don't want to imply that anything is "wrong" or that I'm unhappy with anything but as I was listening to NPR today I had to wonder... where did I get my centrist/slightly-left beliefs?  My parents are staunchly republican, most of the influences in my life have been very Conservative, and yet I find my self at odds with the very beliefs that I grew up with.  Not all of them, there's a lot of things I like about the Conservative values but I do find myself more and more disagreeing with some of their core values.

The "Right" says to protect the sanctity of marriage by keeping it man-woman.  I find myself saying "Okay, then separate government from it and make marriage a religion ceremony and the government will view everything as a civil union".  Who cares who you marry/love, it's not the role of the government to dictate your lifestyle.

The "Right" says we're a nation founded on judeo-christian values but that's not the case either.  Religious freedom was a law put in place to stop the federal government from coming in a persecuting religions.  No one talks about local governments and all the horrible persecutions they did.  The founding fathers knew that religion should play no role in government because it would lead to the same things that happened in England, at lest on a federal level.  I'm sure they were wise enough to recognize that they couldn't pin down persecution in local colonies.  

I'm not saying either side has it right but whatever happened to our separation of church and state?  Where did we get the audacious idea that it was fine for us impose our beliefs through a federal government.  I get that, for example, Utah will always be a Mormon state and will be influenced that way... and I'm fine with that.  I'm fine with state rights being what they are and the federal government having to take a far more neutral stance.  But where the state and the federal government have to play together, local religion should play no part and we should be mature enough to keep the two separate.