$55 Million for Nothing

May 16th, 2013

$55 Million for Nothing
Matthew K.

So the House of Representatives has voted for the 37th time to repeal Obamacare.

This childishness has cost you and me over $55 Million. We can’t afford to feed starving children in America but we can put up with our politicians playing political games that cost us millions of dollars? Really?

This is the 37th time the Republican have pulled this stunt, knowing every time that it is a waste of time. They do it solely for the purpose of playing politics. Childish games and nothing more.

Now, if you consider yourself a Republican, can you tell me how many times your party has tried to fix or improve Obamacare? You probably don’t, so I’ll tell you. Zero! Got that? Nada! None.

Think about that a minute. Why would a political party play those games but never try to improve something they pretend is broken? Obviously they don’t care what or who gets hurt by their games. They wouldn’t want to actually improve or fix anything broken.  All they want is to play games and try to oppose everything that might help America.

While they’re playing games, real children are starving. Real Climate Change is destroying our country and our planet. The economy is stalling. But, they don’t have time to address any of those things. No sirree. They only have time to play like little children.

Who, in their right mind, would vote for such a pathetic party? Really?

America Is Waking Up

May 1st, 2013

America Is Waking Up
by
Dave Speck

It is sad that it has taken this long but it appears that America is waking up and getting involved.  America is sickened by seeing their elected officials voting against the 90 percent who want sensible gun legislation in favor of the obvious minority who are the gun lobby, more commonly known as the NRA.

We are becoming more aware of the degree of our political problems and are getting vocal about it.

Being vocal is good but we can only fix this by getting the right people running for office.  We have to start getting involved in our political parties. Either party.

This week we saw Obama appoint another fox to guard rhe chicken house. OBAMA? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?

Obama was a better choice than the billionaire candidate but he is not FDR and we sorely need an FDR.

Let’s all get involved in taking our county from the greedy and unethical one party at a time.

What’s Wrong With Hunting

April 26th, 2013

What’s Wrong With Hunting
Dave Speck

We’ve all read the usual complaints about hunting and hunters, from the perspective of the inhumanity through the arguments of empathy, sympathy, and reason. But there is a still darker side to hunting.

We’ve seen humans blowing up other humans and even seen humans stroll into a school and massacre little children.

There’s no doubt that this is wrong. Anyone who does this is sick. There is a disease that enables them to do what most people would find too repulsive.

The disease allows people to kill other people, and not just allows them to do it but makes it fun. Not only were these sick people enjoying what they were doing, they were excited. The excitement even goes so far as to cause sexual excitement in the diseased killers.

Why is it wrong to kill other humans? Why is it wrong to kill children? Is it okay to kill children because they have low IQs? Is it okay to kill adults with low IQs? Is it okay to kill other people’s kids but not your own? Is it okay to kill a distant relative?

You can probably see where this is going. Exactly how far detached must your cousin be before it’s okay to murder them? There is no distance. It’s wrong no matter if they’re our next door neighbors or our neighbors across the world.

All living things on this earth share common ancestors. Everything is our cousins.

Is it okay to murder a cousin because he’s far enough away from your blood line? Of course not. It’s a sickness to even want to kill your cousin. If you’re excited and aroused by killing, it’s a sickness.

It is time for America, and all mankind, to start looking at the thrill of killing others to be a sickness, no matter how distant the relative is. It’s a sickness that infects all of society. We must quit treating hunting and murder as a choice rather than a disease.

Only Third World Countries Have Political Prisoners

April 7th, 2013

Only Third World Countries Have Political Prisoners
Matthew K.

You would think that only third world countries have a political system so broken as to allow political prisoners.

Well, I have some bad news for you. America is that country.

Check out this story of Don Siegelman, America’s most obvious political prisoner. Once you’ve checked it out, be sure to sign the petition to free this unjustly imprisoned man. We need to investigate Karl Rove and see about reversing all the damage he and his turd blossoms have done to this country we love.

Who Would Do That?

March 24th, 2013

Who Would Do That?
Captain Jack

As we all know, the Democratic candidates got more votes in all three branches of government, last election. More people voted for Democratic House members, more people voted for Democratic Senate candidates, and more people voted for a Democratic president.

Of course, even though there were about a million and a half more Democratic votes for the House, the Republican still control it because of electioneering, you know, circumventing the vote of the people.

But, why would a political party obstruct the country at every opportunity when they know the majority voted for the changes they obstruct? Why would a political party try to stop the will of the voters?

A party that intended to derail a democracy would be considered undemocratic, wouldn’t they? They would certainly never get elected into power into the country they’re trying to derail would they?

Would you vote for a party that actively tried to circumvent and obstruct the will of the majority? Would you vote Republican? Most people say, no! Who would do that?

 

What Proves God Exists?

March 20th, 2013

What Proves God Exists?
by
Paul J.

I hear people telling me, all day long, about all the things that proves to them that God exists or that there is intelligent design or whatever.

Sunsets are beautiful because God exists. See? It’s proof. Birds fly because God designed them. See? It’s proof. Back in the cavemen days, they would say, When I jump up, God brings me back down. See? It’s proof.

But when asked for actual evidence, well, no one seems to have the proof. Why would God hide the proof from us when so many are seeking it? A cruel hoax?

Well, let’s change the question around a little bit. If there was one fact, that if proven, would convince you that there is no God, what would that fact be?

What facts do you have that if proven would make you question your god?

If something can’t be disproved can it be proven?

Your God is Here

March 20th, 2013

Where in here is your god?

Your God is Here

Paul J.

I don’t consider myself an atheist by any stretch, but consider any religious person without an open mind to be a slave, and an easy target for religions and the republican party. But, still, with an open mind, I found this concept quite interesting. Which God in there is yours?

The Need for the Popular Vote

March 3rd, 2013

The Need for the Popular Vote
by
David Schlecht

Did you know that four out of five Americans’ votes were ignored during the 2012 election? If you remember, everything was narrowed down to the so called “swing states” and that’s where the candidates put almost all their effort.

Is this really a democracy when presidential candidates can effectively ignore that much of the country?

How do we fix this?

Check out National Popular Vote to get this fixed.

How did things get so messed up? How could our founding fathers have gotten this part so wrong?

That’s easy. They expected us to be fixing up this country and our constitution as we went along. We aren’t supposed to be looking at our forefathers and founding documents as perfect. In fact, it was expected that we would review our constitution on a regular basis.

This isn’t a constitutional solution but it works even better. We should have a national popular vote.

The American Bizarre Party

January 10th, 2013

The American Bizarre Party
by
Matthew K.

Has anyone else noticed how bizarre the Republican voters have become?

They continue to vote in the worst candidates in American history while watching all their policies crash and burn all the while knowing that they have to buy guns to get the crooks out of office.

How bizarre that they don’t even consider that it would be better if they just quit voting for the candidates that are ruining the country. Then they could sell all their guns and go back to living in the sane world.

The Full Court Press

January 8th, 2013

The Full Court Press
Captain Jack

Look around you and you cannot help but notice that America is not only getting forced further and further to the right, but the further we go to the conservative side of the scale, the worse things get to the average American.

Still, a solid 30% of Americans continue to vote for those bringing down this right-wing austerity on our heads and wonder why things continue to get worse.

Why are we slipping further to the right no matter how hard we fight back?

Because…

A handful of extremely wealthy Americans and transnational entities are making more money off our misery. The  less we make, the more they make. And they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars buying our politicians and Supreme Court justices, and our new sites, the few we have left. Soon they will all sound like Rush and Fox and O-Liely and Sean Whatshisname.

The Full Court Press is on and it’s almost game over. We don’t have time to sit around and wonder what happened, we have to get mobilized today and get this game back on our court. We are almost out of clock.

U. S. Constitution – The Trouble With the Supreme Court

January 7th, 2013

U. S. Constitution – The Trouble With the Supreme Court
by
David Schlecht

The troubles America has with the U. S. Supreme Court are numerous and dangerous to the country.

The first branch of government defined in the constitution is the Congress. The fact that it is defined first and that is has the most verbiage is a good indication that the writers of the constitution thought it was the most important.

Article One is four and a half pages where the president, defined secondly is only about a page and a half, where the court is defined third and is less than a half a page of text.

What is the purpose of the Supreme Court? It is simply:

  1. The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;
  2. to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;
  3. to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;
  4. to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;
  5. to Controversies between two or more States; between a State and Citizens of another State; between Citizens of different States; between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
  6. In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

That’s all that the Supreme Court is supposed to do. It is not supposed to review the constitutionality of laws passed by congress and signed by the president. However, the Supreme Court has set itself up to do exactly that. The smallest and least important branch is pretending to be the most important.

More examples of how the Supreme Court is supposed to be less important than Congress is in Article III:

The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior,

And who decides what is “good Behavior?” Congress.

Nowhere in here does it say they can appoint a friend to be president like they did for George W Bush, even though he didn’t win the election.

If we don’t stop this group, they will have the power to be the only branch of government and they aren’t even elected by the people.

Need something to call your representatives about this week? Tell them to take back the powers of the constitution and tell them that any friends of the Bush family who didn’t recuse themselves from the Bush v Gore case are not serving in good behavior and need to be removed.

 

 

Where is All the Money Going?

January 4th, 2013

Where is All the Money Going?
by
David Schlecht

We see the nation’s Gross Domestic Product go up almost every year. This is an indication in the increase in wealth of the country. That’s how much new product and services we’re creating and selling.

That’s a lot more money each year. So you and I should be seeing our paychecks go up a whole lot every year since we should be getting a fair share of the increased profits.

But our wages are actually going down, especially when compared to our cost of living.

So, where is all this extra money going?

It’s all going to just 100 people, who are greedily hoarding the money while the rest of the country gets poorer. Hardly seems right, does it?

A small select few, just 100 people, received 241 billion dollars more. There’s where the increase in our country’s wealth went.

Well? What are you going to do about it? Are you going call your representative right now, today, and say you’re mad as hell and you’re not going to take this anymore?

Good. Call them today, tomorrow and every day until they start fixing this mess. I will be, too.

How To Save 35,000 Lives

January 3rd, 2013

How To Save 35,000 Lives
Captain Jack

Do you want to save 35,000 human lives?

One thing would have made the difference between 35,000 suicides and life.

The number of suicides under Conservative political rule causes a measurable increase in suicides. Why? Oh, come on now, you know why. Just look at what the Conservatives in America are trying to do to grandma, the poor, the unemployed…

Here are the facts, go see for yourself. More people commit suicide when the Conservatives are in power.

Don’t hesitate. The life you save might be your own or someone you love.

Fiscal Farce Avoided

January 2nd, 2013

Fiscal Farce Avoided
by
David Schlecht

I refuse to call it the Fiscal Cliff because that’s just the Republican party’s effort to turn this into a crisis so they can hammer away at America’s social safety net.

So we avoided the fiscal disaster they were so warning us about. But, it didn’t get averted on the 31st and the world kept spinning didn’t it? It wasn’t a cliff at all, now was it?

So, now that it’s been avoided, what is next? Here’s what we can now expect.

The Republican party will use each and every possible excuse to take the economy hostage again. We will see this come up time and again and each time the Republican will try to strip away a little more of America’s core values, you know, the values of caring for one another.

At a time when we need to start demanding that the government spend more money to get us out of this Republican great depression, the Republicans want to cut spending. Does that seem backwards to anyone else?

So, expect more hostage taking.

Expect more demands to cut government.

Expect more demands to cut regulations, and let more people die.

The rich, the real rich, you know, the ones making more than a million dollars a year, well, they aren’t paying any more in taxes. They don’t pay payroll taxes because they take their income as capital gains. In fact, they don’t even pay tax on the income until they actually sell their stocks. And when they do, they’ll still be paying half the tax rate (20%) that the highest workers pay (39%).

The real workers will be paying an additional 2% in Social Security tax but the wealthy will be paying basically nothing for the social safety net.

Those selling multi-million dollar mansions and making more than a quarter million dollars in pure profit will have to pay a couple dollars in Obamacare tax.

To the dismay of the Republicans, the unemployed will get to continue to eat, grandma won’t be thrown under the bus, and the handicapped will not be left to die on park benches.

But, it’s not over. The Republicans will be back in two months demanding more cuts in the American way of life.

We are the richest country in the world and the Republicans are telling us we can’t afford to feed our starving poor. Shame on them.

U. S. Constitution and the Right To Bear Arms

December 31st, 2012

U. S. Constitution and the Right To Bear Arms
by
David Schlecht

During the last presidential election, one candidate took the words of the other candidate out of context and made misleading and downright wrong assertions about the position of his opponent. This habit of purposely taking things out of context is common in today’s politics, but, it’s important we don’t get lackadaisical about accepting it.

Take for example the Second Amendment to the U. S. Constitution:

Amendment 2 – Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Make sure you read the whole thing.

There are two parts to this amendment. If the thrust of the amendment was that all Americans should bear arms to overthrow their government, don’t you think it would say that? After all, it says more than just that we shall have the right to bear arms.

In fact, it doesn’t even start with the right to bear arms part, it begins with the caveat that the government will not restrict a well regulated state militia.

Furthermore, this amendment does not provide for individuals to have guns, it says that the people (the state militia) must regulate the arms. In other words, the arms were expected to be kept in the armory, you know, like they did when the amendment was written.

It becomes obvious how the amendment can be misinterpreted when it is taken out of context. Why does the NRA and other gun nuts insist on taking this out of  context?

Where in here can anyone find even a hint that we are all entitled to unregulated arms, stockpiles of weapons our forefathers never imagined, at the time of the amendment?

The Supreme Court appointed George Bush contrary to the constitution. This was a blatant overstep on the part of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court makes more than their share of mistakes. And the Supreme Court has interpreted the constitution incorrectly on numerous occasions, such as saying the constitution gives corporations and oligarchs unlimited rights to sway our elections. Even an elementary school child knows better than this.

This same Supreme Court has found that the first part of the amendment does not mean what is says, that it mean nothing. But you and I know better. Few of us are as biased as the conservatives on the Supreme Court are.

So, what does the amendment mean to you? Is it a free-for-all?

How Does Social Security Affect the Budget?

December 30th, 2012

How Does Social Security Affect the Budget?
by
Matthew K

We are all hearing how important it is to cut Social Security. You would think that the world will end if we don’t start letting little old ladies starve to death.

But in reality nothing is wrong with Social Security. Nothing!

Furthermore, changes to Social Security will not affect the nation’s budget, not one little bit. Even Reagan tried explaining this to everyone some thirty years ago.

Now, then, why are some Congress men beating the drums so hard to mess up Social Security? Do they not know what you and I know? Are they really that stupid? Of course not. So, why are they trying to use this opportunity to make such awful changes?

It is obvious to many of us, but if you find yourself wondering, here is why.

They want to destroy any government program that helps the poor.

Anyone who doesn’t want to help the poor is blatantly un American because America was founded to provide for the welfare of we the people. It’s the very first sentence of the constitution.

So, tell me why someone would be in support for welfare for the rich through lower taxes while opposing a self-funded program of social insurance for the rest of us?

I’ll tell you why. Because they don’t represent we the people. They represent those intent on converting America into their own personal cash cow.

They are the Republican party.

 

New Years Resolutions

December 30th, 2012

New Years Resolutions

Dave Speck

What are your new year’s resolutions?

Here are a few you might want to consider.

  1. Contact your representatives about the important issue of the day. This gives you ONLY 52 things to fix and we all know there are more than that.
  2. Get involved in your local democratic party. Find out why this is so important
  3. Talk to your neighbors about the issues of the day, even the conservatives.
  4. Give what you can to Progressive organizations.

Happy Holidays

December 26th, 2012

Happy Holidays
by Dave Speck

Happy Holidays to all our visitors, new and old.

We all, here at Just-Say-Why, appreciate all the visits and feedback we’ve gotten over the past year.

May 2013 be a wonderful year for you, your family, and for America.

Who Won The Election?

December 18th, 2012

Who Won The Election? – Updated -
by
Dave Speck

You won’t hear about this in the corrupt corporate news but the Democratic party won the past election, not just the presidential election, but also the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Then, why aren’t the Democrats in charge of all three? Because the do-nothing Republicans have used procedural trickery to prevent democracy, they have used Gerrymandering to redraw their states’ geography to prevent the will of the people.

America voted decidedly Democratic in this past election but we must do better. We have to get the Republicans out of the state governorships and state governments so America can clean up the deceit and trickery they are using to prevent our country from fixing ourselves.

Update 1:
The count is now up to 1.2 million more votes for Democrats for the House of Representatives than for Republicans, yet the Republicans control the House. Why?

Stay Vigilant. Enact Gun Control

December 17th, 2012

Stay Vigilant. Enact Gun Control
by
David Schlecht

The NRA/America’s Gun Lobby has weathered many of these storms before and the will weather this just like the rest unless we all stay active. Don’t let this issue die.

America needs better gun control laws.