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$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
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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.

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.

The Need for the Popular Vote
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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
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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.

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.

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? – Updated -
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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
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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.

Who Is To Blame For The Elementary School Shooting?
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Captain Jack

Reading today’s news makes me feel I no longer recognize America. This is not the country we grew up in. This is not the country our parents left for us. This is a strange and hostile land.

The only way we can fix this problem is if we come to grips with what and who has caused it. No one really believes this is just a single lone disaster, but is becoming the way of the new America. Sure, the shooter pulled the trigger but who put those guns and ammunition in his hands?

How long have you known we had a problem with gun violence? Years? Decades? When is the last time you did anything about it?

The guilt, the blood of all those school children is on our hands, yours and mine. We could have done something about this before it happened and we didn’t care enough to do anything about it.

Think of the last time you were with others, work, perhaps, or maybe church. Think of the people around you, the person to your left and the person to your right. Of the three of you, it would only have take one, just one, to make a big enough fuss to fix this. If only one of every three of us did something about this, it would have been fixed. That one person should have been you, it should have been me.

That would have been 100,000,000 people calling the president or calling our representatives. They would have heard us and would have done something about it.

Imagine if it wasn’t just one of the three, but two of the three. Two hundred million people in America expecting our representatives to fix this, it would be fixed overnight.

Sure, we can try to blame the one million people who believe the Conservative media like Fox news, but that’s just a drop in the bucket. What is one million gun nuts compared to hundreds of millions of the sane among us?

It’s hard to recognize this country when we find people getting elected who are foolish enough to think that more guns would have made this problem better. They’re just stupid. Sorry, there’s no other way to say it. And these fools get front booking on our media outlets. We even had a religious fanatic in the front of our televisions telling how it’s God’s will to murder those children because we don’t pray right or because we don’t stone our women who don’t cover their heads with scarves. Is this really America? What are these idiots doing on our news?

The idiots are there spewing their foolishness because it only takes one in three of us to put an end to it and we are just too damned lazy to do anything about it.

Sure, the shooter is the cause, sure, the gun nuts are responsible, the NRA makes money on these deaths, but more than anything, we are to blame because we’re too lazy to get involved.

Call your senators today, call the president. Tell them we’ve had enough and we’re not going to put up with this anymore. And call them again every week of the year.

Did you know it is easier to buy assault weapons than it is to get mental health care? When is the last time you read the second amendment? Does it say every kook out there is guaranteed a weapon? Of course not, but you won’t know unless you get involved.

Nevada and The Right To Work For Less Law

Matthew K.

From David’s recent post regarding Nevada making the right decisions, I wanted to bring up a most obvious point that it seems most Nevadans miss: Right to Work means Right To Work For Less.

It is really just that simple.

Nevada is dead last in anything that matters like job safety, average income, happiness. And they’re first in all the things that are awful like poverty, childhood hunger, disease, workplace injuries.

What do these have to do with Right To Work laws? Everything! They have everything to do with a law that is intended to prevent workers from improving their working conditions. With no say in the workplace, workers get shafted more and more until there’s nothing left to steal from them.

And, that, Nevada, is where you find yourself today.

Repeal your Right to Work laws. Start today to organize petitions and get the vote on your next ballot. Repeal the law that is hurting Nevada the most.

Oh, and while I’m at it, let me congratulate you on waking up about the need to vote for a Democratic president.

Want to know the real facts about how much Right to Work is hurting Nevada? Check out these links:

Right to Work [AFLCIO]
Workers Have the Right [Informed Comment]
What’s Behind Right to Work [Daily Kos]
Sneak Attack [Think Progress]
Right to Work For Less [Google]