I’ve hardly posted here for a while, because politics has just made me so depressed. (I do still rant on Facebook, though)…
The next four years are going to be difficult. Those of us who did not vote for this President are deeply concerned about the direction in which this country is now headed.
Agent Lori Perkins asked herself, “What can I really do?” and created THE BOOK OF EVERYDAY RESISTANCE — a collection of essays about what we can do to resist, how we resist, and why we resist. It includes my essay “Fighting Back.”
She has made the book available for FREE as a kindle download. (The paperback is priced as low as possible to cover costs.) The book has been #1 on Amazon’s “Constitution” category for weeks now (beating my own Constitution book, of course!)
Hey, all my conservative friends who said it was just about illegal immigrants: I’m anxiously awaiting your condemnation of the Trump administration deporting US citizens, immigrants with green cards and visas, and refugees who have obeyed every immigration requirement.
Hello? Anyone there?
I see that some Republican legislatures are trying to pass laws that would prevent doctors from giving vaccines.
Next on the agenda: Imprisoning anyone who claims that the earth revolves around sun.
Have you seen this meme? It gets me so frustrated.
Your social security is absolutely an entitlement. We’re entitled to it. That’s why it’s called that!
Republicans keep trying to redefine the word “entitlement” to mean the exact opposite of what it means so they can cut it. They want people to think “entitlement” is a bad word.
Memes like this only help them do that.
Can Congress decide not to make it an entitlement? Of course, but that doesn’t change the meaning of the word.
Right now, Republicans are moving in that direction, having just voted to gut Medicare so they can give huge tax breaks to the billionaires who bribe them with campaign contributions. But we need to embrace the word “entitlement” and rub it in their faces for the very reason stated in this meme, and not run away from the word.
People who understand the Constitution: “Hey, only Congress can control the budget. The President can’t order things Congress budgeted to not be paid. The President doesn’t get to decide spending issues. It’s in the Constitution!”
Republicans in Congress: “Oh, THIS Constitution that we are currently ripping up in your face?”
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