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Blogs > MovingOn001 > Moving On from Here

Everyone in the US, PLEASE Remember to Vote Today!  

MovingOn001 68M
71 posts
11/4/2014 8:46 am

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11/27/2014 11:41 pm
Everyone in the US, PLEASE Remember to Vote Today!

I just wanted to remind everyone that today in the United States is Election Day. The direction in which our country moves over the next two years will be determined by what happens at the polls today.

I hear people complaining about the gridlock in Washington and how nothing gets done to address the many serious problems our country faces. This past Congress has been the least productive Congress since the end of World War II. If the Republicans gain control of the Senate, believe it or not, it could get even worse!

Millions of Americans now have health care for the first time because of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. Mitch McConnell, the current Senate Minority Leader who would become Majority Leader if the Republicans take over the Senate, has pledged to repeal Obamacare if the Republicans controlled the Senate. This will be an exercise in total futility, just as the House's more than fifty attempts to repeal it in the past session had been. Even if they take control of the Senate, the Republicans won't have nearly enough votes to overturn Obama's certain veto of the bill. While they're fiddling and farting around wasting time trying to repeal health care for millions who need it at the behest of their corporate masters in the insurance industry, other important issues will continue to be ignored.

Income inequality is now at the highest ratio it has been since the onset of the Great Depression, and is considered to be a major cause of the Depression and the economic crisis we had a few years ago. The middle class is struggling just to keep roofs over their heads and feed their while the wealthiest are making obscene amounts of money after cutting the pay and benefits of those whose work made them that money. Pay equity for women, who currently earn less than 80% of what men make for doing the same work, has been blocked by the Republicans in Congress, and I don't see anything being done about it if they gain control of the Senate.

Our public education system was once the best in the world and was looked upon by other countries as a model for how to educate to prepare them to enter society as productive citizens. Sadly, that is no longer the case as our schools have been so starved of funding so that the students no longer know how to think critically so they can ask questions which need to be asked and answered. Many students and<b> teachers </font></b>are more worried about whether they will be assaulted or physically attacked in some way, than they are in learning. This is hardly conducive to gaining an education. Attempts to reduce the interest rates on student loans so that people coming out of college or graduate school don't have tens of thousands of dollars in debt hanging over their heads as they enter the working world were blocked by Republicans at the behest of their masters in the banking industry.

Our infrastructure, the roads, bridges, mass transit systems and other things that connect our society and hold it together, will continue to crumble around us. Attempts to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and switch to more renewable sources of energy to reduce climate change will go nowhere in a new Republican Congress.

Besides blocking pay equity for women, many Republicans are in favor of what is called "Personhood" legislation, which would outlaw many of the most effective methods of birth control. There are others who will attempt to roll back the progress which gays and lesbians have made over the past few years with issues such as gay marriage and their acceptance in our society. Although I am certain that President Obama would veto such legislation, it would mean that Congress was wasting time on these things when there are so many more important subjects which need to be addressed.

Since there is little chance that gridlock will completely end because of the Republican lock on the House due to gerrymandering following the 2010 census, it could get a LOT worse if the Republicans take over the Senate. This election will determine just HOW much gridlock we will see over the next two years.

Please,do your part and VOTE!

CynicusMaximus 52M
1844 posts
11/5/2014 9:08 pm

 Well said, sir.

But we're on our way to hell in a hand basket.


MovingOn001 replies on 11/5/2014 11:41 pm:
Thank you.

Unfortunately,I think you're right. Last night I saw one guy from one of the right wing groups who was frothing at the mouth he was so happy. Another was so excited that I thought he was going to cum in his pants because as he said, the Republicans took the Senate and now the GOP in the House had no excuse not to impeach Obama. I guess he missed the little point in the Constitution where it may only take a majority in the House to impeach someone, it still takes 2/3 of the Senate to convict him and remove him from office. Unless they find something really egregious, they are never going to convict him in the Senate. The Republicans will continue to play their games and try to impeach Obama while the country falls apart all around them. It almost seems like they are a bunch of little boys who will continue waving their little peckers and pissing in the wind while the rest of the country goes up in flames they ignited and fanned.

I hope like hell we are both wrong about this, but I'm not real optimistic about the next two years. The past two Congresses have set records for being the least productive in our history. I wonder if the new one will make it three in a row.

kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
11/27/2014 11:08 pm

 I'm glad you found my blog, so that I could find yours!
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MovingOn001 replies on 11/27/2014 11:40 pm:
I'm glad I found your blog as well. As you mentioned the other day, we do seem to be kindred spirits, having had very similar experiences which have helped shape us into who we are today.

I was really enjoying the exchanges we were having about whether the US is more divided now than it was during Vietnam. I started a response and ended up getting carried away with it. When I realized how into it I had gotten and how long it was, I decided not to post it there, but to work on it some more and then post it on my blog with a link back to yours as the one who set me off on the topic. (I have to blame someone when my mind goes off like that now, don't I?)

I have one other project I need to finish in the next day or two, then I will turn my attention to that. I hope to post it by early next week.

I've been on and off Couples Dating for a number of years, and during one of my earlier sojourns here, had begun the blog which I have only recently resumed working on since my return a few months ago. The earlier version of the blog deals mainly with a number of political topics, some of which you may find interesting. I do plan to explore some other political issues in the coming weeks and months, but I have a lot of work and research to do before they will be ready to be unveiled.

I'm glad to see that you found your way to my little corner of Couples Dating Blogland. I hope you enjoy your visits.

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