Honestly, if I hear John Boehner's sanctimonious voice one more time, pontificating about making sure that "No taxpayer money will EVER, EVER go to paying for abortions," I think I will scream out loud. The Hyde amendment already makes it impossible for federal funds to go toward abortions, so what else do they want? They want to make it impossible for women to claim the cost of an abortion as an income tax deduction under medical expenses.
What am I missing here? Terminating a pregnancy is a legal, health care procedure in this country. Another Republican proclaimed that no more taxes would pay to kill little American babies. When will the women in this country rise up? I keep wondering. The men who dominate the Congress, would like to send us all back to the kitchen where we could spend the day on our hands and knees scrubbing and the night on our back procreating their children.
If I thought I had the option to withhold my tax dollars from the immoral and unjustified wars that are taking thousands of civilian lives in Afghanistan and Iraq and have taken thousands of American lives then I might feel differently. What obnoxious hypocrisy these people are perpetrating on the rest of us.
In the mean time, here in my lovely home state, the Speaker of the House has proposed legislation that will seriously punish any state employee guilty of theft. I forget all the details of this bill, and as you might imagine, I'm not in favor of theft. My question is the need for this bill. How many state employees are stealing amounts of goods or cash in excess of $100.00, the limit in this new legislation? I think it's part of the strategy to paint public employees as generally lazy, freeloaders on the state's nickel. No statistics are forthcoming as to how many of these good-for-nothings have had to be prosecuted for theft.
As of today we will need to show a government approved I.D. in order to vote. That's because . . . voter fraud is rampant in the state? And the Republicans claim to want smaller government, and more "liberty for all." Huh? Liberty for exactly whom? And in this post I am barely scratching the surface of what is making my blood boil!!!
