George’s Must-Reads: Divided Over Our Future

David Brooks’s emphasis is on the future to be unravelled, which is certainly an important aspect of human reality. I am sure he does not mean to slight what Emerson called the party of memory, the other being the party of hope. The danger is Henry Ford’s pithy dismissal of history (and of the past) as bunk. I hope the information wizards of the future will still find room for thinkers and writers of classic stature, who do not become obsolete with time.

Divided with checks and balances, is still far better than undivided, and totally out of control.

Death Panels, and a cloud of fear surrounded the Health Care issue — The dark ones love to create an atmosphere of fear, for they cannot thrive or survive long in an atmosphere of love and harmony.
America, it is time We take our country back from the Money Changers — time to get off the “yellow-brick road” and realize that every time corporations and smaller businesses get tax breaks –, guess where the taxes rise? Locally and at state levels. The cold-hearted fact is that Everyday, average Americans shoulder the tax burden in this country, due to tax loopholes, tax cuts and tax breaks for wealthy Americans and Corporations who do not need it. Why in the world would Wealthy Americans need more tax breaks when they pay very little taxes anyway, they need to pay their fair share and take the burden off those who can least afford it. These tax-cuts will cost the country $700 Billion, twice the cost of the Healthcare bill. Ironically, GOP hate to extend unemployment benefits to Americans who desperately need them, while violently fighting to extend tax cuts for the wealthy, who do not need them. And, America is not as divided as they try to make out that we are. We all want the same things, happiness, to be safe, and a chance to be the best that we can be.
GOP mantra: cut, cut, and more cuts for the middleclass and poor and extend helping hand to the military machine and the wealth merchants. Have we lost our common sense: to create jobs, one must invest in America, her infa-structure, technology and innovations, but Party of No only wants to invest in the rich and well connected.
Think about it, if we had Universal Healthhcare Reform, premiums would be a LOT LESS for everyone — but that would be too much like doing the right thing — such as being our Brothers’ keeper and treating your neighbor as you would want to be treated yourself!

Trying to make this about the color of the presidents skin is absolutely wrong. He got elected because white people voted him in. This old game of calling people racist because they disagree is not working anymore. Try to come up with something more intelligent.