How Do Average Working People Who Are Republicans Tolerate These Things?
Republicans in Congress have blocked a bill for medical care for 9/11 responders because of an alleged concern it would add to the deficit.
Yet at the same time Republicans insist on tax cuts for the most wealthy regardless of the impact on the deficit.
I wonder sometimes if we live in a legitimate country, or if we all exist and work so a powerful few can prosper.
How do average working people who vote Republican tolerate these things?
Even if you disagree with Democrats on many issues, how do you stand something like this?
Values Of Sacrifice, Society & Connection Require Our Efforts—At Least In England People Are Fighting Back
Above you see a picture of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker reacting when even the royal car was attacked and knocked about during protests in London.
In the United States, we do nothing at all when one of the two major political parties has no greater concern than tax cuts for the most wealthy in a time of recession and war.
We allow the hours of our lives we spend working and spend caring for the people in our lives to slip away, while the powerful few preach on and on about austerity and tough choices.
Sacrifice has value. We are all part of a society. We are all connected.
These values of sacrifice, society and connection will carry the day only when we work hard and fight back against what is taking place in this nation.
Welcome To Texas Liberal
Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
I can be reached at naa618@att.net.
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
This is why it says “All People Matter” at the top of the blog.
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Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
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