Folks, Tom Wesley(R) is our man to beat incumbent Richard Neal(D) here in District 2 of Massachusetts and I officially endorse his candidacy for US Repesentative of Massachusetts for District 2.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Why aren't Democrats running on health care ?
With the ever important November mid-term elections upcoming one has to wonder why the Democrats aren't running on the Health care issue.
We were told it is good for us, that it will save money, that it will not add to the deficit and that once we see it in action we will sing its praises.
So then WHY aren't the Democrats singing its praises now ? Well, as Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post points out:
Perhaps if these Democrats had read the Health care bill before they voted on it they would have been able to justify it now as a campaign issue. Let's face it folks, if you don't know what's in the bill how can you seriously run on it, especially when it is so unpopular.
Read More Here: The Fix - Why Democrats aren't running on health care
We were told it is good for us, that it will save money, that it will not add to the deficit and that once we see it in action we will sing its praises.
So then WHY aren't the Democrats singing its praises now ? Well, as Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post points out:
"Sometimes a picture really is worth 1,000 words -- and this is one of those cases. Here's a look, courtesy of Pollster.com, of public opinion regarding health care."
Perhaps if these Democrats had read the Health care bill before they voted on it they would have been able to justify it now as a campaign issue. Let's face it folks, if you don't know what's in the bill how can you seriously run on it, especially when it is so unpopular.
Read More Here: The Fix - Why Democrats aren't running on health care
GM Resuming Political Donations ?
Recently GM (Government Motors) gave $90,500 to candidates running in the current election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission records.
While it's certainly not unusual for big companies like GM to spend on political campaigns, GM is a company majority-owned by the U.S. government, roughly 61%, thanks to the handout (oops, I mean bailout) from the US taxpayers.
According to company spokesman Greg Martin:
Mr. Martins justification for the donations doesn't hold water. First, GM already benefited from the political process, they received US taxpayer dollars to bail them out, via Congress, and now they just donated some of that money back to the very politicians that voted to give it to them !
Second, the GM's political action committee is "an effective means for our employees to pool their resources and have their collective voice heard" statement calls on me to question what the UAW is for, after all they represent the auto workers.
What a country, Congress bails out companies with US taxpayer money and those companies contribute some of that money back into the politician's tills, only in America !
Read More Here: GM Resumes Political Giving-WSJ.com
While it's certainly not unusual for big companies like GM to spend on political campaigns, GM is a company majority-owned by the U.S. government, roughly 61%, thanks to the handout (oops, I mean bailout) from the US taxpayers.
According to company spokesman Greg Martin:
"As we've emerged as a new company, we're not going to sit on the sidelines as our competitors and other industries who have PACs are participating in the political process," Mr. Martin said. He called GM's political action committee is "an effective means for our employees to pool their resources and have their collective voice heard."So, let me get this straight, we bailout GM, they sell cars and then they contribute to the political campaigns that voted to bail them out with taxpayer money ! What am I missing here ?
Mr. Martins justification for the donations doesn't hold water. First, GM already benefited from the political process, they received US taxpayer dollars to bail them out, via Congress, and now they just donated some of that money back to the very politicians that voted to give it to them !
Second, the GM's political action committee is "an effective means for our employees to pool their resources and have their collective voice heard" statement calls on me to question what the UAW is for, after all they represent the auto workers.
What a country, Congress bails out companies with US taxpayer money and those companies contribute some of that money back into the politician's tills, only in America !
Read More Here: GM Resumes Political Giving-WSJ.com
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