My political safe place....hear me rant....: Fiscal cliff and our...elected officials...

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Fiscal cliff and our...elected officials...

How discouraging to see Speaker Boehner say that "Obamacare" needs to be on the table for compromise in the "fiscal cliff" discussion.....umm....WHAT?! This guy is either a complete moron, he has selective amnesia and forgot what happened this election, or he is just working for his own personal agenda....and not concerned about what will happen if they do not come to an agreement---huh...maybe all 3? It is said that they will still have time to fix the problem if we do do fall off that fiscal cliff....but come on!!! This is getting ridiculous...as if it already wasn't. Ha! But I think we can all agree as Americans that many of these men are not working for the people...every poll I have seen says the people want higher taxes on the wealthy as part of this fiscal agenda...in addition...NO polls indicate that Obamacare should be thrown in for compromise on raising those taxes on the top 2%! It is just ridiculous.

I am reading "Team of Rivals" and it is amazing the platform Republicans had when the party started and how it has completely changed. I would have been a Republican in the 1850-1860's! :) haha. But the Republican party today is....struggling! I wish there was a way to speed track the party's recovery and have a more balanced society once more. I don't think everyone should be a Democrat...there needs to be balance...but our current teeter-tottering is not healthy for America. We have extreme right wingers sending us all in an uncontrollable spin...in my opinion.
We need to nominate more moderate people...and yes, Pres. Obama a decade or more ago would have been considered moderate...even to Republicans...but today he is considered to be extreme?! He is not. He is moderate. There has not been a moderate Republican in public eye for some time...I think McCain was probably the most moderate...and he was only moderate on social issues.

Come on Speaker Boehner and men and women in congress...get this thing done!! And Mr. President we are counting on you to show both compromise and backbone. A tough thing to do but I am sure if ego is set aside every elected official could achieve it for the good of the rest of Americans.

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Quote of the day:

BYU commencement in 1972, President Brown counseled graduating students to “Strive to develop a maturity of mind and emotion and a depth of spirit which enables you to differ with others on matters of politics without calling into question the integrity of those with whom you differ. Allow within the bounds of your definition of religious orthodoxy variation of political belief. Do not have the temerity to dogmatize on issues where the Lord has seen fit to be silent.” He also warned, “beware of those who feel obliged to prove their own patriotism by calling into question the loyalty of others. Be skeptical of those who attempt to demonstrate their love of country by demeaning its institutions.”

And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information
Oh, they can bend it all they want
John Mayer: "Waiting on the World to Change"

"Let us learn respect for others if we are to realize the abundant life. Man, by nature, is tempted to seek only his glory and not the glory of his neighbor or the glory of his God. None of us lives alone—in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbor’s poverty."

-Thomas S Monson

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Scripture of the day:

Scriptures to have in our hearts when we vote!

"That now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality." — 2 Corinthians 8:14

"Renounce war and proclaim peace." — D&C 98:16

"And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them." — Moses 7:18

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction." — James 1:27

"Plead the cause of the poor and the needy." — D&C 124:75

"We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied." — D&C 134:9

"And now, because of the steadiness of the church they began to be exceedingly rich, having abundance of all things whatsoever they stood in need—an abundance of flocks and herds, and fatlings of every kind, and also abundance of grain, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious things, and abundance of silk and fine-twined linen, and all manner of good homely cloth. And thus, in their prosperous circumstances, they did not send away any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished; and they did not set their hearts upon riches; therefore they were liberal to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, whether out of the church or in the church, having no respect to persons as to those who stood in need." —Alma 1:29-30

Hel 4:12-13
12 And it was because of the ^apride of their hearts, because of their exceeding ^briches, yea, it was because of their oppression to the ^cpoor, withholding their food from the hungry, withholding their clothing from the naked, and smiting their humble brethren upon the cheek, making a ^dmock of that which was sacred, denying the spirit of prophecy and of revelation, murdering, plundering, lying, stealing, committing adultery, rising up in great contentions, and deserting away into the land of Nephi, among the Lamanites—

13 And because of this their great wickedness, and their ^aboastings in their own strength, they were left in their own strength; therefore they did not prosper, but were afflicted and smitten, and driven before the Lamanites, until they had lost possession of almost all their lands.