Occupy Louisiana shared I love it when I wake up in the morning and Barack Obama is President.'s photo.
![I swear, this isn't a dig. It's the truth. And I don't think it's ever been said more succinctly than this. -Debra
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In the South, Voting Against Our Own Self Interests
I can't figure out for the life of me how working class people in the south, and especially in Louisiana, think! I just watched on a political ad how a candidate used the fact that he is against Obamacare as a reason why we should vote for him. To my way of thinking that would be the biggest why I would NOT vote for him. If you are a person who has children that are teenagers and young adults, it's like voting for them not to have insurance because, let's face it, they won't be able to afford any on their own, for some years. But if you could keep them on your insurance coverage it would help you and them immensely. The prescription drug doughnut hole, which has hurt so many who depend on their prescriptions, has been almost closed. Chances are that if you have health insurance the cost of your premium keeps escalating and the value of your care is becoming shoddier and shoddier. Obamacare mandates that insurance companies MUST spend 85% of insurance dollars on care and no more than 15% on overhead. In other words, no more multi-million dollar salaried CEOs while people are perishing from poor care or lack of any care at all.The doughnut hole was given to us courtesy of the fully republican controlled congress on behalf of the pharmaceutical corporations. And let us not forget the fact that insurance companies are now prohibited from refusing insurance to you because of prior conditions and illnesses. And there are many other good things about the ACA that people are ignorant of, but haven't tried to find what they are.They just listen to people who use their ignorance against them, knowing they are uninformed and will never take the time to inform themselves. This is the same tactic southern politicians have been using since the days of the civil rights era and it's still working today. They play on fear and ignorance! Why is it that working class people don't think healthcare should be a right for every American? We are the most prosperous country on the earth, yet we are the only industrialized nation that doesn't have free healthcare for it's citizens. We listen to people who proclaim how wonderful our health care system is, but see so many dying from preventable bisease because we won't practice preventive medicine.
Obamacare provides for free prenatal care, mammograms, cancer screenings and pap smears,. These things are hugely important to women but to vote against the ACA is voting to deny them these things. Those who are against Obamacare use the issue of abortion to trick you into voting against your own interests. Take the case of Planned Parenthood. They have brainwashed you into thinking that abortions is the main business of this organization. If that is your impression, someone has given you a false impression. Planned Parenthood provides all of the aforementioned services. Yes, I believe they do provide a certain amount of abortions (which I definitely don't approve of). But the question is "does the fact that they do perform this procedure overrule all of the good works they do"? In my opinion, IT DOES NOT! It's a woman's choice, however tragic, to make if she wants to do such a horrible thing. They should provided with counseling, pro and con, but in the end they are the ones who have to live with and answer for it.
So I can't why Obamacare is something to be hated rather than to be desired.I don't believe it is just because Obamais black because we were also duped into thinkig the same thing when Bill Clinton was president. It was Mrs. Clinton's intitiative and the corporations vilified and demonized for the rest of her husband's presidency. If we don't believe that we should have universal healthcare, something is wrong with us.
Obamacare provides for free prenatal care, mammograms, cancer screenings and pap smears,. These things are hugely important to women but to vote against the ACA is voting to deny them these things. Those who are against Obamacare use the issue of abortion to trick you into voting against your own interests. Take the case of Planned Parenthood. They have brainwashed you into thinking that abortions is the main business of this organization. If that is your impression, someone has given you a false impression. Planned Parenthood provides all of the aforementioned services. Yes, I believe they do provide a certain amount of abortions (which I definitely don't approve of). But the question is "does the fact that they do perform this procedure overrule all of the good works they do"? In my opinion, IT DOES NOT! It's a woman's choice, however tragic, to make if she wants to do such a horrible thing. They should provided with counseling, pro and con, but in the end they are the ones who have to live with and answer for it.
So I can't why Obamacare is something to be hated rather than to be desired.I don't believe it is just because Obamais black because we were also duped into thinkig the same thing when Bill Clinton was president. It was Mrs. Clinton's intitiative and the corporations vilified and demonized for the rest of her husband's presidency. If we don't believe that we should have universal healthcare, something is wrong with us.
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Mitt Romney's Son Owns Voting Machines In Ohio
Charlie Turner, Demand Progress
As this critical election nears, we're teaming up with our friends at CREDO Action to urge the Department of Justice to make sure there's no funny business in Ohio -- Will you join us?
Ohio could decide the election, and its voting machines are made by a company with very close ties to Mitt Romney -- you can read on below for more details.
If you've already signed the petition, will you use these links to ask your friends to sign too?
-Demand Progress
Ohio could decide the election, and its voting machines are made by a company with very close ties to Mitt Romney -- you can read on below for more details.
If you've already signed the petition, will you use these links to ask your friends to sign too?
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|  Dear Friend,Could a voting machine company with deep financial ties to the Romney family help Republicans steal the presidential election in Ohio? It could happen. If this year's presidential election comes down to the electoral votes in Ohio, the deciding votes could be cast on electronic voting machines manufactured by Hart Intercivic. Tell the Department of Justice: Don't let Republicans steal the election in Ohio with Romney-owned voting machines. Click here to sign the petition. A 2007 study conducted by Ohio's Secretary of State showed that Hart Intercivic's touch screen voting machines could be easily corrupted. The New York Times reported: At polling stations, teams working on the study were able to pick locks to access memory cards and use hand-held devices to plug false vote counts into machines. At boards of election, they were able to introduce malignant software into servers.1Hart Intercivic is majority owned by H.I.G. Capital which controls two of the five seats on the Hart Intercivic board. An investment fund with deep ties to the Romney family and the Mitt Romney for president campaign, H.I.G. Capital was founded by Tony Tamer, a major bundler for the Romney campaign, and it is one of the largest partners of Solamere Capital, an investment fund founded by Tagg Romney and Spencer Zwick, Mitt Romney's chief fundraiser from the 2008 presidential campaign.2 This makes the Romney family part owner of the voting machine company, through it's interest in H.I.G. Capital. Tell the Department of Justice: Don't let Republicans steal the election in Ohio with Romney-owned voting machines. Click here to sign the petition. What's more, three other H.I.G. Capital directors are major fundraisers for the Romney campaign, and H.I.G. Capital is the 11th largest contributor to the Mitt Romney campaign.3 Two of the company's directors, Douglas Berman and Brian Schwartz, were even in attendance at the Boca Raton fundraiser4 where Romney infamously declared: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what… who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it… These are people who pay no income tax…[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.5And as if the ties between Tagg Romney's Solamere, Romney contributors at H.I.G. Capital, and Hart Intercivic weren't astonishing enough, two members of Hart Intercivic's 5-member board of directors made direct contributions to the Romney campaign. That's right. Directors of the company that makes touchscreen voting machines that could decide the presidential election in Ohio, have made contributions to the Mitt Romney for President campaign. It is disturbing and dangerous that Hart Intercivic, the company that makes the machines that will count many of the votes in Ohio on election night has deep financial ties to family members of Mitt Romney. And that its leadership has been actively involved presidential campaign by donating and bundling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Mitt Romney. The fact that these machines are easily corruptible touch screen voting machines makes matters even worse. Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are locked in a tight election race which could very well be decided by Ohio's 18 electoral votes. We must take action now. http://act.demandprogress.org/go/749?t=16&akid=1833.2067735.6PXlqz Thank you for all you do to protect the integrity of our Democracy. Becky Bond, Political Director CREDO Action from Working Assets 1. Bob Driehaus, "Ohio Elections Official Calls Machines Flawed," New York Times, December 15, 2007. 2. Rick Ungar, "Romney Family Investment Ties To Voting Machine Company That Could Decide The Election Causing Concern," Forbes, October 20, 2012. 3. "Mitt Romney (R) Top Contributors." Open Secrets, October 1, 2012. 4. Dave Gilson, Who Was at Romney's "47 Percent" Fundraiser?, Mother Jones, Sept. 18, 2012. 5. MoJo News Team, "Full Transcript of the Mitt Romney Secret Video," Mother Jones, September 19, 2012.
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