Sarah Palin argues that she represents the USA. She is roundly applauded by the Tea Party and heavily funded by the Koch Brothers. She wants to return the USA to its Christian roots and have laws passed based on the Bible and Ten Commandments. Does she represent the USA and mainstream America?
GOP wants to cut the national debt and the national budget, privatize Social Security and Medicare, and with Paul Ryan as the leading intellectual in the GOP tent, is intent on lowering wages, ending unions, and fostering self-sufficiency. What may the results be from such a movement?
The GNP in the USA has consistently gone down while wages became stagnant and unemployment shot up–a trend begun by Ronald Reagan and reached its greatest extreme under George W. Bush. How great of a president was Ronald Reagan?
Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are both seeking the presidency of the USA, cite USA history and science incorrectly, and lie at every convention or group they address.
Education has become essential–to get a job–but learning a subject or gaining knowledge is of little interest to most people–because of bad teachers, bad books, and lazy students. Here is how to correct the problems.
Robert Vander Plaats of Iowa, with the support of pseudo-scientist Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute, seeks to destroy education in Iowa and follows the diktat of Martin Luther and Adolf Hitler in denying human rights and civil liberties. Evangelical extremists throughout Iowa have flocked to his cause to enshrine the Bible as the source of wisdom, to subordinate women in obedience to men, and has merged tactics with the Denver, IA KKK and neo-Nazis throughout the State of Iowa.
Keith Ratliff, Sr., of Des Moines, Iowa, has called for the limiting of freedom in the USA, and argues that civil rights are only the rights of Black people because of their skin color. His message of hate is pounded out while he slaps his bible against whatever podium he is near yet his words prove that he is ignorant of the bible he is misquoting.
More students are dropping out of high school every day, at an alarming rate. As of 2007 it was one student every 26 seconds. The cause: bad schools, poorly trained teachers, inadequate librarys, and politicians who want to “save money” at the expense of an educated populace, with the Tea Party and GOP taking aim at further dumbing down learning and the advancement of civilization
Racism has been a part of recorded history since its beginning of more than 15000 years. Much of it has come out of a myth that is popular among Jews and Christians: Genesis 9:20-27 which is plagiarized from a far older Egyptian text based on the theology centered around the God Osiris, coupled with ancient Greek tales.
While the teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution still raises the blood pressure of USA Tea Bag Party Republicans/GOP, climate warming is now the monster of the moment. “Science is bunk” most Tea Baggers brag; and 74% of the GOP in the US Senate concur (http://blog.thenewstribune.com/letters/2011/04/11/gop-is-against-using-science-to-solve-problems/ and http://www.alternet.org/story/150340/ and http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/10/10/how-did-an-entire-political-party-decide-to-reject-climate-change-science/ on the economics of climate change and geopolitics, …