The GOP Empress Palin's New Clothes and The Naked Truth

MS SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

BuzzFlash,

One hundred and fifty-thousand dollars spent in two months on clothes. Isn't life just wonderful? Usually the Bush GOP go to any lengths to hide people's money, but those of you who gave your $25 or $100 to the Republican campaign coffers can just imagine that you might be able to see your money and watch it travel around the country. No one has ever accused the Bush GOP of having ethics. If you can't buy it, they don't have it.

I have a feeling that maybe Palin has never seen a US report called CPI, Consumer Price Index, that tells how most of this country lives. Come on, Palin is governor of a state with a population less than many of our cities ... 626,000 people. And, all we really know about her is that she loves to charge her personal expenses or go shopping with other people's money. Government money. True Bush GOP. They must really love her, she's so well trained.  

The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August  

RNC Spends Thousands on Palin Clothes  

The government is probably better than insurance companies or product labels at burying information or confusing consumers until a person has to dig into mountains of information to find one tiny piece of information. For you who love that here's this link:  

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics  

But, for those of you who don't have the time and want things up front and in our face ... Jim Hightower has done a great job, and let's hope that all of those poor, hardworking Americans pay attention to these figures, the ones we have to live with, not the gifts that keep on giving to the Bush GOP who work for the people. Here's just part of the stats and the link.

EARNING
Median pre-tax household income	$49,158	$48,201
decrease for African American households under Bush		$2,766
decrease for Asian American households		$1,381
decrease for Hispanic households		$1,043
decrease for white households		$745
WORKING
Salary of full-time minimum-wage earner in 2007		$12,168
Increase in productivity of American workers under Bush		18%
Increase in real earnings of American workers under Bush		9%
Total # manufacturing jobs	17.3 million	14.2 million
National unemployment rate	3.5%	5%
Number unemployed Americans	5.6 million	7.7 million
Number including discouraged or underemployed	9.9 million	13.5 million
LIVING
Americans living in poverty	31.6 million	36.5 million
Americans going hungry according to USDA	31 million	38.2 million
Cost of a gallon of milk	$3	$3.79
Cost of a loaf of bread	$.98	$1.32
Rent, 2-bedroom home, Los Angeles (month)	$1,658	$2,229
Rent, 1-bedroom home, Boston (month)	$1,453	$2,000
Total consumer credit debt	$7.65 trillion	$12.8 trillion
Personal savings rate	+2.3%	-0.5%
HOMEOWNERS & RENTERS
Increase in number of home foreclosures from 2006		68%
Households currently at high risk of foreclosure		2 million
Households paying more than half their income for housing		13 million
Households unable to afford even the lowest-priced home rentals in the U.S.		2.8 million

 

Hightower Lowdown | What 8 years of BushCheney have done to our economy

 

Another truth that people, such as McCain and Palin, wouldn't know is that many Senior Citizens of today are worse off than their parents of yesterday and have to work. There is an upside to this, though, working keeps people fit and maybe longer lives ... in order to keep reminding the younger generations of how this country came to be robbed, bludgeoned, and dropped to its knees because they know the past history, they've lived it.

 

Knowledge of history is being controlled in many of our schools. The US ratings for education are very low compared to other countries, for such a country as ours, and this makes the Bush GOP say, "a job well done."  Disinformation, propaganda, lies, and subterfuge are all the Bush GOP has to offer the American people, in the same way racism was created during the early plantation days as a way to split and control the masses ... it's still being done.   

 

Between 1977 and 2007, employment of workers 65 and over increased 101 percent, compared to a much smaller increase of 59 percent for total employment (16 and over). The number of employed men 65 and over rose 75 percent, but employment of women 65 and older increased by nearly twice as much, climbing 147 percent.  

 

Older Workers: BLS Spotlight on Statistics  

 

We have to keep reminding ourselves not to fall for the parade, the circus, the show, the garments, the well rehearsed lines (well, that could be a stretch), and that we Americans need leaders who have been there, or at least those who know this country, the diversity of the American people, where we are really at today, and what our country needs in order to change ... (hint) not a fancy wardrobe and a phony southern accent.  

 

Want the real truth? I quote others because they've said it just in the way I want people to hear it as they read it ... the Bush Republicans have spent a good part of their lives trying to ruin US government for everyone except themselves, and it's not as if this hasn't been done before to other countries and their citizens, who didn't fight back, just accepted that they were not the elite, and it was so much easier just to do as they were told, and like the good sons and daughters, never, ever question the government. US government has helped build the so-called elite Bush GOP. They all love to go "shopping."  

 

Fascism: If Fascism came to America it would be on a program of 100 percent Americanism." -- Huey P. Long, U.S. Army Talk, March 24,1945.  

 

"Naked Truth: According to an old Roman fable, when Truth went swimming in the river, Falsehood stole Truth's clothes, Truth went naked rather than put on the clothes Falsehood had left behind." -- Word and Phrase Origins, Robert Hendrickson, 2004  

 

A reminder for all of you Americans who love to be abused and mistreated and want to wallow in the trenches of victimhood, remember ... Democracy should be "what you see is what you get," without the deceptions, the costly clothes, phony accents, fancy words and phrases ... we want it from the heart of our leaders, with the American people in mind, with our place in the world in mind.

 

We want this government to become what it was meant to be ... a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. We Americans have to train ourselves to rethink our place in this country.   

 

These government officials "work for us." We want democracy undressed ... plain, simple, and stark naked, for all the world to see.  

 

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