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Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 25, 2012 at 9:32pm

Amanda, God bless you for what you do!  You know, in a way I am glad I said what I did as otherwise, you might not have said a word about what you do!  Good for you for being such a kind and generous person!

Comment by amanda choate on August 25, 2012 at 6:19pm

Patricia one more thing. My vote is my only chance to directly influence my government. I will not give my vote to anyone who does represent my interests. Mitt does not represent my interests or those of my family. He wants to give tax breaks to millionaires and raise my taxes. That is how the CBO scored the little of his tax plan he has put forward. Why should i vote forhim? I am no millionaire. Millionaires should vote for him. Not me or my uterus. Republicans have gone out of there way to limit women's rights. Shame on them.

Comment by amanda choate on August 25, 2012 at 6:12pm

I do volunteer Patricia, every week. But tnoto elect people, but to serve people. The least among us. They are debilitated by disease, injury and illness. They are poor. They have nothing. They suffer mental illness and homelessness. And trust me, private donations do not get close to meeting these people's needs. Whose responsibility is it, I do not know. Mine many days. Whatsoever you do fr the least of my brothers, you do so unto me. Jesus said this, and you say we are a Christian country, so maybe it is the duty of our country. I do not know. But when I hear pols say that these people are malingerers and ne'er do wells, it makes me crazy. In a country of three hundred million, some will need our constant support, for all their needs. They do not have the capacity to meet their own needs. Medicare works the same way, it meets the needs of people who would not otherwise be able to afford healthcare. Before medicare when you old you got sick, went bankrupt and then died. My grandmothrr died in our home because there were no other choices. So we must find a way to pay for it. Medicare trust funds haven't been raided. But the question is this, are we willing to pay for Medicare ? What is the fiscal conservative view on this? What is the tea party view? Are we willing to pay for Medicare? Or is it ethical to pass those costs on to others who will not see its benefits? You tell me.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 25, 2012 at 1:46pm

I am not a Rino. I am a realist. Ron Paul is not going to win the election and he and Romney are talking. Romney is not McCain. He agrees that the fed does need to be audited and is talking to Paul about getting it done. Truthfully, I would like to see Ron Paul put in charge of the federal reserve. The man knows all about it and what needs to be done and the sunlight that needs to shine through it. He would be ideal. As far as saying voting your conscience on the most important election of our lifetime is like voting for Obama is true. This will be a very close election from all appearances right now and with all the cheating the dems are famous for, every single vote will count. Any vote for a 3rd party cardidate that can't win might as well be a vote for Obama.........and that is true. And you talk about replacing 1 power hungrey monarch with another without ever facing the reality of not getting rid of the communist dictator we currently have and you won't if you play games with the election. Most of us have children we are thinking of and know this is the best it could have been but most certainly will be far better than what we currently have in a man who wants our country destroyed. So, if you choose to vote a 3rd party, and you don't do anything to help get the vote out, please don't talk about how screwed up I am..........at least I am putting forth an effort and many are not doing anything but talking about how they are taking care not to compromise their values when this may be the last time you will have that choice along with the rest of us.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 25, 2012 at 12:45pm

Roma, you might as well vote for Obama, because basically that is what you will be doing if you vote against Romney............go all out and click the D for all.  I don't like Jeb Bush at bit any more.  He has gone to the other side, and we all know that.  I didn't like that he thinks the republicans have gone to far to the right when in reality, they are where the democrats used to be before they all became communists.  Republicans are supposed to be center right, and if they don't want to be center right, then, I guess we must find someone who will.  I will not vote for or support Ron Paul because he has some ideas which will be very hurtful to our country and Israel if we do not support them in defending their country against Iran or the other Muslim countries that would destroy it.  Obama has basically said he won't, so now we have to wait and see if he will ...............

 

Roma, I said the following which you may not have read:

And most of all, you have to understand this election will just be a band aid. It isn't going to be fixed, but it gives us some breathing space to plan and get things headed back to us being in charge as the founders planned. If we can get Obama and all his communist friends out, we will have to spend the next 4 years very wisely and actually the next 2 years, because if we don't get the 2 encumbants out that needed to be removed this time, we will have to get at least one of them out in 2 years. We need the senate to go to the republicans and end the logger jam or we are still going to be in trouble. We need a budget and we need Obamacare repealed along with many other things................

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 25, 2012 at 7:49am

But it's ok for Obama to get involved in what happens in your uterus, because he says what you want to hear? You can't have it both ways. Either the government is involved or it isn't? Personally, I don't want the government involved in my health care at all, and yes, I understand I mean I don't want medicare or social security that we all paid for (and the federal government, who was supposed to be safeguarding the money, spent the money on other things and now wants to kill us off so they don't have to pay up or make you pay for what they spent). Amanda, try to remain respectful of my position. I have said in some cases I disagree with you, but I am probably at least as aware as you are and suspect I have been far more pro active than you have as well. Have you knocked on some doors, made some phone calls, signed up to be a poll worker or watcher, walked for a candidate or anything other than insult people like me? And I am not being cruel...............it is just not enough to shoot down folks who don't agree with your stand on things. It isn't enough to just come and criticize others truly, it isn't!

Comment by amanda choate on August 25, 2012 at 6:52am

Ken abortion becomes murder when thd fetuscis viable. Patricia, when I raised concerns about Newt"s moral character, like him being a serial adulterer you told me it didn"t matter. Positions mattered. Now you say you don"t agred with Romney"s positions, but he is a moral man. We aren"t voting for bff, we are voting for president. As long as Republicans want to focus on what happens in my uterus, they are out. Vote libertarian.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 25, 2012 at 6:19am

And most of all, you have to understand this election will just be a band aid. It isn't going to be fixed, but it gives us some breathing space to plan and get things headed back to us being in charge as the founders planned. If we can get Obama and all his communist friends out, we will have to spend the next 4 years very wisely and actually the next 2 years, because if we don't get the 2 encumbants out that needed to be removed this time, we will have to get at least one of them out in 2 years. We need to the senate to go to the republicans and end the logger jam or we are still going to be in trouble. We need a budget and we need Obamacare repealed along with many other things................

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 25, 2012 at 6:13am

The American people really brought the current situation on themselves Ken by trusting politicians to do the right thing and ignoring what was going on in lieu of there day to day lives and running Johnny to soccer or whatever else they had going on including pursuing one upping the guy next door. We ignored it; we accepted some very bad things and didn't even seem to know what was going on as they whittled away at our freedoms and rights. No one apparently noticed that no matter what they did, they either had to have a permit or it was controlled by the city, state or feds. No one noticed when they stopped allowing you to cut down a sick tree without questioning to be sure you wouldn't get into trouble or started putting ethanol in your gas when it is nothing more than a filler and dirtier than regular gasoline is and on and on. The list is so long I wouldn't know where to start and now the same group is screaming over Romney who really is eons better than what we have, and as I said earlier, a step in the right direction towards some sort of sanity. I am sorry you are not willing to accept getting rid of a really bad, amoral, communist in lieu of someone who is much better. Romney may not be perfect, but he will buy us another 4 years to work on this whole situation while he and Ryan at least start moving us backwards into something quite a bit more sane than where we are headed now towards oblivion. This is not the time to decide on a protest vote or no vote at all and get Obama back for another 4 years and the end of our country. While we are talking about that, you need to take some action. You need to volunteer to walk neighborhoods and talk to people.............not against Romney or Obama but to make people realize it is time for them to come forward, to start being informed and to take our country, state, and local government back and cut the regulations and foolishness that is crippling our whole country. It is time to step up to the plate and join the REC, volunteer to be a poll worker or watcher to assure honest elections in November............understand this is an important state to the cheater in chief, and do the things that need to be done in order to get things pulled back from where they are now. Did you know that both Crenshaw and Nelson will probably get another term when both of them needed to be removed from office? What has everyone done to get rid of these 2 far left of center folks. Did you know that they have voted for pretty much everything that put us where we are? We had and have some good folks running against them; offer to help them and fight to get rid of both of these folks that have misrepresented who they are and in the case of Nelson, flat out lied to their constituents. It isn't enough to just be unhappy with what is going on. We, in district 1, have walked and talked to people. We have set as a goal knocking on every door in district 1 to get folks out to vote and share information. I don't know what district you list in or precinct, but if you want to effect change either find someone who is walking you precinct and help or take the initiative to be the person who organizes it and get volunteers to do it and get it done. You can get a voter list for your precinct, you can get folks to sign up for absentee ballots and then, make sure they vote. You do not have to wait for someone else to take the initiative and start things..............none of you do. You can join the REC, you can be verbal about what you like and don't like and start the process in your neighborhood, precinct and district. Run for city council or get involved in something at the city level as a start. Write letters .......... lots of letters to the people that represent you.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on August 24, 2012 at 8:47pm

Ken, I know I have spoken only for the local REC, because that is in my sphere. Many local RECs are now being infiltrated (for lack of a better word) by conservative members of the tea party and communites they reside in. I think they will have no choice but to move back where they should be at right of center, but nothing like that will be instant..............they didn't get where they are overnight either. I think righting this country will be ongoing for years as we weed out these incumbants and put in "real" Americans to replace them. I am not sure Romney and Ryan will be as conservative as the next folks, but people will have to be in this for the long haul as it is truly going to take years to get back to the constitutional republic our founders gave us....................and we must continue. I see November only as a turning point; it will be a long way back to where we should be.

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