Former President
Ronald Ray-Gun was buried in the last decade.
Former First Lady
Nancy Reagan was buried over the weekend.
Now we have to do
the work to bury the Reagan legacy – A legacy that sees it's
fulfillment in the current nut house that is the GOP and it
Presidential pretenders – Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and
John Kasich.
We need to bury the
war on drugs that has ruined thousands of lives and destroyed
countless families by sending users to jails and prisons instead of
to social workers and drug counselors, Talk about family values? I'd
like to see some.
We need to bury the
war on the poor that
1. . Sends people
off into the streets, living in parks, under bridges, and into
poorly funded homeless shelters – Where they can't find jobs and
attending school on a stable schedule becomes impossible.
2. Cuts off access
to healthy food by limiting and eliminating food stamps, WIC, and
other sources of providing food for one's family. When the only food
some children see is what they get at school (which means nothing on
weekends for some children) – there is a problem.
3. Cuts of Medicare
and Medicaid for the poor and elderly. Both of those cost less than
the emergency room treatment the poor and elderly wind up pursuing.
Or the bill from a funeral service.
So much for
“compassionate conservatism.”
We need to bury the
military industrial complex that has consumed all of our tax dollars
and forces us to borrow to pay for day to day needs for America. We
have the most expensive military in the world and yet have nothing to
show for it except basket cases (or failed states) like Afghanistan,
Iraq, Libya, and Syria is now degenerating into a hell hole that I
would not send a Trump supporter to. (Let me think about that some
more.)
We need to bury the
lie of “trickle down economics” - the lie that if we make the
rich richer, then money will (eventually, somehow) get to the 99%
and we will all be better off. Dr Paul Craig Roberts – the “Father
of Reagnomics” now speaks about hows that was a lie and designed to
transfer wealth form the 99% to the 1%.
Rather than
mansplaining women's issues, search the Socialist Action web-site for
articles written by women on women's issues – abortion, fair pay,
health care, and many more issues that men just don't get.
We need to bury a
failed foreign policy that has the US covertly supporting terrorists
that support our economic agenda against the democratic will of the
citizens of other countries. Look at Honduras, Venezuela, Burundi,
and many others that are fighting pro-US insurgencies.
We need to bury the
legacy that called AIDS a “gay disease” and portrayed the LGBTQ
community as sick perverts. (Catholic church scandal anyone?) The
same diseases that afflict the LGBTQ communities affect heterosexual
communities too. You can not be concerned about one without looking
at the other.
There is so much
work to do.
Work on racism.
Work on women's
rights.
Work on family
rights and needs.
Work on peace.
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