David McCallum said: In watching the Republican National Convention this week during the coming and going of Isaac very little if any emphasis was placed on the two topics that the Dems plan on hammering on next week. Abortion aimed at Aiken and same sex or gay marriage. Almost to a person these speakers at the RNC mentioned faith and what this country was built on.....they stressed individual freedoms and consequences for your choices. If I were from Florida I would be very proud to call Marco Rubio my US Senator.
After watching the convention and hearing Mitt's speech last night I feel much better. If the president wants to talk and debate the issues..............jobs, jobs, jobs, economy, economy, Medicare, social security, reigning in entitlements before we all are buried under their collapse, tax reform, debit reduction and getting our military out of Afghanistan before our allies kill us all............there are in trouble. Now if he wants to deflect from the issues and discuss contraception, abortion, the sacrificial lamb Aiken and 10 years of tax returns then they may again fool enough of the American people to win.........lets hope now, we can;t afford another 4 years of that clown.
I thought Mitt didn't want to get out of Afghanistan, I didn't hear anything about that last night, I did hear him talk some about foreign policy something about not letting Iran build it's nuclear arsenal? Didn't the Obama Administration hack Iran's computers setting them back? Romeny seemed to talk the GWB talk, I don't think we want to go back to that, but if we do I hope they budget for the wars this time. While he waxed poetically (which is what they do at a convention) he didn't really give any detail or substance.
I agree Senator Rubio had a great story, his parents worked very hard to provide for their children, I applaud them for that, my dad did the same thing, until I was old enough to start working and earning some money and he started getting too old to be doing that, I always remember my dad having two jobs, even when he was serving in the military, but why do they have to work two jobs? Can't we pay decent enough wages to people so they don't have to do it? I too remember working two jobs in the winter when we only would work 40 hours. I know the idea of working two jobs to help pay for stuff, I was saving for a house down payment, dad to help save for college, while I was able to get student loans as well along with a couple of pell grants, I guess under republican leadership we will all have to go back to working two jobs when those programs to help educate our kids get cut. I just hope I can find that second job.
I get a kick out of Senator Sanatorium who proudly talks about his grandfather working in the coal mines until he was 70, great story, but why did he have to do that? No social security? The company didn't provide pensions? There were no 401k's at the time? Funny though how the republicans policies seem to want to hurt the very thing these peoples family members could have relied on.
Christie was great as he talked about shared sacrifice, but from what I read of the plans that are being provided, entitlements and help for the poor and middle class will be cut, along with taxes for the rich, they say taxes for us, but when they talk about tax reform the deductions that get brought up or interest rate deductions we take along with other tax breaks that the middle class uses, doesn't sound like shared sacrifice to me. Yes I want to be told the truth, but when we get the truth, we realize these aren't the guys we really want running things.
Then there is the rock star Ryan, who told his big lie about the GM plant that the president had promised to save before he was elected. And Ryan complained and said it was Obama's fault....(hey I detect a pattern, it was the other guy's fault), the thing was GM announced the plant closing when Bush was still president, and who's to say what would have happened to it if GM had gone into bankruptcy like Gov. Romney wanted. Anyone catch Brian Williams interview with Congressman Ryan? Of course not your not going to watch that liberal news channel, but when Williams questioned Ryan over the facts of the GM plant, he tried to turn the subject to if GM would have gone through bankruptcy like Romney suggested....then Williams asked him, that nobody was willing to give GM the capital and money to refinance, then Ryan changed the subject.
I think when the candidates get together and if they are allowed to debate, we will find out who has the better plans, we will get to the real answers about the $716 billion that the president is going to cut from medicare and compare it to the $716 billion in the Ryan plan, although Romney doesn't talk about that, and he does say he will not cut and will repeal the Obama /Romney care plans which will allow seniors to lose their donut hole in prescriptions, and also will not put one dent in the debt. Of course after both candidates talk, I will certainly have to go one of those fact checking websites.
I hope you all please correct me on areas where I'm wrong, but these are the opinions I've formed from ALL of what I've been reading and hearing.
Of course the real key to any forward movement in this country will be the people we elect to congress, hopefully people that will work together to get things done and not obstruct whoever is in the White House.
Mel