Vote Green Party.

Okay, I have finally made up my mind and BP is the one that pushed me totally to a solid third party. I voted in the past for Republican or Democrat, I chose the one I thought best for the job. But over time I realized something.

I was throwing my vote away.

Both parties do not care about the working people, the poor (not the deadbeats), the disabled or the Veterans. They play political lip service to all of them, but they have proven over the past couple decades that only corporations and banks have their true attention.

Bailouts for failing corporations. Bailouts for corrupt banks. Protection for corporations that break all the laws both ethical and real. Protection for all the CEOs and their officers involved, and their millions in bonuses, mansions, planes and cars.

So it's time to finally say no, to put a real stop to all of it.

The Green Party does not take ANY corporate donations. They do not support ANY of the bailouts. They do not support ANY of the lies of corporations that they will protect the environment.

They DO support using materials Made in the USA for alternative energy. They DO support strict controls over banks and corporations from using taxpayer money for their own profits. They DO support changing how far executives can go with their greed for bonuses.

Do they have a stellar record? No, they picked Cynthia McKinney for President last time and I admit that pushed me to vote Libertarian Bob Barr. But they have changed greatly since that election, with new guidelines and new positions. More and more disgruntled Democrats and Republicans are moving to the Green Party giving it a good mix of the people of this nation.

And in IL Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate Rich Whitney is the most moderate of any politician, easily exposing the corruption of the Democrats and Republicans (mind you in IL we have former under indictment and the latter governors in prison). He believes in a fair and balanced system of laws that are all oriented toward the people of the state, not the corporations or banks within the state.

This is what the Green Party is working for. A nation once again by the people and for the people, with environmental common sense, and an energy plan that brings it all HOME and not more to the Middle East.

So please give them a look and you might be very surprised.

http://www.gp.org/about.shtml

Two disturbing trends that = one dangerous future.

The Tea Party, of which sadly Ron Paul and his son Rand seem to be in the thick of, is pushing for more and more dangerous changes. They want the government to stop regulating companies. Bush and the GOP tried this during their reign and look what it got us with the banks, the oil companies, and now the worse oil spill in history. They want the government to have nothing to do with healthcare, let the insurance companies deal with it. That has been tried before under both both the DNC and RNC and it got us a loss of rights to decide what doctors we can go to, what procedures we actually want or don't want, and that doctors continue to have to take patients as cattle to fit the insurance company requirements. And the Tea Party would love for the government to be less and the "Free Market" to decide the nation's economy.

But a "Free Market" cannot and will never exist. The reason is that companies and their executives care about one thing, money. Greed. Pure, unfettered greed. And in a "Free Market" that greed is unregulated, they can do anything to the people and will do anything to the people to get their profits, their bonuses, and that means working together in oligopolies to ensure control of the "Free Market". Think about the oil companies, the auto industry, the holding companies, etc. The price fixing, the game playing with "incidents" to cause prices to rise. And don't forget the banks, which are part of this "Free Market" plan and how they played fast and loose with everyone's money and raised interest rates and fines with impunity because the Federal Government deregulated them so much during the Bush administration.

As long as the government does not regulate and put STRICT controls over these greedy executives and their corporations they will rape their workers (Enron), destroy the environment (BP), devastate the economy (Behr Stearns), and ruin their business for bonuses (GM).

And yet this is the world the Tea Party, Ron and Rand Paul, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and the rest all want. Not a thought or care about the working people, except to scare working people into believing that government regulations are bad and akin to Nazism or some other idiotic, over reaching comparison.

This leads to the second disturbing trend. Corporate CEOs and officers running, and winning, public office. Popular opinion is turning against corporations and banks. It is starting to move away from supporting their every whim and the big bailouts of banks and companies that should have failed by Bush and Obama, but the Democrats and Republicans, really helped the people see how our government is bought and paid for. The corporations and their executives have the Tea Party to help move their cause for complete corporate and bank autonomy along, but wouldn't it be easier to just make the laws and truly move us to a full Corporatist State?

And what better way to ensure that corporations and banks get carte blanch than to get corporate executives and bankers into political office? To be "elected?" Then once in it won't matter what the people say or do or want, but then they can ensure their friends always get their support.

Cheney, Haliburton (who also made the failed emergency system on DeepWater Horizon), and the oil companies. But now think of corporate Senators, banker Governors, executive Representatives. Think of our nation run totally by the very people who have screwed over employees, taken pension plans, decide our health care, plan the oil rigs, etc. actually running the nation.

Corporate Executives running for office + Tea Party = Elected Corporate Executives.

Which equals the total move from a Capitalist Economy and Republic Political System to a total Corporatist State.

And what's most painful of all is that both of these groups keep quoting President Theodore Roosevelt. A President who broke the backs of corporate greed and abuse of workers. A President who greatly valued the environment and protection for families and children. A President who though rich worked for the working people and rebuffed his own class. A President who would be appalled by the current political parties and their ties to banks and corporations. A President who would denounce the Tea Party movements and the move of corporate executives to politicians.

A President who is rolling over in his grave watching this great nation be eaten away from within.

Obama's Katrina - DeepWater Horizon

It is as I feared. Just as Bush didn't give a damn about what happened when a category 5 hurricane, Katrina, plowed into the southern states and devastated New Orleans so now we have Obama doing the same thing, but far worse, with the massive oil spill off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. He has let BP take six weeks so far to plug a well from an explosion that clearly came due to their cost cutting, due to their lack of concern for the grunts on the rig or the people and wildlife, due to the complete paid off government MMS who let them build with impunity, and due to the bought for blindness of the Federal government who's supposed to regulate the oil companies.

Just like Bush, Obama doesn't give a damn about the working people. The people along the Gulf, the fishermen, the boating businesses, the tourism trade, and just the people who live there, will be suffering this disaster for many years to come. The wildlife, some of our most precious wetlands, will be totally devastated for decades. And what is Obama doing to BP for this?

Not one damn thing. Nothing. "They are the experts, they are the only ones that can stop this." Obama has said.

That is the biggest lie in the world. And it is spread by one of the best liars to take office. BP are the experts? The same "experts" that said the drilling was safe. The "experts" that said this could never happen. The same "experts" who I'm sure are trying to save just as much money as they did in building the rig. The same "experts" who let workers die due to negligence and who are doing nothing to help the people suffering and about to suffer long term financial hardship.

Obama has given the murderer a pass AND let him go into the crowded mall with a machine gun.

We are supposed to be the most advanced nation in the world. We are supposed to be able to resolve crisis better than anyone. Yet we still have Katrina victims living in trailers, abandoned homes, mold problems all around New Orleans, the dikes still have not been fixed, and it's still a great embarrassment. Now we have DeepWater Horizon, and we have to let the company that created the disaster be the one to fix it. We won't see their CEO and officers in the muck and mire cleaning up the ocean shores. We won't see those arrogant, filthy rich pigs offering up their bonuses to cover the devastated lives of the working people along the Gulf. And the USA will again be shown as nothing more than a nation that is embarrassing in how it cares for it's people, but how our government loves to care for it's corporations.

Here's what should be done, and should have been done from day one:

First, as soon as the explosion happened the President and Fed should have had people right there, in the Gulf to ascertain the situation, not waited and relied on the word of the damn company.

Second, once the severity of the leak was realized by those people (again not the damn company) then the best scientific minds in the world should have been called in to work out what to do to stop it.

Third, knowing this would be devastating to the working people along the Gulf, the government should have started fines for BP based on the millions in losses to be paid exclusively to the people affected.

Fourth, when the fault was clearly noted as BPs and that those workers were essentially murdered and the Gulf was destroyed due to their actions, the executives of BP should have had all their assets seized to be sold to help the families of those who died, and to go further to help people on the Gulf. Then they should all be put into rubber waders and be forced to clean up the Gulf Coast until the job is done, to wash the wildlife, and to be "down there" with the people who's lives they didn't care about.

Of course this will never happen. Because the Democrats and Republicans are bought and paid for. They are controlled totally by our corporations and banks. Their opinion of the people in New Orleans? Or the people along the Gulf Coast? Of the citizens who have been sick and/or died in Katrina and on DeepWater Horizon? F**k you, you're not rich enough for us to give a damn.