You’re dead on with your assessment. We did not get a Progrtessive President, but we did not get McCain, a fact I am quite grateful for(bomb bomb, bomb Iran)

Obama has already started by offering SSI, which does not contribute a penny to deficit being funded by a separate tax, for cuts via Chaiined CPI. I need to engage everyone here why the wealthy consider SSI their boogyman, a subject for future post.

We need to stay in Leadership’s face, just as we sucessfuly did with SOPA and PIPA, clearly saying No!.

Both Presidents Roosevelt (The New Deal) and Johnson (The War on Poverty) agreed with progressive policies but demanded that Congress (House and Senate) force him to enact them.

In this age of flash polling and email, we can take the place of Congress with the President in continuing to move further to the Left on social policy such as SSI and Food Stamps. We have to stay active and engaged with our Congress-Creatures and the White House. Email, tweets, phone calls, polls, every option to express yourself should be taken whenever you can.

In the 200/2004 Presidential Elections I was very discouraged by what we were forced to accept in Mr. Bush. But, America is my country and my Nation and giving up no matter the odds or opposition is not in my nature. I chose to stand and fight however I could and I continue to stand up where I can and how I can.

I hope you, here, can find the courage and strength to do the same.

”When you are going through Hell, keep going”, Winston Churchill

Allison, keep doing what you are doing.

Elected folks scream in terror and give up when you tell them that you know what the next trade deal really means.

We killed SOPA and PIPPA within a matter of weeks by being active and engaged with our representatives.

From my perspective, it appears the last ten years of job losses and reduced opportunity for US workers was to force us to spend all of our available time either working, caring for our families or sleeping. With that, most have no chance to fact-check Faux News while they blew smoke up your ass. From a recent survey, Faux News know less about civics and world matters than someone who watched No TV at all.

As you said, non-violent action, an in their face reminder that we citizens vastly outnumber the politicians, the corporate CEO’s and even the police. A reminder that they are hired by us, paid by us and are supposed to serve our interests in safety and the rule of law.

All the Best(Thanks to Ray Bird of Seattle for that)

Happily, the public outcry stopped the vote, for now.

We need to be vigilant against all attempts to remove or reduce citizens rights.

We can be confident that every time something like this is exposed to full view, it gets shot down by public outcry

I adored George(In a brotherly sort of way) and miss him terribly.

On reflection after seeing one of his last gigs, it seems very obvious he was getting too close to waking everyone up to the facts and had to be ’removed’ before we got the clue.

My hope is that we here spread the infection of truth and knowledge until it cannot be repressed by any minority elites.

You’re welcome…;]

I firmly believe that a lot of our problem is a lack of information.

Our Tea Party neighbors would be enraged if they truly understood what lies Republicans have spread.

We have to keep hammering away with irrefutable truths, facts that refuse to disappear and peaceful objection to un-American acts by anyone.

Welcome to our group.

So many people have no clue as to how much effect unions have had on our workplace. Paid vacations, sick leave, 40-hour work week are the top ones I can think of.

Companies had to add that to their packages to lure talent from unionized workplaces or at least compete with them on a basic level.

There’s a movement for that, based on the success of Nebraska’s(I may be wrong) state bank.

It does just that, provide the ’plumbing’ of state government and last I heard the state was not suffering any issues because the bank was entirely solvent because it was run by the state.

My state, the Other Washington, is moving in that direction, too.

Your caution is noted and completely valid.

The passage of the Military Commissions act by Mr. Bush and the ”small government” Republicans(Hypocrites) gave the Federal authorities to yank you off the street, hold you without charge, communication with family or counsel, indefinitely.

Please feel free to engage me privately for solutions to this situation. I’m not wealthy in anything but ideals and idealism, but I do have resources and bandwidth.

In the meantime, Freenet.org is space where you can exchange ideas, files and other data without any trace back to your system on any level. I also urge those that can afford to keep their systems on-line 24/7/365 to install and use the Tor system from Tor.org. Your providing a Tor connection allows people in countries like Iran and China a pipeline out to the Internet we all treasure without censorship or risk of arrest. Mine has been up for years and has little effect on my other on-line activities.

Lastly, being revolutionary Americans by descent means we have the genes not to accept the status quo if it does not meet with our approval. We don’t have to storm Faux News to have an effect, we just have to keep speaking up wherever we have an opportunity.