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Michigan, Press 4 for English

Amusings from another night in 2008.

I was born and raised in Michigan but I have been gone over a dozen years now. It's not the state I new when I was there.

Michigan voted for Mitt Romney, the corporate candidate. He is the guy who represents the gutting of the the American company and it's factory jobs. But he talks about it so people vote for him. He is also from Michigan. He also, for the second time in the race, went against normal protocol and decency when he came out for his speech as others were speaking. Normally, the third person comes out, the second and then the winner. Romney is strategically going against this decency and cutting others off. He did so in Michigan even as his campaign was on the phone with McCain saying it's okay to go out and talk. Says a lot for how he'll run the country doesn't it?

7% of Michigan people voted for Fred-my-writers-are-on-strike-Thompson and Rudy-911-turrets-syndrome-Guliani. 7% is also the current unemployment rate in Michigan. The highest in the US.

McCain was rejected for several reasons.

McCain talked about global warming. Not a good Republican topic. Republicans believe strongly in Hell so it's not a big deal that we are getting warmer. Bush tried to take us there faster and many in the party wants to continue on that path. The Republicans want to keep us in a war in the hot Middle East deserts so we need to adjust our body temperature. Well, for at least a hundred years. Well, at least until the Rapture. Or maybe until every bit of oil is drilled up and sold to us suckers in America. And Michigan also has the Great Lakes. No worries, mate. Since we won't have jobs, we won't need the beef from all those dying cattle throughout Australia.

McCain talked about fuel efficiency. Republicans don't want to hear about that. The party believes they will share in the big oil jackpot. Just like they think those tax cuts are really benefiting themselves. Only the executives really win in the game of oil and tax cuts but that fact hasn't trickled down yet to the common folk. We wouldn't need many taxes if we stayed home and took care of ourselves in the US. Michigan also would have more jobs and be in better shape if they thought about fuel efficiency sooner....Say sometime in the last thirty years.

McCain talked about green initiatives and new technology. Republicans want oil and sand. Michigan wants big old dirty jobs back. They don't want sparkling clean jobs. They don't want to be an early leader in new jobs. They want the seventies back. They want big old cars that eat gas and rust out rapidly in the Michigan winter salt. They want to be paid $20 an hour to sweep the floor with full benefits at the auto plants. And if they can't have that, they'll have nothing.

McCain is not the answer either. And really, no President is the answer. They can't do anything good by themselves. Look at our current elected idiots. We all want to hang the hat of our own mistaken beliefs and lack of history knowledge on one person. We want to live in our own little world protected by SUVs and mobile media devices while believing all is good as along as someone else is suffering more than ourselves. We believe we have the right to make a few people rich as we try to police the world.

Here's a thought. Hire our own people, build our own stuff, buy our own stuff. We need to stop listening to people like Mitt Romney telling us we need open markets to sell our stuff to the world. What stuff? Factory production is said to be down to 12% of what it was twenty years ago. And even that sounds high to me. Do you see many USA Made items in Wal-mart, Target or K-Mart? Can you even find any? Do you see much produce in the grocery store from a nearby farm? Even our canned beans come from China!

The Reagans, Bushes and Clintons sold us out. They have taken money for themselves and associates and turned us into a shell of what we once were. Executives that used to make $150,000 a few years ago now make millions. We are top heavy with bloodsuckers and running low on blood. We can't survive selling each other (imported) coffee, toxic fast food (majority of beef comes from outside the USA) and Oreo cookies. It's time Americans wake up and take our country back while we can. Before our own answering machines tell us "Press 4 for English" in a language we can barely understand.

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posted by - A @ 8:16 PM