Selected Editorials - The Sikh Bulletin

And what do we have now A shameless flip flopper Republican Presidential candidate who shows not
even an iota of ethics, who has spent his entire life making money at the expense of the less fortunate,
milked the system for every penny in tax avoidance, likes firing people and not concerned about very
poor, naming his Vice-Presidential candidate a person, the only Republican who has put in black and
white his budget ideas that consist of further lowering taxes for the very rich, increasing or maintaining
the current expenditures on military, reduce, modify or eliminate Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security,
Food Stamps and Welfare programmes, in other words turn this country into a Banana Republic of 1%
filthy rich and 99% peons. Republican should be a derogatory word in this country’s lexicon.
As if the Republican Party was not doing enough damage, there is the Right Wing Media Machine,
including the Fox News (). In its lexicon ‘Liberal’ is a bad word and main stream media is also vilified.
The strategy works. They control plenty of television but a lot of radio. Of the radio hosts two foul
mouths that I get to listen in Sacramento, California, one claims to be using only half of his brain to vilify
Democrats. He learned nothing from Bill Clinton completing his two full terms even though he would
start counting number of days left in his presidency on the day of inauguration. Nor did he learn anything
from Obama’s victory. I think that he got to sleep at the White House during Bush Jr’s presidency, whose
biggest accomplishment was the gift of Iraq to Ayatollahs of Iran at an exorbitant cost to the American
tax payer and wasted life of brave men and women of Armed Forces. He also played Santa Claus to the
very rich by reducing their taxes while engaging in two costly wars fought by poor and middle class
Americans. Another radio host calls himself Savage. I do not know whether that is his real name or he
just likes the label.
Republican Party is not alone in this matter. There are a bunch of DINOs, Democrats In Name Only,
rightly called DOGS of a certain hue who are just like their Republican cousins. I rather have RINOs,
Republicans In Name Only, running the show. If Abraham Lincoln or Dwight Eisenhower, who warned
this nation about the Military-Industrial complex, were the Republican leaders today, I will be a
Republican.
We are waging a ruthless war against the terrorists around the globe, including some who are US citizens.
Why not wage the same war with the same intensity against the home grown terrorists, “white
supremacist skinheads” and “frustrated neo-Nazi”
The world also needs to know that even though the last Republican President went to war in Iraq to bring
Democracy to the Middle East, among other excuses, practically every state in the Union that has a
Republican Governor, is actively engaged in passing legislation to deny legitimacy to some voters. Their
target are the poor, the elderly, and the minorities and even students, all a traditional constituency of
Democrats, all under the pretext of suppressing voter fraud, which fraud is not even occurring.
Neither of the two Presidential candidates deserves my vote but vote I shall for Obama, the lesser of the
two evils. I am not a whole hearted supporter of Obama because he missed an opportunity to use the first
two years of his term when both Houses of Congress had Democrat majority. His problem was the Blue
Dog Democrats, if they deserve to be called Democrats.
He should have whipped them in line and if not single payer system for health insurance at least an option
for single payer should have been an important part of his health reform. The only way to reduce cost of
health insurance is to take profit motive out of it and US manufacturers and businesses should be relieved
of the burden to provide health insurance to their workers. It should be federal and portable across State
lines as Medicare and Social Security. His stimulus package was weak and he played too cozy towards
the financial interests who were given loads of money with no strings attached.
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