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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. 70
With Paul Ryan as his V-P candidate, Romney’s vague statements about what he will do to improve the economy are now very explicit thanks to Ryan’s budget proposal that Republicans have already passed. There is no wiggle room. This is an opportunity for the American electorate to redeem itself from the goofs of two terms for Bush Jr. They can earn the respect of the entire world by giving President Obama a fifty state victory. That would also be a sweet victory over the right wing Republican Supreme Court that declared corporations as people. Perhaps that will also trigger the resurrection of a Republican Party that is truly compassionate conservative and not a farce that Bush Jr. gave us. Hardev S Shergill * EDITORIAL [II] [From the July-August 2012 Sikh Bulletin] GURBANI & SIKH REHT MARYADA SOME CONTRADICTIONS Quotes from Guru Granth Sahib: ਏਕੁ ਿਪਤਾ ਏਕਸ ਕੇ ਹਮ ਬਾਿਰਕ ਤੂ ਮੇਰਾ ਗੁਰ ਹਾਈ ॥ The One God is our father; we are the children of the One God. You are our Guru. GGS Page 611 ਨਾ ਕੋ ਬੈਰੀ ਨਹੀ ਿਬਗਾਨਾ ਸਗਲ ਸੰ ਿਗ ਹਮ ਕਉ ਬਿਨ ਆਈ ॥੧॥ No one is my enemy, and no one is a stranger. I get along with everyone. GGS Page 1299 Both quotes above are from the Bani of Fifth Nanak, Guru Arjan Dev Ji. Guru Ji is stressing that whole Human Race is one big Family. Guru Nanak preached the same thing to his Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Muslim audiences in India and the Middle East and to the Christian and Jewish audiences whom he must have come across during his visit to Mecca, Medina and Baghdad. Scientific research on human origins confirms the same thing. In fact it even pin points origin of human race to an ‘African Mother’. Quotes from ‘Sikh Reht Maryada: The Code of Sikh Conduct & Conventions’, Published by Dharam Parchar Committee Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee December 2000 (English version) “Only a Sikh may perform kirtan in a congregation”. (Chapter V Article VI c) p.15 “A Sikh daughter must be married to a Sikh”. (Chapter XI Article XVIII b) p.26 71
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