Comments on: Billionaires Against Billionaires

By: rustacus21

rustacus21 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:48:00 +0000

Warren Buffet is about policy. Lets be clear. Donors hiding behind their ‘secrecy’ provision in the manic Citizens United decision, we understand they are about nothing but ideology, greed & injustice. Apologizing for a criminal is not very bcoming of people of any intelligence. & its a ‘crime’ the ‘madness’ some of these billionaires are spouting about the “fanciful”, “imagined” or “perceived” “damage” President Obama has (none confirmed YET!!!) done or plans (as ‘they’ see it, in their own twisted psycho world-view) to do… I shake my head in bewilderment as I type these words & consider there are millions of Americans who voted 4 Bush R ready 2 do it again, w/Romney; that 2 consecutive conservative sabotage jobs wasn’t convincing enuff? I didn’t say it w/U’r eloquence “BigSpender”, but thank U 4 helping point the wayward in an enlitened direction… After 2001-2009, there’s not much left, but it’s all the Democracy we have… LEFT…

By: rustacus21

rustacus21 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:32:00 +0000

I’m not sure if there’s any reason to celebrate, especially considering the whole hog total of donations are still going to conservatives, producing the garbage paraded across WI during the recall. That money translates into “impact” is scary stuff – especially since fox has the ‘eyes’ & ‘minds’ of so many Americans who lack critical thinking skills already! Secret ‘warrants’; secret ‘tribunals’; secret ‘spies’ informing on Americans from the highest to the lowest levels of society; secret ‘government’? This is what the ‘secrecy’ surrounding big donors will impact. I could almost swear we went thru this & resolved NEVER to have to deal w/it again… In July of 1776? I could be wrong… Or mayB conservative voters are, but not both of us!!!

By: rbtemsn

rbtemsn — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 03:21:00 +0000

Even though I am unhappy about large contributors being able to spend with no limits on political advertising, the fact is that many voters are getting more savvy about propaganda and realize what the truth actually looks like. Especially when there are debates and the candidates speak their minds and get off-script. That kind of tells you who you are voting for. I decided to vote against George Bush Sr. because of a remark he made during the debate against Clinton, when I realized that President Bush did not understand how the recession affected working people. I suspect Romney will follow in those same footsteps. His world insulates him from the truth, and when that becomes obvious to people who are struggling, my guess is they will not find him representative of their interests.
RWE

By: Sherry Davis

Sherry Davis — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:24:00 +0000

I just pray enough people are smart enough to see how the GOP is trying to buy this election, not listen to the GOP lies, and vote for Obama. We need him to fix the Koch Brother owned Supreme Court or we will all be doomed and at the mercy of the heartless ulta wealthy.

By: sigrid28

sigrid28 — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:13:00 +0000

Lulled to sleep already by political ad overkill? Treat yourself to a bracing eye-opener by watching HBO’s “Hemingway&Gellhorn.” Just for fun, compare the enormous volume of the repetitious lies now being pumped over the U.S. airways via the right-wing, Republican messaging system–to the anti-communist, fascist propaganda spewing out of room-sized loudspeakers hauled uphill and down over the dusty roads of Spain on the truck beds of pre-World War II military transports. Ask yourself, how can those quaint, goofy-looking trucks have had even the slightest impact? See how gutsy, literate, clever, liberal American war correspondents embedded in the Spanish Civil War, aided by the best film and print technology of the period, were nevertheless caught unawares by the outcome of the Spanish Revolution and blind-sided by the atrocities of the Nazi death camps. And they were willing to get their hands dirty.

By: DurdyDawg

DurdyDawg — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:39:00 +0000

You forgot to mention that the pumping is all generated around the well to do that when they receive it, they also sit on it. The only way we’ll see money circulating will come when the middle class goes back to work.. they are this nation’s only salvation.

By: DurdyDawg

DurdyDawg — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:18:00 +0000

Yes, E.J., it’s called democracy but the pubs insist on calling it a Republic, even hiding their own addiction.. Capitalism. And another thing.. Although it has become corrupt in it’s own right (and which institution doesn’t eventually go radical given time) once the Unions are eliminated (which is a pet project for all corporate pubs and their hopeful leader) the common man will no longer have an advocate in the work place. The moguls will revert back to Hoover’s time and save for the fact that minimum wage is over $7.00 an hour (so far) we would all be set back to 75¢ an hour.. Oh for the good old days. People say the unions are out of date, no longer needed.. They weren’t around when it was necessary to create unions.. They don’t know that industry was the cause for unions and throughout these decades the moguls have been salivating over destroying the people’s voice.. When this happens then all those who said, “Unions are no longer needed” will begin to feel what their great-grandfathers felt working under tyrants for pennies with absolutely no benefits.. I’ll hold back my laughter until that time returns.

By: dawnspirits

dawnspirits — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:59:00 +0000

he’s a mother something thats for sure

By: dawnspirits

dawnspirits — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:57:00 +0000

… and since those billionaires own many of the media radio and tv stations all of the revenues from paying for airtime go straight back in to their pockets — so it really costs them nothing

By: SaneJane

SaneJane — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:53:00 +0000

My comments were a little tongue-in-cheek. I agree with you that the current situation is very bad for our country and Norquist and Citizens United are behind the wheel.