Leona…and Romney…and those in the cartoon never learned this….. FROM LUKE Chapt. 12.

15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” 16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. 17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ 18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” ‘ 20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself ?’ 21 “This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God.”

May you GREEDY rich….read and heed !!!!!

We all need to get a grip and understand what the PRESENT Republican leadership and most of their minions are trying to accomplish. It is called ‘know your enemy’. This is not about the rich vs. everyone else. This is about IDEOLOGY. The IDEOLOGIES are, in their extremes: the ‘extreme left’ consisting of socialism where government is all about control of all resources and the common good for all, the ‘extreme right’ envisions an unfetted (NO regulations to encumber ANY businesses) free market system and the survival of the fittest is their human philosophy. As we all know, Democrats are on the left side and Republicans are on the right. Today we have a Republican party and its’ RABID followers convinced, more than ever, that they are a threatened species. They have seen the tide of progressivism, both social and fiscal, that they call liberalism and have relentlessly demonized the term, sweeping over the land. They are petrified that if they don’t do something radical to stem the tide, they are doomed. They are being led by a group of OVERPAID blowhards on TV and radio and highly paid (by the rich) politicians, convincing them that NOW is the time to turn the tide DRAMATICALLY in their favor. IF they can continue to press their ‘the rich are the job creators’ mantra they see THE opportunity to stem the progressive tide. THAT is why they are so unbending. Forget Grover Nordquist and his paper mache signed agreements. The right is convinced that this is a SURVIVAL issue and THAT is why they will not go quietly in the night. The proof is in the way they have so agressively given tax breaks to the wealthy over the last few Republican lead administrations. THEY have been the primary cause of the National Debt via Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. THEY KNEW that they would create an steadily increasing astronomical National Debt. By doing so, they have now put the onus on the Democrats to cut back on vital social programs and have been lobbying heavily for the so called ‘entitlement’ programs to be privatized. If that happens, VOILA, smaller government, many of the government programs privatized and THEY make more money investing their trillions in private money to make them even richer. I think that adequately describes the often used term GREED to them as their REAL MANTRA. HOWEVER, lets’ not fool ourselves, we NEED the investors of all types so demonizing them will have its’ major pitfalls if we are not careful.

Be that as it may, we do NOT want either extremes so it is incumbant on us to hold the line on critical social and entitlement programs and ‘raise the revenue river’ by creating jobs. The NUMBER TWO job of the right is to PREVENT jobs from happening until they achieve their ideological objective of ‘protecting the job creators’ via NO tax rate increases on the ‘CASH COW’ SUPER RICH. The President UNDERSTANDS this and THAT is why he is doing what he is doing on the FISCAL CLIFF program. He understands the criticsal importance of not only stopping this tide in its’ tracks but REASONABLY reversing it to the benefit of almost all of us. THIS is the reason why the President is being vilified, demonized, etc. He GETS IT and they are in a tither. He beat them at their own game of going negative to win the Presidency and he is going to beat them again on this front. Once this happens be prepared for a backlash from the so-clled REAL AMERICANS that will be unprecidented in our time BUT, the tide of REASONABLE PROGRESSIVE pograms will win the future (that is until the next devious Republican battle plan is created).

When Paul Ryan stated that he was renouncing the philosophy of Ayn Rand and then stated that his philosophy now is more aligned to that of St. Thomas Aquinas. Who knew that Mr. Ryan supported social collectivism; it was St. Thomas Aquinas who wrote “Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance”. No, I think that Mr. Ryan and most of the GOP still perpetuate the philosophy of Ayn Rand no matter how much they like to wave the bible around as if they really believed the new testaments philosophy.

And now…. the REAL Cartoon of the Day!

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Have a nice day!

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville

Prefer King James, but your view is shared a fortiori by us atheists…

Mitch McConnell is a liar and a Chinese Communist. Rush Limbaugh is a fat, drug addicted Nazi who needs to go to hell. Enough said.