Reply #33: I agree in part

[lizbitchwitchy]

I can agree with your voiced concern over their refusal to define and take definate action as far as getting out of Iraq is cocerned. However, I was not all that impressed by the first 100 hours either.

They cut student loan interest rates in half and they propose to raise the amount of the Pell Grant. Whoopie! Our basic education system is in dire need of funding. There are many children with out access to an education which is their right as an American citizen. Why aren't they addressing the problem at the roots. We have kids who can not read and write or add and subtract and they are providing for those who are heading towards higher education. In my opinion any education in this country - higher education, that is, is just as harmful as not having the basic education.

They pushed for the government to be allowed to negotiate better deals for those on Medicare, hooray! We trust the government as much as we trust those who are responsible for getting our infirm, poor seniors in this pickle to begin with - oh wait...that was the government. See how that works?

But obviously the health care system in this country is a concern which is why they pushed for more funding for stem cell research, halleljuia! Just think of all those people suffering from incureable and fatal diseases who will now have hope. Hope that a cure is coming before they die from the disease. Now all they have to do is hope that someday they will be able to afford the cure or that the government will start legislating about things that matter rather than things that won't affect many more in a positiv way then the republicans managed to do in their run at the helm.

This is all irrelevant and a distraction from the real critical issues their country and our country faces. It's critical that they do something about the education system in this country - that is the basic, elementary education system and the foundation of the entire structure as it is crumbling right before us and they are handing out favors to those who already got threw it and are reaching for more. It's honorable but not in the current state of affairs.

All in all we have a bare minimum of people who will feel the effects of any of this crap. A few people paying off student loans will save oh a whopping 30.00 a month maybe and they will need that for the gasoline in their car and to pay their electric bill. Those receiving pell grants will be happier but doesn't that mean that there will be fewer pell grants to hand out too - therefore more people without the resource?
A few seniors who are poor and in need of medical attention might be able to afford another perscription that they need but they still won't have any heat and enough to eat. See what I am saying? These are tokens - a bone tossed our way which don't resolve the issues that will eventually destroy this democratic idea and a governmnt of the people; by the people; and for the people.

What about the media monopolies - we need a free and independent press to preserve a democray and everyone knows it but we have a corporate media - riddled with conflicting interests between their other profitable businesses and the news that they should or do report. This is a problem and one that needs to be addressed immediately. No one touches this. No one talks about the US military targetting journalist covering the iraq war - and why that is. No one talks about the FCC and how they are ironically making rules which contradict the very reason they were created to protect us from. What about the media outlets selling "news clips" to sway public opinions for a political party and towards a political agenda? What about the security that journalists need to have to protect their sources and the whistle blowers identities? This is all untouched in the first 100 hours and it should be a matter that is top of the list

What about the election system and the only hand we the people have in the policies that govern us and those who enforce these policies. A huge red flag that can not be missed by those who legislate and especially the democrats who legislate is that in 2000 for the first time ever in this country we had a man sent to serve as president on orders of a court rather than the votes of the people. Without a free, fair, and verifyable election system, we have no democracy. But the say nothing and do nothing about these critical issues.

I am not impressed by the democrats in their shining armour (bought and paid for by the tax payers, no doubt)and their grand debut as they come riding in on a horse's ass and the President's pet goat - signing some patriotic song with civil servant signs on their foreheads - I am not buying it. Let's see them DO SOMETHING IMPORTANT - something signficant and worthy of all this patting on the back - otherwise I am so not impressed.