Opinion 11/05/10
Timid Democrats no longer wanted
(from Beaver County Times)
As I see It !
Opinion of Stephen F. Kislock III
Since this current Democratic Party, is incapable of leadership from the president down to U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire, “blue dog” Democrat (?), the party should disband and reconstituted by the progressives.
The Democrats had a majority in the U.S. House and Senate and were the weakest in the history of the United States.
The Democrats in 2010 were scared or fearful of doing what had to be done with this majority because the Republicans might say something nasty. Wow, now that is leadership. Let real Democrats and progressives reformulate the party. You couldn’t hear what the Democrats were trying to say over the noise from their shaking knees.
When the Democrats from the president down needed to stand up, they sat down on their hands.
The people will suffer for years to come because of no leadership from the party of so-called Democrats. The party of “No” was leading in all debates and won.
Please, stand down now so a new and progressive Democratic Party can rise up and challenge “Citizen United” or corporate America.
Stephen F. Kislock III
Beaver Falls
August 16, 2010
As I see It !
Opinion of Stephen F. Kislock III
The average American worker can be seen to Vote against His or Her best interest by these two issues: Abortion and the Second Amendment.
Fear is a word I use a lot today, because Americans, have been conditioned by the Hate and Fear Mongers that have 24 hour TV and Radio Bully Pulpit.
All most No one on the Left will fight these fear mongers. Why?
Is it lack of guts? No media outlets?
I get sick when I hear the far right stand in the halls of Congress and mislead the Public. Where are Reid and Pelosi or their spokespersons?
The middle class has destroyed itself by not Voting for the Issues that will make America a better Country.
How American workers decry Unions for perceived petty grievances?
How many Americans must Die on the job for these Workers to take a stand and say enough is ENOUGH?
Anti-Abortionist and the Second Amendment Issues Only Voters are being made the butt of jokes by the Far Right advocates.
Why? Destroying the Economy, OK! Expanding the Empire and Bankrupting the Country, OK!
But No to any Abortions and No Laws that Infringe on my owning as many Weapons as I want.
America, was a Country divided by geographical sections. Today America is divided by issue(s) that transcend any Logic.
Today, a war is being waged by the Far Right on Color and Creed!
No Constitution will Protect the People’s Rights from people who are blinded by Hate and Fear.
Is there an Answer?
June 18, 2010
As I see It!
Opinion of Stephen F. Kislock III
Government?
How can Americans sleep at night Knowing, their Government is attempting to hold Accountable, a Multinational Corporation for the Worse Ecological Disaster that is currently and for near future will be washing up on Our Shore.
Oil, is a product of Mother Nature, so what is the Big Deal?
Surly Our Government, has other thing to be concerned with Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Venezuela, Gaza, the West Bank, North Korea and what do you hear it’s the “Oil Spill“.
The US Congress, cannot just focus on the “Accident” in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Death and Destruction of hundreds of thousands of Birds, Fish, Mammals, the Death of 11 Workers and the way of Life of hundreds of thousands People, who Depend upon the Gulf of Mexico for their Living.
Republican Congressman Joe Barton, of Texas, said it Best. “The White House, shaking down his Beloved BP, British Petroleum for a $20 Billion Dollar “Slush Fund.” Congressman Joe Barton, Knows in his Heart a Semi-Regulated Corporation, is Justified in save the Shareholder that Unnecessary Expense of Safety of Operation.
I believe, Republican Congressman Joe Barton of Texas, thinks that $20 Billion Dollars Shakedown, really belong to the Share Holders!
Accidents happen all the time, get over it. One Benefit, that has not be explored is to bring home the Sand and burning it. Of course you will have to Buy it from BP, it’s their OIL! The Coastal area of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, will benefit, as there is No Shipping Charge, it lapping right up to your door.
The small people, are use to getting it, so this will not be anything new to them, Right BP?
The $1.5 Million dollars, Republican Joe Barton of Texas, received from the Oil Industry, had nothing to do with his public act of contrition to BP CEO Hayward?
Regulations be Damned, the Free Market is American. See what happens a Oil Spill of Unimaginable Proportions and Destruction and now you see all these People working. //
The Free Market Works!
February 11, 2010As I see It!
Opinion of Stephen F. Kislock III
Sarah Palin?
Americans say The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
The Tea Party Nation, convention at Nashville, former governor Sarah Palin, was wearing a lapel pin; this one had crossed flags of Israel and the United States of America. Does this mean Sarah Palin, will represent two Countries if Elected President?
Will this be The New American/Israeli Pledge of Allegiance,” I pledge allegiance to the flags of the United States and Israel and the Republics for which they stand, two nations under two Gods, indivisible, with liberty and justice for some.”?
The Tea Party Nation, is this a misnomer? The Tea Party Nations, this a better description from what I see and hear from Sarah Palin?
January 8, 2009As I see It!
Opinion of Stephen F. Kislock III
My Imaginary Interview with US President Obama.
Q: Foreign Policy of the United States v. Israel. Mr. President, is there a difference between The US and Israel with regards to Gaza Ghetto and the West Bank?
A: Heavens No, Israel, has Our Carte Blanche to settle their Problem(s) with them Palestinians.
Q: President Obama, who is the most Powerful Man in the World?
A: It’s Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu; he keeps me in my place so I do not stray from the Righteous Path that AIPAC has set out for me…….
Q: President Obama, You campaigned on “Change”!
A: In the heat of Battle, We Politicians say many things. You do not think I would really challenge the Status Quo in any serious way.
Q: Mr. President, with the soaring deficit, how can the US of A, continue giving Israel Untold Billions of Dollars?
A: Israel asked/demanded the AID, in Euros. You know the US Dollar is not worth what it once was.
Q: Mr. President, as a professed Christian, seeing over 1400 Palestinians, Killed in the Gaza Ghetto, does this not Affect you?
A: PLEASE, we must expect a little spilled blood, once in a while over there. Remember that 14 Israelis were KILLED.
Damn the real “Hot Line” phone is ringing, it’s probably Prime Minister Netanyahu. I’m going to get chewed out again. Interview Over! How in the Hell did he find out?
Mr. President one quick Question, Statehood for the Palestinians?
A: Not in my Lifetime!
“Change you can believe in?”
My Imaginary Interview with the Second Most Powerful Man in the World, Barack Obama.
December 24, 2009
As I See It
Opinion of Stephen F. Kislock III
“Control Cost”, Congressman Altmire, supports the Senate bill because it did more than the House Bill, to control cost; so said Congressman Altmire at the Beaver-Lawrence Labor Council Meeting. Did he really vote against the House Bill on Health Care Reform, because of Cost concerns or the PROFITS his former (?) employers stood to lose if the House bill becomes Law?
If Congressman Altmire is really concerned with Health Care Cost, introduce a House Bill to Rescinded the Anti-Trust Exemption for the American Health Care Industry.
Cost Control, Congressman Altmire voted for the 2010 Defense Department Appropriation Bill Cost $636.2 Billion at a cost of $5143.41 per average American family.
How is Congressman Altmire going to pay for this Bill? Why, with his Maxed Out Peoples Republic of China, Credit Card, that’s how!
How simple does our Congressman, think we are? Unlimited Borrowed Money for WARS when the Health of Our Citizens is on Life support.
Health Care Reform, before war!
December 15, 2009
As I See It
Opinion of Stephen F. Kislock III
Blue Dogs, like Jason Altmire?
Blue Dogs; don’t think we can Afford Health for All, Why?
United States Blue Dog Representatives are Faithful to their Masters.
Who fills their Dish, get their Votes, in this case it’s the For Profit Health Care Cartel/Industry.
With the Blue Dogs you Scratch them on the head, or slap when necessary, just to show them, who is the Master.
Blue Dogs are Not Man, Woman or Child’s best friend and you will take that to your Grave!
Blue Dogs, get some of the Best Health Care, the Tax Payers can Afford!
These Blue Dogs will have to go the polls and be euthanized, by the Voters.
December 1, 2009
As I see it
Opinion of Stephen F. Kislock III
This is what candidate Obama said “I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.” Barrack Obama October 27, 2007
We have been taken to the Bank, by President Obama, lock stock and barrel.
December 1, 2009, has seen an increase in cannon-fodder being sent to Afghanistan. The generals and defense contractor are in their glory WAR, a bigger WAR, the bloody Profits will be rolling in and the CASKETS rolling out of the planes at Dover.
You Lied Mr. President, YOU LIED!
November 13, 2009
As I See It
Opinion of Stephen F. Kislock III
The Corporations of the United States of America supply the candidates, we supply the Votes and we wonder why? Why, we have such an Uncaring government?
It’s Greed! Greed is the Creed of Corporate American and how do the American people pay for their Greed…?
America the Land of Minimum Wage Jobs and Unaffordable Health Care.
How lucky the few and how sad for those that only have the Emergency Room as their Primary Care. By Law you must be seen and cared for; but how many can afford this Limited Care?
How Corporate America holds us hostage is by using Special Interest.
Abortion, the Law of the Land, is opposed by many. Special Interest helps push this War on the American People. Forgetting the real issues and fighting against abortion rights. Choice, the Hell you do, not in my America. Democrats and Republicans both Oppose Choice, yes It’s Religious Intolerance. America a Secular Country, is being destroyed by religious bigots.
Choice, they want No Choice! As in Saudi Arabia, the American Religious Right, want to control all aspects of your life, with Religious Police enforcing all aspects of our lives…
The Second Amendment, the Right to Bear Arms. The NRA and associated groups are turning Americans against each other. How many more pressing problems are facing America? Jobs, Health Care, Education, all these issues are put aside and it’s just the Second Amendment….
Finally the real scare is Far Right Wing Talk and TV Programs. They have a Federal License to be the Death of Truth! A Medium that Instills Fear and Paranoia in the minds of Millions of American People is a Protected Right…
The dream of the Founding Fathers is floundering in a Sea of Fear, Hate and Intolerance.
November 10, 2009
As I See It
Opinion of Stephen F. Kislock III
Headlines Scream “US condemns Cuba over blogger beatings” (Yahoo!News), The United States State Department said it “strongly deplores” the forcible detention and beating of three Cuban bloggers, on their way to a Peaceful March in Havana.
Where was the United State government, during the Attempted Peaceful March during the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?
Right, it was showing it’s Armed Might to any American Protester, who Dared to March in Opposition to the G20 Fiscal Policies!
They came by the Thousands from local, state and federal Law Enforcement Agencies. There would be No Marches…… Armed for WAR on its Own Citizens! They considered any Protester an “Enemy of the State” and Attacked Unarmed American Citizens.
Pepper Spray, Rubber Bullets, Batons, and just Plain Brutality, they went to Work on Americans Arresting Hundreds!
How Dare the United States government, COMDEMN, any Country….for Human Rights Violations!
With 20, 000 Troops; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was turned into an Armed Camp! They were dressed in Black, with Faces Covered, they Attacked Americans. Does this bode well for the Future of America?
US State Department spokesman Kelly said the United States called on Cuba “to ensure the full respect of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all its citizens.”
Cuba is Not the Democracy that America espouses to be. Joke!
Our Constitution and the Bill of Rights are Absolutely Meaningless, as proved by the Action/Reaction of the Massive Forces arrayed in Pittsburgh against any American wanting to Exercise Their Rights…
November 7, 2009
As I See It
Opinion of Stephen F. Kislock III
H.R. 3962
Saturday November 7, 2009, a day that will live in the Hearts and Minds of the American People as the Day Health Care was not just a Dream, But REALITY!
WHO do we thank for Our, Health Care?
First and Foremost it was Real Democrats!
We must find and Elect A Real Democrat to replace this Jason “Blue Dog” Altmire. His only concern was/is keeping the Money Rolling In and “It’s a Pre-Existing Condition“!
Anyone and I mean anyone can call themselves a Democrat. Just look at Jason Altmire, who represents the PA 4th-District in the US Congress.
How did Congressman Jason Altmire Former (?) Lobbyist for the Federation of American Hospitals and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Vote November 7, 2009 on Health Care Reform?
The supposed democratic congressman Jason Altmire voted with his brothers and sister Republicans to KILL Health Care Reform!
A Blue Dog who is also called a Democrat. He First Puts PROFITS of the SO CALLED health Care Business ahead of the Health of his Constituents.
Keeping the Profits of his former (?) employer(s) rolling in and does not give a Damn, what happens to the People of his District…..
The US Budget is their concern, the Blue Dogs Scream, wanting us to think of them as our Fiscal Watch Dogs. Congressman Altmire is a Fox Tea Bagger, clothed in the label of “Blue Dog Democrat………….
With 220 Votes Yeas, Americans have a Healthy chance of Living!
In the November 8, 2009 New York Times article “Looking abroad for savings,” Small Business finds it cheaper to fly their Employees overseas for Needed Surgeries, rather than staying Home and being ripped off by Big Health Care!
We the people must remember that Jason Altmire only cares for the Health of the Big Health Care Monopoly. We have a few months to find and run a Real Democrat, in the 2010 Primary.
November 5th 2009
As I See It by StephenF. Kislock III
How happy Americans are to go Hungry, Cold and Sick?
Today’s America offers so much too so Few, Why?
Tea Baggers, Americans all are up in arms! How dare the government tell Wall Street, Bankers and Health Care Companies how much they can Pay their CEOs?
Where is the Tea Baggers’ Outrage, when their Fellow Americans Freeze or Starve to Death?
With No Health Care Our Fellow Americans are Dying in the Emergency Rooms, waiting till it gets Critical, because they cannot Afford to see a Doctor! Why can you not See this is Wrong!
What is the Value Tea Baggers put on the Health/Life of their Fellow Americans? Little, from the reaction I see to a Public Option-Public Choice, WHY?
The Republican Trickle Down, in this Capitalist Society of the United States of America 2009, is what the Poor get on the Inside of their Leg.
The Tea Baggers, if they were the Minute Men, We would be Subjects of the Queen! The common good, is some thing very foreign to this breed!
Winter is coming, with the change of season; will the Working Poor of America, experience the American Dream, or the Nightmare of Freezing in the Dark Cold of Winter?
John Moretti said
At least Jason Altmire has some fiscal sensibility. The 2000 page bill is a mess and should not be forced down our throats. Our country cannot afford this monstrosity, despite the arguments of the progressives, and the biggest cost of any move to a single payer system is a loss of freedom. The gov’t has not succeeded with any other such program to believe this can be any different. Medicare is bankrupt. We will rue the day when rationing rears its ugly head…just ask those in the UK who don’t have access to certain procedures or cancer drugs. It should not be up to the govt to decide. Medicare already denies more claims than any private payer. Forget competition — the govt will always “price” the equivalent premium lower than the natural market can bear. That will force employers looking to lower costs to drop current options and dump employees into the govt plan without choice. But that is in the plan all along.
The Republicans have been shut out from including meaningful reforms, while the current bill includes fluff such as nutritional regulations for vending machines! Reform should include tort/malpractice reform, permitting insurance companies to compete across state lines, coverage portability, eliminating pre-existing condition clauses, provide savings accounts and tax credits to help those without employer coverage to purchase insurance. We do not need one step toward a single payer model, nor the government controlling our healthcare in order to achieve meaningful reform.
carldavidson said
If Altmire had real ‘fiscal responsibility,’ he’d support HR 676, get out of the wars and cut the defense budget. He’d also support a Tobin tax to help the steelworkers start up a string of new worker-owned coops to build the infrastructure of an oil-independent clean energy economy. That would punish waste and destructive speculation, while rewarding and investing in the creation of new wealth that actually puts people to work.