Vote Obama for 2012
Corporate profits in 2011
reached all-time highs, even as wages stalled or declined. (More on
that later.) When the U. S. economy crashed in 2008, the Dow-Jones began
a long plunge from 14,164 (October 9, 2007) down to 6,440 (March 9, 2009).
Trillions of dollars in investments were wiped off books before the
“with-out” a valid birth certificate could recite the first line of the
oath of office. Since then, whatever the nutjobs say about the
“communist” in the White House, stock market valuations have doubled and
the retirement plans of many an angry Tea Partier have been saved.
Remember
when Mitt Romney and Republican leaders made fun of “Government Motors”
and said it would be a far better thing to “let the U. S. auto industry
die?” Talk to a GM or Chrysler worker today, men and women with
families and bills to pay, just like you, are still collecting their
paychecks and now earning a bit of overtime. How are those “bailed out”
companies faring? June 2012 sales figures for General Motors were up 15.5% over 2011,
and with 248,750 vehicles sold the company had its best month since the
2008 collapse. Chrysler did even better with sales gains of 20.3%, and
its best June figures since 2007.
Speaking of the auto industry,
what about howls from the right, blaming Mr. Obama for rising gas
prices? As recently as March, Rush Limbaugh was almost apoplectic.
Other right-wing types went to great pains to point out that on the day
Obama took office a gallon of gas sold for $1.81. Of course, they
ignored the fact it was selling cheap in January 2009 because the world
economy looked like it was about to go bust.
So, let’s go back to 2008 for a broader perspective. On May 28, 2008, crude oil sold for $135 a barrel and the average price of a gallon of gas was $3.94.
Four years later, under Mr. Obama, the average cost of a gallon of
regular unleaded has dropped to $3.50 and a barrel of crude is selling
for $84. So, congratulations, President Obama.
Really, all you right-wing nutjobs. Go look it up.
NO
PRESIDENT, DOMESTICALLY OR IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS, can put up a perfect
record. Unemployment is too high and Obama has struggled to bring it
down (just like President Reagan during his first term.)
He hasn’t closed the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Nor has he managed to
push through the Dream Act. Unlike Mitt Romney, however, he hasn’t
emphatically stated that he’ll veto it if it should ever pass.
Meanwhile, he has pushed hard to deport illegal immigrants with criminal
records; but he has decided not to deport young Latinos, who came to
this country as children, who grew up here, who look in their mirrors
and see themselves as Americans. Mr. Obama supports gay marriage, too, a
far cry from haters on the right who want to put gay people behind
barbed-wire fences. And in Libya, we helped take out Moammar Gaddafi, a
dictator responsible for an array of terrorist attacks on Americans,
including the Lockerbee bombing (December 21, 1988), which numbered 189
U. S. citizens among its victims, and occurred while Ronald Reagan, the
patron saint of conservative thinkers, was still in office. President
Obama rallied NATO behind him and won the full support of our allies for
military action and not ONE American serviceman or servicewoman died in
Libya as a result.
In addition, all U. S. troops are out of Iraq.
In
recent months a parade of conservatives has marched across the screens
on Fox News, spluttering with indignation, because Mr. Obama won’t stick
Uncle Sam’s red, white and blue nose into Syrian affairs; but now that
country is spiraling toward civil war–and if we are saddened by the loss
of life, at least we aren’t stuck in the middle. And these same
conservatives, who said we could easily march into Iraq, find weapons of
mass destruction, and march right back out again, fault President Obama
for not taking a stronger line regarding Iran.
They might tell
you President Obama wants to destroy our nation. But Obama is careful
not to involve our nation in wars we can avoid. Since January, the U. S.
and it’s allies have ramped up diplomatic and economic pressures on
Iran and even Iranian leaders admit that the international sanctions are biting.
We’re also building up naval and air assets in the Persian Gulf region,
sending Iran and our ally Israel signals that we have not ruled out
military intervention to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Iran’s oil exports, which support 80% of it’s national budget, have
dropped from 2.5 million barrels daily to 1.5 million. The Iranian
banking system has been cut off from all electronic connection with the
rest of the world and the Iranian currency has lost half it’s value.
SURE,
SENSIBLE PEOPLE MIGHT VOTE AGAINST President Obama; and let them all
vote openly, fairly, by all rights. But there are good reasons for most
Americans to vote for a second term for Obama and here are a final few
for the day. The decision of the U. S. Supreme Court in the case of Citizens’ United,
with five conservative U. S. Supreme Court judges holding for the first
time in history that corporations are “people” and can pour unlimited
funds into political campaigns, means that those same corporation
“persons” will soon be in position to buy up politicians in bulk. It’s a
decision as bad as any since Plessy v. Feguson, with the
potential to corrupt our entire democratic system; and it proves that it
is imperative to keep Mitt Romney from having the chance to fill the
next high court vacancy. Last but not least, if you’re a union worker in
this country, you should be clear by now, and should understand that
the GOP won’t rest until it breaks all unions, public and private sector
alike.
And if you’re a non-union, blue-collar worker today, you
should think twice about which party you’re supporting and keep in mind
that the average union worker makes $10,000 more every year than you do,
and ask yourself, what do the Republicans ever really say or do to help
you get any increase in wages?
Do Not for Mitt Romney.
Paul Ryan authored budget proposals that would end Medicare as we know it.
His budget proposal would repeal health care reform, sticking seniors
with the bill and leaving their health care at risk. This is especially
problematic for women, who make up fifty-six percent of Medicare
beneficiaries.
Paul Ryan’s budget plan would have cut SNAP grants by 18%.
SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) grants, also known as
food stamps, has kept 3.9 million Americans (equivalent to the entire
population of Oregon), including 1.7 million children, out of poverty,
and allowed them to keep their families from going hungry. This plan
also would have drastically cut jobs, leaving 174,000 people out of
work.
Paul Ryan is bad for women. He voted for
a bill that would have effectively banned abortion coverage by insurers
who received federal or taxpayer funding. This bill, which Ryan
favored, would have allowed anyone involved to refuse to perform an
abortion for any reason, even if the life of the woman needing the
abortion was in danger.
Paul Ryan is extremely anti-choice. Paul
Ryan voted for the Protect Life Act, which grants hospitals
far-reaching powers to deny women abortion care, without any exception
for emergency situations. US law currently requires hospitals receiving
federal funds to provide emergency care to anyone in need up to the
point at which they can be stabilized or transferred, if the original
hospital is incapable of providing the care they need. "The misnamed
Protect Life Act is about allowing women to die if they need an
emergency abortion," said Meghan Rhoad, women’s rights researcher at
Human Rights Watch. "It is a vicious attack on women’s rights and on the
most basic right to life.’”
Paul Ryan wants to defund Planned Parenthood. This
ideological attack would only result in more women losing access to
necessary and basic health care. One in five American women have used
Planned Parenthood health services.
There you have it. While Mitt
Romney parades Paul Ryan around as his pick to be first in the line of
succession to the presidency, you now have the facts. Paul Ryan has a
long history of voting against affordable health care and women’s
health. His legislative priorities leave millions of people at risk of
losing their health care and in medical and financial danger. Combined
with Mitt Romney’s bad policies, it’s clear: the Romney/Ryan ticket is bad for women and families.
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