When Nazi administrators went on trial for war crimes in Nuremberg after World War II,  they justified the mass sterilizations (over 450,000 in less than a decade) by citing the United States as their inspiration. The Nazis had claimed American eugenicists inspired and supported Hitler’s racial purification laws, and failed to understand the connection between those policies and the eventual genocide of the Holocaust.    [Source]

Now why would the Nazis make such a claim?

In 1935, all but 11 states either had laws [////] or laws pending | that legalized sterilization (without consent).

“The Immigration Restriction League (founded in 1894) was the first American entity associated officially with eugenics. The League sought to bar what it considered dysgenic members of certain races from entering America and diluting what it saw as the superior American racial stock through procreation. They lobbied for a literacy test for immigrants, based on the belief that literacy rates were low among “inferior races”. Literacy test bills were vetoed by Presidents in 1897, 1913 and 1915; eventually, President Wilson’s second veto was overruled by Congress in 1917. Membership in the League included: A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard, William DeWitt Hyde, president of Bowdoin College, James T. Young, director of Wharton School and David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University. The League allied themselves with the American Breeder’s Association to gain influence and further its goals and in 1909 established a eugenics committee chaired by David Starr Jordan with members Charles Davenport, Alexander Graham Bell, Vernon Kellogg, Luther Burbank, William Earnest Castle, Adolf Meyer, H. J. Webber and Friedrich Woods.  The ABA’s immigration legislation committee, formed in 1911 and headed by League’s founder Prescott F. Hall, formalized the committee’s already strong relationship with the Immigration Restriction League.”

_______________________________________________

in 2012, they ALL must go.

Democrats and Republicans.

Romney wins by a landslide for having told the most whoppers.  In other words, Romney is the biggest liar of them all by virtue of sheer volume.

- Romney lied about not voting for a Democrat if there was a Republican on the ballot — He voted for Paul Tsongas in a Democratic primary in 1992 in the same election where President George H.W. Bush faced Pat Buchanan. [SOURCE WIKI]

- He lied about telling us that he never said  his Massachusetts health care plan was a model for the nation — the truth is that he’s often said it was.

- Romney claims that his great personal wealth is an asset to help America but he is not investing in America.  He has millions in offshore tax havens.  Such tax havens cost American taxpayers about $100 billion a year. [Source]

- Romney lied about saying that he would not kick all the illegal immigrants out of the country. He has more than once, even during this debate season, said that if he were elected that he not only would he kick them out, he would veto the Dream Act.

- Romney once again falsely accused Obama of saying “nothing” about the Palestinians launching rockets into Israel during a 2009 speech to the United Nations. [Here is a quote from Obama's 2009 address to the United Nations:  "We must remember that the greatest price of this conflict is not paid by us. It’s not paid by politicians. It’s paid by the Israeli girl in Sderot who closes her eyes in fear that a rocket will take her life in the middle of the night. It’s paid for by the Palestinian boy in Gaza who has no clean water and no country to call his own."]

- Romney does not give a rat’s ass about the Latinos.  He even tried to make it sound like his father was a Mexican last night LOL.  Romney’s father was born in Chihuahua Mexico in 1907, the son of  USA Mormon missionaries.

Note: In my opinion, no candidate can say out of one side of his mouth that he is for the Latino community and then out of the other side of his mouth say that he would veto the Dream Act if he were president.  Under the Dream Act,  young undocumented immigrants who have lived most of their lives in the United States and graduate from U.S. high schools would be eligible for a conditional six-year “path to citizenship” if they earn a college degree or serve two years in the military.  Romney has said that he would veto this bill .

Another important point that the latinos of Florida especially should understand is that people migrate to other countries illegally under duress and in a matter of life and death for one of three main reasons:  1) war and/or the threat of a dictator such as Castro; 2) Unfair trade agreements that push people off their land such as NAFTA an unfair trade agreement that decimated the mexican corn farmers who could not compete with the heavily subsidized US agribusinesses such as ADM and Cargill; 3) Crop failure because of climate change.  People should not be castigated for trying to survive.

________________________________________

Thus, when it comes to volume, Romney wins.  However, if the lie(s) are to be measured by magnitude + the depth of psychopathic calculation and intent to deliberately deceive victims,  then Gingrich may hold the record for his lie that he balanced the budget

Yes Gingrich, with the assistance of a Republican Congress and Bill Clinton did balance the budget–on the backs of the working people of the USA.  They “balanced” the budget by dipping into Social Security funds.  [More details of that here.]

Of course, even Ron Paul left off the fact that while the majority of the working class pay Social Security tax on 100% of their income, the investor class don’t pay a dime of Social Security tax on amounts above $106,000 that they earn.

________________________________________________

Speaking of Mitt’s Pseudo Latino Father, Newt gets a black mark for missed opportunity last night. Newt Gingrich is tying the wrong person to Saul Alinsky in his bizarre attacks on Barack Obama. BuzzFeed found old pictures of George Romney meeting with Saul Alinsky to discuss the grievances of the urban black poor.  [By the way, Saul Alinsky’s “crime” is helping the poor to organized their communities. Saul Alinsky has been compared to Thomas Paine as being “one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left.”   MORE

Photos of Willard’s dad fraternizing with Saul Alinsky.

_________________________________________

One thing is certain:  the tales of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox pale in comparison to the tales told on the campaign trail.

17 Billion Dollars of Our Tax Dollars!

Our “representatives” in Congress hand  out  taxpayer subsidies to profitable corporations including ADM, Cargill and Monsanto that are pocketing tens of billions in taxpayer dollars and turning subsidized crops like corn into junk food ingredients like high fructose corn syrup. It’s all the more outrageous at a time when one in three kids is overweight or obese, and obesity-related diseases like diabetes are turning into an epidemic.

THEY ALL MUST GO IN 2012!

GO HERE TO STOP THIS RIDICULOUS WASTE OF OUR TAX DOLLARS!

OOPS!   There goes another Republican myth! They don’t balance the budget.  They just claim they balance the budget!  They rob social security and the working class to make it appear as if they balance the budget.

Last night we learned what the Republicans REALLY mean when they say they “balanced” the budget.  They mean they took money out of Social Security–a fully funded entitlement by the American workers that should be hands off.   Anything but making the investor class pay a fair percentage of income tax–that the way of the investor class, Democrats and Republicans alike who are currently in Washington DC.

In spite of his other short-comings, the American people owe Ron Paul a cheer for calling the public’s attention to what Gingrich really meant when he said he “balanced” the budget.

Newt has been claiming that he “balanced the budget four times when he was Speaker.  Ron Paul pointed out last night that Gingrich didn’t balance the budget.  What the Republicans did was to take money out of Social Security.  Borrowing money is not balancing a budget.  Ron Paul even attacked the party’s sacred cow–Ronald Reagan whose administration did the same thing.

Ron Paul pointed out that the national debt during those four years Newt brags about actually went up about a trillion dollars. He pointed out that Gingrich doesn’t count the money he took out of Social Security.  Paul said. “So neither Reagan nor you had a truly balanced budget, because the national debt goes up and that’s what we pay the interest on.”

Gingrich responded: “Under the system that was used, we were $405 billion in balance.”  [What a lying weasel.]

At this point, the audience booed Gingrich.  Good!  I’m glad the point wasn’t missed on them.

___________________________________________________

It’s not just the Republican brand that’s coming apart at the seams!

THEY ALL MUST GO!   WASHINGTON ENTRENCHED DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ALIKE! Vote for anyone but a Democrat or a Republican in 2012.

If you are thinking that this is all about the Republicans, it is not.  The Washington leadership of BOTH parties are to blame!  Many of the same jackasses who were in Congress when Gingrich was in Congress and robbing Social Security are still there today.  In case you have forgotten, Bill Clinton, the president who turned the American people over to the Wall Street financial institutions was the guy in charge of balancing the budget.  Clinton worked hand in glove with Gingrich on that one.

If you will remember the ‘bipartisan’ Deficit Commission that President Obama appointed to reduce the deficit, you will remember that the first thing those jackasses went after was Social Security. You will realize that the more things “change” with the entrenched investor class, the more things remain the same.

Deficits are created by budget items–things that we purchase like war munitions for example.  Social Security is not a budget item because it is a totally funded and self-sustaining program.  But that didn’t stop the investor class a-holes who were hand-selected by President Obama from going after Social Security the first thing.  Social Security as a fully funded program was not even in the scope of this group’s discussions.  If  Obama were a leader, he would have pointed that out to the committee instead of giving them free reign to ride rough shod over the American people with his silence.

BUT FOR NOW FLORIDIANS:  VOTE FOR GINGRICH TO KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING FOR AMERICA!  This is the best education the American people have ever had regarding the criminal behavior of BOTH parties.

Note on Social Security and the investor class.  Since they robbed the coffers of the working class, they should be required to return that money and here is how:

ALL Americans should pay Social Security tax on all of the income.  Currently only the majority of Americans, those of us who earn less than $106,000 a year are required to pay Social Security on 100% of our income.  Any American earning more than $106,000 doesn’t pay a cent of social security tax on amounts earned above that.

In other words, the members of the US Congress don’t pay Social Security taxes on at least half of their annual incomes.

The Irony of who these two jerks really are seems to be missed on a lot of people–especially the base of the Republican Party

They are  the real austerity candidates, the guys who will run the ball here for the banksters who are crippling Europe, and a lot of Europeans, with economic strategies that keep themselves afloat while children die of preventable diseases.

They accuse President Obama of wanting to turn the USA into a Socialist state.

President Obama and his administration have actually created 2 million jobs. [They could have/should have done better--and maybe they would have with a little more cooperation from the Republicans.  But Obama has helped to create more jobs in three years than the Republican leadership created in 8 years and that's a fact.]

The Republican leadership under Bush, while chomping at the bit to bail out Wall Street financial institutions wanted to let the American Automotive industry go to hell in a bankruptcy hand basket–which surely would have happened to GM if Obama had not stood up for them. Today GM provides jobs to 5,000 Americans.

And here is the Irony:  While they accuse Obama,  it is the Republican leadership who are imitating the socialistic European lead–not the President.

Just listen to them and their pitches for austerity:  ”cut taxes, austerity for the working people, cut public services, etc.”

Doesn’t that sound familiar?  Well it should because that’s what Europe has been hollering for the past year!  Look at what they did to Greece.  Look at their austerity program for Spain and Ireland.

And how well have these austerity programs worked?  About as well as the George Bush tax cuts for the rich have worked in the USA.  Almost a year now after the austerity measures in Ireland, they stand at 14% unemployment.  Spain? After its austerity programs have been enacted, the unemployment among their youth have risen to almost 50%.

People’s State of the Union: A Green New Deal for America from Jill Stein for President on Vimeo.

Nothing but more nonsense, myths, and smoke screens from Congress to cover their Plutocrat Pals:  They ALL must go.

“Big government, out of control  spending” is a myth that is perpetuated by plutocrats who want to dismantle our democracy.

Government spending is always viewed as a function of the GDP.

Wages should be and would be reflected by the GDP as well if we really had a democracy, which we don’t.  As a result, while productivity has climbed for the past 30 years (up until 2007 at least) wages have remained stagnant and workers have not been given a fair share of the wealth that they helped to create.  Government spending must always be viewed in terms of a percentage of the GDP.  The larger the GDP, the larger the government spending needed to support the GDP.

In 2007, the last year before the onset of the recession, spending as a share of the GDP was 19.6 percent.  That is 1.1 percentage points less than the 20.7 percent share 30 years earlier in 1977. So, the idea that there is a long-term trend of “out-of-control spending is simply not true.  There is no “out of control government spending.”  That is propaganda from the rich.

We are in debt today because of “out of control tax breaks for the wealth.  What the elected officials in Washington have done to the American people with their tax cuts for the rich and deregulation of the financial industry has benefitted about 23% of Americans and left 77% of Americans living from paycheck to paycheck.

As long as we focus on this pseudo cause  of  ”big  government spending” and not the root cause, which is tax cuts for the rich and continued subsidies that we pay to freeloaders like Exxon Corporation, we will never solve the problem of rising debt in our nation.

We don’t have enough money because, while the majority of American pay on average 25% of our income in taxes, the rich only pay on average 17% of their income in taxes and some of them, like Mitt Romney pay even less and corporations like ExxonMobil not only don’t even pay a dime, they get tax refunds–that’s how far the crooks in Congress will stoop to creating tax loopholes for their buddies.

We need to start using this money immediately to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and infuse into our public school systems.  Without a guaranteed decent free education for all children–not just children of the rich, we will never have a Democracy.

_________________________________________________

Nothing will change until we change who sits in Congress.

These are the people who make the laws.

These are the people with the power.

These are the people who can impeach the President.

These are the people who can override the President’s vetoes,

These are the people who can impeach judges.

Nothing of any significance will change until they are removed from office.

They ALL must go in November.

and their “two-party” system with them

According to the Press Freedom Index 2011/2012 released by Reporters without Borders, 46 countries have police who treat the press better than the USA.  [Source]

I wonder if we in the USA are like the fish in the fish bowl who are unable to see the water that we swim in.  Have we become so accustomed to this abuse that we don’t notice it any more?  Perhaps.  I think these thoughts when I read reports such as the one mentioned above–the USA, a democracy, ranks 47th in its treatment of reporters who are on the scene trying to report the truth of what is happening.  That is very sobering indeed.  Have we become a police state (actually and for real) and we can’t see it?  Is this what happened to the people in Germany?  Are we the proverbial frog who is being boiled  alive and we don’t notice it?

What do Finland, Norway, Estonia, Netherlands, Austria, Iceland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Cape Verde, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Ireland, Cyprus, Jamaica, Germany, Costa Rica, Belgium, Nambia, Japan, Surinam, Poland, Mali, OECS, Slovakia, United Kingdom, Niger, Australia, Lithuania, Uruguay, Portugal, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Slovenia, El Salvador, France, Spain Hungry, Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, South Korea, Comoros, Taiwan have that the USA does not?  Friendlier police to the citizens.

The citizens of the USA should take note that the USA police were called out by mayors and governors of states to defend the status quo of the closed two-party system of government and silence criticism of Wall Street CEOs with the vehemence of a totalitarian repressive regime.  We even have police, paid for by taxpayers, moonlighting for Wall Street financial institutions like Bank of America who brutalize  and injure OWS peaceful protesters.  It is pathetic that a county like El Salvador, whose police are noted for arrests for unlawful killing of citizens treats the press better than the police in the USA.  Pathetic!

_________________________________________________

ILWQ Comments:  SHAME ON THEM ALL!  They ALL must go.  Until the American people realize that it is the elected officials in Congress who have the power and vote accordingly, nothing will change.  With our diversity as a nation, we should have a multi-party system–not a two party closed system for the rich.

How much more, and even more awful human abuse, happens behind the wizards’ curtain?  We get glimpses of the brutality of our government/military leaders when photo are leaked from time to time showing the most egregious, inhuman treatment of prisoners–domestic and foreign.  And just this morning I read an article about the importation of slave labor into the USA.

It’s not enough that our “legislators” allow corporations like WalMart to hire part-time workers at minimum (not a living wage even at full-time); they allow other corporations through “guest worker” programs to bring in workers from other countries to work for even less than minimum wage.

Guest workers are recruited each year for labor in the U.S. from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean under the H1-B, H2-A and H2-B programs. Recruiters promise high wages and charge thousands of dollars for visas, fees and transportation.Before they even arrive in the USA, the guest workers owe thousands of dollars. [Sounds familiar doesn't it?  This is not that different from the way that US corporations treat US workers. People often have to pay for their company uniforms and other tools they must use on the job.  Then to make ends meet, between the non-living wages they are paid and what would be a living wage, many Americans fall for the credit card scheme.]

The Southern Poverty Law Center released a report  in 2007 titled Close to Slavery: Guest Worker Programs in the USA.  This report found Government enforcement of their rights is almost non-existent. Private attorneys typically won’t take up their cause. Bound to a single employer and without access to legal resources, guestworkers are:

• routinely cheated out of wages;

• forced to mortgage their futures to obtain low-wage, temporary jobs;

• held virtually captive by employers or labor brokers who seize their documents;

• forced to live in squalid conditions; and,

• denied medical benefits for on-the-job injuries.

_________________________________________________

As long as we support the  fake two-party system by voting for a Democrat or a Republican candidate and as long as we have the same crooks in both houses of Congress; it does NOT matter who is President or who sits on the bench.

It does not matter.

The most patriot thing that an American can do in 2012 is to vote for an Independent or a third party candidate.  If you want change possibly for the better, then that is what you will do.  If you want status vote, then vote for a Democrat or a Republican and you’ll get just what you voted for.

Don’t think so?  then try to defend this:

A Democratic majority in BOTH houses voted almost unanimously to defund ACORN, an organization whose only “crime” was to empower poor people by registering them to vote.  A Democrat majority in both houses made this decision based solely on a poorly edited video made by a known right-wing operative, Jame O’Keefe.  This same Democrat majority along with their “enemy” Republican colleagues turn over billions of US taxpayer dollars in contract awards to corporations like Lockheed Martin who have been caught numerous times trying to bilk the US taxpayers out of billions of dollars.  Go to the POGO database if you want to see the real criminals that the Democrats and Republicans support.

 TURN IT OFF!  THROW IT IN THE JUNKYARD!

still from “The Twonky “(1953) 

“Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely . . . Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen.”  – from 1984 by George Orwell

_________________________________________________________

The Corporate Owned Pundits Are Buffers

The role of the corporate owned, sponsored and managed media is to provide a buffer zone between the American people and the candidates that the king pins of the corporate state  select for the two-party side show they present every 2 and 4 years.  The last thing that any of the candidates and their handlers want is for some citizen to come out of left field and ask a question that really matters.

The millionaire pundits like John King, George Stephanopoulos, Brian Williams, Bill O’Reilly, etc. who lead the presidential “debates” are there to ensure that the really important questions don’t get asked.  They are there to keep the focus on the irrelevant, the titillating gossip.  They are there to manage the impression that a debate has taken place when in fact, what has really taken place is no debate.  It is a set up and the show we watch is about as relevant to the lives of most Americans as what the Kardashians do or who wins American Idol.

_________________________________________________

But the Deck was Stacked Long before the Primary Debates

The deck was stacked in favor of the corporate state in the USA long before the television political “debates.”  Furthermore, the deck has been stacked for almost 25 years.

In 1987 the corporate leadership of the Democrat and Republican parties got together and formed a corporation called “the Commission on Presidential Debates“.  The purpose of this commission is to choose and control the topics of the debates.  THEY along with their  corporate sponsors choose what is “important” to discuss–not the American people.

Furthermore, they decided that it is best to limit the “official” debates to the two “major” parties so as to not  confuse the American people with too many choices–aren’t they thoughtful?

Furthermore, since Wall Street corporations and corporate media outlets such as GE, the largest war contractor in the world who also happen to own the NBC networks, fund this corporation (“the Commission on Presidential Debates”) they have a heavy hand in saying who can and cannot participate even within this limited membership requirement of the two parties.  We saw a perfect example of this in the fall of 2007 when MSNBC’s Chuck Todd informed Mike Gravel (a Democrat candidate) that he could not participate in the debate because he had not raised a million dollars. That’s how the corporate world measures the value of a person–by how much money they have.

Then during the Iowa caucus in early 2008 Gannett Corporation (who own the Des Moines Register) applied an arbitrary and actually nonexistent rule to kick Dennis Kucinich out of those debates.  They claimed that they had a rule that candidates were required to have a store front established in Iowa by October 10, 2007 in order to participate in the debate.  [Oct 10 just happened to be the date that the last of the other Democratic candidates, Dodd, had put up a store front.]  What we all should be asking is:  ”Why died and gave corporations the right to control state election laws regarding who can and cannot participate in presidential debates?

____________________________________________

We do not have a two-party system in the USA.

We have a one-party corporate state system that is controlled by Wall Street king pins.

The purpose of BOTH parties is to grind to a halt the passage of any meaningful legislation for the majority.  The leadership of BOTH parties are experts at managing impressions.

Other Democratic nations have many different parties represented in their government.  In our Senate we are represented by the two corporate sponsored parties and one Independent.

This is ridiculous and needs to change.

The only way to change it is to stop voting for either a Democrat OR a Republican.

That is our POWER.  If we continue to vote for a Democrat or a Republican NOTHING.  N-O-T-H-I-N-G will change.

TWINS SEPARATED AT BIRTH?*

In addition to an exaggerated sense of self-worth, they are both Quitters who chose Personal Profit over Service

Gingrich cares more about making money than he cares about serving the people.  In that aspect he is a Sarah Palin junior. In 1998 Republicans lost five seats in the House in the 1998 elections—the worst midterm performance in 64 years for a party that didn’t hold the presidency. Polls showed that the attempt to remove President Clinton from office, by Gingrich and the Republican Party, was deeply unpopular among voters. (Considering their campaign these last three years against President Obama, it doesn’t look like they have learned anything.  But  President Obama has his own unpopularity issues to deal with.)

Gingrich suffered much of the blame for the election loss. Facing a rebellion in the Republican caucus, he announced on November 5, 1998, that he would not only stand down as Speaker, but would leave the House as well.  Gingrich made this announcement only a day after being elected to an 11th term from his district. Commenting on his departure, Gingrich said, “I’m willing to lead but I’m not willing to preside over people who are cannibals.

Sarah Palin, was elected Governor of Alaska in 2006.  In July of  2009, 18 months before the end of her term as governor, she left office.  It was a great choice for her in terms of personal profit.  Palin’s salary as governor of Alaska was $68,000 a year.  It’s not likely that she would have been re-elected in 2010.  Palin would have been forgotten by the end of 2010 had she stayed in Alaska.  Her total earnings for that time period from the state of Alaska would have been about $102,000.  Sarah Palin’s net worth in 2011 was reported at $14million.  There is no way that Palin could have stayed down on the farm in Alaska with the people who elected her to serve them and garnered that kind of money.

_______________________________________________

*The difference in their years would explain a lot in regard to the younger twin–what with oxygen deprivation from having been in the birth canal for 21 years.

_______________________________________________

PREDICTION:  Within the week the Romney campaign will launch a campaign against Gingrich as “The Quitter”.  Not only did he quit public office.  Gingrich quit two marriages and is now in his third one.  No one hates a quitter more than a Republican–regardless how deep the rut, their vote is with the ones who stay the course.