Vegasman, I tried to honor your request. I clicked on your link and added my comment. Then they wanted a password. Since this is a new blog, I made up a new password, which was promptly rejected (i.e.“incorrect”). So then the question is, what is the “correct” one? I’ve got two pages full of passwords; you can’t even fart without a password in cyberspace! Out of the dozens & dozens of passwords in my list, which password do they want? It took us about a half hour to figure that out. So I tried posting my comment again, only to find it stuck in the preview box with the following request: “Please prove you’re not a robot.”

Sorry Vegasman, but I give up. This is too much work, and it is bloody infuriating. It is the barrier that keeps me off most blogs. And the longer grows my list of fucking passwords, the harder it gets.

What follows is the comment I submitted, for what it’s worth. You can add it to the blog if you wish. - AIW

"Without simple necessities like healthcare, food, housing and a safety net, there is no “happiness” worth pursuing. Thanks to Republicans like Joe Heck, you can’t be happy in America unless you’re rich. Is that the kind of America we want? "

Johnnie Dorman ~ As always, you rock!

Vegasman56 ~ I'd love to read your blogs. Could you post the links?

Quote Aliceinwonderland: Vegasman, I hope you don’t mind if I point out that some of us atheists “practice Christianity” more than most Christians.

Aliceinwonderland ~ So very true!

New thoughts? New ideas and criticism?!! Off with your head!!!!

A teacher? Really? Your disdain for the "intellectual" as an educator is troubling--so glad you don't teach my children and grandchildren.

It's hard to get out of poverty, & we do very little to help people. Things that other wealthy countries provide, such as living wages, free or low cost childcare, universal health care, public transportation, affordable housing & education-we don't. All of those things, in addition to child support enforcement & job training, would enable people to become self-sufficient. Republicans chant the "personal responsibility" mantra, but forget the "social responsibility" piece. Yes, there are programs, but they're underfunded & overwhelmed with long waiting lists. I don't think handouts are the answer, although you need a safety net. We need to invest a lot more in helping people with long term solutions, & give them hope, too.

Alice you can always use a Christian tactics against them, to defeat your enemy you have to know them. Your American born again Christian will justify the Scriptures to suit their situation. When confronting a Republican/Conservative using Christian tactics you can ask them, are you referring to the Republican Jesus or are you referring to Jesus of the New Testament, then say to them, because sometimes it is confusing. However, never admit your own religious beliefs, no matter what they are, or your un-beliefs!

Have you ever read any of my blogs, like the latest one fire Joe Heck? I really respect your concept on the functions of government; you can articulate your thoughts and desires of the subject to a point of understanding that is acceptable and reasonable. I would appreciate your thoughts on life blogs. If you find a suitable, would you please help spread it around as in your Facebook and Twitter accounts please? I am not gaining any financial assistance from this block at all, is just for fun.

I've been tracing my roots and the other day I found the will of my g-g-g-g-g-g-grandfather, Joseph Fowler, dated 1782. In his will he left certain "Negroes" to certain members of his family. I posted it on facebook and commented " This is an example of how the mind of mankind can do something so very wrong and completely justify it when it is of personal benefit. Oh, there are many many examples of this kind of behavior today. Youn don't have to look far. Look at Paul Ryan. He doesn't even try to imagine what poor people go through to survive. He doesn't care. He doesen't try to help. That's just completly wrong, especially for a US senator. but in his own mind he justifies it just like Joseph Fowler did in the 1700s so he can get re-elected.That's his benefit.

I enter my letter here as well as on my blog.

YOUR JOBS and the BIG LIE

Every time you hear, “Mexicans are taking your jobs,” just remember that this statement, that I call “the big lie,” is coming from fascist corporations, and the politicians that these corrupt corporations support, who have been and are still getting tax write-offs for sending our jobs overseas and to Mexico.

If they are so worried about our jobs being taken by illegal aliens, why are these fascist corporate thugs so against labor unions, the very entities that protect our jobs from non-union workers that undercut our pay, our retirement and medical benefits? Before the labor unions were weakened by Ronald Reagan and his Neo-Confederate brethren, the unions kicked off any workers on all jobs sites that were not union members.

During the reign of Nazi Germany, Hitler’s propagandist, “Joseph Goebbels,” said, “tell the big lie often enough and people will believe it.”

At this time, there hasn’t been more of an income gap between the rich and the poor, not since over a hundred years ago. When you hear the right wing’s propaganda machine telling us that their “right to work” nonsense is a good thing, which should be called, “right to be slaved via slave wages,” just remember that it’s the fat cat fascist corporations that this kind of hogwash is coming from.

President Obama is trying to make a law that makes it so that corporations that keep our jobs and industry here in the United States will instead get the tax breaks, while our house speaker, “John Boehner,” constantly regurgitates his moronic question posed to the president, “where are the jobs, Mr. President?” Well, I’ll tell you where are jobs are, Mr. Boehner, they are where you and your Neo-con corporate buddies sent them, and that’s everywhere but the U.S.

Being that John Boehner and all his right wing fascist cohorts are subsidized by the American pie hogging corporations, nothing that comes from their lie filled mouths should be believed by the American people. The Neo-cons, just like the Nazis did, appeal to the lowest common denominator among us, which is hate and bigotry.

I appeal to the American citizenry, don’t let these fascist Neo-con pigs use you as puppets. Get wise to them and vote Democratic. Most importantly, VOTE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT3K0_jEX7s&list=UUuFCfiQxxQFt3ELgYceCElw

Paul Ryan actually benefitted from those "entitlements" earlier in his life. What else cements conservative's mantra of "I deserve it, you don't" more so than that?