Romney/Ryan Kill Medicare Budget/ Rapebies/ RNC Convention

First off, I haven't written anything in a while.  My grandmother died last week.  It was hard on my family and the amount of time at my disposal.  Also, last week was my wife's birthday and last but not least; one of my friends was kicked out of his girlfriend's house, so he's living with me now.  Busy, busy, busy.

The Romney/Ryan Kill Medicare Budget

So what do I have to say about the current state of things.  Well Paul Ryan was announced as Romney's VP a little over a week ago.  He might as well have been giving us a gift.  The Romney/Ryan budget, is now really the Romney/Ryan Budget.  They've been trying to swing things back and say The Affordable Healthcare Act is taking away from Medicare (it eliminates waste and fraud and therefore costs), but when you're trying to turn Medicare into a coupon program for private insurance, it's hard to make that argument.  The other half of that equation is that they're peddling the whole 'Repeal and Replace Obamercares'.  Well they haven't put anything forward, other than keeping the already activated provisions (keeping your kid on your plan until they're 26, etc), but who knows if they're lying about that.  So that means the Romney/Ryan healthcare plan would simply be to repeal the AHCA.  So combining these two things (Repeal and the Romney/Ryan kill Medicare budget) means that you could be denied insurance due to pre-existing conditions again.  So how is a 65 (or older if the GOP gets their way) year old person supposed to get on a new healthcare plan without getting outright rejected?  Not to mention that even if they do it'll cost them between $6,000 and $6,500 more a year according to all estimates.

My grandmother was in a nursing home for about 6 months before she died.  She COULD NOT have afforded that without Medicare.  COULD. NOT.  She worked in nursing homes most of her life, ironically.  She needed 24/7 around the clock care due to her brain tumor.  Without Medicare in it's current form, she would have been in the street or dead years ago.  Even if my mother or myself could have taken her in (I would obviously have done that if needed), I can't buy her the medical care she needs with no insurance.  My mom couldn't have either.  Neither of us have $6,000 to fill in the cracks if she couldn't get on private insurance.  We are just one story.  This is what the country would turn into with the Romney/Ryan kill Medicare budget.  Period.

Another story is one of the roommate of my grandmother.  She had to have a roommate for a little while.  She was on her deathbed more or less.  I checked her 'About Me' sheet that was posted on the wall.  She had been a waitress all of her life.  She couldn't have afforded her end of life care (Oh I'm sorry, DEATH PANELS!!!!!!!!!) without Medicare.  The more strain on the children of the elderly, the fewer goods that are bought and the more the economy suffers. 

The thing is that these things probably wouldn't take full effect until a Democrat won the White House again.  All of the horrible things that would result from this would be blamed on him/her.  The Bush Economic Crash is constantly thrown at Obama's feet.  We were losing 600,000 jobs a month the month Obama was inaugurated.  We gained 160,000 last month.  I think a million job per month turn around is a hell of a feat.  Things would be better without the Obstructionist House/the least popular Congress in US history.  The stimulus should have been bigger, but hindsight is 20/20. 

Rapebies and Todd Akin

So yeah... legitimate rape.  If you don't know what I'm talking about then here...

The thing is that in 2006, I remember that conservatives were all like, "Oh were against abortion, except in cases of rape or incest or mother's life being in danger."

I responded with, "Well, I don't believe you.  I think that's a convenient position, and eventually it will lead to all cases. Period."

"Up yours, lib."

Sure.  Whatever.  The position that Todd Akin has taken is the same as Paul Ryan and the GOP Platform that was confirmed last week.  Rape and incest will no longer be GOP abortion ban exceptions.  This is disastrous for the GOP.  This will be the end of them.  Period.  They will lose women because of this.  Ryan said in an interview that... well here.

The method of conception doesn't matter.  By that logic, women's lives being in danger will be on the platform of no exceptions by the next presidential election.  There will be no exceptions.  Period.  But let's just use the current platform as the reference.  This is punishing rape victims.  This leads back to religion hurting the country.  When I was a christian in my youth, we watched a video with some scar faced, ugly bitch talking about how she was a rapeby (rape baby).  She was glad her mother had her and getting an abortion is murder no matter what.  Then she went on about how she's not getting laid... blah blah blah.

First off, I would rather not exist than have my mother be raped and go through with the pregnancy.  I would think that a 'selfless christian' would feel the same way... I guess not.  Also, I would die to keep my mother from being raped or anyone really.  This is why you cannot call abortion, especially early term abortion murder, because by that logic, then rape isn't a good reason for one.  But it isn't murder.  If it is, then miscarriages are manslaughter. I guess if the mother's life is in danger, it would be killing in self defense? 

It used to be late term abortions, then rape, incest, life of the mother exceptions and now life of the mother is the only exception.  This is where liberals told you the GOP was going with their anti choice horse shit.  Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

RNC Convention

I don't have a ton to say about this.  It's been delayed due to the hurricane.

 

 

I can laugh at how the family values conservatives multiply the strip club business.  I can scoff at how they are having parties for the billionaires that give them money.

 



 

I can do a lot of things, but I'll wait until the convention is underway to really go for it.  I wish they would celebrate the American middle class and not the billionaire that inherited money and a company from his daddy, or as I like to call it, The Romney Way.

 

They may kick Todd Akin out of the convention, but they are backing his policies. The reason people are pissed about this is, yes Akin is stupid for believing this shit, but who is the worst person of the group?  The person who believes that rape victims can't get pregnant, but is too stupid to not know that is false?  Or the person who knows they can get pregnant, but doesn't give a shit?