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Two Bills of Interest Advancing In Congress
pgn674 writes "While the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 failed to pass in the House of Representatives, two other bills of interest to this community are currently moving through the US lawmaking process. One is the Broadband Data Improvement Act, which Communications Workers of America claims will help us towards bringing high-speed Internet access to all Americans. It will have the FCC increase their granularity in reporting the Internet accessibility of an area in the US, and redefine broadband measurements. It has passed through the House and the Senate, and differences in the passed versions are currently being resolved. The other bill is the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008. Pandora is excited for this one as it will give them time to negotiate with SoundExchange (i.e. the RIAA) for new, more affordable royalty rates. The bill is currently in the Senate, and is expected to pass with ease."
My, you have a distorted picture of the universe. HINT: the Rural Electrification Act was passed by the Democrats, not the Republicans.
Which has what to do with anything? I'm well aware of that fact. It has nothing to do with the fact that the leeches, as a whole, are the Republican voters.
Another hint: most people in the country aren't terribly interested in being part of a group that favours gun control (they pretty much all hunt), gay marriages (traditional is a way of life in the country, for good or ill), etc.
I don't favor gun control, yet I don't favor voting for fascists either. Gay marriage is a non issue except to religious extremists. This country was founded primarily on the idea that religious delusion has no place in the government in a civil society. That is the primary defining characteristic of America, so catering to those who despise this country is completely unconstitutional. Their thoughts on that issue have no legitimacy. They have no right to try and shove their evil hate based faith into our laws.
Note further that until the Democrats decided to swing to the left in the 60's, most people in the country were staunch Democrats. Hell, my grandfather would have died rather than vote Republican. (personally, I've always believed he did - he died the year that Dukakis was the Democratic candidate for President)
Yes, the racists were Democrats. They left en masse for the Republican party leading to its current make up of the bottom of the barrel of our society. Welfare leeches, religious extremists, racists and corporate welfare leeches. That's a complete breakdown of the Republican party membership. Well, ok, and deeply stupid fools who haven't paid any attention to what the Republican party has become over the last several decades.
Note, by the way, that from the point of view of most everyone else "promoting ignorant and damaging behavior at my expense is complete crap" works nicely. Too bad they think that most of the things YOU think are important are part of "ignorant and damaging behavior at my expense" to THEM.
Except this isn't symmetrical. America isn't a democracy specifically to keep shitbags like them from being able to shove their delusional religious shit into the government of a free society.
Even if it was symmetrical, it simply isn't true. I'm not asking them for shit except to stay the fuck out of other people's business. They are insisting that I be robbed to make their welfare payments and to push their religious delusions. Huge fucking difference.
An example of "ignorant and damaging behaviour at my expense" is the notion that electricity is a privilege only for urban dwellers, or the very wealthy. Sorry, I think it would be nice if every farmhouse could have lights at night. Likewise phone service. I remember having to drive 20 miles to the store with my grandfather to make a phone call. I think that the idea that he be wealthy, or move to a city, to get phone service in his home is "ignorant and damaging".
Well, then., he can damn well pay for it himself. You're a typical loony lefty who thinks government cheese is free. I pay my fucking bills. I can't afford to pay yours too. Anything of the sort is only a privilege for those who can afford it. How about you buy me a Ferrari? No, then fuck off, put your grubby little mitt away keep it out of my pocket and pull you own god damned weight.
And ditto for broadband. Five years ago, I considered it a luxury. Now it's a basic necessity, like phone service or electricity. or indoor plumbing, for that matter. And so it should be provided to everyone, not just to the self-serving idiots who can't imagine that some people don't live the way they do.
If you want to leech off of me without pulling your own weight, then not a chance in fucking hell at the very least as long as your trying to grant legitimacy to religious extremists trying to destroy America.
If you think they should be provided all these neat things I have to pay for myself, then *you* pay for it. Otherwise shut the fuck up leech.
Read more history. The racists stayed with the Democratic Party for several decades, until they just couldn't stomach some of the things the left was doing. Then they left, reluctantly.
By "the things", you mean the civil rights act signed by Johnson? Heaven forbid those damn niggers be granted equal rights like the fucking constitution guarantees, right? Lost the south for a generation etc. etc. Longer actually as it turns out, but dirt poor dipshits tend to want to blame others for their problems.
Also, note that, traditionally, the "welfare leeches" were, and are, staunch Democrats to this day. Remember, Welfare was also an invention of the Democrats.
Wrong. Welfare, obviously is an invention of the left, but Republicans are the primary recipients. Agricultural subsidies, electricity, internet, phones etc etc etc. all of these are heavily subsidized and the primary recipients are rural states and regions i.e. Republicans by and large. Add in the military which is primarily a welfare scam and it's overwhelming. Then, of course, there's corporate welfare which goes primarily to the very few people who actually are sane (if evil) for voting Republican.
Almost all "red states" are welfare states. That means they receive more in taxes than they pay. Every resident of these states are on welfare. Just because they don't receive GA checks doesn't mean they aren't welfare leeches
Of course, even the "blue' welfare recipients are getting paid primarily by the blues states as they're the ones paying the country's bills, unlike the welfare states.
Wow, that's the first time I've ever been called a lefty! I'm not sure whether to applaud you, or suggest that you're not bright enough to pour sand from a boot with instructions printed on the heel, since I've been posting here for years and years, mostly to the right.
You're the one saying that people unwilling to pay for luxury services should receive them out of my pocket. That's loony lefty. I care sweet fuck all, what other nonsense you've spewed over the years. If you think poor people who refuse to pull their own weight should be paid for their failure out of my pocket, that makes you far to the loony side of left on that topic anyhow. Let me guess, you're a poor religious loon so your left when it means you get my money, but you still want to inject your fucked up hate based religious bullshit into my life, which is extremist right wing nonsense.
Though perhaps, if you're as far right as you sound like (just a tad right of David Duke), I look like the left from there.
Nope, I'm a Liberal as in what the word actually means. not how it's commonly used in America these days. You know, Liberalism, the basis of America? That's the center. I don't like extremist lefties, because I don't like the power of the state being used against me to promote some bullshit interpretation of "equality" and I fucking despise the right, or fascists, because I don't like the power of the state being used to keep the rich and powerful rich and powerful at my expense because they despise equality as in "equal under the law". So I'm in the middle and you seem to be an extremist to the left and right depending on the issue and more importantly the recipient.
Oh, you should also read enough history to know what you're talking about when you discuss religion in this country. From your rant above, you haven't a clue in the world about the subject.
"the United States is in no way founded on the Christian religion" --- Treaty of Tripoli. Passed unanimously and widely celebrated by the Americans of the time. We have fallen far driven primarily by the religious loons coming out of the woodwork with the threat of the "godless communists" They added their god bullshit to the Pledge of allegiance in the 50s dipshit. You obviously don't know a god damned thing about the history of keeping religion out of our government and the critical importance of that to America becoming what it was before the fucking loons