The second televised Presidential debate in
2012 was more emotional. This was the greatest debate in televised Presidential
history as George Will said. Both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney stood
at each other to talk about many domestic and foreign policy matters.
Regardless of what we think about the 2 party system, the President stood up
like a man to debunk many of the lies and deception presented by Mitt Romney.
President Barack Obama easily and handily defeated Mitt Romney in the debate.
Polls show it and people know it. Like in every debate, Mitt Romney told
numerous lies and President Barack Obama still believed in the war mongering
rhetoric of neo-imperialism. Romney said that he wants to get the Pell Grants
growing, but the Ryan budget will cut Pell Grants. Romney claimed that his plan
will create 12 million new jobs in four years and rise take home pay. The
Washington Post’s in house fact checker said that the math doesn’t add up to
that claim. Romney claim that now, oil production is down 14 percent on federal
land and gas production is down 9 percent. That’s a lie. Overall, oil
production is up 10.6 percent from 2008 to 2011 (from 566 million barrels in
2008 to 626 million barrels in 2011). In the current administration, there are
241 million more barrels of oil produced form public land than in the last 3
years of the Bush administration. Mitt Romney (whose advisors are
neo-conservatives or war mongers) refuses to support a moderate Paycheck
Fairness Act, which will give women the right to sue for equal pay. Mitt Romney
opposes the stimulus when a centrist stimulus now has created ca. 3 million
jobs by that stimulus alone. Romney lied and said that the President engaged in
an apology tour. These are just a few of the lies he shown and the President
refuted him on these issues. On economics, both men promoted solutions within
the system. They try to present themselves as representatives of the common
man. Yet, they will not go into extreme populism (or a radical redistribution
of economic and political power) for fear of losing votes from certain
constituencies. Each talked about the middle class, but the poor never received
a mention. It’s seems like the concerns of the poor have been ignored by
numerous debates in the Presidential arena for years. Reactionaries like Alex
Jones and crew will talk about threats to assassinate Romney (which I don’t
agree with and I think that’s sick. Regardless of who is President in November,
a real person doesn’t threaten assassination about people). On the other hand,
Alex Jones’ crew ignore the record death threats against the current President
Barack Obama. You will notice that Alex Jones and crew ignore the shot fired in
a Obama campaign center in Colorado or the people arrested for trying to
assassinate the President in real life (beyond Twitter). They use agitation
about riots and reactionary rhetoric as a means to promote division (and try to
intimidate people into following the old policies of pro-corporate interests
including laissez faire capitalism). You will notice that they will not support
union rights, progressive human freedoms, and they ignore how Austrian
economics is supported by the establishment (Rockefeller funded Mises for
years). Alex Jones and crew ally with the vicious reactionaries and Ron Paul
(whose son supports the establishment’s ally Mitt Romney. Alex Jones is
supportive of the disinformationist group of the John Birch Society. The JBS
slandered the late President John F. Kennedy and civil rights heroes). Also, these
liars (some are in the alternative media crowd) have slandered the brother
Trayvon Martin too. Now, the reality is that the 2 party system has supported
drastic cuts to social programs that millions of human beings depend. To build
up our economy, we have to address poverty and unemployment via a national
program of employment & a real war on poverty. Both men debated on
immigration and the Dream Act. We don’t need attacks on immigrants, the opening
up of public for energy exploitation, more corporate tax cuts, wars abroad, the
privatization of all of public education, and austerity (which some in both
parties recommend for us). Romney made the lie that single parent households
are responsible for school shootings. The President won the debate, but I was
shocked that he said that free enterprise is the greatest engine of prosperity
the world’s ever known. That’s the same economic system that put my and the
brother President’s ancestors in chains. That’s the same system that ruin
nations the world over. It isn’t it. The foreign policy agenda of both the
President and Mitt Romney are nearly identical (which involves militarism). I
still believe that the President is wrong on promoting anti-civil liberty laws,
an extreme foreign policy, and gradual cuts to our social safety net. Both men
were looking like that they want to fight each other via their body language.
Candy Crowley was an excellent moderator in handling time limits and keeping
the debate in order. She stood her ground and spoke her mind. The President
should be treated as a man not a God (like many brainwashed Democrats act
like). Both the President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney talked about women issues and foreign policy matters that dealt
with the attack in Benghazi, Libya. Brothers like Tavis Smiley and Cornell West
have been at the forefront in putting the feet to the fire of the President in
great terms. They aren’t perfect, but I have more respect for them than a
neo-con or a person unconditionally supporting the President no matter what.
It’s just that on some issues, Mitt Romney is much worse (he ignored that if
you want to grow the economy, you need a national public job creating plan that
addresses poverty and discrimination). Mitt Romney is wrong for constantly
switching positions in a matter of not only years, but weeks (and his economic
plan is sketchy with deceptive language of deductions). Overall, the President
won the debate in an apparently strong fashion. So, we have a choice. Regardless of who
you vote for, make sure it is the right choice for you. Don’t let anyone
prevent you from voting period. Protect your rights and others around you for
real.
In our generation, the reactionaries are
making their comeback in trying to promote archaic, neo-feudalism economic
philosophies. Now, it’s the time to fight back. Here are some facts on this
issue. This liar Mitt Romney said that government doesn’t create jobs. Even
federal investment has created jobs in education, energy production,
technology, and other realms of human society. Now, here are some facts. The
deficit is largely a product of tax cuts and wars not health care costs or the
stimulus. Today, the budget shortfall is slowing in a deficit at 1.1 trillion
dollars for 2012. America has historically low amounts of revenue from the
corporate income tax. America has the second lowest effective corporate tax
rate in the world. You see corporate profits rebound from 2008 to 2012. Today,
we have a debt much higher as a percentage of GDP than the debt today. That
debt was owned by taxpayers and many people brought savings bonds. The debt
never made postwar America poorer and the debt didn’t prevent the postwar
generation to have the biggest rise in incomes and living standards in
America’s history. Foreign nations have large claims on American resources, but
that’s matched by 89 cents’ worth of U.S. claims on foreigners. Foreigners
usually put their U.S. investments into safe, low yield assets, so America
earns more from its assets abroad than it pays to foreign investors. Debts
aren’t harmless, but paranoia about the debt is harmful. That is why stable,
modestly higher taxes on the super wealthy can be one step out of many in
having better living standards. Debt is mostly money that we owe to ourselves.
Since 1980, the vast majority of our debt was not financed by foreign borrowing
at all. So, debt matters, but other things matters more like economic
inequality and the necessity of some government spending to lower the
unemployment rate. Real economic recovery is influenced by the excess of
household debt. That is why some economists want the government to spend money
and the private sector to repair its balance sheets (along with debt relief for
homeowners as a means to improve job opportunities). When you have a recession,
massive austerity will be heavily damaging to our economy. You need spending
& specific investments (along with a real war on poverty to defeat income
inequality, and help the poor) to get out of the slump. The reason is that
austerity will cut resources, income, and cut especially necessary resources
that can aid the poor. When you have a massive economic boom (which we don’t
have now), then it’s time to have more targeted actions to handle the debt and
deficit. Even Iceland broke all of the Austrian economic rules and they have a
potent economic situation. Iceland rejected the debts given unto them by
certain bankers. They arrested and convicted the bankers committing crimes and
they negated the fraudulent mortgage debt (or Iceland forgave the mortgage
debt).
Economic genocide has been the goal of the
establishment. The wider issues are ignored by many in Washington, D.C. Our
economic system has been damaged by international situations of an over
reliance of petroleum, political corruption, fraud, and the evil war on terror.
Our economic crisis mostly was created because there was financial manipulation
and institutionalized fraud. The bank bailouts were wrong since it transfer
wealth to Wall Street banks without a massive change in the system. This
increased public debt. It’s not a secret our enemy wants to loot taxpayer funds
and destroy of state social programs as a means to promote an archaic economic
philosophy. Our economic crisis is beyond just American shores. It’s an
international system that desires to maintain national security and strategic
objectives. US/NATO military engine promotes this slick neo-imperialism. Today,
we have the borderline fascist Tea Party types and the President who sometimes
appeases to the political establishment as a means to not lose votes. Yet, the
corporate elite is not criticized by the mainstream media at all. The radicals
and the reactionaries want to get rid of the major systems of the New Deal and
Great Society programs. Wars, bailouts, and tax cuts for the rich aren’t right
to harbor real economic growth. Even Webster Tarpley is rather to say that if
the social safety net is radically eliminated (with health care, Social
Security, etc.), then people will be exterminated. The wild thing is that the 1
percent has record profits. Suffering under the guise of sacrifice is
austerity.
Washington’s Blog did an excellent job in
exposing how the attack on Hiroshima was unnecessary and evil. Military
experts, scientists, and other experts back then even expressed reservations
about dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order for WWII to
end. Back in 1946, there was the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey group (which was
assigned by President Truman) told the public that Japan would have surrendered
even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped. This surrender could have occurred
before December 31, 1945 according to the July 1946 report. People already know
that Dwight D. Eisenhower (who was the Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces.
He handle a lot of the American military policies that dealt with the European
theater of WWII) disagreed with atomic weapons being bombed in Japanese soil.
Dwight said these words on November 11, 1963. The Japanese were about to
surrender. Now, the attacks targeted mostly civilian locations not major
military installations. Also, the loss of life and the generational genetic
harm to the Japanese human beings was abhorrent. U.S. Admiral William Leahy
said that the bombing of massive women and children was unethical and a
throwback to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. General Douglas MacArthur disagreed
with the atomic bombing. The reason was that there was no military
justification for it and the Japanese was willing to surrender (as long as the
Emperor would remain, which later occurred after the 2 bombings came about). To
his credit, MacArthur was appalled by the Potsdam declaration in July of
wanting Japan to surrender unconditionally or suffer utter destruction. The
nuclear weapons were used in civilian populations and Special Assistant to the
Secretary of the Navy Lewis Strauss proposed to Secretary of the Navy James
Forrestal for a non-lethal demonstration of atomic weapons (in forest). This
proposal was wrong, but still better than the events itself. U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission historian J. Samuel Walker has studied the history of
research on the decision to use nuclear weapons on Japan. In his conclusion he
writes, “The consensus among scholars is that the bomb was not needed to
avoid an invasion of Japan and to end the war within a relatively short time.
It is clear that alternatives to the bomb existed and that Truman and his
advisors knew it.” President Truman allowed the bomb to be dropped, because
he wanted to show the power of the U.S. against Soviet influence. The bomb
droppings were the beginning of the Cold War since Truman accepted Churchill’s
premise that the Soviets wanted to dominate the world under the flag of
Communism. So, we know the truth in 2012. The truth is that WWII began and
ended under controversial activities. It was a war that was filled with
controversy.
In African cultural traditions, there are
always unifying themes. Black people are the original peoples on Earth and the
original values of the original peoples on Earth still remain. As a member of
the indigenous peoples in human history, I do reject any attempt to destroy
Nature intentionally. I believe in the concept of community, and I believe in
cooperation. I accept a common black heritage, I believe in natural law (or
moral law from the Creator or God), and I believe in contributing my talents to
the world. Now, throughout history in Africa, our ancestors always believe in
assisting the family unit collectively. That means is that one family member
needs assistance, the whole family works together in making sure that family
member is back on their feet. Selfishness is omitted from our culture. We are
concerned with the whole community without some selfish individualist lust for
greed and wealth. We have empathy toward our fellow human beings. There is strong
power in the black collective. That’s express throughout human history. That is
why whenTanzania was under Nyerere using these communal tenets reduced infant
mortality, raised the life expectancy rate, and increase school enrolment (plus
lowered the adult literacy rate). Also, black people regularly believe in
cooperation. One of the greatest parts of spirituality and pure common sense is
the respect of Nature and the creations of the Earth. Once a person use wise
treatment of Nature and creations, then blessings can flow about (and a humans’
spiritual and moral attitude is enhanced). In natural law, all life is
sacred and people have right to reproduce in passing their genes to future
generations. Also, being single or being married is a blessing too. Children are always a blessing and an inheritance for our people indeed.
By Timothy
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