Polo-ticks time.

Yesterday as I looked at my Facebook app it asked me what is on your mind? Well this is what was on my mind.

         "What would you do if someone gave you an extra $20000 maybe you would take a vacation or buy a new car, new clothes, or new appliances. Even if you used the money to pay off old bills, you then would have more to spend in the economy because you wouldn't have the interest payments. And when you buy more, you create demand, which means more people can be put to work-and the economy grows. Now think about what Example: Bill gates or the Waltons. What would they do with it or an extra 20 Million or more, as ol George W. did with his first tax cuts. Would they even notice? They would probably just send it along to Their accountant and forget all about it (which is exactly what they did with it by the way). The only thing that's going to grow is their bank accounts (which is what's happening). That's the difference between giving money to the rich and giving it to the people. When people in the lower and middle economic layers of society have increased income, all of society eventually gets richer because working people spending most of the incomes is the engine that creates economic demand for goods and services.  This is what has happened under 30 years of Reaganomics!  Repeal  Reaganomics  and  Citizens United! Corporations are not people. It made available for corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money to advocate for or against political candidates. Sorry peeps that is what was on my mind!"-Thank You, Thom Hartman                 

Over the last 30+ years of Reaganomics! We have Monopolies, we have a handful of families in this country who hold most of America's wealth. We have corporations taking over our commons.... Parks, Prisons, Education.. and the list goes on. We have people cutting the bottoms off the ladders they themselves climbed to keep anyone else from coming up behind them. Repeal  Reaganomics  and  Citizens United! Corporations are NOT people! 
Elizabeth Warren talking about this issue: 

Anyone making less than 50K a year can understand this. Now I like to look at myself as very open minded person , but  the opposition of the progressive movement has not given me any type of proof or even an argument that this has not happened to the country, or a real plan to fix it. Wedge issues are not good enough. Income inequality is real, alot more real than Hillary Clinton email scandal.                    

Black Lives Matter...  Yes, all lives matter.. But that is not the point. Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, and countless others were not white, hispanic or asian. As a Police officers wife, I am biased, and I know this. I am not saying all police, or all departments are bad, and/or do this. In Fact, My husband is probably one of the most brave, professional, and unbiased police officers that may have ever existed.  I know a lot of great men and women who serve and who have died for the American people! They protect us and keep us safe. I will never know what it is like to walk in another ethnicity's shoes. Whether or not you feel this is or isn't an issue, seems to relate to how much empathy you may have for others. A large group in the United States says this is a real problem! I feel it is something that should be addressed, and talked about. I feel the Black lives matter holds more validity than most of the wedge issues you hear from any of the Republican candidates for presidents.       

Now for the Minimum Wage argument over raising the minimum wage. I feel that the creator of  the first minimum wage summed it up best:“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” (1933, Statement on National Industrial Recovery Act)“By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of a decent living.” (1933, Statement on National Industrial Recovery Act)"Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employees over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company’s undistributed reserves, tell you – using his stockholders’ money to pay the postage for his personal opinions — tell you that a wage of $11.00 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.” (1938, Fireside Chat, the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards Act that instituted the federal minimum wage)"All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of manpower, government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor.” (1937, Message to Congress upon introduction of the Fair Labor Standards Act)

I find it very sad that 77 years later this is still a real issue, and after 30 years of reaganomics we have reverted right back to the 30's. Which was one of the most unregulated and unequal times in America. 
I understand there will be people who do not agree with me on these issues. And that is okay! This world would be very dim and colorless, if everyone agreed on everything. But this is my blog and these are my thoughts and feelings. As Thom Hartman would say, "Politics is not a spectator sport, get active get involved. TAG YOU ARE IT!" Without everyone doing their part our Democracy,  it does not work the way it should. I am not endorsing any candidate as of yet Bernie Sanders lol, but I don't care who you vote for, as long as you VOTE!  Dig, and actually research what they do vote on. What policies do they support and write? Hold the elected officials to what they do!!! Not to what they just say! You can dispute and change words. The actions they do are not so easily changed.