YOU ARE NOT CHAINED TO SOCIAL SECURITY

We should not teach our children to plan for a social security check.  I don’t care how long they work or how much they make in their lifetime— they know that Social Security and Medicare is taken from their paycheck but it is not something they are entitled to when they reach a certain age (thank goodness to Obama for paving the way to universal healthcare- which I think everyone should be entitled to).   We should teach our children that social security is for those in need and not an inheritance or piggy bank for those who contributed.  Their goal should be not to need social security—but to learn as much as possible, work hard and plan for their own financial security.  I feel however, should they or anyone ever need it—it should be there.  I am not upset that President Obama is cutting social security or anything else…he can cut, because the system needs to be reformed and the people hired him to make changes. 

The Skinny On Christie

Here you guys go falling for republican trickery--Chris Christie is full of it. Christie is the guy who less than a month before Sandy was calling the President arrogant and that he had never led anything in his life; that Obama was a man walking in a darkened room “clutching for the light switch of leadership and can’t find it”. He wasn’t willing to blame anyone but the president for the failures in Washington, not the Tea Party republicans or the Republican leadership in congress.

All this time he has been saying small government and cut government spending, now he is whining about money for his state. What happened to all the money he supposedly saved New Jersey with his budget cuts. Now don't get me wrong, I think New York and New Jersey should get the money--I am a New Yorker. But I am not falling for Christie's act, he wants to be president, so I am viewing him through that lens and I think he might be overplaying his hand. I don't care how much the Republicans try and camouflage themselves--they are still Republicans and they believe in states’ rights, less government, intrusive medical procedures for women, rape is not rape, and tax cuts and no-bid contract for the top one percent, all while bloating the budget and stepping on the neck of the little guy.

Liberals Are Dissing Biden

Every time I hear someone talk about Hillary Clinton for 2016, I think what a drone. Not only is it a disrespect to Joe Biden it also doesn’t make any sense. Hillary is not as popular as everyone thinks. I am tired of reminding people that she was supposed to be the winner in the 2008 election, and the first time Barack Obama ran. Then just as now, she was the “presumptive nominee” but she ran a poor campaign and got quite desperate after citizens began casting their votes and it was clear that Barack Obama was real competition. Hillary and the media believed she would win Iowa, she came in third. By the time the primary got to New Hampshire a state she was supposed to win the President, then Senator, tied her so she is not a winner. She offered no real vision, just herself. Simply, Hillary lacks authenticity. The President could have chosen her as vice President, and he did not. Would Hillary have been able to negotiate with Congress the way Joe Biden has on so many important legislation, remember her attempt at health care reform. 

The argument for her candidacy is that she did a great job at state, but The President sets the agenda at the State Department not the Secretary of State. Hillary is a Representative of the President and nothing more, remember his line during one of their debates “I look forward to you working for me too, Hillary”, she works for him. She is tasked with outreach and building relations, but when Secretary Clinton shows up in a foreign country she is not representing herself or her personal desires, she is a representative of the American Government and President of the United States.