“Waiting for Fictitious Heroes”

President Obama unveiled his 2012 budget plan to cut wasteful spending from the nation’s budget by more than a trillion dollars. Some of the cuts include:

• LIHEAP
• Pell Grants
• AmeriCorps

and other social service programs that assist middle class, working poor, and poor Americans. For the record, I completely disagree to any cuts to these excellent programs.

On the other side of the stale and moldy two-party political system, the Tea/Republican Party propose massive cuts from de-funding PBS, NPR, historically African American colleges and universities, the Department of Education, the IRS and the EPA just to name a few.

For the record, I support President Obama because I know he didn’t create this mess. Oh no! This debacle was procreated under President Ronald Reagan, and now Mr. Obama is attempting to fix this crisis, and he must now perform a much needed financial vasectomy to the national budget.

What we need now more than ever is an effective plan implemented to reverse the nation’s current trend because corporations, lobbyists, corrupt Supreme Courts Justices, weak, vacillating, and corrupt elected officials are taking America down a path that will place us in the history books right in front of the Roman Empire as a once great, empathetic and powerful nation that was destroyed by its greed, apathy and corruption.

We must also stop blaming each other for the political and social calamities that have enveloped the nation. You know what I’m talking about. Liberals blame Democrats, Democrats blame Progressives, Progressives blame Liberals, and this vicious cycle repeats itself. Stop! Why can’t we find a common goal(s) to focus and stay on message? We need to address our decimated infrastructure by:

• Ending Poverty
• Ending Homelessness
• Improving our Education System
• Protect the Environment and Social Security
• Ensure that “every” American has affordable and effective
healthcare
• Ending our involvement in wars around the world.
• Finance Reform

I thought that’s what Liberals, Independents, Democrats, and Progressives wanted for the Republic and its citizenry.

Conversely, we must stop waiting for Superman and/or any of the other fictitious superheroes to help us and instead be heroes of our own because the Republic is depending on us and our future is riding on it.


POWER TO THE GREAT CITIZENS OF WISCONSIN!


“Progressives will bring balance to the Republic.”
Anthony P. Johnson

"Taking it to the Streets...Peacefully"

Many Americans watched in awe over the last two-weeks as the Egyptian people took to the streets to peacefully protest the removal of a dictator who starved and murdered his citizenry, while he pillaged an estimated $70,000,000,000 from the country he claimed to love.

I'm tired of hearing members of the Tea/Republican Party always chanting "revolution" in America. They're always threatening to take their muskets and shoot other Americans because they say President Obama raised their taxes--which are false, and that "Obamacare" will kill their grandparents--which it won't. Additionally, the Tea/Republican Party members like to use references about "taking back America," but where do they want to take it?

I like to issue a challenge to these people:

If we, the citizens, leave our muskets at home and protest the homeless crisis in the nation which includes in some reports of 14%, 20% and 25% respectively of the population that has served in the U.S. military--would you be ready to take it to the streets peacefully?

Are you ready to peacefully protest the reduction of Pell Grant opportunities for deserving and under-privileged college students and the diminishing social services desperately needed in cash strapped American cities?

If we peacefully assembled in large numbers as concerned citizens because we want solutions, not excuses from parents, school, and elected officials about our decaying public school system that is no longer even graduating functioning illiterates--are you ready to take it peacefully to the streets?

If we, the people, marched on Capitol Hill as a nation of one, not based upon ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious or political affiliation, but in fact, our concerns about the widening gap between the wealthy, the middle class, and the working poor, the increase in racial inequality, and the dissipation of a woman's fundamental rights that is destroying the Republic--would you be ready to take it peacefully to the streets?

If you're truly ready to start a "Real Revolution," let it be a revolution about aiding all Americans and restoring the Republic back to its greatness. Just a reminder, my dissatisfied brethren of the Tea/Republican Party--a nation divided will cease to exist.



"Progressives will bring balance to the Republic."
Anthony P. Johnson