{"id":1015,"date":"2016-12-31T03:30:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T07:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2016-12-31T02:33:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T06:33:33","slug":"you-keep-saying-that-word-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2016\/12\/31\/you-keep-saying-that-word-change\/","title":{"rendered":"You Keep Saying That Word &#8220;Change&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Greetings and Salutations;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Well, &nbsp;it is finally the last day of 2016&#8230;.New Year&#8217;s Eve. &nbsp; &nbsp;I have to say that this year is one that I am just as glad to see the end of. &nbsp; &nbsp;Sadly, &nbsp; we shall start 2017 off with the Inauguration of the donald as President of the United States. &nbsp; This is unspeakably bad for so many reasons.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, &nbsp; I am more interested in talking about the donald&#8217;s claim to be &#8220;Draining the Swamp&#8221;, &nbsp;and the fact that so many voters seemed to be motivated by frustration with the current Federal Government, &nbsp;and wanting change. &nbsp; Let me do a quick comparison between HRC and the donald on that whole &#8220;Change&#8221; thing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>President Obama has, &nbsp;in the last eight years, &nbsp;performed some &nbsp;minor miracles with the United States. &nbsp;To touch on a few of them:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>His administration tracked down and killed Osama Bin Laden.<\/li>\n<li>He inherited an economy in shambles, now it is in considerably better shape.<\/li>\n<li>The Stock Market was tanking &nbsp;NOW, &nbsp;the Stock Market is at record highs; &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Companies were shutting down, &nbsp;causing massive job loss. &nbsp;NOW, &nbsp;new businesses are opening up and growing and job growth has been on a steady upward swing.<\/li>\n<li>the Federal Deficit which was causing a huge growth in the National Debt, &nbsp;has been cut by 3\/4.<\/li>\n<li>He managed to get the first, real healthcare insurance reform in the history of the country passed.<\/li>\n<li>Our international reputation was in shambles, but since he took office, &nbsp;our international reputation has Improved every year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And what is more impressive about this is that he did this and many more things in spite of the absolute, unending opposition of Congress, &nbsp;and the unending fire hose of racist attacks by citizens.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now&#8230;.Hillary Clinton &nbsp; ran for the office, &nbsp;and much of her platform was to continue to expand and continue these accomplishments by President Obama. &nbsp;Her plans were to change how the Federal Government worked, &nbsp;through careful and thoughtful actions. &nbsp;Sadly, &nbsp;the Electoral College chose to ignore their responsibility and put the donald into office.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now then&#8230;what did the donald bring to the table. &nbsp; From day one, &nbsp;it is true that he mentioned &#8220;Change&#8221;&#8230;although his favorite phrase was &#8220;Drain the Swamp&#8221;. &nbsp; Alas, &nbsp;now that he has taken the office, &nbsp;here is what he actually will bring to it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>He wants to eliminate the ACA during his first 100 days in the office. &nbsp;This will mean that the insurance companies will be free to return to the same, &nbsp;abusive actions they gloried in for years, &nbsp;including massive premium increases, &nbsp;denying insurance for pre-existing conditions, &nbsp;dropping people who use their policies, &nbsp;putting caps on payouts and a host of other actions that made it impossible for millions of Americans to get health insurance for years. &nbsp; The immediate effect will be that close to 20 million Americans will lose their insurance coverage.<\/li>\n<li>He has packed his Cabinet with billionaires &nbsp;who have no experience or knowledge about running the departments they have been put in charge of. &nbsp;Not only does it appear that the only qualification for holding a Cabinet level Job in the donald&#8217;s administration is to have given him a lot of money. &nbsp; No Change THERE and I would be hard put to call that &#8220;Draining The Swamp&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Every one of the people, &nbsp;save ONE, that he has put on his Cabinet and assigned to run an agency of the government has a long record of being totally against that agency. &nbsp;This means that their only goal is likely to disassemble the agency and destroy it. &nbsp;No changes there, as the Right-Wing has wanted to remove the agencies that constrain their greed and protect the rest of the Citizens for decades.<\/li>\n<li>He has announced massive tax cuts for the 1% &nbsp;who have most of the money in America. &nbsp; No change there.<\/li>\n<li>He has claimed that he will do all this improvement of infrastructure, &nbsp;yet has no way to pay for it! &nbsp;No change there.<\/li>\n<li>It is a fact that almost every economist who looks at his economic plans says that they will cause a huge drop in revenue, &nbsp;so, &nbsp;even if he does little or nothing to improve the country&#8217;s infrastructure, &nbsp;it will cause the deficit to spike upwards and cause a huge growth in the debt&#8230;Guess what? &nbsp; No change there.<\/li>\n<li>To touch on the Cabinet again&#8230;during the campaign, &nbsp;the donald was spitting fire over HRC&#8217;s giving a speech to Goldman Sachs. &nbsp;Well, &nbsp;guess who he has added to his administration? &nbsp; Several executives from Goldman Sachs, of course.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>In addition, &nbsp;he has said many things about getting the lobbyists out of the government&#8217;s way. &nbsp; Well, &nbsp;again&#8230;guess what he has added to his administration? &nbsp; SEVERAL Lobbyists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So&#8230;it should be pretty clear from even this small sample, &nbsp;which Candidate was the real proponent of change for America.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now, &nbsp;in case you think I have forgotten the voters&#8230;do not worry&#8230;I am getting to us. &nbsp; I say that we, as Americans do NOT want change in our Federal Government. &nbsp; Here is what I base my observation on. &nbsp; For most of my life, &nbsp;in EVERY election the incumbents are returned to office more than 90% of the time. &nbsp; Look at the state America is in right now. &nbsp; It is that way because we have a Congress that has better tenure than many Universities. &nbsp; The Republicans, in spite of holding a controlling percentage of the House, &nbsp;and using that to pass laws which have hurt many, average Americans, &nbsp;have NO worries about their job. &nbsp;They know that they are there until they decide to leave, and there are few things that make that less likely.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am of the opinion that all you that are reading this should do two things.<\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>If you are REALLY for change&#8230;then take time to communicate those desires to your Representatives.<\/li>\n<li>If they do not work on those changes, or ignore you&#8230;work to get them voted out of office.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Until we do that, there is not a one of us that can whine about government not changing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>God Help Us<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bee Man Dave<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>=-=-=-=-=<br \/><i>Powered by <b><a href='http:\/\/blogilo.gnufolks.org\/'>Blogilo<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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