Let's get some facts straight...

This is in response to Ms. Conditt's Nov 5 posting
I’m going to go ahead and go down this list point by point.

1) The Affordable Care Act was passed by congress. So if there is a legitimate issue with the content of the law that you have, take it up with the members of congress who had plenty of opportunity (and did) to amend the bill. Now, you might saw that Republicans didn’t vote to support the bill. Then I would counter with why don’t Republicans have more constituents in Congress? It’s because the American people didn’t vote to put them there. So if Republicans have an issue with laws getting passed, they are more than welcome to get more of themselves elected to stop bills they see as unfit. Although I don’t see that happening any time soon after the landslide victory Obama won in 2012.

2) You say he humiliated the US by sending a delegation to Chavez’s funeral and not to Margaret Thatcher’s. I would say to you that you are categorically wrong that we didn’t send a delegation, and I can even go as far as to give you their names: George Shultz and Jim Baker (both former Secretaries of State) along with their staff. So right away your facts are inaccurate. And sending a delegation to Venezuela isn’t a bad move in my opinion. With the death of a dictator, America has a unique chance to reset relations with a South American power (who also happens to have a crap ton of oil). What better than to turn an enemy into a friend?
            a) the Great Depression
            b) Segregation and civil rights
            c) the Vietnam War
            d) the LA riots (Rodney King)
            e) Post 9/11 racism (yes people actually died from that)
And those are just a few of the more pertinent examples. Because to imply that everything was a rose garden from the 1800’s until now just doesn’t make any sense.

4) According to a September 26, 2011 article in Politico, President Obama did use the term "Shovel Ready Jobs" in a plan to fund $50 billion in improvements to highways, transit systems, railways and aviation. The idea was to put Americans back to work by construction upgrades to 150,000 miles of road, 4,000 miles of train tracks, 150 miles of airport runways and the nation’s air traffic control system. Political According to a September 26, 2011 article in Politico, President Obama did use the term "Shovel Ready Jobs" in a plan to fund $50 billion in improvements to highways, transit systems, railways and aviation. The idea was to put Americans back to work by construction upgrades to 150,000 miles of road, 4,000 miles of train tracks, 150 miles of airport runways and the nation’s air traffic control system. Political reported that experts did not see the jobs being as shovel ready as one would think as "A tremendous amount of money and time is needed to get a project through a detailed design process, permitting, environmental hurdles, public hearings and land acquisition." So what they’re saying is that some leg work needed to be done before everything would be good to go. Which if you’ve ever seen a government program happen, is kind of a no brainer.

5) What exactly has the President done to limit your ability to worship as you see fit? Last I checked, I can still go worship the family of squirrels that live in my front yard and nobody is going to arrest me for it. I think what you’re more likely referring to is his attempts to remove religious influence from government; which is a good thing. You can find examples of almost every founding father being categorically against organized religion holding political power. You can go to the Library of Congress and read their letters for yourself if you’re so inclined!

I tried to get to the last one, but I don’t have the space. Long story short, look up William G. Harding (29^th president, republican). THAT is an example of the most corrupt President in US History.

#endrant