Ok. So first off let me just say I am baby obsessed. I cannot wait to be a mom & every time I see a little kid out, my heart just about melts! And recently, I was wasting time on the internet & I found the best website ever! Its www.myfirstfail.com! Go there right now. Stop reading my blog & go to this website. All of the babies here are adorable! I even made my guy friends look at the babies. I already know that I’m going to be the type of parent who puts their baby in embarrassing situations like this. I spent an hour going through most of the pictures on this site. Just wanted to tell you guys about this amazing site. Anyways, on to what this blog is really about.
I am a hardcore, very liberal democrat. This week’s blog may be a little boring because it’s about politics but there are just some things that I would like to get off my chest. Everybody knows about the situation in Haiti. Well one day I was flipping through the channels & I stopped on fox news just to see what republicans are up to (there’s no way in hell that fox news is unbiased by the way) and the things I saw & heard made me want to throw up in my mouth). They were absolutely disgusting. Some republicans want to not donate any money to Haiti because “we need to get our home situation right first.” They must’ve forgotten about the TWO WARS that we’re fighting unnecessarily. I think that they don’t want to help out the poor people of Haiti because there’s no money in Haiti. The United States as a country has a personal stake in the 2 countries in the Middle East while we have no stake in Haiti. But that doesn’t mean we can just leave them be. Well over 100,000 people DIED in Haiti. They’re buried beneath the rubble & most of their bodies will never be recovered. People are starving & dying in the streets & their families just have to leave their bodies there because they have nowhere to put it. This is just a horrible, horrible situation. And for republicans to even suggest that we don’t help out is mind-blowing. I am really angry about this! I can understand needing to take care of the home front first, but you need to spread that logic around evenly. Being a superpower means that we have to help smaller countries out. And yes, Haiti was very poor before the earthquake, but I just cannot comprehend why that means we shouldn’t help them. I think that is one of the most selfish things ever! I hope Obama sends them all of the money they need. I know people in America are struggling, but people in Haiti need it way more than the poorest person in America.
Another thing the Republicans did that pissed me off happened at the Supreme Court. They basically said that corporations can donate as much money as they want to political campaigns. Why does this matter? Because this basically squashes out the voice of regular people like us. This is not what democracy is about! I’m a freshman in college & I can see that. I don’t know about you, but I can’t compete with a big corporation. So instead of being loyal to their constituency, candidates are now going to be more loyal to big businesses. And which party is a friend of big business? Republicans. It’s obvious that this is strictly a party decision because the vote was 5-4. I thought the Bush era was over (Thank god!) but I forgot about all of the conservative judges he left on the court.
Sorry that this blog is so long guys but I am just really pissed off by republicans. Their party ideals are all screwed up. They’ve forgotten about the people. I just don’t understand their ideals about anything. ANYTHING. I think the founding fathers would be ashamed if they saw the state of the government today. Last thing, (I promise), Reagan was not a great president! He increased the size of the federal government AND the national debt.
Lauren
If any of you guys are republicans, I AM NOT SORRY!!!!
