Monday, November 10, 2014

THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION MAFIA.

I didn’t vote for Bill Clinton the first time, but I did the second time. And his mid-term elections were similar to those of Reagan, Bush, and Obama. He didn’t win a majority.

Clinton had the type of personality to get both parties to agree to compromises that best served the people of this country.

I’ve read several different amounts of the deficit that Reagan left after his presidency, one source on the internet says  3 Trillion, but the charts are difficult to read. A sure figure is a recorded 290 billion high in 1993. Clinton balanced the budget and spent surpluses of 2.3 trillion for Social Security, and 550 billion for Medicare.

In five years, the Clinton Budget brought America into balance, increased investment in education by 20 percent, including the largest increases in college aid  since the GI Bill. He cut spending in hundreds of superfluous programs, provided targeted middle class tax relief, including a $500-per child tax credit, provided insurance for five million uninsured children, respite care for families caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s, and, for the first time, mammograms for older women under medicare. He produced the  Family Leave Act for working parents,  a huge boost for working parents. He brought over site to Child Care institutions so abuses would not be covered up by demanding licensing and state inspections.

He produced the Paycheck Fairness Act, The Brady Bill, and Gun Control of some automatic weapons. He delivered a promise with twenty million new jobs, the lowest unemployment rate and smallest welfare rolls in thirty years, the lowest crime rate in twenty-five years, put 100,000 new police on the streets, cut and maintained the smallest federal workforce in forty years, the first back-to-back (three years of surpluses) in fifty years, seven years of declining teen pregnancies and a 30 percent increase in adoptions and 150,000 young people who served in his AmeriCorps.  He Passed the hate crimes bill, the Employment Non Discrimination Act, and tried to pass a bill to allow gays to serve openly in the military. He settled for don’t ask, don’t tell.

He poured money into our National Parks that were badly degraded. He corrected old injustices by awarding the Medal Of Honor to 22 Japanese American Soldiers who served while their families were interned in camps. He funded the Save America’s Treasures Act, when it was brought to his attention that an old Civil War soldiers home was deteriorating. a place President Lincoln used as a summer home.

Clinton reversed thee downward spiral in international affairs and went to countries that had never been visited by a representative of the United States, let alone a President.

A Japanese television company was closing and Clinton called them and said what would it take to keep you in business? Sell more tv sets.

Clinton talked to Sam Walton of Walmart and they agreed to carry 100,000 of those televisions in their store and the company stayed open and the jobs were saved. He went to Sam twice and turned things around because of Walmart’s great marketing power. At that time Walmart had retirement for their employees, as well. When Sam died, all that fell by the wayside. He didn’t do it alone, it required the cooperation of the Republican Party and they did it together.

Clinton’s Health Care plan was better than Obama’s, but Bob Dole, who was running against him for President, decided that the Democrats would hold power forever if they let his health care plan proceed. Dole was so sure he was going to win the election that he told Clinton he would kill it and did. Of course, Dole didn’t win, but the health care for America got tossed.

Clinton accomplished a lot while being vilified for a sexual liaison, yet his actions were no worse than, Eisenhower, Roosevelt, the Kennedy Brothers and others we know little about. He was just exposed and hunted by a vengeful partisan wearing “Independent Council” clothing. The truly independent council didn’t find any impeachable conduct so he was fired and Kenneth Starr put in his place. He offered money to people to lie, and he threatened and jailed Susan McDougal because she refused the money and refused the threats and chose not to lie for him.

I guess  I’m yearning for the Clinton years. But, the most courageous acts of congress, both republican and democrat was going up against the most powerful organization in the United States, The National Rifle Association. Representatives on both sides of the aisle knew that their seats would be targeted and their careers likely ended if they voted for the Brady Act and any gun control measures. The amazing thing is, they did it anyway. And, those crucial votes, by representatives and senators who had the chance to kill it (by order of the NRA and didn’t)  lost their careers.

THE ONLY WAY TO REDUCE THEIR POWER IS FOR 100% OF THE CONGRESS AND HOUSE TO VOTE AGAINST THE NRA AND NOT ACCEPT THEIR MONEY. LIKE A UNION. OR ELSE, THE NRA HOLDS ALL OF US HOSTAGE. EVEN IN OUR SMALL LOCAL COMMUNITY, ANY REFERENCE OR MOVE TO CONTROL ANYTHING HAVING TO DO WITH GUNS IS MET WITH A WELL ORGANIZED RESISTANCE FROM THE NRA. THEY WILL DECIDE WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY WE LIVE IN, THE MOST POWERFUL ORGANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES, THE NRA MAFIA.

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