Saturday, September 29, 2012

A Look to the past to help us to save our future.

There was a time that when you opened the door of a GM car, truck or van that there would be an emblem on the bottom of the front doorways that said, "BODY BY FISHER".
 Photo: There was a time that when you opened the door of a GM car, truck or van that there would be an emblem on the bottom of the front doorways that said, "BODY BY FISHER".  I always smiled when I would see that.  It made me think of my sweet but tiny Mom working the afternoon shift struggling to move those large cushions to sew them together to put into all of those GM vehicles. While I regret my Mom having to miss most of my childhood, as I grew up, I came to understand the sacrifices that she made, being away from her young children (I was two and my eldest brother nine, when she started working at Fisher Body) to make a better life for us, as her parents generation did for hers, and their parents did for them, ect.  This is not the year to give up on the middle class, that the American Labor Movement fought to create, and let it die.  This is the year to save the middle class, especially those who have or are nearing retirement age.   

The Social Security Act, enacted on August 14, 1935 as been a fund that every legal American Worker has paid into.  The Social Security fund had always had a surplus until some greedy politicians started digging into it to pay for other things.  

We, as Americans, have paid into the Social Security, Medicare, and disability insurance (FICA) since we were kids working our first jobs.  We have paid into these funds with our hard earned money!  These are not "entitlements", we aren't "dependent on government" or believe that "we are victims" and "are entitled to health care, to food, to housing to you name it" as Governor Romney likes to say about those of us 47% that he says, "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."  Furthermore, Governor Romney said, "It's not my job to worry about these people."  We aren't expecting a handout, we just want what is due to us, what we have paid for.  Like many corporations, the Insurance Industry is a good example, all branches of Government are happy to take our money, but not so happy to give it back or pay us what we have earned.  

I wonder why Governor Romney is so adamant about not showing his tax returns.  It's probably because it will show the American People is that he is exactly what we are fighting against.  The wealthy digging deeper into our pockets to make them richer.  I doubt if Mitt Romney ever worked an honest days work in his life.  I wonder what his father, George, would really have to say about Mitt's "business experience".  While George Romney worked to turn American Motors Corporation around, making it competitive, his son Mitt, was CEO of a company that took companies and stripped them dry of assets, outsourced or just fired workers and bankrupted the companies while walking away with billion dollars of profits from those assets that they STOLE.  

George Romney was a Republican and was elected Governor of Michigan in 1962, 64 and 66.  I wonder what he, President Gerald Ford, and President Ronald Reagan (all Republicans) would think of the current state of the Republican Party?  I know that I am so displeased that I severed my relationship with the Republican Party and became an Independent in the 1980's.  Honestly, I wasn't a Democrat until I saw Barack Obama speak before the Democratic National Convention in 2004.  The only reason that I tuned into the convention was that I was curious why Ronald Reagan, Jr. was making a speech to Democrats that night.  You might call me an "Obama Democrat".
 
 I always smiled when I would see that. It made me think of my sweet but tiny Mom working the afternoon shift struggling to move those large cushions to sew them together to put into all of those GM vehicles. While I regret my Mom having to miss most of my childhood.  As I grew up, I came to understand the sacrifices that she made, being away from her young children (I was two and my eldest brother of the five of us was nine, when she started working at Fisher Body) to make a better life for us, as her parents generation did for hers, and their parents did for them.  This is not the year to give up on the middle class, the middle class that the American Labor Movement fought to create, just to let it die. This is the year to save the middle class, especially those who have or are nearing retirement age.

The Social Security Act, enacted on August 14, 1935 as been a fund that every legal American Worker has paid into. The Social Security fund had always had a surplus until some greedy politicians started digging into it to pay for other things.

We, as Americans, have paid into the Social Security, Medicare, and disability insurance (FICA) since we were kids working our first jobs. We have paid into these funds with our hard earned money! These are not "entitlements", we aren't "dependent on government" or believe that "we are victims" and "are entitled to health care, to food, to housing to you name it" as Governor Romney likes to say about those of us 47% that he says, "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." Furthermore, Governor Romney said, "It's not my job to worry about these people." We aren't expecting a handout, we just want what is due to us, what we have paid for. Like many corporations, the Insurance Industry is a good example, all branches of Government are happy to take our money, but not so happy to give it back or pay us what we have earned.

I wonder why Governor Romney is so adamant about not showing his tax returns. It's probably because it will show the American People is that he is exactly what we are fighting against. The wealthy digging deeper into our pockets to make them richer. I doubt if Mitt Romney ever worked an honest days work in his life. I wonder what his father, George, would really have to say about Mitt's "business experience". While George Romney worked to turn American Motors Corporation around, making it competitive, his son Mitt, was CEO of a company that took companies and stripped them dry of assets, outsourced or just fired workers and bankrupted the companies while walking away with billion dollars of profits from those assets that they STOLE.

George Romney was a Republican and was elected Governor of Michigan in 1962, 64 and 66. I wonder what he, President Gerald Ford, and President Ronald Reagan (all Republicans) would think of the current state of the Republican Party? I know that I am so displeased that I severed my relationship with the Republican Party and became an Independent in the 1980's. Honestly, I wasn't a Democrat until I saw Barack Obama speak before the Democratic National Convention in 2004. The only reason that I tuned into the convention was that I was curious why Ronald Reagan, Jr. was making a speech to Democrats that night. You might call me an "Obama Democrat".