Greg Snyder is feeling happy.
July 31, 2018 ·
If we could get Moscow Mitch, Bret Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Jeff Sessions, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and Ajit Pai and Trump to Florida and shoot them all dead, we could come up with some cockamamie bullshit stand-your-ground defense and it would be a perfectly legal killing, I mean, self-defense.
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Greg Snyder
July 31, 2018 ·
Tell me what is religious about large prayer meetings and or rallies like those held in mega churches and by charlatans and haters like Franklin Graham? Many people gather and proclaim their faith and loyalty. Just like they did in Hitler’s Germany. They sang and saluted in unison. This is not religion or religious. It’s a form of voluntary submission and mindlessness that gives power to “leaders” who have agendas and need the power of numbers behind them to achieve their political objectives.
Religion, religiousness, spirituality, to me, are the exact opposite. They are an internal experience. No other human being can participate. It’s not a group sport. It is quiet, contemplative, and private. It nurtures the spirit. It does not contain and manipulate it. It is empowering, not dehumanizing.
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Greg Snyder
July 28, 2018 ·
In the trade relationship that exists between the United States and China, China produces the goods, often goods of American manufacturing that has relocated out of the United States and gone to China because it has been economically advantageous to the owners and investors in those companies to do so. The cost of labor in China is currently low enough in China to make it attractive to business owners and investors to set up shop there. But will that always be the case? Will Chinese workers always remain content with low wages, minimal or no benefits which keep them living in poverty? The Chinese government may some day wake up and have to do more to appease its labor force. It may not always be the land of low costs and lax regulations. It may become more expensive for China to maintain its competitive edge. But one thing is absolutely clear. China definitely has the most highly skilled negotiators and thus far economic planners since they joined the global economy. Their acumen is admirable and their ability to drive the bargain and set conditions has been highly successful and brilliantly executed.
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Greg Snyder
July 20, 2018 ·
Remember when Trump wrote his “covfefe” tweet? Is that Russian for “I suck Vladimir Putin’s cheesy cock”?
Greg Snyder
July 23, 2018 ·
What is really sad, very sad about America today is two things: the level of ignorance of so many, and the baby boomers who have always been lazy and not gotten involved or voiced any concerns about what the government is doing. They bitch and moan and complain about it, but have they ever DONE anything about it? No.
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What used to be the consequence of treason? Beheading? Firing squad with or without a hood? Guillotine? Shot through the back of the skull? Those were the days!
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Greg Snyder
July 18, 2018 ·
The NRA’s pledge to its members is: You give me money and the NRA will cover lobbying costs to let you keep or grow your arsenal, while we work with Russia to get more money and support Putin. (But you don’t have to know about that, or care about it if you do know about it.)
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Greg Snyder
July 15, 2018 ·
Ways our democracy could be improved:
1. Get money out of politics. Reverse Citizens United. Ban lobbying.
2. Get rid of the electoral college.
3. Put a capped, fixed rate on Congressional salaries and benefits. Benefits must match those of the general public they serve. Make it law that Congress must seek approval for any kind of pay raises and they must be based on actual work. Put term limits into place to prevent career politicians from occupying space in Washington DC for decades.
3. Tax the rich and businesses (corporations).
4. End all corporate subsidies. End defense subsidies.
5. Rebuild and adequately fund public education pre K up to grad school.
6. End the cap on taxing social security. Expand Social Security.
7. Medicare for all. Single payer.
8. Immediately convert to smart energy grid using only sustainable green energy sources.
9. Require all housing to convert to solar power.
10. Shut down existing oil and gas pipelines and require the companies that own them to clean up all spill sites with their own money.
11. Restore, repair, replace infrastructure across the board, across the country, water, sewer, roads, airports, railroads.
12. Build a national high speed, state-of-the-art rail system.
13. Make the internet a public utility owned and controlled by regions and metropolitan areas. Each town, city, metropolitan area or region would be responsible for building and maintaining its own system but tied into a whole system with financial assistance matching locally generated funds for initial construction. Broadband should be low or no cost and available to each and every citizen in the country. There should be no community, no matter how small, in the country that does not have access to adequate high speed broadband for every individual American. We should be the most wired country in the world, down to the last American.
14. Immediately remove all McConnell/Trump judges from service. Start to rebuild the judiciary the way it’s supposed to be done. Vet candidates carefully. Place only judges who are deemed qualified and experienced judges to the bench. Lifetime appointments should be able to reviewed and when judges lapse or breach ethical standards or simply do not function objectively and or within normal standards, there needs to be a system of review of their peers that should be put into place to remove judges that should be removed because they can no longer function the way they are supposed to function.
15. The United States Postal Service and the Veterans of this country need to be treated with respect by our elected officials. Restore adequate full funding for the VA and rescind the punitive measures that have been taken against the Post Office. Allow the Post Office to expand its capabilities to include check cashing (with minimal fees and/or interest). Honor promises made to our veterans and give them the benefits that they have put their lives on the line to receive.
16. Rescind all of the regressive measures made by Scott Pruitt while he was at the EPA. Fortify and make permanent the laws that protect Americans from pollution. Make laws that require polluters to clean up their pollution and prevent them from polluting in the first place. Restore the power of the EPA to make environmental law that keeps us safe and protects our health.
17. Adequately fund and restore the National Park System to its previous state. Make the Parks permanent and not something that can be chopped up, sold off, and lost forever.
18. Make the Endangered Species Act a permanent law that cannot be rescinded or rolled back.
19. Restore and make permanent the laws that protect consumers from predatory banking and business practices. Do not allow banking to be a high stakes investor sport. Bring back the full Dodd/Frank legislation. Beef it up where it needs to be beefed up. Bring back the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Bring back the Volker rule. Get rid of obscure but massive financial instruments like credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations or remake them so they no longer can cause volatility.
20. We could start taking care of all Americans and stop being so insecure, selfish and paranoid. We have more than adequate wealth and resources to do this. Americans do not have to live in poverty, without the basics, living in the streets or their RVs. If we look beyond ourselves to the greater good, we can truly become an exceptional nation.
This is a very partial, initial wish list that I have of things we could easily do to vastly improve the quality of life in this country. But, it would take a lot of people who also think it’s possible and desirable and they they would have to make it happen through a lot of hard, focused work to get it done.
What would be on your “wishlist”?
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Greg Snyder
July 6, 2018 ·
rMaybe the real reason senators and Trump are meeting with the Russians right now is to plan how the Russians will “help” with the midterm elections this year. More and more regular Americans are voting against Trump and the Republicans. So, the Republicans are depending on Russian support to sway the election with their incredibly effective hacking expertise. Of course, it helps the Russians target Americans who are vulnerable to their propaganda.
An update to this issue is that Moscow Mitch continues to refuse to allow any vote in the Senate to protect our election security systems. MM probably actually needs and is depending on Russian hacking support to win his re election. So he prevents anything from happening that could possibly interfere with hacking help from Russia.
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Greg Snyder
May 6, 2018 ·
Hi guys. Happy Sunday, day of rest. I hope you all are enjoying a pleasant, relaxing day off. I am.
If you are, please consider giving thanks to someone who is a dues paying member of a union. It was through the work of unions that you enjoy your days off. So, thanks are appropriate.
Unionized workers help to guarantee that all workers, whether they are dues paying members of unions or not, do not get exploited and have some time off and benefits.
So, surprise your union member friend or family member and thank him or her for her being in a union. It’s good for all of us. And it has helped you to be able to enjoy some days off and other work related things that most people never really even think about.
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