Duel in November

All the skirmishes being fought this year will be coming to a climax with the duel in November. We are about to decide which voice will speak to and for Americans. Pouring forth from the mouth of the elephant is the idea that government programs other than defense, should be eliminated. From the donkey, when it doesn't have laryngitis, is the concept that government was created to help people lead normal safe lives. Before the 2008 elections we had a ruling government that turned the trickle down economics of the 80's into an oasis for the rich and a desert for everyone else. If the elephant regains total power, held out for all to see, is their blueprint. It is the recently voted on Paul Ryan budget. Now you would think in a country where the vast majority of people, if they have jobs, make under 50 thousand dollars a year, would welcome programs that help them. You would be wrong. By appealing to the lowest common denominators present in all of us the Fat Cat has snookered the lazy anti-intellectual American into voting against his own self-interest. The backlash against, the war on women, the abolition of Medicare, and treatment of minorities, is our only hope.