Andre's Executive Order

Barack Obama said something in his speech that completely floored me. Obama said that Paul Ryan's budgetary plan for America wasn't just wrong for America, but it ended America as we know it. The reason it floored me was that it was a stark plain statement of exactly the conclusion I have been suggesting concerning the current Republican approach to politics for the last six months. Let's be clear about some facts up front. Corporations have made more profits last year than they have since the 1950s. Corporate CEO salary has gone up 27% in the last year alone. Median salary for American workers had steadily declined over the last three decades. Private sector job growth has, by comparison to profits, stalled. Despite record tax cuts in the last decade, predicted job creation has not materialized. We do still remember there was a stock crash, right? The whole sub prime mortgage thing. The economy was hemorrhaging jobs as Bush left office. Millions of jobs were gone before Ob...

At the risk of being called a conspiracy theorist, let's connect a few dots and ask a few questions about the political climate in the last couple of weeks and the last couple of years. Bear with me, I will do everything I can to support what I see and leave the rest to you. Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, 130 S.Ct. 876 (2010), was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited under the First Amendment. (taken from Wikipedia) Now every American knows that the basic building blocks of democracy are votes that are worth the same no matter who casts them. That's why every American also knows that the battle of politics is to convince as many people as possible to cast their votes in a desired direction. The number one weapon to convince a large population of anything, as anyone who watches TV knows, is advertisement. So suddenly large organizations ar...