WHY I DO THIS BLOG THING!

…The invasion of Iraq...the big lie that cost America so much.

After hearing all the lies from the Bush administration, I decided how important it was for the public to hear the truth.

 

I recently had a reader that has been following my articles for years ask me, “Why do you do this blogging thing?  You don’t get paid for it and you spend a lot of time with the research and all the writing….?”  

After thinking about it, I decided that it was a reasonable question and that others that read my articles might be asking the same question, and that it deserved a response.

So, the first reason I started doing this is that I have always had a problem when I hear the false statements from those that are supposed to be working for us, not working for big business lobbyists or for pure right-wing political gain.  These individuals were elected by us, not assigned to represent us and they are supposed to tell us the truth.

When I come across individuals such as US Representatives Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Ex-Representative Allen West (R-FL), and right wing radio talkers such as: Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, I then realize it is impossible to list all the untruths that escape from these and other right-wing individual’s mouths day, after day, after day.  But I can try to put an honest dent in the problem.

I was raised to respect the truth, and these and others of their ilk, have absolutely no respect for the truth.  And I decided that as a writer, at least I would use the internet and the blogging community to broadcast the truth as I understand it, and to use real research to obtain that truth.

Lately, one of the best examples of this problem was the Speaker of the House, John Boehner’s bogus claim that he is going to sue the president for not enforcing the laws.  The suit may not be bogus, but bogus part is that the president is not breaking the law.

Now Boehner hasn’t said which laws he’s going to sue about, but it is obvious that what he is talking about are all the recent Executive Orders from the president. In these cases, I agree with the president when he stated that, “They get mad at me for doing what they should be doing.  I would like to work with them to do these things and am willing to share the credit for getting them done.  Why should they sue me for doing what they were supposed to do?”

Of course, Speaker Boehner never mentions the excessive number of Executive Orders that were issued by both of the past Bush administrations, only those from the Obama administration.

But we all know that today, Boehner and his “Do-Nothing” congress is currently receiving the lowest public approval rating…ever, at 7%, while the president approval is setting at 42%.  No, this president does not have a stellar approval rating today.  But it sure beats the heck out of that of the current US Congress.

It’s the issue of the congress not doing what we elected them to do that makes others like me furious, and it drives me to research and write about it.  If my writing makes one person become interested in getting involved and to check issues out for themselves, then my work is all worth it.

I get comments on my articles regularly thanking me for printing the real truth, not the B.S. that get spouted on Fox News, or from the mouths of the Sarah Palin’s, Sean Hannity’s or the Mitch McConnell’s of the far right. 

So far. the right-wing conservatives have blocked every House bill that would or could have helped the middle class.  The Republican’s “trickle down” concept has been proven many times to not work, but they continue to sell that failed concept to the general public. 

 

If the minimum wage were increased, it would put money in the hands of the people that will immediately put that money back into the economy.  But the righties always vote against a wage increase.  They say it will lose jobs, when the major economists continue to state time after time that it will increase jobs.  It’s just one more of their blatant lies.

But it was all the lies from the far right and from Fox News that reinforced my wanting to be someone that tells the truth.

Early on, I made a big mistake by not properly researching one of my articles.  A very astute reader of my blog immediately responded pointing out my mistakes.  This made me personally commit myself to look for more than one source for any questionable data that I might publish in any future articles.  I also continue to encourage any reader to let me know when I screw up.  You sure don’t get that kind of request from the right side of the isle or from Fox.  (I assume that is because they would need a whole new TV channel and a complete staff to deal with refuting their daily untruths.)

The other area that I needed to deal with is my anger when reading or hearing mis-information from those right-wing conservatives that don’t believe in science or that say they support middle America’s rights.  But then they start taking away those same rights through their actions or the actions of their large corporations or the big banks they support.

Yeah, they want the clean water, clean air, and fewer pot-holes, but more regulations needed to make those things right.......forget it.

As stated, I was raised to understand and respect the real truth, not Fox's idea of the truth.

Obviously, some of these individuals were raised by those with a very different point-of-view.

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