Romney wants to increase war and Defense Budget by $2.1 trillion even though our military did not ask for it.

This story is dedicated to our military soldiers who have been deployed numerous times and are tired:

As a woman veteran of the Armed Forces, I take issue with people like Romney who want to become our Commander in Chief — yet, Mitt dodged the draft 4 times.  Perhaps I might be more open to Mitt’s request of increasing our $2.1 trillion in defense if he had put his own ass on the line.  What does Romney want an increase of $2.1 trillion for?  It smells of war mongering to me, and Americans need to start choosing our battles more carefully because we need to minimize bloodshed after a decade of war.

I believe Obama won the military audience when he said:

“There’s no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their country,” Obama said. “After a decade of war, it’s time to do some nation-building at home.”

Face it, folks.  Our military members, their families are tired of constantly being deployed.

It is time to focus on Homeland issues, and Romney is on the record for wanting to increase the Defense War budget by $2.1 trillion dollarseven though our military didn’t ask for it.  It’s one thing for our military to ask for an increase — but they didn’t ask for it to begin with.

Sound familiar?

It sounds like Romney is appeasing special interest groups that benefit from war — and that is the bottom line.

I believe we ought to choose our battles more carefully, and give our military a rest to a degree.  When our troops are rested, and when their morale is strengthened….they become better focused fighters anyway.

Our military is tired after MULTIPLE deployments.

This should not be a surprise to anyone who has been following foreign policy and the pulse of our military and veterans.  It’s a fact:   military members are tired of being deployed 4 or 5 times.  Military dependents, relatives, friends and Americans are sick and tired of a decade of war implemented by George W. Bush.  We are spending billions and billions of dollars in tax payer money as we bomb other countries only to rebuild their infrastructures.

Update: Armed Forces Show Overwhelming Support for Obama

We cannot go backward with war mongering any longer.

We have to fix HOMELAND issues before helping others abroad.

It’s time for the United States to save itself from drowning, because we can’t prevent others from drowning if we are not strong enough to save ourselves first.

Both Republicans Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich referred to Mitt Romney as the etch-a-sketch Candidate. Heed their warnings.

Latinos can kiss LEGAL comprehensive immigration reform and the DREAM Act good bye if Romney is elected and they should be motivated to vote in 2012.

Bottom line:  Not one single 1st term President has tackled immigration within their first term over the last 100 years of American history.  We live in a post 9-11 era where Republicans have become protectionist and restrictionist that is reminiscent of the Dixiecrat days.  In fact, the GOP adopted an anti-immigrant platform officially this past summer.

It is true that Republican Ronald Reagan gave amnesty when he was President, however, we do live in a post 9-11 era, and we are in the midst of two wars … and this is precisely why Congress needs to hammer a legal immigration law that will fix the broken immigration system.  Congress needs to take on the immigration issue that will only benefit our economy and our aging population and our elderly.

We believe in taking care of our elderly which is precisely why we need to address this.  If you will notice…it is the Mexican-Americans who do a good job of taking care of our elderly, and we don’t necessarily believe in sticking our grandmas and our grandpas in an  “elderly home” per se — nay, we typically like to make them feel at home while caring for them in our homes.

Furthermore, let’s all remember, too, that it was Mitt Romney who made over $50 million dollars in profits with regard to abortions via Steryicl.  Obama did not have a company that profited in the millions from abortions.

Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show

I make the case below.

The Republican Party ignored Gary Johnson when he was a Republican, in fact they ignored him. Now that Gary is a Libertarian, he is able to speak freely. Several former Republicans have fled the GOP to become Libertarians or Independent voters.

Allow this writing to be specifically directed to Libertarian and Libertarian-Republican voters…

Did you know that if Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson gets at least 5% of the vote, that means the Libertarian Party will have the OPTION to  receive several millions in matching campaign funds in 2016?  Johnson is polling at 6% nationally.

Johnson is clearly onto something.  Major parties, along with minor parties that reach the 5 percent threshold, do indeed qualify for grants in federal matching funds (although the $90 million figure Johnson referred to is unclear at this point).

Remember when the Republican Party would not include then Republican Gary Johnson in the debates?  Well it appears excluding Gary from his freedom of expression is not helping them this 2012 election year.

I predicted the GOP would regret excluding Johnson last year when I wrote:

Now that Gary Johnson has left the Republican Party, he will become political power house and help frame political discourse

And now the test of time has taken place and the prediction is coming into fruition.

TIME recently wrote:

For months, as Johnson ran in the Republican presidential primary, the GOP ignored him as best it could, hoping he’d just go away. Then he did, leaving the Republicans to join the Libertarians. When I ran into him at the GOP convention in Tampa, Johnson looked like a man far removed from his former party, blocks from the convention center, standing on a street corner in front of a Hooters doing interviews.

The GOP isn’t ignoring him anymore. Now that Johnson is threatening to siphon votes from Mitt Romney in close elections in Colorado and Nevada (he’s also on the ballot in 46 other states and Washington, D.C.), Republicans are doing whatever they can to limit his appeal. Michigan party officials kept him off the ballot because he filed his paperwork three minutes late. In Pennsylvania, the GOP hired a private detective who went to canvassers’ homes and flashed his old FBI badge before questioning the signatures they collected, a lawyer for Johnson’s campaign alleged. The state GOP and the investigator denied doing anything improper. (On Oct. 10 a judge decided that Johnson will be on the Pennsylvania ballot.) The experience has left Johnson, 59, alienated from some of his old comrades—which, it turns out, he doesn’t mind at all. “Going to Republican events, as I did a zillion times, I listened to Republican candidates do their spiel. I cringed at a lot of what they said, whether it was abortion, the terrorist threat, the homophobia, the ‘illegal immigrant is the source of all our problems’—man, that stuff made me crazy. The kook element of the Libertarians gets up, and I don’t cringe.”

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/01/who-is-gary-johnson-and-why-is-the-gop-so-mad-at-him/#ixzz2B02qnra9

What it amounts to is reasonable thinking and common sense that is in the best interest of Americans and the United States of America.

Romney wants to increase war and Defense Budget by $2.1 trillion even though our military did not ask for it.

It doesn’t make sense to increase the war / defense budget by $2.1 trilllion dollars — especially when our military did not ask for the increase to begin with. It is time to focus on Homeland issues, and Romney is on the record for wanting to increase the Defense War budget by $2.1 trillion dollarseven though our military didn’t ask for it.

That said, how is Mitt Romney going to explain his wanting to increase the defense war budget by $2.1 trillion, but on the other hand, can’t find it in his heart to keep FEMA going?  He want to privatize it when he knows darn well that these Wall Street ‘fat cats’ are responsible for the Housing crash that helped spiral our U.S. economy into a recession during the Bush years.

Bottom line?

If we have $2.1 trillion to fund wars, we sure as hell should have money to fund hurting Americans here in our Homeland.  Protecting what is here at home is part of the national security agenda.

From the WAPOST:

Hurricane Sandy’s battering of the East Coast is expected to produce historic rainfall totals, billions of dollars in damage and wholesale disruptions to the close presidential race. The storm could also provide a moment of sharp contrast between President Obama and Mitt Romney and how their different ideas of governing apply to the federal response to large-scale disasters.

Obama has been aggressive about bolstering the federal government’s capability to respond to disasters, while his Republican challenger believes states should be the primary responders in these situations and has suggested that disaster response could be privatized.

More from Mother Jones:

In watching the final debate regarding foreign policy, I watched Mitt Romney confuse Iran with Iraq, trip over his words and bring up old ideas.  We are living in the new millennium and one cannot trust a man who is out of touch with Americans (let alone military members).  Indeed, Mitt was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, later dodged the draft, and has reversed his position on every political issue in America.

On a side note:  How can military morale be boosted knowing that Romney dodged the Vietnam War draft to begin with?

President Barack Obama sparked an onslaught of social networking when he referenced “horses and bayonets” in Monday night’s third and final presidential debate.  “Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military has changed,” Obama said, after Gov. Mitt Romney jabbed the president for, he said, overseeing a Navy that is smaller than at any time since 1917.

Roger Simon of POLITICO had a wonderful opinion that pretty much nails how I feel.  I especially enjoyed the “horses and bayonets” comment President Obama replied with when Romney tried to discuss old ideas ranging  from the 1917′s to the 1980′s.  These debates tend to get monotonous from time to time and the audience needs to liven up every now and then when discussing such serious matters.

Simon wrote:

In presidential debate, President Obama takes Mitt Romney to school

“Obama chose a good evening to be good. Having learned his lesson in Denver, having sharpened his skills at the second debate in Hempstead, N.Y., Obama unloaded on Romney in Boca Raton with a prepared theme: “Wrong and reckless.”

“I know you have not been in a position to execute foreign policy,” Obama said snidely to Romney. “But (yours) is wrong and reckless leadership that is all over the map. It is not a recipe for American strength or keeping America safe.”

And what could possibly be worse than being wrong and reckless with American lives?

Being like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney!

….  And Obama’s prepared lines had a boom-lowering quality to them. Romney has frequently complained that our Navy has fewer ships now than in our past.

“We also have fewer horses and bayonets,” Obama mocked, pointing out that time moves on and presidents must do more than play giant games of “Battleship.”

Was the evening enough to be, in the now-favorite term of the press, a “game changer”?

Perhaps. Perhaps not. But Schieffer ended the debate by quoting his mother. “Go vote. It makes you feel big and strong.”

Hell hath officially frozen over.

We just learnt the Salt Lake City Tribune has endorsed President Obama over Mitt Romney.  I really thought they would endorse Mitt Romney since Romney is a die hard Mormon and Salt Lake City is in essence the mecca of Mormonism.

This is excellent news!  Kudos to the SLC Tribune.  We called it several months ago and knew that Mitt Romney committed political suicide when he received an endorsement from Kris Kobach — a Tea Party extremist and a heartless advisor who is hostile towards Latinos.   Kris Kobach and Romney helps undo what the UTAH COMPACT stands for.

We are still waiting to see if any major Catholic Newspapers or the local Arizona Catholic diocese will  condemn Sheriff Joe Arpaio since Arpaio is a member of the Catholic Church and while taking a look at Independent Candidate Mike Stauffer for Maricopa County Sheriff).

**Mike Stauffer supported the Utah Compact and is a good Catholic who has no domestic violence background in his history.

Indeed Mitt Romney has reversed his positions too many times.

He is out of touch with the average American voter.

Case closed.

Did you know that Mitt Romney’s family sued Mexico after using it as a safe haven when they left the United States to flee polygamy laws and religious prosecution?

Indeed, suing Mexico after using it as a safe haven put the Romney family on solid financial footing.

In my view, Mitt Romney is no person of Mexican-descent. A Mexican family will not sue Mexico after using it as a safe haven. When the Mexican Revolution broke out, Romney’s family fled that, too, and went back to the United States. The Romney family did not help with the Mexican Revolution, nor did they stand their ground and help the new found safe haven. Why does it appear that when the tough gets going, the Romney family has a history of fleeing not only the United States — but Mexico, too? This isn’t the only war that was dodged by the Romney family, because Mitt Romney also dodged the draft during the Vietnam War era, and I see a troubling pattern.

For the record, despite what the Romney family says, nobody “forced” them out of Mexico. If the Romney family really wanted to — they could have stayed their ground and fought for what was right.

From the Boston Globe:

After fleeing the Mexican revolution, Mitt Romney’s grandfather, Gaskell lost his home and possessions. While living in Salt Lake City, Gaskell Romney ran for County Commissioner ….. Gaskell sued Mexico for the loss of his property and, in 1938, was awarded damages of $9,163. Half of the money went to his son, George Romney, putting the family on a solid financial footing.

 

What we do know is that Mitt Romney has harsh views of immigration when he proudly accepted the endorsement of Kris Kobach. Like his fellow Republican via Russell Pearce (who sponsored the SB 1070 law in Arizona) — Romney supports self-deportation laws, too.

The Romney family wants you to believe they were forced from Mexico due to the Mexican Revolutionary War, but what they are not telling you is that they used Mexico as a safe haven — then sued them even though they collected a United States government handout. For the record and according to the Univserity of Utah media, polygamy was illegal in Mexico, too, but they were tolerant.

Indeed it is correct to say that the U.S. Government bailed out the Romney family in their time of need when Congress voted $100,000 for Mormon transportation and relief (which calculates to approximately 2.5 million dollars today). Yet, this is strange to hear considering Mitt Romney saying he was not concerned with the very poor.

Abusador is a word Mexican-Americans are using to describe Mitt Romney, because we see a pattern of abuse that ranges from Bain Capital to the very poor and voiceless.

President Obama delivers “chingon” factor to Latinos, Hispanics, Mexican-American and Chicanos during the Presidential Debate No.2.

We were glad to hear Obama remind Latino eligible voters that indeed Mitt Romney made Kris Kobach (architect  of many of anti-immigrant and voter suppression laws) an advisor to his own Mitt Romney campaign.

Let us not forget that Mitt Romney made Sheriff Joe Arpaio his Arizona chair, too, when Romney ultimately lost to John McCain in 2008.  Arpaio and Kobach are  kryptonite to Latino families across our Nation — and certainly the self deportation ideas that emulates the ousted Arizona Senator Russell Pearce is a big “no-no,” too.

Now we will witness the GOP lose generations of Latino voters because they lacked the spinal fortitude to control their own tea party extremism that stinks to high heaven of their discrimination toward women, Latinos, the LGBT community and more.

Some call it rommunism, I call it an oligarchy.

Some folks on Twitter have been referring to Mitt Romney’s crony capitalism as Rommunism — but I prefer to call it a direction that is heading towards an oligarchy, or system of top elites while destroying the middle class.

If Mitt Romney wins, we will “all” work at Walmart as the fat cats working on Wall Street get more wealthy, and as  MUSE eloquently puts it:  “It’s time the fat cats had a heart attack ….”

A modest protest of Bain Capital’s role in the ongoing layoffs at the Freeport Sensata plant has led to a full-fledged grass-roots effort to give displaced local workers a voice.

Cheryl Randecker of Freeport is one of the Sensata workers who organized a Bain Capital protest, which took place outside the Sensata Technologies/Honeywell plant in Freeport.  Her stories has stayed with us and we will continue to pound that drum with regard to Romney’s history of hurting the middle class worker.

In early 2011, Sensata announced it would be closing its local plant by the end of 2012, and relocating the jobs there to a plant in China. Normal operations will continue at the Freeport plant until then, but roughly 170 jobs are being phased out gradually. Sensata is a maker of sensors and controls that are used in aircraft, automobiles, and electric motors.

Recently, it was revealed that Sensata is owned by Bain Capital, the private equity firm that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney helped start. On Monday, June 18, while Romney was campaigning in Wisconsin, Randecker and over a dozen of her fellow workers staged a protest urging Romney to visit Freeport to see firsthand how companies are “killing jobs and sending them overseas,” states a news release from Stand Up! Chicago, a labor coalition that supports Randecker’s cause.

Randecker said her group may hold additional protests in the future and is working to urge Congress to pass the Bring Jobs Home Act. This legislation would give eligible firms a tax credit to relocate outsourced jobs back to the U.S.

“With the people backing up our issue with Sensata, we’re hoping it will snowball,” Randecker said. “It might be too late for me and my job, but not for my kids.”

Randecker, a single parent, said she plans to return to college and get a degree. She has worked for Honeywell and Sensata for a combined total of 33 years.

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Republican Newt Gingrich called out Mitt Romney a long time ago.