auntie lee Loc: abandoned coal mine

I am a 53 year old disabled, lesbian, democrat who has strong feelings about how this country runs or more correctly doesn't run. My main issues are women's rights, including equal pay for equal work, freedom of choice, gay rights, FDA's new policy concerning pain k**lers (because of being injured at work 15 years ago I have spent most of it in chronic pain), health care for everyone (I believe it should be a right not a privilege), women v****g and in politics and educating those who will lead tomorrow. I believe that "all men are created equal" means just that...ALL. I believe we could be a much better country if everyone spent more time worrying about their own lives and marriages instead of focusing on keeping someone from having the rights and privileges they take for granted. I believe that the money paid to big oil companies could be much better spent on educating the young, caring for the elderly and disabled and protecting our environment.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

As equal pay is one of your issues, you may wish to consider your feelings about the current Democratic President and the fact female staff in his administration earn less then their male counterparts. Such seems interesting with his Lily Ledderbetter Law.

Who would convey the "right" to healthcare coverage? Our rights are pretty much defined in The Bill of Rights. Nowhere is the right to healthcare, health insurance or the word marriage mentioned. Be assured there are a great many who understand rights should not be taken for granted.

Trooper745 Loc: Carolina

It appears that you have a severe misunderstanding of the difference between rights and privilege. You can have no "right" to healthcare, to do so would give you the right to force someone else to work to pay for your healthcare, since you are disabled. Once someone works and pays taxes to support your healthcare, he has given you the privilege of having it.

That's the fallacy of liberalism, someone must work without getting benefit of part of his wages (because of taxes), in order that someone else, who believes that he has a right to income without work, can receive something for nothing (call it wh**ever you want, welfare, entitlements, government healthcare, etc.).

bookem

Being a woman you surely understand the irony of this;
With all the strife over all your issues and the many you did not mention, Moochelle states for the first time in her life she is proud to be an American.
This is a woman's leader??

Confused

Income without work . Doesn't that pretty well define tax loopholes to the wealthy ?

Confused

Moochelle a leader ? The only thing that woman leads is her staff around the planet vacationing on our dime . She made a big deal of the White House garden and it made the news when Obama shut down the government and the garden didn't get harvested . This country owes that couple nothing .

1OldGeezer

Auntie Lee,
I am with you on most of what you said as it is on the mark whether you are liberal, conservative,democrat, or republican.
One item; Believing in "freedom of choice" is somewhat vague unless you give what choices you mean. With regard to a******n (choice to not give the baby life) you should be able to understand why many want to limit this to some degree. I see both sides. (I am conservative).
Which brings up another item, I believe health care should be a "right" also. I have always had the right to buy wh**ever health care I could afford and I did. Everyone else had that same "right"; (you do know that it is illegal for any health care organization to refuse care to anyone who asks?). Medicaid is available to all those who "can't afford" health insurance. (Don't confuse health CARE with health care INSURANCE.) But, I must admit that I am still having trouble making the leap toward believing they have a "right" to have me pay for their insurance.
Back on "freedom of choice": If you mean that people should be free to choose what they buy with their own money; what must you think of the new healthcare (insurance) law?
Don't fall for the "demonizing" of businesses by this administration. Look around you, count the things that you use that make your life possible, or comfortable, such as your car, home, clothes, electricity, gasoline, etc; how much of that was produced by businesses? How much was produced by the government ? We have business abuses when we have Crony Capitalism (government giving a business a certain unfair advantage in exchange for "campaign contributions).
As long as we have true competition in the marketplace, you, as a consumer, by choosing the best product at the best price, have control of who stays in business and who doesn't.
I think we should abolish all government business subsidies, including "Big Oil".
Good luck Auntie Lee, God Bless you.
1oldgeezer

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

An excellent synopsis! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Augustus Greatorex Loc: NE

Welcome Auntie Lee,

You are definitely in the right spot if you want to encounter those who ardently disagree with you. You can attempt to explain your political thoughts with those don't share them.

I am appalled by your positions: You have stated that oil companies do not deserve their wages, but their just compensation would be better used by the state this is s***ery. It is you worrying about yourself, I'm sure.

I read your thoughts as in favor of theft, murder, and adultery with ardent opposition people who condemn these behaviors as wrong.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

For me you are a mixed bag. Many of us on here are disabled to some degree, few are gay (lesbian)that we know of. Equal pay is fine and should be but no just look at the adminstration, not a good record. As for gay rights, how about just rights after all we don't have mens rights or black/white rights.

So just taking money from big oil is fine, and who pays for the equipment, getting the oil to market plus a million other things. Government gets in the way of big oil every step of the way and taxes oil and make money per gallon not per barrel. Just to drill taxes are about 5% of market value of said oil. One barrel of oil produces 19 gallons of gas after it's refined, a barrel is 42 gallons of oil.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

"Just rights" are not special enough for certain groups. The precedent for being a protected, special group was set with Affirmative Action.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

When anyone says, women's rights, gay rights and so on that to me means someone wants special rightsand what I read in the Constitution is 'equal rights'.

Dave Loc: Upstate New York

I see why you call yourself confused. Tax loopholes that allow one to keep their income is not income - hope that clears up your confusion.

Dave Loc: Upstate New York

Special group, by definition, means not equal rights - so what you seek isn't equal rights, it is special rights.

As to equal pay for equal work, should players in the WNBA be paid the same as players in the NBA? As to allowing folks to marry who they wish, how do you feel about gay siblings marrying each other, how about those who willingly go into multiple marriages - today they can't marry who they want and your standards seem to suggest them wrong.

As to free health care, once again a simple reality needs to be faced - THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH

claytonln Loc: Kansas

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