EPA – ginnybirdbeakspeak

A Tally of Things lost to Date

I want to keep track. I think it is important to know just how many things have been ripped from the fabric of America…just how many travesties have been thrust upon our Constitution, our environment and how many civil liberties are being trounced by our Liar-in-Chief.

–The Rule of Law – ignoring a judicial ruling of guilty by pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio

–Climate change denial – Cuts to EPA and FEMA in the wake of two devastating hurricanes and raging wildfires in the West

–Comparing the KKK, Neo Nazis and White Supremacists as being the same as protesters

–The guarantee of clean water, free of chemical dumps and clean air being threatened… reference the Arkema chemical site pouring toxic waste into the environment as just one example.

–Sanctioning and admiring autocrats with a history of murdering their opposition. Like Putin & Duterte

–The decrease in tourism in the United States – In 7 months the loss of ~37 billion in tourism dollars

–Crops rotting in the fields for lack of immigrants to harvest them

–The loss of prestige as being the indisputable leader of the free world

–The continued assault on the free media. Dividing our nation with fake news leading to a loss of confidence in our government

–The normalization and acceptance of lying and prevarication second to none in the history of our country. Estimated lies over first 227 days of presidency are 1,114.

–A different set of rules for Republicans than for Democrats – the steadfast refusal of Republicans to give Merrick Garland a hearing just because he was nominated by Obama and using a lame excuse of it being an election year. Yet they have blinders on about the ongoing criminal investigation into the Trump administration and his associates.

–Devos ending Obama’s Title IX rules for investigating college campus sexual assaults

–Direct violation of the Emolument Clause of the Constitution. – Trump and his children continue to profit and are receiving monies indirectly to bolster their own personal wealth

–Ordering a ban on transgender personnel in the military and using the excuse of it being cost prohibitive. When compared, the cost of Viagra and erectile dysfunction treatment for male military personnel is far in excess ($84 million compared to $8.4 million annually) of transgender expenses. I am also certain that there are many, many more that I have not listed here.

And personally, I have had the painful loss of a relationship with one of my sisters. All of the others only affect me indirectly…my life really isn’t impacted that much simply because I am an older white educated female with a good job, children who love me and I know they will step up to the plate and help me if needed. But the loss of a sister relationship is a gut punch. I’ve tried to mend those broken fences, but just as I pulled away after the 2016 Presidential election because of depression and my own inability to be around those who voted this horrible human being into the Presidency, I can only assume that she may be in much the same place right now as I was then. The pain is great and I hope that some day, before one of us departs this world, we can once again laugh and bathe in the camaraderie of sisterhood.

Resist!!!!

September 8, 2017September 24, 2017 by gkennedy2171 Categories: politics, UncategorizedTags: climate change, emolument clause, EPA, KKK, politics, Trump 1 Comment

Death of Democracy and Common Decency – The Criminality of Corrupt Politicians

My tears are flowing again like a river flushed with the melting snows of a heavy winter. I cry for the lack of humanity exhibited by elected officials who believe that removing healthcare from tens of millions of Americans is the right thing to do, the moral and ethical thing to do. What motivates these people, these beasts from Hell, to think that a tax cut for the richest top 1% of our population is worth the loss of health care for millions of poor, sick, mentally ill or disabled Americans? I cry for all the elderly who will be uprooted from nursing homes, for their children who must reconstruct their lives to care for Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa, for the elderly who must make choices between food or life saving medications and for the parents of an infant born with multiple congenital birth defects who must bankrupt their lives to provide major care.

Medicaid is the largest healthcare provider in the United States insuring 75 million Americans. I encourage everyone to watch the Rachel Maddow show of June 22, 2017 to understand the full scope of the criminality of what is being attempted by the Republican party led by the meanest toad of a man Mitch McConnell. Medicaid provides healthcare for 50% of all babies born today in the United States, 60% of all poor children, and helps the disabled to remain in their home rather than in institutions. In other words, protection for the most vulnerable members of our society.

There are a multitude of cartoons and comic skits on television about tRump and his best friend Putin. Laughter is medicine to help us survive untenable things. They may temporarily relieve anxiety, but unfortunately what is happening to our democracy is no laughing matter. We may be witnessing the death of “truth” in our nation and moving to a world of lies and falsehoods. Daily tRump and his minions attack the media as “fake news” and as America watches, we are witnessing the dismantling of the democracy our forefathers fought to ensure when they penned the Constitution, the bedrock for life and liberty, that was fought and paid for in blood hundreds of years ago.

As Americans we have come to expect and enjoy, in fact take for granted, the safety of our water supply, the assurance of clean air to breathe, the guarantee that the food we eat is free of harmful pesticides . The environmental and health protections achieved for over 40 years are being systematically swept away. The food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe may be suspect in the near future if the deconstruction of the EPA continues at this alarming rate.

The constant barrage of “unimaginable” things that this administration is trying to implement is numbing our senses and lulling us into the beginning acceptance of this behavior as being the “new norm”. This acceptance or complacency is the beginning of the decline of democracy as we know it. Sadly, this loss of “truth” or the normalization of “alternative facts” is to watch America sink into an Orwellian “1984” society where what we believe is dictated by the “Big Brother” government, driven by the elite few seeking wealth and power to the detriment of millions of everyday hard-working citizens.

I cry for my nation as it writhes in death throes. I cry for the millions of my compatriots, fellow citizens, that will succumb to death if this administration is allowed to dismantle all that is good and wonderful about our way of life. My tears flow freely trying to wash away the pain of what I am witnessing on a daily basis.

Are you crying yet?

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July 4, 2017 by gkennedy2171 Categories: Musings, UncategorizedTags: 1984, democracy, EPA, freedom, George Orwell, Medicaid, Mitch McConnell, Putin, Rachel Maddow, Trumpcare Leave a comment

What is Your Tipping Point?

When is it enough? When will Trump supporters say this is too much? When will they realize that their rights as citizens are being violated and slowly but surely eroded? When will they recognize that their world is changing in ways they may not like.

Will it be :

When the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines are built across sacred tribal Native American land?
When he bans immigrants from Middle East countries but conveniently exempts those nations where Trump has financial interests?
When the VA is banned from hiring needed personnel to fix its problems?
When our National Parks are ravaged for corporate profit?
When all media access is lost? Our internet controlled?
When a gag order is placed on scientists who give us information on global warning?
When the Arts are defunded and Big Bird is dead?
When the President builds his own wealth by violating the Constitution?
When the largest source of women’s health care is defunded?
When women are dying from coat hanger abortions?
When the cost of a basic automobile is far out of reach for the average person?
When the EPA is silenced?
When real data and statistical proof of global warming disappears?
When alternative facts, AKA lies, are accepted as the truth?
When your right to vote is suppressed?
When your right to protest is gone?
When you lose your Medicare benefits?
When you are told that you have a pre-existing condition and it is not covered by insurance?
When the cancer drug you need to save your life is not covered by your insurance or you lose your home to pay for your life saving medications?
When they see a video that offends them?
When they hear words that offend them?
When your religion is attacked?
When your parents are deported or put into internment camps?
When you see your parent lose Medicare benefits?
When clean air and clean water are no longer a priority?
When your tax dollars go to pay for the “wall”?
When Meals on Wheels is eliminated for Seniors?
When evidence is produced that proves are government has been infiltrated by Russian sympathizers?
When it affects you?

Warning Bells are Loudly Clanging. Are Trump supporters listening yet?

January 25, 2017March 17, 2017 by gkennedy2171 Categories: Musings, UncategorizedTags: abortion, America, Constitutioj, Dakota, EPA, Keystone Pipeline, Medicare, Trump, women's health 1 Comment